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Current Operations

• DoD Identifies Air Force Casualty
• Soldier killed by roadside bomb
• 13th SC(E) Soldiers killed in Al Anbar
• Three Marines killed in Western Iraq
• Soldier killed in Baghdad
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Dec. 3 AFPN 03 Dec 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials release the airpower summary for Dec. 3.
• Iraqi Forces Taking Lead in Fight Against Terror AFPS 03 Dec 2006 -- Iraqi forces are getting more results as they move into the lead in many areas of the country.
• F-16 pilot status confirmed AFPN 03 Dec 2006 -- Maj. Troy L. Gilbert, the pilot of the Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon engaged in support of coalition ground combat operations that crashed approximately 20 miles northwest of Baghdad Nov. 27, was officially listed as killed in action.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bush Talks About Maliki Meeting, Way Forward in Iraq AFPS 03 Dec 2006 -- His recent trip to the Middle East reaffirmed his conviction to help the unity government in Baghdad find a political solution to the situation in Iraq, President Bush said here yesterday.
• Bush Ponders Moves on Iraq, Prepares for Talks With Shi'ite Leader VOA 03 Dec 2006 -- White House officials say U.S. President Bush is open to considering all sorts of options in Iraq, including those put forward in a newly-disclosed memo from outgoing Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld
• U.S. Reviewing Tactics, not Goal, in Iraq, Security Advisor Says Washington File 03 Dec 2006 -- President Bush is conducting a broad review of how U.S. policy should adapt to new circumstances in Iraq, but the United States is not changing its fundamental goal of helping establish a democratic Iraq that can defend itself against terrorism and sectarian violence, according to National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraq Violence Continues After Triple Bombing RFE/RL 03 Dec 2006 -- Funerals are scheduled in Baghdad today after more than 50 people were killed yesterday in a triple car bombing in a Shi'ite neighborhood.
• Iraq: U.S. Expert Discusses Prospects For Stabilization RFE/RL 03 Dec 2006 -- Kenneth Katzman, a noted specialist on Middle East affairs at the Congressional Research Service, spoke recently with RFE/RL about events in the region