04 October 2006 - Iraq Special Weapons News |
Operations
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
News Reports
Current Operations
- OIF/OEF Casualty Update 04 Oct 2006 [PDF]
- DoD Identifies Army Casualty
- DoD Identifies Army Casualty
- Task Force Lightning Soldier killed
- MND-B Soldier killed by small-arms fire
- Four Soldiers killed by indirect, small-arms fire
- CENTAF releases airpower summary for Oct. 4 AFPN 04 Oct 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Oct. 4.
- Iraqi Soldiers Prevent Attack, Detain 27 Suspects AFPS 04 Oct 2006 -- Soldiers from 2nd Battalion, 2nd Brigade, 8th Iraqi Army Division, prevented a large-scale sectarian attack in Iraq’s Obiedi region, south of Baghdad Sept. 30 after receiving reports that local residents had been driven out of their homes.
Deployments
US Policy
- Iraqi Peace Plan Gives Citizens Responsibility, General Says AFPS 04 Oct 2006 -- The reconciliation plan announced by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki Oct. 2 enables Iraqi citizens from all political groups to hold their security forces responsible and to take responsibility for creating peace and tolerance within their own neighborhoods, a U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said today.
United Nations
- Iraq: UN envoy continues top-level talks on political and security developments UN News Centre 04 Oct 2006 -- Continuing his consultations with Iraqi leaders, the top United Nations envoy in the violence-wracked country today discussed the latest political and security developments with President Jalal Talibani.
Reconstruction Issues
- Iraqi Police Unit, Accused of Complicity with Militias, to be Retrained VOA 04 Oct 2006 -- Iraqi authorities have taken a police unit with hundreds of officers out of service because of possible complicity with death squads
- IRAQ: New plan to curb worsening sectarian violence IRIN 04 Oct 2006 -- The Iraqi government has launched a new initiative to boost its existing plans to halt escalating violence between Shi’ite and Sunni Muslims in the country.
- Iraq Weekly Status Report US Dept. of State 04 Oct 2006 [PDF]
Foreign Reactions
- Australian PM: US Intelligence Agencies Reluctant to Share Information on Iraq VOA 04 Oct 2006 -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard has confirmed that U.S. intelligence agencies had restricted his country's access to classified material on the war in Iraq, forcing him to repeatedly appeal to President Bush for access.
