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- OIF/OEF Casualty Update 30 Jun 2006 [PDF]
- DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
- DoD Identifies Army Casualty
- DoD Identifies Army Casualty
- 172nd SBCT SOLDIER KILLED IN MOSUL
- MND-B SOLDIER KILLED BY ROADSIDE BOMB
- Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Col Snow from Iraq 30 Jun 2006 -- Presenter: U.S. Army Colonel Jeffrey J. Snow, Commander, 1ST Brigade, 10TH Mountain Division
- CENTAF releases airpower summary AFPN 30 Jun 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for June 30.
- RFE/RL Afghanistan Report, Volume 5, Number 18 30 June 2006
- No need to deploy more 10,000 troops on Pak-Afghan border: Minister IRNA 30 Jun 2006 -- Pakistan Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao said on Friday that there is no need to deploy more 10,000 troops along the border with Afghanistan.
- Patrol Kills 14 Extremists, Afghanistan Operations Continue AFPS 30 Jun 2006 -- Coalition forces in Afghanistan today killed 14 enemy fighters at a Taliban safe house and killed one enemy fighter and captured eight others in a separate raid, military officials reported.
Other Conflicts
- U.S. Urges Caution in Security Council Response to Gaza Crisis Washington File 30 Jun 2006 -- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, in a June 30 emergency session of the U.N. Security Council, cautioned that body against taking any steps that might exacerbate tensions over the recent Israeli incursion into the Gaza strip.
- UN Security Council Hears Harsh Criticism of Israel's Gaza Offensive VOA 30 Jun 2006 -- The U.N. Security Council has held an emergency meeting to hear criticism of the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip
- UN Security Council Debates Israel's Gaza Offensive VOA 30 Jun 2006 -- The U.N. Security Council is holding an emergency debate on Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip
- Hamas PM Says He's Working to Secure Israeli Soldier's Release VOA 30 Jun 2006 -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas has demanded that Israel stop its offensive in the Gaza Strip, but says he is working hard to resolve the crisis over a kidnapped Israeli soldier.
- Israeli Warplanes Pound Gaza in Bid to Free Kidnapped Soldier VOA 30 Jun 2006 -- Israel is continuing a punishing offensive in the Gaza Strip aimed at winning the release of a kidnapped soldier.
- Egypt Says Hamas Conditionally Agrees to Release Israeli Soldier VOA 30 Jun 2006 -- The Israeli military is continuing air and artillery strikes in the Gaza Strip as part of an operation to secure the release of a soldier kidnapped by Palestinian militants.
- COTE D IVOIRE: Talks between rebel and government forces fail IRIN 30 Jun 2006 -- Talks between rebel leaders and Cote d’Ivoire’s army chief of staff on peace-plans to merge the two forces have collapsed, in part because of rebel demands for salary arrears going back to their mutiny.
- Sri Lanka says LTTE demand is 'agony' for Norway as well as EU IRNA 30 Jun 2006 -- The Sri Lanka Government Peace Secretariat Palitha Kohona has said the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)'s demand to remove European Union (EU) monitors from the Sri Lanka Monitoring Mission (SLMM) "is an agony to Norway as well as the European Union."
- Nagarno-Karabakh: Mediators Take The Process Public RFE/RL 30 Jun 2006 -- Lifting the veil of confidentiality that has marked the Karabakh peace process since it began in 1992, the French, Russian and U.S. co-chairmen of the OSCE Minsk Group tasked with mediating a solution to the conflict have over the past eight days gone public with a summary of the basic principles currently under discussion.
- Nagorno-Karabakh: OSCE Catches Region Off Guard RFE/RL 30 Jun 2006 -- In an interview with RFE/RL on June 22, the U.S. official tasked with mediating peace talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave indicated he and fellow diplomats had done as much as they could to foster a peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan.
- Timor-Leste: UN officials continue talks to end violence; funding shortfall threatens aid UN News Centre 30 Jun 2006 -- As United Nations envoys continued their efforts today to calm tensions and plan for a possible expanded UN police force in Timor-Leste, a funding shortfall is threatening food supplies for 155,000 people, 15 per cent of the total population, displaced by the violence that ripped through the small South-East Asian nation over the past two months.
- East Timor Calm as UN Plans Expanded Peacekeeping Force VOA 30 Jun 2006 -- The United Nations plans to expand a peacekeeping force in East Timor, and the country seems to be moving toward a temporary resolution of its political crisis
- US Official Reiterates Concern About Militant Elements in Somalia VOA 30 Jun 2006 -- The top U.S. official for Africa has renewed Washington's concern about what she calls militant elements within Somalia's Supreme Islamic Council that she says may be providing a haven for terrorists
Defense Policy / Programs
- National Defense Exemption to MMPA Authorized for Navy 30 Jun 2006 -- The Department of Defense today announced authorization of a six-month national defense exemption from requirements of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) for naval activity involving mid-frequency active sonar use during major training exercises and on established ranges and operating areas.
- Army Establishes New Corps for Civilians Army News Release 30 Jun 2006 -- As the nation prepares to observe 230 years of independence on July 4, America’s Army civilians celebrate the establishment of the new Army Civilian Corps.
- 75th Ranger Regiment awarded three campaign streamers Army News 30 Jun 2006 -- Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker presented three campaign streamers yesterday to the first Army unit to receive the streamers for the Global War on Terrorism conflict, Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
- Supreme Court Finds Military Commissions Unconstitutional Washington File 30 Jun 2006 -- President Bush said he will conform with the findings of the June 29 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that using military commissions to try Guantanamo detainees is unconstitutional
- Analysis: High Court Reins in Bush Administration cfr.org 30 Jun 2006 -- "Judicial review is alive and well, post 9/11," says Deborah Pearlstein of Human Rights First, on the Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.
- U.S.: Guantanamo Ruling Reasserts Constitutional Principles RFE/RL 30 Jun 2006 -- The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 29 that President George W. Bush does not have the authority to set up special military commissions to try suspected terrorists being held at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
- U.S.: Military Tribunal Ruling Second Setback For Bush RFE/RL 30 Jun 2006 -- The U.S. Supreme Court's decision that President George W. Bush exceeded his authority when he ordered military tribunals for the Guantanamo Bay detainees is the second such decision in two years against the tactics being used in the U.S.-led war on terror.
- World: U.S. Court Gives New Support To Geneva Conventions RFE/RL 30 Jun 2006 -- A June 29 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court against the Bush administration’s creation of military tribunals for terror suspects said this would violate U.S. law as well as the Geneva Conventions.
- Australian Detainee at Guantanamo Bay Sees Hope for Freedom VOA 30 Jun 2006 -- The Australian government has urged the United States to find a quick alternative to the military tribunals set up to try terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay
- U-2s Deployed in U.S. Air Force Base in S. Korea KCNA 30 Jun 2006 -- The U.S. Air Force stationed in south Korea has deployed new-type U-2s in its Osan base, according to the south Korean Yonhap News on June 26.
- Press Gaggle by Tony Snow The White House 30 Jun 2006
- Daily Press Briefing US Department of State 30 Jun 2006
