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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Jun 2006 [PDF]
• CENTAF releases airpower summary AFPN 13 Jun 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for June 12.
• U.S. Marines Working With Local Police in Qaim AFPS 13 Jun 2006 -- A Marine Corps police transition team is working here to equip and train Iraqi police. While there are many obstacles to surmount, there are signs of progress, U.S. officials here said.
• Multiple Bombings in Kirkuk; At Least 16 Dead VOA 13 Jun 2006 -- Authorities in northern Iraq say multiple bomb attacks Tuesday in the city of Kirkuk have killed at least 16 people.
• Navy Commander Predicts More Fighting in Afghanistan VOA 13 Jun 2006 -- A U.S. Navy Commander in Afghanistan says the recent increase in fighting between coalition troops and Taleban insurgents will continue as Afghan security forces and soldiers from NATO expand their influence throughout the country
• Terrorists Kill Three Afghan Civilians, Wound Six AFPS 13 Jun 2006 -- Two separate terrorist attacks yesterday left three Afghan civilians dead and six others wounded, U.S. military officials reported today.

Other Conflicts

• Israel Denies Responsibility for Gaza Beach Blast VOA 13 Jun 2006 -- Israeli military authorities say they were not responsible for a blast last Friday at a beach in the Gaza Strip that killed eight Palestinians, including seven members of one family.
• Annan Says UN Must Resume East Timor Peacekeeping Operations VOA 13 Jun 2006 -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says it is clear the world body will have to resume peacekeeping operations in East Timor in the wake of recent violence
• NEPAL: Rebels positive about peace talks IRIN 13 Jun 2006 -- Maoist rebels in Nepal have reiterated their commitment to making the ongoing peace talks with the new government a success.
• CAMEROON-NIGERIA: Presidents Obasanjo and Biya shake hands on disputed Bakassi peninsula IRIN 13 Jun 2006 -- A decades-long border dispute over sovereignty of the Bakassi peninsula was officially resolved when President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria agreed to hand the narrow strip of land over to neighbouring Cameroon.
• SUDAN: Talks on the east gear up as SPLM/A pulls out of Hamishkorieb IRIN 13 Jun 2006 -- Eritrea's president met his Sudanese counterpart in Khartoum on Monday during rare direct talks ahead of landmark peace negotiations aimed at ending a simmering civil conflict in east Sudan.
• SOMALIA: "We're more secure" - Mogadishu residents IRIN 13 Jun 2006 -- There is a palpable air of euphoria and optimism in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, following last week's takeover of the city by the Islamic courts from an alliance of warlords, local sources said. City residents have welcomed the change, saying they feel more secure than they have in the past 16 years.
• Analysis: Chechnya Seeks To Subsume, 'Stabilize' Ingushetia RFE/RL 13 Jun 2006 -- In recent weeks Dukvakha Abdurakhmanov, the speaker of the lower house of the Chechen parliament and a close associate of Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov, has repeatedly advocated recombining the Russian republics of Chechnya and Ingushetia to form a single federation subject
• Kosovo: parties still remain far apart in deciding future status, Annan reports UN News Centre 13 Jun 2006 -- Despite some progress in talks to decide the final status of Kosovo, the parties remain far apart and compromise is crucial, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in his latest report on the Albanian-majority Serbian province, which the United Nations has run since Western forces drove out Yugoslav troops in 1999 amid ethnic fighting.
• Regional Ministers Discuss Stabilizing Somalia, Punishing Warlords VOA 13 Jun 2006 -- In east Africa, members of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are discussing ways of punishing warlords involved in recent fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.
• Israel Missile Strike Kills 11 Palestinians, Injures 30 VOA 13 Jun 2006 -- Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip have left at least 11 Palestinians dead and more than 30 others wounded.
• ETHIOPIA: Raiders kill 14 in bus attack IRIN 13 Jun 2006 -- At least 14 people were killed and 40 others wounded when a group of unidentified armed raiders ambushed a bus in western Ethiopia, humanitarian sources said.

Defense Policy / Programs

• US House of Representatives Approves Iraq Spending Measure VOA 13 Jun 2006 -- The House of Representatives has approved, by a vote of 351 to 67, $70 billion in new funding in support of U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
• Buckeye System Brings New Digital Capability to Warfighters AFPS 13 Jun 2006 -- A system initially adopted to help the Army Corps of Engineers detect invasive vegetation growing in coastal waterways is giving warfighters an edge in the global war on terror.
• Abizaid Discusses Defeating Extremist Ideology in CENTCOM Region AFPS 13 Jun 2006 -- Defeating an ideology is much more difficult than defeating a physical threat, but that is at the heart of U.S. Central Command's strategy in this region, the command's chief, Army Gen. John Abizaid, said in an interview today.
• Ironhorse Troopers head to JRTC Army News 13 Jun 2006 -- More than 4,500 Soldiers from the 1st Cavalry Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team will soon experience what has been described as “the most realistic, stressful training troops will ever face” at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, La.
• C-5 accident investigation board complete AFPN 13 Jun 2006 -- The results of an investigation into the C-5 Galaxy crash at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on April 3 found that human error was the cause, Air Mobility Command officials released today.
• Breakaway regions in ex-U.S.S.R. mull joint peacekeeping force RIA Novosti 13 Jun 2006 -- Three breakaway regions in former Soviet republics currently embroiled in "frozen conflicts" may consider forming a joint peacekeeping contingent if Russian peacekeepers withdraw, the president of Abkhazia said Tuesday.
• Infrastructure delays Russia air base reinforcement in Kyrgyzstan RIA Novosti 13 Jun 2006 -- No more personnel will be sent to a Russian air base in Kyrgyzstan until social infrastructure is in place for servicemen, a senior Russian officer said Tuesday.
• Daily Press Briefing US Department of State 13 Jun 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for June 13, 2006
• Russia plans to expand presence on Venezuelan arms market RIA Novosti 13 Jun 2006 -- Russia is planning to increase sales of military hardware in Venezuela by offering the Latin American country a wide variety of advanced weaponry, the state-controlled arms exporter said Tuesday.

News Reports

• No Agreement in Japan-South Korea Maritime Talks VOA 13 Jun 2006 -- No progress was made during the first talks in six years between Japan and South Korea concerning a disputed maritime boundary.