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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 19 Sep 2006 [PDF]
• Taskforce 3d MEDCOM Soldier dies
• 89th MP Brigade Soldier killed and two others wounded by a suicide car bomb
• MND-B Soldier killed by roadside bomb
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
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• General: No Reductions in US Troops in Iraq Until Mid-2007 VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- General John Abizaid told a group of reporters on Tuesday the current level of U.S. troops in Iraq - more than 140,000 - will remain unchanged at least until the middle of next year
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Sept. 19 AFPN 19 Sep 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Sept. 19.
• Bush to Host Three-Way Talks With Pakistani, Afghan Leaders VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- The White House says President Bush will host an unusual three-way meeting with the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan next week in an effort to coordinate policy in the face of a resurgence of Taleban attacks in Afghanistan
• Manas C-17 crew drops vital cargo in Afghanistan AFPN 19 Sep 2006 -- The primary mission of the 376th Air Expeditionary Wing is to provide air mobility support to servicemembers in Afghanistan fighting the war on terrorism. Detachment 1 of the 817th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron here enabled that mission with a combat airdrop Sept. 17.
• Bagram PRT awards $3 million contract AFPN 19 Sep 2006 -- A landmark road-construction contract that will link all districts in the Kapisa province of Afghanistan was awarded to a local contractor by the Bagram Provincial Reconstruction Team Sept. 18.
• Afghanistan: Karzai Highlights Agenda Ahead Of UN Address RFE/RL 19 Sep 2006 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai will spend the next week in North America -- speaking at the United Nations General Assembly on September 20 before traveling to Canada and then returning for talks with senior officials in Washington.

Defense Policy / Programs

• President Bush Addresses United Nations General Assembly The White House 19 Sep 2006
• Bush Says U.S. At War With Extremists, Not Islam RFE/RL 19 Sep 2006 -- In an address at the opening of the 61st Session of the UN General Assembly, U.S. President George W. Bush today delivered a conciliatory speech to the people of the Middle East, saying the United States respects Islam and isn't at war with Muslims.
• Bush Urges Support for Reformers, Moderates in Middle East VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- President Bush is urging U.N. members to support reformers and moderates in the Middle East, and do more to stop the bloodshed in Sudan.
• Bush Urges Support for Reformers in Middle East AFPS 19 Sep 2006 -- A more hopeful world free of terrorism is within reach, and the international community must make a decision to support reformers in the Middle East and work together to secure that peaceful future, President Bush said today in New York City.
• Air Force awards CRAF contracts worth $2.3 billion AFPN 19 Sep 2006 -- Headquarters Air Mobility Command has awarded its annual contracts that support the Civil Reserve Air Fleet program, worth $2.3 billion in fiscal 2007.
• Wake Island assessment nears completion AFPN 19 Sep 2006 -- The damage assessment team from Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii, has moved into its second phase of operations here.
• Salvor Makes Port Visit to Fiji Navy NewsStand 19 Sep 2006 -- USS Salvor (ARS 52) arrived Sept. 14 to the island of Viti Levu, Fiji, for a period of morale and welfare following the conclusion of the Southeast Asia exercise series Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2006.
• Salvor Makes Port Visit to Cairns, Australia Navy NewsStand 19 Sep 2006 -- USS Salvor (ARS 52) made a port visit Aug. 31-Sept. 6 to Cairns, Australia, in tropical North Queensland, the first stop there for Salvor.
• Chinese Navy Vessels Visit San Diego Navy NewsStand 19 Sep 2006 -- The Peoples Liberation Army (Navy) ships Qingdao (DDG 113) and Hongzehu (AOR 881) arrived at Naval Base San Diego Sept. 18 for a three-day port visit.
• Patrol Squadron 5 Completes Surge Navy NewsStand 19 Sep 2006 -- The “Mad Foxes” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 5, based out of Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville, Fla., finished a successful “surge” that lasted from June 1 to Aug. 30.
• C-130 AMP flies for first time AFPN 20 Sep 2006 -- A C-130 Hercules with a comprehensive avionics modification completed its maiden flight Sept. 19 from Lackland Air Force Base, Texas.
• Contract Award for NATO’s Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence Programme NATO 19 Sep 2006 -- The NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defence Investment, Marshall Billingslea, announced today that a team of companies led by Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) had launched a successful bid for the ALTBMD Programme System Engineering & Integration (SE & I) contract.
• Press Briefing by Deputy National Security Advisor and Senior NSC Directors on the President's Bilateral Meetings The White House 19 Sep 2006
• Daily Press Briefing US Dept. of State 20 Sep 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for September 19, 2006

