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07 April 2003 Military News

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Defense Policy / Programs
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Other Conflicts
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Current Operations

  • Soldiers guard MSC's fleet Military Sealift Command 07 Apr 2003 -- More than 1,300 Army reservists have been activated to provide force protection and security aboard Military Sealift Command ships sailing to and from Southwest Asia.
  • Nimitz Carrier Strike Group Joins Others Deployed to 5th Fleet Navy NewStand 07 Apr 2003 -- The USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Carrier Strike Group recently entered the 5th Fleet Area of Responsibility, making it the fourth carrier strike group in the region deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
  • ONW fighters say final goodbye to Incirlik AFPN 07 Apr 2003 -- The last Operation Northern Watch mission flew March 17, but the end of the operation was not obvious until the last fighter aircraft roared out of here April 7.
  • Enemy Forces Fire Missiles at U.S. Sites in Afghanistan AFPS 07 Apr 2003 -- Unknown enemy forces fired missiles at U.S. forces in Afghanistan in three separate incidents over the weekend, a military spokesman in Bagram said today.
  • AFGHANISTAN: UN lifts suspension of movements in the south IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- Following a six-day suspension due to deteriorating security, the United Nations announced on Sunday a resumption of movement in the southern provinces of Afghanistan. An earlier suspension of movement followed the murder of an International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) delegate in the southern province of Oruzgan on 27 March. "We will resume movements in the region [all southern provinces] on Monday," Manoel de Almeida e Silva, a UN spokesman in Afghanistan, told IRIN in the Afghan capital, Kabul.

Defense Policy / Programs

  • White House Press Briefing with Secretary Powell and Ari Fleischer White House 07 Apr 2003
  • Transcript: Briefing on Geneva Convention, EPW's and War Crimes 07 Apr 2003 -- This is the first in a series of our briefings on issues that are related to the U.S. military's treatment of enemy prisoners of war.
  • Modern Law of Warfare Instituted During the Civil War AFPS 07 Apr 2003 -- President Abraham Lincoln instituted the modern law of war practiced by U.S. troops and most nations' militaries today.

  • NSWC Indian Head MEMS Technology Team Receives Cheapskate Award NAVSEA News 07 Apr 2003 -- The Office of Naval Research (ONR) recently presented its Cheapskate Award for Affordability to Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division's MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) Technology Team.
  • NSWC Indian Head Performs First East Coast Bioremediation of Perchlorate NAVSEA News 07 Apr 2003 -- Innovative science and technology measures recently reaffirmed the Naval Surface Warfare Center Indian Head Division's commitment to the protection of public health and the environment in helping to solve what has become a national problem.
  • MK 30 Mobile ASW Target Supports Littoral ASW Training in Hawaii NAVSEA News 07 Apr 2003 -- In response to a request from Submarine Forces Pacific (SUBPAC) for more realistic Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) littoral training, Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport Division, Detachment Pacific recently deployed two MK 30 MOD 1 targets in non-instrumented areas for the first time in waters near the Hawaiian Islands.
  • Port Hueneme Division Successfully Tests Tactical Tomahawk Penetrator NAVSEA News 07 Apr 2003 -- The Navy's next generation of Tomahawk Cruise Missile, the Tactical Tomahawk, took flight March 21, 2003, due to the efforts of a team of engineers and Sailors from Naval Surface Warfare Center Port Hueneme Division, White Sands Detachment.
  • U.S. ARMY COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SUPPORT CENTER-Q&A VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- "Soldiers are entitled to the same quality of life as is afforded the society they are pledged to defend." That is the philosophy of the U.S. Army Community and Family Support Center in Alexandria, Virginia, a civilian organization that provides entertainment, sports and recreational activities to American troops in a deployed situation.
  • F-16 accident report released ACCNS 07 Apr 2003 -- Air Force investigators have released the cause of the crash of a U.S. Air Force Reserve F-16C on the Utah Test and Training Range on Nov. 13, 2002.

