Quickhits

Another US drone/missile attack in Pakistan.

(Although Mullen was meeting with the Pakistanis, just hours before the attack, the Pakistanis say they weren't informed before the attack. It sounds like Mullen was there to smooth over the recent US ground attack inside Pakistan.)

(AP) 7 US soldiers die in Iraq in a Chinook crash.

(AP) The Iraqi parliament is deadlocked on the elections law.

(BBC) Maliki questions the future of the US-Iraq SoFA saying there are "serious and dangerous obstacles" to such a deal ever taking place.

(IntNews) The new head of the UN general assembly slams "acts of aggression" in Iraq and Afghanistan.