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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 17 Mar 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• TASK FORCE BAND OF BROTHERS SOLDIER KILLED
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Lt. Gen. Chiarelli 17 Mar 2006 -- Presenter: Lt. Gen. Peter Chiarelli, commander, Multinational Corps Iraq
• Operation Swarmer Continues with Little Resistance in Iraq VOA 17 Mar 2006 -- The number two U.S. commander in Iraq says the counter-insurgency operation north of Samarra is continuing with virtually no resistance, and will go on until the area is clear of insurgents and their weapons caches
• Airfield managers keep runways ready AFPN 17 Mar 2006 -- The 379th Expeditionary Operational Support Squadron is tasked with the demanding job of managing an entire airfield.
• US, Iraqi Forces Continue Anti-Rebel Sweep in Northern Iraq VOA 17 Mar 2006 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces are continuing for a second day a sweep in northern Iraq to hunt for weapons and suspected insurgents.
• IED Components Moving Across Iraq-Iran Border, General Says AFPS 17 Mar 2006 -- U.S. officials are sure Iran is conducting intelligence operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan, the commander of U.S. Central Command told the Senate Armed Services Committee yesterday.
• Afghan, Coalition Troops Detain Suspects, Seize Weapons AFPS 17 Mar 2006 -- Afghan and coalition troops detained several suspects and seized weapons during two March 15 operations in Afghanistan, Combined Forces Command Afghanistan officials reported.
• General Sees 'Significant Accomplishments' in Afghanistan AFPS 17 Mar 2006 -- There's more to do, but U.S. and coalition efforts in Afghanistan have achieved considerable progress in helping that nation to become a stable member of the world community, a senior U.S. military officer told Pentagon reporters yesterday.

Other Conflicts

• LIBERIA-NIGERIA: “Time to bring Taylor issue to closure,” says Sirleaf IRIN 17 Mar 2006 -- Liberia has requested the extradition from Nigeria of former Liberian head of state Charles Taylor, the Nigerian presidency said on Friday.
• GUINEA-BISSAU-SENEGAL: Fighting continues along shared border IRIN 17 Mar 2006 -- Clashes involving Senegalese separatists and Guinea Bissau troops entered a fourth day on Friday, forcing over a thousand people from their homes in the border region.
• Kosovo, Serbian delegations hold new status talks under UN chairmanship UN News Centre 17 Mar 2006 -- Delegations from Kosovo and Serbia today held their second round of direct talks on decentralization in the Albanian-majority Serbian province, which the United Nations has administered ever since the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance (NATO) drove out Yugoslav troops in 1999 amid grave rights abuses in ethnic fighting.
• Guinea-Bissau Gets Involved in Casamance Rebellion VOA 17 Mar 2006 -- Guinea-Bissau is getting involved in fighting among rival factions of Senegal's Casamance rebellion, leading to fears the long simmering, low-level conflict, could ignite on a new front.
• Senior US Congresswoman Calls for End to Darfur Genocide VOA 17 Mar 2006 -- U.S. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, who recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Sudan's conflict-ridden Darfur region, has made a strong appeal for an end to what she called the "genocide" in Darfur
• Liberia Wants African Decision on Taylor VOA 17 Mar 2006 -- Liberia's President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is asking African leaders to decide whether to bring former President Charles Taylor to trial on war crimes charges.
• LIBERIA-NIGERIA: Taylor’s extradition requested IRIN 17 Mar 2006 -- Liberia has requested the extradition from Nigeria of former Liberian head of state Charles Taylor, the Nigerian presidency said on Friday.
• UGANDA: Gov’t, aid agencies urged to do more for war-ravaged north IRIN 17 Mar 2006 -- The Uganda government and international aid agencies should increase their efforts to protect and respond to the needs of internally displaced people in the war-ravaged north, a senior United Nations official has said.
• Georgia: Tsalka District Again Wracked By Ethnic Violence RFE/RL 17 Mar 2006 -- Gevork Gevorkyan, an ethnic Armenian, was stabbed to death by a Georgian in a fight outside a local restaurant

