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10 April 2003 Military News

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Defense Policy / Programs
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Current Operations

  • Airborne RED HORSE takes the field ACCNS 10 Apr 2003 -- The Air Force has a new capability thanks to the members of three new Airborne RED HORSE teams.

  • UN envoy conveys condolences to families of Afghan civilian victims of air strike UN News Centre 10 Apr 2003 -- The senior United Nations envoy to Afghanistan today conveyed his condolences to the families of the Afghans killed unintentionally when a coalition air strike in Paktika Province missed its intended target.
  • RFE/RL Afghanistan Report, Vol 2, Number 13 10 Apr 2003 -- AFGHANISTAN BECOMES OSCE 'PARTNER FOR COOPERATION' / AFGHAN PAPER CALLS FOR PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN APPROVING CONSTITUTION... / ...AND AFGHAN OFFICIAL GIVES ASSURANCES THAT PUBLIC WILL BE CONSULTED... / ...BUT DOUBTS ARE RAISED ABOUT EXTENT OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN DEBATE / AFGHAN PAPER DISCUSSES FREEDOM OF PRESS, WOMEN'S RIGHTS... / ...AND WARNS AGAINST FEDERAL SYSTEM / THE CONSTITUTION-MAKING PROCESS IN AFGHANISTAN / THIS WEEK IN AFGHANISTAN'S HISTORY
  • AFGHANISTAN: Heavy fighting in the northwest leaves 13 dead, curtails aid IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- United Nations and international aid agencies were forced to close their offices when severe fighting between two rival groups in Meymaneh, the capital of the northwestern province of Faryab, erupted on Tuesday afternoon.

Defense Policy / Programs

  • White House Press Briefing White House 10 Apr 2003
  • Blue Ridge departs Guam early to avoid Typhoon Kujira Seventh Fleet 10 Apr 2003 -- The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet command ship, USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), and the embarked Commander, 7th Fleet staff's four-day port visit in Guam was cut short by two days as Typhoon Kujira gathered strength south of the Pacific island.
  • Depot employees in war zone provide crucial warfighter support NAVAIR 10 Apr 2003 -- As coalition forces in Iraq tighten the noose on Saddam Hussein and his regime, it is clear that air power has played a key role in the success of the Operation Iraqi Freedom battle plan. From close air support of the advancing Marines to bringing in food and medical supplies, aircraft are an integral and vital part of the coalition's success. And many dedicated Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Depot Cherry Point employees are there, working in the war zone in support of the warfighter, helping to keep those planes flying.
  • Osprey Begins TF Test Flights NAVAIR 10 Apr 2003 -- The V-22 Integrated Test Team realized another milestone on April 4 when Osprey No. 7, one of the ITT's CV-22s, successfully reached the multi-mission radar's low altitude target for the airplane mode of flight. After conducting a series of build-up flights to ensure the proper warning, caution, and advisory system functions at altitudes of 500 and 300 feet, test pilots Major Tom Goodnough, USAF, and Marty Shubert took Osprey No. 7 down to a 200-foot "set clearance plain."
  • The mobi-mat: Special delivery to deployed Marines NAVAIR 10 Apr 2003 -- The Expeditionary Airfield (EAF) Team at NAVAIR Lakehurst directly supports deployed Marines as part of both Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom with a new airfield surfacing system for rotary wing aircraft known to its developers as the mobi-mat.
  • Wolfowitz: NATO Important Anchor; Iraqis Responsible for New Government AFPS 10 Apr 2003 -- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul D. Wolfowitz today told U.S. Senate members that NATO remains a key partner in national security matters, and emphasized the importance for the Iraqis to choose their own leaders in the post-Saddam era.
  • Even With War, U.S. Focuses on Central, South America AFPS 10 Apr 2003 -- The war on Iraq hasn't caused the United States to lose its focus on Central and South America, said a DoD official.
  • DoD Advises SARS Precautions AFPS 10 Apr 2003 -- The Department of Defense is advising military and civilian personnel to take precaution against the potentially deadly Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome. The advisory is especially for those traveling in the Far East, where the flu-like virus is believed to have originated.
  • Future of Force Protection Goes on Display May 6 AFPS 10 Apr 2003 -- The future of force protection may one day be a roving robot with high-tech sensors that can detect intruders and non-lethally subdue them.
  • 7th Fleet to kick off largest U.S., Asia-Pacific exercise Seventh Fleet 10 Apr 2003 -- More than 8,000 personnel will participate in the military training exercise Tandem Thrust 03 in the Marianas Island training area (with some in Hawaii), April 14 - May 5, 2003.
  • New Fleet battle experiment set to begin soon Seventh Fleet 10 Apr 2003 -- More than 8,000 U.S. Navy and civilian personnel will participate in Fleet Battle Experiment Kilo (FBE-K), a joint warfighting experiment bringing together both live field forces and computer simulation at various locations in the United States and the 7th Fleet Pacific area of operations from April 14 - May 5.
  • Female fighter pilots break barriers, take on challenges full throttle USAFENS 10 Apr 2003 -- Female fighter pilots are a special breed. They're willing to crack into a male-dominated field, take a $30 million aircraft, fly at mind-numbing speeds and head straight into the face of danger. All the while knowing they may not be coming back.
  • 7th Fleet command ship makes Guam port visit Seventh Fleet 10 Apr 2003 -- The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet command ship, USS Blue Ridge (LCC 19), and the embarked Commander, 7th Fleet staff arrived here April 10.
  • CJTF-HOA Civil Affairs begins new program in Djibouti USMC News 10 Apr 2003 -- The Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa Civil Affairs Section launched a new program here coined "Adopt a School."
  • 2nd MAW 'thrusts' into Arizona desert USMC News 10 Apr 2003 -- Marines and Sailors from various units within the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing are here conducting Exercise Diamond Thrust 03.
  • New Milstar launches from Cape AFSPC 10 Apr 2003 -- A military communications satellite called "Milstar" was successfully launched April 8 by the U.S. Air Force from here on a Titan IV-B rocket.