Other Conflicts

• Bush Names Special Envoy for Darfur Washington File 19 Sep 2006 -- President Bush has named Andrew Natsios, former administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), as a presidential special envoy to lead U.S. efforts to bring peace to the Darfur region in Sudan.
• In speech to world leaders, Liberia’s President calls on UN to take action on Darfur UN News Centre 19 Sep 2006 -- Describing Darfur as a potential humanitarian catastrophe, Africa’s first democratically elected female leader today urged the United Nations to step in to restore peace and security to the war-torn region in western Sudan.
• Sudan reiterates opposition to planned UN peacekeeping force in Darfur UN News Centre 19 Sep 2006 -- Sudan rejects the proposed force of United Nations peacekeepers for the war-torn region of Darfur as an attempt to re-colonize the country, its President told the General Assembly today, calling on world leaders to focus their efforts on supporting the peace agreement signed earlier this year.
• Lawmakers Welcome Bush Appointment of Sudan Envoy VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- Democratic lawmakers in Congress are reacting to President Bush's appointment of a special envoy for Sudan, calling it a long overdue step that could help avert further bloodshed in Darfur.
• Analysis: UN Impasse on Darfur cfr.org 19 Sep 2006 -- The UN Security Council has authorized a large peacekeeping mission for Sudan’s violence-plagued Darfur region, while demonstrations around the world have urged its deployment
• SUDAN: UN warns of disaster in Darfur if AU troops leave IRIN 19 Sep 2006 -- A top United Nations official has warned of a humanitarian disaster in Darfur should African Union (AU) troops leave as scheduled in 11 days, ahead of an AU meeting in New York to discuss the future of its troops in Darfur.
• SUDAN: Pressure mounts for Sudan to allow African Union to stay on IRIN 19 Sep 2006 -- Sudan is expected to agree to allow some 7,000 African Union (AU) peacekeepers to stay in the troubled Sudanese western region of Darfur for three more months, despite the expiry of the AU force’s mandate there on 30 September.
• Bush to Name Natsios as Special Envoy for Darfur VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- President Bush will name a special envoy to help stop the violence in Sudan's Darfur region
• Pace of Somalis fleeing fighting picks up, UN refugee agency reports UN News Centre 19 Sep 2006 -- More than 3,400 Somalis, mainly women and children, have fled the conflict between Islamists and warlords to neighbouring Kenya in the past six days, bringing the total so far this year to over 26,300 and raising fears that the influx could increase after renewed fighting over the weekend, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.
• Somali Government Seeks Help in Probing Failed Attack on President VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- Somalia's interim government has asked for international help in investigating Monday's failed assassination attempt on President Abdullahi Yusuf.
• SOMALIA: Probe continues as death toll rises in assassination bid IRIN 19 Sep 2006 -- The death toll in the assassination bid on Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed has risen to 12 as investigations continue to establish who is responsible, an official of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) said on Tuesday.
• Israeli occupation must end in order to achieve Mideast peace, Jordan’s King tells UN UN News Centre 19 Sep 2006 -- The King of Jordan today issued an urgent appeal to leaders gathered at the United Nations for attention to Israel's occupation of Palestine, which he said is fundamental to achieving peace across the Middle East.
• Lanka gov't wants LTTE's 'guarantees' to resume talks IRNA 19 Sep 2006 -- Claiming that it has handed over a 'formula' to the Norwegian facilitators on resumption of peace talks, Lankan government has set condition that it needed personal 'guarantees' from Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, at the earliest.
• NEPAL: Rebels and government to hold decisive peace talks IRIN 19 Sep 2006 -- Maoist rebel leaders and Nepal’s seven-party interim government will hold talks within 10 days in an effort to rekindle the faltering peace process, designed to end a decade-long conflict in the Himalayan country.
• UGANDA: Truce to be reviewed, says government IRIN 19 Sep 2006 -- Uganda would continue to respect a landmark truce with the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) that expires tonight, ahead of a review this week, the government’s chief negotiator said.

News Reports

• Military Seizes Power in Thailand VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- Thai military leaders have seized control of the capital in an apparently bloodless coup.
• Coup Launched in Thailand, PM Declares State of Emergency VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- Thailand's army has issued a statement saying it has seized control of the government and declared martial law
• Thai PM Declares Emergency, Tanks in Bangkok VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- Thailand's prime minister has declared a state of emergency and witnesses report tanks in the streets of the Thai capital, Bangkok.
• Hungarian President Urges End to 'Moral Crisis' VOA 19 Sep 2006 -- Hungarian President Laszlo Solyom has appealed to the country's prime minister to apologize for creating what he calls a "moral crisis" in Hungary
• At UN, Costa Rica’s president issues ringing call for end to arms trade UN News Centre 19 Sep 2006 -- The president of Costa Rica – a country that has renounced military spending – today issued a ringing call to leaders gathered at the United Nations to do the same, arguing that this would foster more stability than the current proliferation and use of weapons.