Defense Policy / Programs

• DoD Announces Installation Realignment in Luxembourg 17 Mar 2006 -- The Department of Defense announced today that the United States will cease operations at the Army Prepositioned Site (APS) at Bettembourg, Luxembourg.
• National Intelligence Changing to Meet 21st Century Needs AFPS 17 Mar 2006 -- Morphing threats have created the need for change in the U.S. intelligence community, a top Defense Department intelligence official said here March 14.
• Commander shares vision for future force AFPN 17 Mar 2006 -- Lt. Gen. Gary L. North, 9th Air Force and U.S. Central Command Air Forces commander, shared his insight and vision for the future at the Combined Air Operations Center March 10.
• KC-135 aircrews ‘fuel the fight’ for B-52s AFPN 17 Mar 2006 -- In six short weeks, deployed KC-135 Stratotankers have delivered more than 11 million pounds of fuel to B-52 Stratofortresses that have flown forward into Afghan airspace to provide close air support for U.S. and coalition forces on the ground.
• F-16 Fighting Falcon covers multiple missions AFPN 17 Mar 2006 -- Hundreds of physical and mental training hours go into being a part of one of the most advanced careers in the world -- an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot.
• Combat-ready for 50 years: B-52s fly past another milestone AFPN 17 Mar 2006 -- The B-52 Stratofortress reached a milestone March 12 with the 50th anniversary of the first B-52 wing being declared combat-ready.
• Missouri Guard unit first ever selected for B-2 mission AFPN 17 Mar 2006 -- Air Force officials announced March 16 that the 131st Fighter Wing at Lambert International Airport in St. Louis will join the elite B-2 mission at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo.
• JDAM continues to be warfighter's weapon of choice AFPN 17 Mar 2006 -- To call yourself the Airman warfighter's weapon of choice is one thing, but it's quite another to go out and back it up.
• Andersen host unit undergoes name change AFPN 17 Mar 2006 -- An official name change has been granted to Andersen’s host unit. Andersen is now home of the 36th Wing -- a designation that was announced March 16 to better reflect the growing mission.
• QDR Important for Many Reasons, Vice Chairman Says AFPS 17 Mar 2006 -- The Quadrennial Defense Review is not a glossy book that will gather dust on a bookshelf, the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today.
• U.S. Not Fighting Alone Against Global Terrorists AFPS 17 Mar 2006 -- More than a half million U.S. and coalition forces are now engaged in the fight against global terrorism in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, a senior U.S. general said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing yesterday.
• Balance Critical to U.S.-China Relationship, Officials Say AFPS 17 Mar 2006 -- The relationship between the United States and China has been improving, but the U.S. must balance this constructive relationship with the need to hedge against possible threats, two Defense Department officials said here yesterday.
• DoD Announces Four New Dacowits Members 17 Mar 2006 -- The Department of Defense announced today the selection of a new chairperson and three 2006 appointees to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS).
• Blue Roof program for damaged Katrina homes ends Army News 17 Mar 2006 -- Another chapter in what has become one of the worst natural disasters in U.S. history came to a close as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, along with the Federal Emergency Management Agency closed its Blue Roof program for victims of the devastation caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
• Responsive, affordable satellite enhances support to warfighter AFPN 17 Mar 2006 -- In the battle environment, every second counts, and accelerated (within 10 minutes) information downloaded to the joint warfighter, to be demonstrated in the upcoming TacSat-3 mission, could result in victory, but more importantly, in lives saved.
• QDR Heavily Influenced by 9/11, England Says AFPS 17 Mar 2006 -- Had the terrorists possessed the means and the know-how, they would have killed 3 million people instead of 3,000 on Sept. 11, 2001, the deputy defense secretary said here yesterday.
• U.S. Forces Leaving Iceland, Army Closing Luxembourg Site Washington File 17 Mar 2006 -- The United States has notified Iceland of plans to remove U.S. forces from the North Atlantic island nation by the end of September, and the Defense Department announced its departure from a storage site in Luxembourg.
• Rice Participates in Security Dialogue with Japanese, Australian Counterparts VOA 17 Mar 2006 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is ending a three-day Australia visit Saturday, with a trilateral security dialogue with her Australian and Japanese counterparts.
• Watchdog Panel Questions US Export Controls on China VOA 17 Mar 2006 -- A panel commissioned by the U.S. Congress to monitor national security implications of trade between the United States and China is questioning U.S. export control policy toward Beijing.
• White House Briefing, March 17 Washington File 17 Mar 2006 -- Iraq, Iran, Belarus, Balkans, Pandemic influenza, Immigration, Port Security, Iceland, Ireland
• State Department Briefing, March 17 Washington File 17 Mar 2006 -- Iran, Liberia, Belarus, North Korea

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for March 17, 2006

News Reports

• UN: Tribunal Says No Evidence Milosevic Was Poisoned RFE/RL 17 Mar 2006 -- The president of The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) says there is no sign that Slobodan Milosevic was poisoned.