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 10 Apr 2003

  • Human Rights Progress Amid Conflicts in Africa Washington File 10 Apr 2003 -- Though conflict and poverty continue to plague Africa, undercutting respect for human rights, a recent U.S. government report points to some solid gains in this area on which the region may be able to build. Several countries have made progress in advancing political freedoms, and the region as a whole is making a concerted effort to halt child labor and human trafficking.

  • U.N. Taking Active Role in Rebuilding Angola as Ceasefire Holds Washington File 10 Apr 2003 -- Angola's future appears promising now that the year-old ceasefire remains unbroken and the United Nations (U.N.) has increased its presence in the country to rebuild this battered nation.
  • Reform or Regression: What's in Angola's Future? Washington File 10 Apr 2003 -- What will Angola choose, peace and prosperity or bloody violence and corruption? That was one of the questions posed by John Prendergast, Co-Director of the Africa program for the International Crisis Group (ICG) at a recent meeting assessing the first year of peace in the southern African nation.
  • ANGOLA: Refugee returns continue IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- In spite of the rainy season, the spontaneous return of refugees from Zambia and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has continued, with close to 1,000 arrivals registered last week in the eastern Angolan town of Cazombo, according to humanitarian reports.

  • ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS (L-UPDATE) VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- At least one Palestinian has been killed and 12 wounded, following an Israeli air strike today (Thursday) in Gaza City. The raid came just hours after Palestinian militants attacked an Israeli army base in the West Bank, killing two soldiers.
  • ISRAEL / PALESTINIANS VOA 10 Apr 2003-- Palestinian gunmen opened fire on an Israeli military base in the northern West Bank today (Thursday), killing two soldiers. Eight others were reported wounded in the attack. The troops fired back, killing two Palestinian assailants

  • IVORY COAST/ FIGHTING VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- There are news reports of fighting in Ivory Coast, which threatens the peace process, as a reconciliation government prepares to begin work.
  • Amid fighting in Liberia, hundreds of refugees return to Côte d'Ivoire, UN says UN News Centre 10 Apr 2003 -- The tide has turned again in West Africa, as some of the 95,000 people who recently fled the Ivoirian crisis for Liberia are reportedly crossing back into troubled Côte d'Ivoire as fighting intensifies in their places of refuge, the United Nations refugee agency said today.
  • COTE D'IVOIRE: Renewed fighting in the west causes concern IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- About 40 civilians died on Tuesday when helicopter gunships attacked the rebel-held town of Danane in western Cote d'Ivoire, near the border with Liberia, humanitarian sources said, adding that another rebel town in the west, Bin-Houye, was bombarded by gunships on Sunday.

