March 2005 - Iraq Special Weapons News

29 March 2005 - Iraq Special Weapons News

OIF/OEF Casualty Update 29 Mar 2005 [PDF]
II MEF SOLDIER KILLED IN NON-HOSTILE INCIDENT
Task Force Baghdad Soldiers undeterred by attacks MNF-I/MNC-I 29 Mar 2005 -- During cordon and search operations, Task Force Baghdad Soldiers detained five suspected terrorists March 28.
OSI keeps Baghdad Airmen, Soldiers safe AFPN 29 Mar 2005 -- Force Protection. To many Airmen, it means fishing for identification, showing it to the gate guard, and then going to work for a 12-hour shift.

Kearsarge Strike Group Deploys Navy NewsStand 29 Mar 2005 -- The USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) and the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) got underway March 25 for their scheduled deployment.

Transcript: Defense Department Briefing 29 Mar 2005 -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; General Peter Pace, USMC, Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
BUSH -IRAQ VOA 29 Mar 2005 -- President Bush says he believes a new Iraqi government will be chosen soon, and that the Iraqi nation will serve as a positive model for the region. The Bush administration is downplaying problems surrounding the selection process.
RUMSFELD / IRAQ VOA 29 Mar 2005 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Tuesday the key to defeating the Iraqi insurgency lies with the Iraqi people and their new transitional government. Despite the newly elected parliament's delay in forming a government, Mr. Rumsfeld remains cautiously optimistic about Iraq's future.

TRANSCRIPT OF PRESS CONFERENCE BY SECRETARY-GENERAL KOFI ANNAN United Nations 29 Mar 2005
Second Interim Report: The 1998 Procurement of the Humanitarian Goods Inspection Contract/Other Conduct of United Nations OfficialsIndependent Inquiry Committee into the United Nations Oil-for-Food Programme 29 Mar 2005 [PDF 3.66 Mb]
Annan says exoneration by Iraq Oil-for-Food report 'great relief' UN News Centre 29 Mar 2005 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today it was a "great relief," after so "many distressing and untrue allegations," that an independent committee probing alleged misconduct and mismanagement in the United Nations Oil-for-Food programme for Iraq had exonerated him of any wrongdoing in the award of a contract to a firm that employed his son.
UN / OIL FOR FOOD VOA 29 Mar 2005 -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan has rejected calls for his resignation after being criticized by a panel investigating the Iraq oil-for-food program. The panel stopped short of accusing Mr. Annan of wrongdoing.
White House Report, March 29: WMD Report, Oil-for-Food Scandal Washington File 29 Mar 2005 -- ADMINISTRATION TO CAREFULLY CONSIDER WMD REPORT / FULL ACCOUNTING NEEDED IN OIL-FOR-FOOD PROGRAM / SALE OF JETS TO PAKISTAN DESIGNED TO AID IN WAR ON TERROR

IRAQ PARLIAMENT VOA 29 Mar 2005 -- Iraq's parliament met Tuesday for the second time since it was elected two months ago, but the session was suspended as members failed to choose a speaker. Correspondent Scott Bobb reports from Baghdad that leaders say the assembly will reconvene after a three-day religious holiday (Arbaeen).
Iraqi National Assembly Fails To Select A Speaker RFE/RL 29 Mar 2005 -- Legislators in Iraq opened their National Assembly session today after a several-hour delay while they sought -- without success -- to choose a speaker.

Militiamen Push Islam In Al-Basrah RFE/RL 29 Mar 2005 -- Thirty militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr allegedly attacked 600 picnicking students from Al-Basrah University's College of Engineering at the city's Al-Andulus park on 17 March, claiming the students had violated Islamic norms by dressing in Western clothing, singing, and dancing.
Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 29 Mar 2005

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