  • ERITREA: Isayas visits US warship IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- Eritrean President Isayas Afewerki has become the first head of state from the Horn of Africa to visit the operational headquarters of the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) aboard the USS Mount Whitney, according to a press statement from the CJTF-HOA.

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

  • DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT United Nations 07 Apr 2003

  • US / CONGO MASSACRE VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- The United States is calling on all parties to the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo to end hostilities and implement a peace plan for the country's troubled Ituri province. The appeal follows the reported massacre of nearly one thousand civilians in the area near the Ugandan border late week.
  • DR of Congo: UN investigates reports of massacres in troubled Ituri region UN News Centre 07 Apr 2003 -- A team from the United Nations mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has visited the volatile northeastern part of the country to investigate reports of massacres that may have left as many as 1,000 people dead, according to a UN spokesman in New York.
  • CONGO / FIGHTING VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- U-N officials say their investigators have yet to establish who was behind the reported killing last week of more than 900-civilians in the rebel-held northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
  • DRC: UN delivers aid to survivors of massacre in Ituri IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- A UN helicopter flew 200 kg of medicines and plastic sheeting on Monday to survivors of an attack on a Hema community in Drodro, in northeastern Ituri district, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), as UN officials investigated a massacre there last Thursday said to have claimed around 1,000 victims.
  • DRC: UN blows up mines IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- UN explosives engineers blew up 670 kg of landmines on Saturday at Rwampara, some seven kilometres east of the principal town of Bunia, in Ituri district, northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

  • ANGOLA: Urgent need in transit centres IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- Thousands of people are without food and shelter in transit centres as the Angolan government closes gathering areas, where former UNITA soldiers and their relatives had been quartered.
  • ANGOLA: Separatists stay open to talks over Cabinda IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- Separatists in Angola's northern Cabinda enclave on Monday said although independence was a "desirable solution" to the ongoing conflict, they remained open to negotiation over the "future status" of the province.

  • Access to civilian populations severely hampered by conflict in Liberia, UN says UN News Centre 07 Apr 2003 -- As conflicts continue to sweep Liberia, United Nations agencies and their humanitarian partners - already struggling to assist countless people forced almost daily from their homes - now report that access to desperate civilian populations is now severely diminished throughout the country.
  • LIBERIA: Government reports recapture of two key towns IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- Liberian government troops who have been engaged in fierce fighting with rebels of the Liberians United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD) for the control of areas in western Liberia have retaken two key towns, sources said on Sunday.

  • IVORY COAST / REBELS VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- Rebel leaders in Ivory Coast have failed to take up their new government posts, saying further preparations are necessary before they can begin to function as ministers in a new reconciliation government.
  • Details of UN, Cambodia text on Khmer Rouge trials reported to General Assembly UN News Centre 07 Apr 2003 -- Although the text of a draft agreement between the United Nations and the Government of Cambodia on a special court to try former Khmer Rouge leaders is a "considerable improvement" over previous documents, doubts might still remain as to whether it would ensure the credibility of the tribunal given the precarious state of that country's judiciary, the Secretary-General says in a report released today.
  • INDONESIA/ACEH VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- International peace monitors in Indonesia's Aceh province say they are closing another office in the province because of threats of violence against them. Officials from the Henri Dunant Center say the protests against them are organized.
  • SUDAN: Monitoring team grounded for a month IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- The Civilian Protection Monitoring Team (CPMT), which was established under the framework of the Sudanese peace process to monitor attacks on civilians, says it has been grounded since 7 March and therefore unable to conduct any investigations.
  • ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Border commission "unfair", Ethiopia says IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- The Ethiopian government on Friday voiced its opposition to an independent boundary ruling which places the symbolic village of Badme in Eritrea.
  • BURUNDI: Former US special envoy says US must support Burundi peacekeeping mission IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- The former US presidential special representative to the Great Lakes region, Howard Wolpe, urged the US Congress on Thursday to support the peacekeeping mission due to be sent by the African Union (AU) to Burundi.
  • UGANDA: Head of gov't peace team threatens to quit IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- A senior military official and the head of the presidential peace team in Uganda, Salim Saleh, threatened on Saturday to leave the team if the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels do not show commitment to peace talks.
  • GLOBAL: Protecting civilians caught up in armed conflict IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- International humanitarian law demands of belligerents in situations of armed conflict that they respect the distinction between combatants and non-combatants and attack only military targets. It also requires that they use only the degree of violence proportionate to their military requirements, all the while taking due care to protect civilians and civilian infrastructure.
  • West Africa: IOM to assist people displaced from Cote d'Ivoire IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- The International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says it plans to launch a regional project to help some 21,500 third-country nationals displaced by the Ivorian crisis and stranded in Cote d'Ivoire, Liberia and Ghana to return to their countries of origin.
  • SIERRA LEONE: NRC profile of internal displacement IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- //Attention subscribers. The following report corrects and updates the story titled 'Sierra Leone: Peace still fragile, Norwegian Refugee Council warns', published on 3 April.//