  • No deal on UN's Cyprus plan due to 'failings of political will,' Security Council told UN News Centre 10 Apr 2003 -- The inability to reach agreement on a plan that would enable a united Cyprus to accede to the European Union could be ascribed to failings of political will rather than to the absence of favourable circumstances, the senior United Nations official dealing with the issue told the Security Council today.
  • Timor-Leste indicts 5 Indonesian soldiers for crimes against humanity - UN UN News Centre 10 Apr 2003 -- Timor-Leste filed an indictment against five Indonesian soldiers today for crimes against humanity, bringing to more than 20 the number of Indonesian personnel charged this week, a United Nations spokesman said.
  • CONGO: Preparations underway for return of displaced to Pool region IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- The government of the Republic of Congo (RoC) and humanitarian agencies have agreed on plans for the return of displaced people to the war-torn Pool region, Emilienne Raoul, the Minister for Social Affairs, told IRIN on Monday.
  • Great Lakes: Leaders pledge to adhere to peace pacts IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- Heads of state from the Great Lakes region pledged at a summit on Wednesday in Cape Town, South Africa, to avoid more violence in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), news organisations reported.
  • BURUNDI: Peacekeepers to arrive before 1 May IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- An African Union (AU) peacekeeping force will be deployed in Burundi before 1 May, Maj-Gen Sipho Binda, the South African commander of the African Mission in Burundi (AMIB), told IRIN on Wednesday.
  • ETHIOPIA: Eritrean refugees to be moved from border area IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- Thousands of Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia are to be moved away from the border area which separates the two countries, the UN told IRIN on Thursday.
  • DRC: Fighting in east hinders disarmament says MONUC IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- Continued fighting in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is preventing the programme of disarmament, demobilisation, and repatriation of foreign armed groups, Gen Mountaga Diallo, commander of MONUC, the UN peacekeeping mission in DRC, said on Wednesday.
  • UGANDA: LRA reportedly demands unconditional ceasefire IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- The rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel has reportedly said the Ugandan government must declare an unconditional ceasefire before it will nominate a peace negotiating team.
  • CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: CEMAC leaders appeal for more money to fund force IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- Leaders of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central African States (CEMAC), have appealed to donors for more funds to be able to incorporate Chadian troops into the CEMAC force in the Central African Republic (CAR), CEMAC said on Wednesday.
  • NIGERIA: The Niger Delta - a crisis unlikely to go away IRIN 10 Apr 2003 -- After a relative lull of nearly two years, Nigeria’s restive Niger Delta, like a dormant volcano, erupted in violence in February, when people from its Urhobo and Itsekiri communities fought each other with guns and matchetes on the streets of the southern oil town of Warri, burning rivals' houses and killing them.

News Reports

  • SHAPE News Morning Update SHAPE 10 Apr 2003
  • SHAPE News Summary Analysis SHAPE 10 Apr 2003
  • Powell Urges an End to Repression in Cuba Washington File 10 Apr 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell, describing the Cuban government's recent crackdown on dissidents as "the most significant act of political repression in decades" by Cuba, issued a formal statement April 10 urging Cuban President Fidel Castro to "end this despicable repression" and free the jailed dissidents.
  • ARGENTINA / CAMPAIGN VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- The campaign in Argentina's presidential election is in high gear, but voters appear as ambivalent about the candidates as ever.
  • POWELL / CUBA VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- U-S Secretary of State Colin Powell Thursday condemned what he termed Cuba's "despicable repression" of political opponents and called for the immediate release of the nearly 80 dissidents sentenced to prison earlier this week.
  • U-N / VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- A new report by U-N human-rights experts says governments have made great progress during the past decade in enacting laws to protect women against violence. But the study makes clear that much more remains to be done.
  • U-N / CHILD TRAFFICKING VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- A U-N expert says trafficking of children is growing in South Africa.
  • RUSSIA / FIRE VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- An emergency aid plane has left Moscow for the southern Russian republic of Dagestan to help more than one-hundred people injured in a deadly blaze that gutted a special school for the deaf. At least 28 children were killed in the early morning fire -- the second such blaze at a Russian school in a week.
  • U.S. To Partner Oil Firms in Investment Fund for Angola Washington File 10 Apr 2003 -- The U.S. Government is putting its money where its mouth is by helping partner a special investment fund for Angola meant to spur the nation's fledgling private sector, a prime goal of Angolan President Jose dos Santos, says Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Walter Kansteiner.
  • FRANCE / BRITAIN / CONCORDE VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- The world's only supersonic jet, which has carried monarchs, movie stars and presidents, retires in November, after nearly 30 years in the air. French and British airlines announced the end to their Concorde service today (Thursday).
  • SARS / CDC VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- Two more studies provide additional evidence that a new virus causes Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. But the director of the U-S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention cautions that, while scientists are closing in on the causes of the disease, they are far from a cure.
  • ASIA/PNEUMONIA VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- Hong Kong is in the midst of a health emergency brought on by Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, and now will quarantine people exposed to the disease. The disease appears to be spreading from one building to another in densely populated areas.
  • CHINA / SARS VIRUS VOA 10 Apr 2003 -- Chinese health officials say they will investigate allegations the government is covering up the true extent of the SARS outbreak in Beijing. Health officials also admitted that some cases of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome may have been contracted in Beijing -- something previously denied.
  • Orbital-Built Galaxy XII Satellite Successfully Launched For PanAmSat Orbital Sciences Corp. 10 Apr 2003 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) announced today that the Galaxy XII geosynchronous orbit (GEO) communications satellite the company built for PanAmSat Corporation (NASDAQ: SPOT) was successfully launched aboard an Ariane 5 rocket on Wednesday, April 9, 2003. The mission originated from the Arianespace launch complex in Kourou, French Guiana at approximately 6:52 p.m. (EDT) and the Galaxy XII satellite was deployed into a transfer orbit about 39 minutes later.



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