Operations
Other Conflicts
Defense Policy / Programs
News Reports

Current Operations

• Iraq: Car Bomb Explodes At Baghdad Police Academy RFE/RL 02 Sep 2003 -- A car exploded near a police academy in central Baghdad today, wounding bystanders, one severely.
• TWO SOLDIERS KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN ATTACK CENTCOM 02 Sept 2003-- Two 220th Military Police Brigade soldiers were killed and one was wounded approximately 3:19 p.m. Sept. 1 when their High-Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicle struck an improvised explosive device along a main supply route south of Baghdad.
• PENTAGON / IRAQ / AFGHAN VOA 02 Sept 2003-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to travel to both Iraq and Afghanistan this week
• 1AD SOLDIER KILLED IN HELICOPTER ACCIDENT CENTCOM 02 Sept 2003-- One 1st Armored Division soldier was killed and another was injured in a helicopter accident early Tuesday morning.
• Tallil's Predators on patrol in Iraq AFPN 02 Sept 2003-- Information. Today, it may be the world's hottest commodity. It is often the key to success in all walks of life: sports, business and definitely, in the military.
• Bombings Show Iraq a Battlefield in War on Terror AFPS 02 Sept 2003-- Recent bombings in Iraq prove the country is another front in the global war on terrorism, the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority said in Baghdad today.
• Explosion Kills Two Soldiers South of Baghdad, Another Drowns AFPS 02 Sept 2003-- Two 220th Military Police Brigade soldiers were killed and one other was wounded Sept. 1 when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device on a main supply route south of Baghdad, U.S. Central Command officials reported today.
• Seabees Establish Steady Supply Lines Navy Newsstand 02 Sept 2003-- "If they need it we can get it," said Builder 3rd Class Brandon Twing, a tool room clerk assigned to the Material Liaison Office (MLO) at Camp Hope, Iraq.

• ARREST OF KNOWN TERRORIST IN POLICE DISTRICT NINE NATO/ISAF 02 Sep 2003 -- At 0500 hours on 01 Sep 03, the Afghan authorities, with assistance from ISAF troops, carried out a security operation to arrest a known terrorist and criminal in the area of the Russian flats in Police District Nine.
• Afghanistan Firefight Leaves Two Soldiers Dead AFPS 02 Sept 2003-- Two U.S. soldiers were killed and a third was wounded Aug. 31 during initial contact with enemy fighters northwest of Shkin in Afghanistan's Paktika province.
• Pakistani forces launch major operation IRNA 02 Sep 2003 -- Pakistani military have launched a major operation in its tribal areas bordering Afghanistan to arrest suspected militants, a military spokesman said.

• TERROR AT SEA VOA 02 Sept 2003-- Terrorists strike mainly by air and land, but the sea may be next, according to a probing article in the current "Atlantic Monthly" magazine. There is so much of it. Water covers three-quarters of the globe and on it ply more than 40-thousand merchant ships laden with everything under the sun, including contraband and possible instruments of terrorism. With an ownership often too complex to trace, these ships are largely out of control, says the author, perhaps the most independent objects on earth

Other Conflicts

• India Unrest VOA 02 Sept 2003-- Recent bomb blasts in Bombay have increased tensions between the Hindu majority and India's large Muslim minority.
• INDIA/KASHMIR VOA 02 Sept 2003-- In Indian Kashmir, more than 12 people have been killed and several others wounded in a wave of intensified attacks blamed on Islamic guerrillas
• ISRAEL / PALESTINIANS VOA 02 Sept 2003-- Israel's security service is stepping up efforts to protect government ministers after threats by the Islamic militant group Hamas that it would seek revenge for Israel's assassination of a number of senior militants. In its latest attack against Hamas on Monday, Israeli helicopters killed at least two Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip and wounded at least 25 other Palestinians.
• ISRAEL / PALESTINIANS VOA 02 Sept 2003-- Israel's defense minister says Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat needs to go and may be forced into exile before the end of the year

Defense Policy / Programs

• New commander discusses lessons learned in Iraq Army News Service 02 Sept 2003-- He may have left Iraq more than two months ago, but the soldiers he left behind are never far from his mind, Lt. Gen. William S. Wallace told Kansas City area television and print reporters Aug. 23.
• USS Greeneville Deploys with Expeditionary Strike Group One Navy Newsstand 02 Sept 2003-- As the U.S. and its allies fight the Global War on Terrorism, new naval doctrines have become a reality for seven ships belonging to the Navy's first Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG).

• NATO Renames Allied Command Europe Washington File 02 Sept 2003-- Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), General James L. Jones, announced September 1 that Allied Command Europe (ACE) will officially be renamed Allied Command Operations (ACO) as part of the revitalization of NATO and its military command structure.
• Special Operators Praised During Change of Command AFPS 02 Sept 2003-- Special operations forces received praise for their service as the reins of U.S. Special Operations Command changed hands in Tampa, Fla., today.
• Macedonia: NATO Says Albanian National Army 'Not Substantial' RFE/RL 02 Sep 2003 -- A NATO spokesman today said an underground Albanian militant group which has threatened to attack Macedonian security forces is "not substantial."

News Reports

• SHAPE News Summary & Analysis SHAPE 02 Sep 2003 -- EU ponders compromise to end defense headquarters standoff / France hails U.S. moves on Iraq / Peacekeepers help in arrests of alleged terror suspects in Kabul / Afghan president approves defense reforms / Greek military orders 20 aircraft from Eurocopter

• "Support Our Troops," by Paul Wolfowitz Washington File 02 Sept 2003-- This column by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz was published in the Wall Street Journal September 2, and is the public domain. No republication restrictions

• SAVING AFGHANISTAN VOA 02 Sept 2003-- American newspapers are becoming increasingly concerned that the troubles in Iraq are eclipsing the stabilization effort in Afghanistan

• State Department Noon Briefing, September 2, 2003 Washington File 02 Sept 2003-- Iraq, Department/Powell's meeting at the White House, Korea, China, Israel, Burma, Liberia, European Union, Turkey/Iraq, Japan/Iraq, Cuba, Indonesia, Israel/Palestinians, Turkey, Family Planning Funding/Kemp-Kasten Commission, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan