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Iraq

Iraq Weekly Status Report 22 Oct 2008

HIGHLIGHTS

- Strategic Framework/Status of Forces Agreement Being Reviewed by Iraqi Government (POLITICAL, page 4).

- Iraqi Security Force and Coalition Operations Further Degrade AQI and Criminal Networks (SECURITY, page 8).

- Iraq to Reconsider Budget as Oil Prices Drop (ECONOMIC, page 11).

- Ambassador Ali Al-Mou'min, Kuwait's first ambassador to Iraq since that country's 1990 invasion of Kuwait, formally assumed his duties in Baghdad on October 22 (DIPLOMATIC, page 23).