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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 24 Feb 2005 [PDF]
• TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIER KILLED BY IED
• SOLDIER KILLED, TWO WOUNDED BY IEDS NEAR SAMARRA

• U.S. Soldier, Eight Iraqis Killed in Separate IED Blasts AFPS 24 Feb 2005 -- A Task Force Liberty soldier was killed and two others were wounded today by improvised explosive devices north of Samarra, Iraq, Multinational Force Iraq officials reported.
• Myers: Troops Got 'Very Close' to Zarqawi, Have Him on Run AFPS 24 Feb 2005 -- U.S. forces got "very close" to Abu Musab al- Zarqawi and are keeping the fugitive Jordanian terrorist with ties to al Qaeda on the run, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Feb. 23 on Fox News Channel.
• OPERATION RIVER BLITZ CONTINUES WITH HELP FROM IRAQI CITIZENS CENTCOM 24 Feb 2005 -- Iraqi and U.S. forces continued increased security operations by raiding a mosque, detaining 17 suspected insurgents and seizing several weapons caches throughout the Al Anbar province as Operation River Blitz rolled on for a fifth day.
• 2 US Soldiers, 17 Iraqis Killed in Separate Attacks VOA News 24 Feb 2005 -- Insurgents in Iraq have launched new attacks Thursday on police and U.S. troops, killing at least 17 people.
• 'Bengals' aid the war on the ground throughout Iraq USMC News 24 Feb 2005 -- A platoon of Marines is on patrol in northern Iraq. When they begin taking enemy fire they call for an air strike on the building that enemy forces are using for cover.

Deployments

• 2/10 returns from Iraq USMC News 24 Feb 2005 -- Marines from 2nd Battalion, 10th Marine Regiment, returned Feb. 18 and 21 from a seven-month deployment to Iraq.

US Policy

• US Army Reports New Detainee Procedures VOA News 24 Feb 2005 -- The U.S. military says it has implemented new procedures to ensure that detainees are not abused, as they were at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad and allegedly at other U.S. military detention facilities. Officials say allegations of abuse by army soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan have resulted in 308 criminal investigations.
• Army Improving Procedures for Handling Detainees AFPS 24 Feb 2005 -- The Army is taking steps to improve how its soldiers handle detainees captured in the war on terror, senior officials announced Feb. 23.

• Iraqi Elections Ended any Insurgent Legitimacy, Myers Says AFPS 24 Feb 2005 -- The Jan. 30 elections in Iraq "put an end to any moral legitimacy the insurgents may have had," the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said during a news conference here today.

United Nations

• No respite for top UN envoy in Iraq as he seeks political inclusiveness UN News Centre 24 Feb 2005 -- Continuing his talks across the full political spectrum of Iraqi politics, the top United Nations envoy in the country today met with the man who had previously sought to be candidate for prime minister of the coalition that won a majority in national elections last month.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance Updates USAID 24 Feb 2005 [PDF]
• Iraqi brigade takes control of area, future Army News 24 Feb 2005 -- Iraqi and Coalition Forces made history Feb. 21 when the 40th Iraqi National Guard brigade officially assumed control of their area of operation.
• Academies Graduate 2,000 More Iraqi Police Officers AFPS 24 Feb 2005 -- Some 204 Iraqi police officers graduated from the Adnan, Iraq, training facility today after completing advanced and specialty courses in leadership, criminal investigation, interrogations and other subjects, according to Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq officials.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 24 Feb 2005
• IRAQ: Ramadi residents flee city after latest US-led attacks IRIN 24 Feb 2005 -- Residents of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province some 100 km east of Baghdad, have started to flee the city following the latest offensive launched by US Marines and the Iraqi army.
• IRAQ: Mixed picture for IDPs in the north IRIN 24 Feb 2005 -- "Iraq and accurate statistics," said one senior Iraqi official in Kirkuk, "are two entirely different things." Nowhere is this truer than when it comes to internally displaced persons (IDPs) in northern Iraq. Officially, 20 years of village clearances, Arabisation campaigns in ethnically mixed areas and a Kurdish civil war have forced around 800,000 people - out of a total population of four million - to leave their homes. A UN-Habitat survey of October 2000 put the total at 805,505, not including IDPs who had fended for themselves and disappeared into the general population.