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• COALITION AND IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE CENTCOM 03 Aug 2003 -- Former regime loyalist and weapons were seized in numerous successful raids and patrols conducted by Coalition forces throughout Iraq on August 2.
• COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ'S RECOVERY CENTCOM 03 Aug 2003 -- A school has been reconstructed virtually from the ground up in a small village near Ar Ramadi. Soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment helped rebuild the school in a move to put it together the right way when it had been built originally in the wrong way.
• U-S/IRAQ VOA 03 Aug 2003 -- Two prominent U-S senators say they believe American forces are getting closer to finding ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Republican Trent Lott and Democrat Evan Bayh appeared Sunday on American television.
• Iraq: U.S. Detains 24 Hussein Loyalists, Including 'Targetted Leader' RFE/L 03 Aug 2003 -- U.S. troops in Iraq today detained 24 people accused of participating in violent resistance to the U.S.-led occupation -- including one man described as a "targeted leader."

• LIBERIA/PRESIDENT VOA 03 Aug 2003 -- Liberian President Charles Taylor has agreed to relinquish power on August 11th, but no date has been set for when he will go into exile, probably in Nigeria. President Taylor says he first wants an indictment for war crimes dropped.

• Afghan security commission plans meeting to address recent skirmishes, UN reports UN News Centre 03 Aug 2003 -- A key Afghan security commission will convene an "extraordinary meeting" on Monday to address problems in the Dara-i-Suf District, which has been the scene of recent skirmishes, a United Nations spokesman reported today.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Powell Discusses North Korea, Iran, War on Terrorism Washington File 03 Aug 2003 -- Any substantive discussion of North Korea's nuclear weapons program must be "a negotiation among six parties who have equities," Secretary of State Colin Powell said in an interview with U.S. regional news syndicates August 1. (...) Regarding Iran, Powell said the United States is concerned about that country's nuclear energy program and is "particularly engaged with the Russians on their support of the projects such as we share. (...) In response to a question on Saudi Arabia's contributions to the war on terrorism, Powell said that the U.S. relationship with that country is a good one.

Defense Industry

• Delta IV Launch of DSCS III B6 Postponed Boeing 03 Aug 2003 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] and U.S. Air Force officials postponed the launch of the Defense Satellite Communications System spacecraft, DSCS III B6, aboard a Boeing Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), Fla.

Other Conflicts

• PALESTINIANS-MILITANTS VOA 03 Aug 2003 -- The Palestinian Authority has abandoned plans to remove wanted militants from Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters.
• ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS VOA 03 Aug 2003 -- The Israeli and Palestinian foreign ministers held their first official meeting Sunday, in a bid to accelerate peace efforts.

• PAKISTAN/BLAST VOA 03 Aug 2003 -- In northern Pakistan, a powerful blast caused by explosives used for road building has killed at least 45 people and injured nearly 150 others.
• Russia: Death Toll Rises To 50 In Bombing As Rescue Efforts End RFE/L 03 Aug 2003 -- Rescuers pulled the 50th body out of the rubble of a Russian military hospital in North Ossetia overnight, and called off efforts to find any survivors of the suicide attack.

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