March 2004 - Iraq Special Weapons News

12 March 2004 - Iraq Special Weapons News

OIF/OEF Casualty Update 12 Mar 2004 [PDF]
Transcript: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing from Iraq 12 Mar 2004 -- Participating were Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations, Combined Joint Task Force 7, and Dan Senor, senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority
Insurgent Attacks Kill Coalition Soldiers, Iraqi Civilians AFPS 12 Mar 2004 -- Two Task Force All American soldiers were killed and another was injured when their vehicle was struck March 11 by an improvised explosive device, Combined Joint Task Force 7 officials reported today.
Facts Still Unclear in Civilian Employees' Deaths in Iraq AFPS 12 Mar 2004 -- Clear facts have yet to emerge as the FBI and Iraqi police continue investigating the March 9 murder of three Coalitional Provisional Authority workers, two of whom were Americans who worked for the Defense Department, officials reported today in Baghdad.

Republican Senator Rejects Democratic Allegations of Misuse of Intelligence Washington File 12 Mar 2004 -- As the U.S. presidential election campaign heats up, a prominent Republican senator from Arizona, Jon Kyl, has offered a rebuttal to Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy's allegations that the Bush administration distorted intelligence assessments to justify the war in Iraq.

Iraqi Reconstruction Sector Contracts Awarded 12 Mar 2004 -- The Department of Defense announced today the award of two contracts to provide construction services under the Coalition Provisional Authority Program Management Office (PMO) within a specific sector.
MOSUL CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY CENTCOM Release 12 Mar 2004-- For the first time in history, women in Mosul, Iraq, were able to join the rest of the world in celebrating International Women's Day Monday. International Women's Day, commemorated by the United Nations in 1911, serves as a day to recognize coordinated efforts of women everywhere for equal rights and political and economic equality.
Iraq: U.S. Steps Up Preparations For Hussein Trial RFE/RL 12 Mar 2004 -- The United States is stepping up preparations to prosecute former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and other top members of his regimes for war crimes and crimes against humanity. This month, some 50 American lawyers, investigators and prosecutors began heading to Iraq to organize evidence and provide other technical support for a tribunal.

FOREIGN MINISTER EXPLAINS SINGAPORE'S SUPPORT FOR U.S.-LED WAR IN IRAQ CNA 12 Mar 2004 -- Singapore intercepted several shipments linked to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) late last year, Foreign Minister S. Jayakumar revealed in Parliament Thursday while explaining why Singapore supported the U.S.-led war In Iraq.