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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 28 Apr 2006 [PDF]
• MND-B SOLDIER KILLED BY ROADSIDE BOMB
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• Transcript: News Briefing with Col. Barham from Iraq 28 Apr 2006 -- Presenter: Col. Rod Barham, commander, 49th Military Police Brigade, Iraq
• CENTAF releases airpower summary AFPN 28 Apr 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's airpower summary.
• CROWS gets Airmen out of the turret AFPN 28 Apr 2006 -- A new weapon system in the Air Force arsenal takes Airmen out of the gun turret and into the safety of a fully up-armored Humvee.
• Al Qaeda Terrorist Leader in Samarra Killed in Assault AFPS 28 Apr 2006 -- Coalition forces killed the top al Qaeda terrorist in Samarra today after tracking him to a house north of the city.
• Local al-Qaida Leader Killed in Samarra VOA 28 Apr 2006 -- A local leader of al-Qaida in Iraq has been killed by coalition forces.
• RFE/RL Afghanistan Report, Volume 5, Number 12 28 April 2006
• Air refueling squadron takes flight to fuel the fight AFPN 28 Apr 2006 -- Fighters are in the air 24 hours a day, providing constant support to ground forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. Without midair refueling, that coverage would be lost.

Other Conflicts

• UN Council extends peacekeeping mandate in Western Sahara through October UN News Centre 28 Apr 2006 -- Calling once again upon the parties and States in the region to end the current impasse in Western Sahara, the Security Council today extended the mandate of the United Nations Mission for the Referendum there (MINURSO) for six months, through October 2006.
• UN Security Council strongly condemns violence against civilians in wartime UN News Centre 28 Apr 2006 -- The United Nations Security Council today issued a ringing condemnation of all violence committed against civilians during armed conflict, directing its strongest language at attacks on women and children, and pledged to ensure that all peace support operations employ all feasible measures to prevent the scourge.
• Bush Calls on Sudan to Stop Darfur Violence VOA 28 Apr 2006 -- President Bush says the government in Sudan must do more to protect civilians in the troubled Darfur region.
• NIGERIA-SUDAN: AU peace deal almost impossible IRIN 28 Apr 2006 -- A Sunday deadline for negotiators to sign off on a peace deal to end the three year war in the Darfur region of Sudan is unlikely to be met because a tabled deal includes too many compromises, a spokesman for one of the rebel groups said on Friday.
• Nepal Parliament Meets Without its New Leader VOA 28 Apr 2006 -- Nepal's parliament has met for the first time in four years
• BURUNDI: South Africa agrees to facilitate peace talks IRIN 28 Apr 2006 -- South Africa has announced that it would take over peace talks between the government of Burundi and the country's only remaining rebel group, the Forces nationales de libération (FNL).
• ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: Second round of border talks postponed IRIN 28 Apr 2006 -- A second round of talks to resolve the standoff over the demarcation of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea has been postponed, according to United Nations and diplomatic sources.
• UGANDA-SUDAN: Repatriation of refugees to start next week IRIN 28 Apr 2006 -- The voluntary repatriation of southern Sudanese refugees who have lived in neighbouring Uganda for decades will begin next week, thanks to better security in the region, the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday.
• DRC: EU appoints commanders for Congo force IRIN 28 Apr 2006 -- The Council of the European Union has appointed two commanders and adopted a "Joint Action" on its military operation to support the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) during general elections scheduled to be held later this year.
• SUDAN: Stronger arms embargo needed in Darfur - UN experts IRIN 28 Apr 2006 -- A panel of United Nations experts has advised the UN Security Council to expand an existing arms embargo to stem the flow of weapons that continue to flood the strife-torn western Sudanese region of Darfur.
• DRC-UGANDA: Kinshasa protests troops incursion, Kampala denies claim IRIN 28 Apr 2006 -- The Democratic Republic of Congo has protested to Uganda against its army's incursion into northeastern Congo in the so-called pursuit of Ugandan rebels, the Congolese Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Lincoln Returns To Singapore For Port Visit Navy NewsStand 28 Apr 2006 -- USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) returned to Singapore April 27, after a brief at-sea period following a port call in Thailand.
• Battlelab brings force protection to the fight AFPN 28 Apr 2006 -- This medic’s nightmare may soon end because of the simplified automated ventilator, or SAVe.
• Tyndall receives F-22 maintenance trainer AFPN 28 Apr 2006 -- An F-22A Raptor touched down at Tyndall April 19 on its final flight. The aircraft will now be the new ground instructional trainer, solely dedicated as the airframe for aircraft maintenance technical school students.
• Joint Public Affairs Element Improves Military Communication AFPS 28 Apr 2006 -- By standing up the Joint Public Affairs Support Element, the U.S. military is on its way to greatly improving the way it delivers timely, accurate information from combatant commanders to the media.
• Deputy Defense Secretary Signs New Personnel System into Effect AFPS 28 Apr 2006 -- Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England signed a directive to implement the new National Security Personnel System during a roll-out ceremony here today.
• New technology protects GIs, seaports against NBC Army News 28 Apr 2006 -- Service members at Kuwait’s crucial seaports can focus more on their missions and less on the worries of chemical or biological attacks with the arrival of new NBC warning technology.
• DoD Implements NSPS to Spiral 1.1 Organizations 28 Apr 2006 -- Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England today signed the directive that will implement the National Security Personnel System, a new civilian human resources system, for about 11,000 employees on April 30.
• Delta II launch successful AFPN 28 Apr 2006 -- A Delta II rocket was launched from here today at 3:02 a.m. The rocket took off from Space Launch Complex 2 carrying NASA’s Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations, or CALIPSO, and CloudSat satellites.
• NATO: Clear Signal On Afghanistan, Hope For Ukraine RFE/RL 28 Apr 2006 -- An informal gathering of NATO foreign ministers kept the alliance's Afghanistan plans on track and did not douse Ukrainian hopes for fast-track enlargement
• NATO must keep commitments after Bulgaria base deal - Lavrov RIA Novosti 28 Apr 2006 -- Russia's foreign minister said Friday that NATO should observe its international commitments as it prepares to deploy a military base in Bulgaria under an agreement with the former Soviet satellite.
• Daily Press Briefing US Department of State 28 Apr 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for April 28, 2006
• Russian arms exporter takes aim at Latin American markets RIA Novosti 28 Apr 2006 -- Rosoboronexport, Russia's state-controlled arms exporter, is looking to strengthen its positions on markets in Latin America, a company official said Friday.
• Russia pushing ban on illegal production of Kalashnikov rifles RIA Novosti 28 Apr 2006 -- Russia's state-controlled arms exporter will push to stop the illegal production and supplies of Kalashnikov assault rifles, a company spokesman said Friday.

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