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Current Operations

• CJTF-HOA Troops Acquire Valuable Information Marine Corps News 08 Jun 2003-- Country Desk Teams (CDT) play an essential role in Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa's counter-terrorism mission here.

• Afghanistan: UN envoy pledges continued peace push after attack on international troops UN News Centre 08 Jun 2003 -- Voicing shock at Saturday's attack on German troops serving with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, the senior United Nations envoy to the country has pledged to continue pushing for peace there.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Taskmasters Fly to Record Navy Newsstand 08 Jun 2003-- Peacetime or wartime, the tasking of a fleet logistics support squadron remains the same: to fly missions carrying military personnel, cargo and equipment to support combat operations at sea and overseas.

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

• Indian Army gearing up for major push in J&K IRNA 08 Jun 2003 -- While diplomatic activity to normalize relations with Pakistan gains momentum, Indian Army is gearing up for a major anti-militancy operation in Jammu and Kashmir.

• U.S. Says Latest Mideast Terrorist Attacks Must Not Stop Peace Process Washington File 08 Jun 2003 -- Bush administration officials deplored a June 8 terrorist attack that killed four Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip, but said the attack should not be allowed to stop the Middle East peace process.
• Powell Says Stopping Terrorism Key to Middle East Peace Washington File 08 Jun 2003 -- Interviewed hours after new terrorist attacks June 8 killed Israeli soldiers in Gaza and the West Bank, Secretary of State Colin Powell said stopping terrorism is essential to resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
• Powell Says Don't Let Terrorists Derail Peace Process Washington File 08 Jun 2003 -- Terrorists must not be allowed to derail efforts to find a peaceful resolution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an interview on CNN's Late Edition June 8. He spoke hours after terrorists killed four Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip.

• LIBERIA: Fighting in Monrovia dies down, soldiers go looting IRIN 08 Jun 2003 -- There was a lull in fighting between Liberian government and rebel forces on the western outskirts of the capital Monrovia on Sunday morning, but the city remained tense and residents reported that goverment fighters were looting abandoned houses and taking mobile phones and cars away from civilians.
• LIBERIA: Bodies litter Monrovia streets as fighting resumes IRIN 08 Jun 2003 -- The bodies of people killed in recent fighting littered the streets of Monrovia's western suburbs on Sunday night as heavy fighting resumed between forces loyal to President Charles Taylor and rebels trying to punch their way into the capital.
• LIBERIA: Diplomat says UN force in Sierra Leone could intervene IRIN 08 Jun 2003 -- A senior diplomat in West Africa suggested on Sunday that the 13,000-strong UN peace-keeping force in Sierra Leone could be used to help restore order in neighbouring Liberia.

News Reports

• MAURITANIA: Coup attempt leads to fighting around presidential palace IRIN 08 Jun 2003 -- There was heavy fighting around the presidential palace and army headquarters in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott on Sunday morning as a faction of the army attempted to depose President Maaouiya Ould Sid Ahmed Taya in a coup.
• MER-A Launch Aboard Boeing Delta II Delayed Boeing 08 Jun 2003 -- Boeing and NASA officials have delayed the launch of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover-A spacecraft aboard a Boeing Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.