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• CJTF-HOA troops receive smallpox vaccinations USMC News 16 Feb 2003 -- Their guard is up. They are equipped with defenses against malaria, anthrax and yellow fever. Now service members here in support of Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa are being protected against smallpox.
• CIC keeps information flowing for CJTF-HOA USMC News 16 Feb 2003 -- Information is one of the key factors contributing to the success of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa whose mission is to disrupt and defeat terrorism in the Horn of Africa region.
• USS Kitty Hawk transits Strait of Malacca 7th Fleet 16 Feb 2003 -- The U.S. Navy's oldest active duty warship transits the Strait of Malacca, one of the world's busiest shipping lanes, en route to the Central Command area of operations.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Kitty Hawk team celebrates flight deck milestone 7th Fleet 16 Feb 2003 -- The crews of USS Kitty Hawk (CV 63), the Navy's longest-serving active warship and America's only permanently forward-deployed aircraft carrier, along with Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 5, reached a milestone recentlywhen the ship's bow catapult team launched an aircraft from Kitty Hawk's No. 1 catapult for the 150,000th time in the ship's nearly 42 years of service.
• 7th Fleet, Blue Ridge team arrive for Hong Kong visit 7th Fleet 16 Feb 2003 -- The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet command ship, USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), and the embarked Commander, 7th Fleet staff arrived in Hong Kong, Feb. 17.
• Statement by NATO Secretary General, Lord Robertson after the NATO Defence Planning Committee Meeting NATO16 Feb 2003 -- "Good evening ladies and gentlemen and thank you for your patience. It's been a long day for all of us. But we have come to a conclusion. Ambassadors of 18 NATO nations, members in the Defence Planning Committee of NATO, came to this building this morning confident that we had the elements necessary to provide the basis for a consensus decision."
• Decision Sheet of the Defence Planning Committee: NATO Support to Turkey with in the Framework of Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty NATO Press Release 16 Feb 2003 -- At the Prague Summit, the NATO Allies committed themselves to take effective action to assist and support the efforts of the United Nations to ensure full and immediate compliance by Iraq, without conditions or restrictions, with UN Security Council Resolution 1441. This remains our policy. Following Turkey's request for consultations within the framework of Article 4 of the North Atlantic Treaty, as expressed in its letter of 10 February 2003, and pursuant to Article 4 of the Treaty which states that "the Parties will consult whenever, in the opinion of any of them, the territorial integrity, political independence or security of any of the Parties is threatened", Allies have begun consultations.

• NATO / IRAQ / TURKEY VOA 16 Feb 2003 -- NATO appears to be inching closer to a compromise that would break the alliance's deadlock over planning for the defense of Turkey in the event of a U-S-led war against Iraq.

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• ISRAEL / PALESTINIANS VOA 16 Feb 2003 -- An explosion at the home of a Hamas activist in Gaza City Sunday has killed at least four Palestinians and wounded three others.
• IVORY COAST VOA 16 Feb 2003 -- Ivory Coast rebels say they are traveling to several West African capitals to try to drum up regional support for a peace accord.
• RUSSIA/CHECHNYA VOA 16 Feb 2003 -- A senior European human rights official has endorsed Russia's plan to hold a referendum in Chechnya next month on a new constitution. Until now the Kremlin has been repeatedly criticized for its plan to hold a vote in the war-torn region.

News Reports

• With India's support, UN to distribute nutrient-rich biscuits to Afghan children UN News Centre 16 feb 2003 -- The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today announced plans to distribute nearly 10,000 tons of high-energy biscuits donated by India to the schoolchildren of Afghanistan.
• ISRAEL/ETHIOPIA VOA 16 Feb 2003 -- Israel's Cabinet decided Sunday to allow about 17-thousand Ethiopians waiting in refugee camps to move to the Jewish state.
• U-S / JAPAN / WTO VOA 16 Feb 2003 -- Members of the World Trade Organization, trying to meet a March 31st deadline to draft a framework for agricultural issues, were unable to reach agreement during talks in Japan. As the gathering ended in Tokyo many of the delegates expressed disappointment.
• TURKMENISTAN / HUMAN RIGHTS VOA 16 Feb 2003 -- The Vienna based International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights says it is alarmed by new laws against high Treason that have been passed in Turkmenistan. The federation sees a return to the Stalinist methods of the 1930s in the central Asian state.