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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 31 May 2006 [PDF]
• MND-B SOLDIER DIES OF NON-COMBAT RELATED CAUSE
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Ham 31 May 2006 -- Presenter: Deputy Director for Regional Operations, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Brig. Gen. Carter Ham
• CENTAF releases airpower summary AFPN 31 May 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for May 30.
• Terrorist Leaders Captured in Iraq; Detainees Released AFPS 31 May 2006 -- Iraqi and coalition forces captured eight terrorist leaders in recent operations in Baghdad neighborhoods. Also, the Iraqi-led Combined Review and Release Board released more than 200 detainees.
• 1,500 1AD Soldiers move from Kuwait to Iraq Army News 31 May 2006 -- Two battalion task forces of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, have moved into Iraq to provide additional security for the people of Al Anbar province and to enable effective local and provincial governance.
• Afghanistan: U.S. Now Faces Resurgent Taliban, Resentful Public RFE/RL 31 May 2006 -- The United States and its coalition partners now find themselves confronted not only by a seemingly stronger Taliban, but, following a deadly traffic accident and riot in Kabul, also by a population that is suddenly expressing long-held resentment of the foreign forces that they blame for all that is wrong with their country.
• Afghan Parliament Seeks Arrest of US Troops Involved in Accident VOA 31 May 2006 -- Afghanistan's parliament has passed a resolution demanding the arrest of U.S. soldiers involved in a deadly car crash.
• Taleban Guerrillas Overrun Afghan District Headquarters VOA 31 May 2006 -- Afghan authorities say Taleban guerrillas have overrun a district headquarters in central Uruzgan province, driving out government forces in a battle that lasted for several hours.

Other Conflicts

• Georgian minister blasts "illegal" Russian peacekeeper rotation RIA Novosti 31 May 2006 -- The Georgian state minister for conflict resolution issues Wednesday protested the rotation of Russian peacekeepers in the Caucasian country's breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions.
• Georgia peacekeeper rotation to go ahead as planned - minister RIA Novosti 31 May 2006 -- The rotation of Russian peacekeepers in the zone of Georgia's long-running conflict with the breakaway South Ossetia region will not be cancelled, the defense minister said Wednesday.
• Karabakh conflict should be solved bilaterally - defense minister RIA Novosti 31 May 2006 -- A long-running dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the Nagorny Karabakh region should be resolved by the two countries themselves and not by third parties, Russia's defense minister said Wednesday.
• Fighting Subsides But Humanitarian Crisis Looms in East Timor VOA 31 May 2006 -- More than a week of violence in the East Timorese capital, Dili, has calmed a day after the president took over the country's security
• SOMALIA: Fresh fighting breaks out in Mogadishu IRIN 31 May 2006 -- At least five people were killed and a dozen others wounded when fighting between Islamic court militiamen and forces loyal to an alliance of secular leaders erupted in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, early on Wednesday.
• CONGO: Interview with Paul Goma, sub-prefect of Mindouli IRIN 31 May 2006 -- Through its High Commission for the Reinsertion of Former Combatants, the government of the Republic of Cong has begun conducting awareness campaigns in different departments of the country, prior to the launch later this year of a national Demobilisation, Disarmament and Reinsertion (DDR) programme, which the World Bank is funding at a cost of US $17 million.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Transcript: Press Availability with Secretary Rumsfeld and Adm. Keating at United States Northern Command 31 May 2006 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Commander, North American Aerospace Defense Command and United States Northern Command, Adm. Timothy J. Keating
• Operational Test Command evaluates digital communications Army News 01 Jun 2006 -- U.S. Army Operational Test Command (USAOTC) is conducting a series of tests and evaluations on digitized, network-based communication systems through June at Fort Hood, Texas, and the National Training Center at Fort Erwin, Calif.
• U.S., Kyrgyz Officials Meet To Negotiate Over Air Base RFE/RL 31 May 2006 -- Negotiations on resolving a dispute on the use o

• Press Briefing by Tony Snow The White House 31 May 2006
f a Kyrgyz military air base by the United States are under way in Bishkek
• India test fired 'Brahmos' missile IRNA 31 May 2006 -- India on Wednesday test fired a surface-to-surface version of the Indo-Russian Brahmos cruise missile in Pokhran desert, Gujarat state.

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for May 31, 2006
• Russia pulls out of joint plane project with Ukraine - minister RIA Novosti 31 May 2006 -- Russia has withdrawn from a joint program with Ukraine to produce the An-70 military transport aircraft as the project is outdated, the defense minister said Wednesday.
• Former Soviet aircraft carrier sold in China for $16mln RIA Novosti 31 May 2006 -- A former Soviet aircraft carrier was auctioned off Wednesday in the Chinese town of Shenzhen for 128 million yuan ($16 mln).

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