13 September 2006 - Iraq Special Weapons News |
Operations
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
News Reports
Current Operations
- OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Sep 2006 [PDF]
- Soldier killed in Al Anbar Province
- MND-B Soldier killed by roadside bomb
- CENTAF releases airpower summary for Sept. 13 AFPN 13 Sep 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Sept. 13.
- Iraqi Police, Army Capture Several Insurgents AFPS 13 Sep 2006 -- Iraqi police detained three suspected insurgents and discovered a makeshift bomb near a mosque in Mosul, Iraq, Sept. 11, U.S. military officials said.
- Iraq Car Bomb Kills 22, Bodies of 60 Torture Victims Found in Capital VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- A car bomb explosion in Baghdad has killed at least 14 Iraqis and wounded nearly 60 others.
Deployments
US Policy
- Iraqi, Coalition Troops Confront "Active Insurgency" in Al-Anbar Washington File 13 Sep 2006 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces are making progress to stabilize the country’s restive al-Anbar province, but more political and economic progress is needed to undercut the continuing influence of violent militants in the region, says the commander of Multinational Division – West.
- Bush Commemoration of 9/11 Focuses on Iraq VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- President Bush concedes that Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the United States
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
- Iraq Weekly Status Report US Dept. of State 13 Sep 2006 [PDF]
Foreign Reactions
- Annan: Most Middle East Leaders See Iraq as 'Disaster' VOA 13 Sep 2006 -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says most leaders he visited on his recent trip to the Middle East told him the U.S. campaign in Iraq has been a disaster for them
- Spokesman dismisses accusing other countries of Iraq insurgency IRNA 13 Sep 2006 -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini said on Wednesday that occupying forces blame other countries for the insurgency in Iraq thus helping terrorists hide themselves under such baseless allegations.
- Supreme Leader: Prosperity of Iraqi nation equal to that of Iranian, regional people IRNA 13 Sep 2006 -- Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei in a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki here Wednesday said that the prosperity and progress of the Iraqi nation are equal to those of Iranian and regional people.
- Iran wants a secure, developed Iraq in region: minister IRNA 13 Sep 2006 -- Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi here on Tuesday evening stressed that Iran wants "a secure and developed Iraq" within its neighborhood.
- Larijani terms Iraq a "natural ally" of Iran IRNA 13 Sep 2006 -- Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Larijani said here Tuesday that Iraq is a "natural ally" of Iran.
- Iranian Leader Says Iraq Safer Without U.S. Troops RFE/RL 13 Sep 2006 -- Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today told Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki that one way of helping to restore stability in Iraq would be for the U.S.-led military coalition to pull out of the country.
