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20 January 2006 Military News |
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Current Operations
- OIF/OEF Casualty Update 20 Jan 2006 [PDF]
- DoD Identifies Army Casualty
- Transcript: News Briefing with Maj. Gen. Thomas Turner II 20 Jan 2006 -- Presenter: Maj. Gen. Thomas R. Turner, II, commander, Multinational Division North and 101st Airborne Division
- CENTAF releases airpower summary AFPN 20 Jan 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces released today's airpower summary.
- Iraqi, U.S. Security Forces Repulse Insurgent Attacks AFPS 20 Jan 2006 -- Iraqi and U.S. security forces repulsed attacks on military bases in Ramadi, Iraq, today about 100 kilometers west of Baghdad, officials reported.
- General Predicts Fewer Sunni Ties to Terrorists AFPS 20 Jan 2006 -- Iraqi Sunnis who may have partnered with foreign terrorist groups in the past will abandon that practice because it's against their interests, the U.S. officer in charge of operations in northern Iraq predicted today.
- V Corps assumes command mission in Baghdad Army News 20 Jan 2006 -- Soldiers of V Corps headquarters, based in Heidelberg, Germany, officially assumed duties in Baghdad as the command staff for Multi-National Corps - Iraq, for the next 12 months.
- A-10 Pilots, supply personnel head to OEF AFPN 20 Jan 2006 -- More than 400 Airmen with the 355th Fighter Squadron and the 354th Maintenance Group and their A-10 Thunderbolt IIs recently left for a 120-day deployment.
- Pakistan Relief Effort Reaches Major Milestones AFPS 20 Jan 2006 -- U.S. helicopters supporting earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan set a new record yesterday, delivering 232 tons of humanitarian aid for earthquake victims in a single day, U.S. embassy officials in Islamabad, Pakistan, reported today.
Other Conflicts
- COTE D IVOIRE: Calm returns after four days of riots against UN, French peacekeepers IRIN 20 Jan 2006 -- Business resumed as usual with cars and taxis back on the streets of Cote d’Ivoire on Friday after protesters demanding the departure of UN and French peace troops called an end to four days of riots by lifting roadblocks and going home.
- DRC: Civilians displaced in renewed fighting in North Kivu IRIN 20 Jan 2006 -- Hundreds of civilians have been displaced in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the latest round of fighting between dissident soldiers and the army's fifth brigade, a humanitarian official has said.
- SUDAN: Darfur talks frustratingly slow, says UN official IRIN 20 Jan 2006 -- Too little progress is being made in the current round of Darfur peace talks yet violence against civilians, aid workers and African Union troops continues on the ground, a senior United Nations official has said.
- Sri Lankan parties ask President to resume talks with LTTE IRNA 20 Jan 2006 -- Sri Lankan political parties have urged President Mahinda Rajapakse to resume talks with the Tamil Tiger rebels using the good offices of the Norwegian facilitator.
- 450 political activists in custody in Nepal IRNA 20 Jan 2006 -- Over 250 political activists were arrested from various places in Nepal today, bringing to more than 450 the total number of political activists in the custody since yesterday.
- Côte d’Ivoire is calm but hate broadcasts still target peacekeeping forces, UN says UN News Centre 20 Jan 2006 -- Protesters left the streets outside United Nations and other international agency offices and calm was restored across Côte d’Ivoire after leaders inside and outside the West African country appealed for an end to four days of violence, which left western provincial UN offices looted and sometimes destroyed.
- EU: War Crimes Issue Pushing Serbia To Crossroads RFE/RL 20 Jan 2006 -- The EU emerges from talks with the UN war crimes tribunal to tell Serbia its prospects of EU membership are at stake unless it cooperates in finding the war crimes suspects Ratko Mladic and Radovan Karadzic.
- Protests Stop in Ivory Coast But Militants Issue Warning VOA 20 Jan 2006 -- Protests against the international community have stopped in Ivory Coast after five days of violence.
- Nepalese Government Enforces Curfew VOA 20 Jan 2006 -- The government of Nepal has imposed a dawn to dusk curfew across the capital and put opposition leaders under house arrest to stop an anti-government rally from taking place.
- Former Israeli PM Proposes Peace Talks with Hamas VOA 20 Jan 2006 -- A former Israeli Prime Minister has proposed that Israel should open peace talks with the Islamic militant group Hamas, on certain conditions.
Defense Policy / Programs
- Military Commission Charges Referred 20 Jan 2006 -- The Department of Defense announced today that charges were approved and referred to a military commission in the case of Abdul Zahir by the appointing authority, John D. Altenburg Jr., on Jan. 18, 2006.
- DoD Returns Oversight of Selected Air Force Programs 20 Jan 2006 -- The Department of Defense announced today the return of milestone decision authority to the Department of the Air Force for ten major programs.
- US Installation Realignment in Belgium Announced 20 Jan 2006 -- The Department of Defense announces today the decision to inactivate and return three microwave radio relay sites to Belgium.
- Navy Names New Combat Logistics Force Ship 20 Jan 2006 -- The Department of the Navy has announced the naming of the Navy's newest combat logistics force underway replenishment naval vessel, the USNS Alan Shepard, to honor the first American in space, Rear Adm. Alan B. Shepard Jr.
- Mountain Home maintainers keep Eagles, Falcons flying AFPN 20 Jan 2006 -- Behind every good jet is a good maintainer –- actually, make that several maintainers.
- Leasing option increases Air Force land value AFPN 20 Jan 2006 -- The Air Force Real Property Agency converts underutilized land and infrastructure into real value for the Air Force, installations and communities through the enhanced use leasing option, officials said.
- Total force meets at Fort Dix for conference AFPN 20 Jan 2006 -- More than 20 senior officers from the air mobility total force met to improve practices during a director of mobility forces conference at the Air Mobility Warfare Center here Jan. 18 to 19.
- Security forces transformation to affect total force AFPN 20 Jan 2006 -- As the Air Force continues to adapt for the future, changes to the security forces career field will affect the total force.
- Guam Guard works side-by-side with active-duty counterparts AFPN 20 Jan 2006 -- The Air National Guard’s mission is to maintain well-trained and well-equipped units available for prompt mobilization during war and national emergencies.
- US Concerned About Proposed Brazilian Aircraft Sale to Venezuela VOA 20 Jan 2006 -- The Bush administration said Friday it has expressed concern to Brazil about a proposed sale of Brazilian military aircraft to Venezuela
- Plane Crash Claims Slovak Peacekeepers Returning from Kosovo Washington File 20 Jan 2006 -- An airplane crash in Hungary late on January 19 has claimed the lives of dozens of Slovak troops returning home from peacekeeper duty in Kosovo, U.S. and NATO authorities said.
- State Department Briefing, January 20 Washington File 20 Jan 2006 -- Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Japan, Sentencing of Larry Franklin, Bolivia, Brazil/Venezuela, Nigeria, Sudan, Tajikistan, North Korea
Defense Industry
- DoD News: Contracts 20 Jan 2006