News Reports

  • SHAPE News Morning Update SHAPE 07 Apr 2003
  • SHAPE News Summary Analysis SHAPE 07 Apr 2003
  • BURMA / RED CROSS VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- The International Committee of the Red Cross says the presence of its delegates in Burma has improved human rights conditions in the Asian country, especially for those held in Burma's jails.

  • Interfaith Relations VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- Even before the war in Iraq began, President George W. Bush stressed to the world that the conflict would not be a war between Christianity and Islam. But Saddam Hussein's recent call for a "jihad" in response to the Coalition invasion makes it clear that many in the Middle East don't see the war the way Mr. Bush sees it. And religious leaders here in the United States say regardless of whether this conflict is perceived as religious, the volatile situation in the Middle East is having an impact on interfaith relations in America.

  • CUBA / DISSIDENTS VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- In Cuba, the first in a series of trials of political dissidents ended Monday with sentences from 15 to 25 years imposed on several well-known opposition figures. Human rights groups worldwide are condemning the summary trials as acts of government repression.
  • U-S / CUBA TRIALS VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- The United States is condemning the prison terms being handed down to leading Cuban dissidents in what the State Department describes as "show trials" and "sham proceedings" by Fidel Castro's government.

  • SAF / LAWSUIT VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- An American lawyer has filed a lawsuit against two of South Africa's biggest mining companies.

  • ZIMBABWE POLITICS VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- After eight-days in Zimbabwe police cells, and numerous court delays, the vice-president of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change has been released on bail. Jubilation at his release was quickly dimmed when a fellow member of parliament was arrested outside the court.
  • ZIMBABWE FARMERS VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- Zimbabwe's Commercial Farmers' Union is denying government claims that its controversial land reform program has ended. Public disagreements between the Union and the government have resurfaced after several months of relative peace.

  • WHO CHINA VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- The World Health Organization has criticized China for being slow in sharing information on the outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome with the rest of the world. But the head of the W-H-O, who is visiting India, says cooperation with China has improved.
  • ASIA/PNEUMONIA VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- New outbreaks of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in Hong Kong and Vietnam in recent days are dashing hopes the spread of the disease is slowing in Asia.

  • CAMBODIA/U-N VOA 07 Apr 2003 -- A U-N expert on Cambodia says the planned trial of former Khmer Rouge officials on atrocities charges will be an important test for the country's judiciary.

  • CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Bozize names members of transitional law-making body IRIN 07 Apr 2003 -- Francois Bozize, the new leader of the Central African Republic (CAR), has established a 63-member National Transitional Council (NTC) to serve as an advisory and transitional law-making organ, the government-owned Radio Centrafrique reported on Friday.



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