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• SOLDIER DIES FROM NON-HOSTILE GUNSHOT WOUND CENTCOM 24 Aug 2003 -- A 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment soldier died on August 23 from a non-hostile gunshot wound.
• SOLDIER DROWNS IN EUPHRATES RIVER CENTCOM 24 Aug 2003 -- A soldier from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment drowned in the Euphrates River at approximately 8:30 p.m. Aug. 23 near the Hadithah Dam, west of Ar Ramadi.
• Seabee MWR Brings New Life to Iraqi Businesses Navy NewStand 24 Dec 2003 -- When the average person makes a run to the store for their every day needs, they don't usually pack along locked and loaded M-16 rifles and .60 caliber machine guns. But this is Iraq, where a simple trip to the store can be dangerous. Still, the Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7 here at Camp Hope want some of the simple comforts of home like soft drinks, snacks and batteries for their personal electronics.
• New UN-backed peace commission in Afghanistan to help settle local disputes UN News Centre 24 Aug 2003 -- The United Nations is backing a peace commission in northern Afghanistan that is bringing together members of different factions in a bid to resolve conflicts without violence, a UN spokesman said today in the Afghan capital, Kabul.
• LIBERIA/FIGHTING VOA 24 Aug 2003 -- Aid organizations report that thousands of civilians are on the move again in Liberia, fleeing from fighting that continues despite political progress toward peace.
• LIBERIA: Thousands displaced by renewed fighting near airport IRIN 24 Aug 2003 -- Thousands of civilians were displaced by renewed clashes between Liberian government troops and rebel fighters at the weeekend. The fighting took place less than a week after the signing of a peace agreement that was supposed to end 14 years of civil war.

Defense Policy / Programs

• International Cooperation Shines at KEFTACEX Navy Newsstand 24 Aug 2003-- The Keflavik Tactical Exchange (KEFTACEX) is the largest anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise in the Atlantic this year, and it fosters a spirit of cooperation and teamwork as seven NATO allies come together to learn and practice ASW skills.
• Marines, Seabees Working Together Help to Employ Iraqi Ex-military Navy Newsstand 24 Aug 2003-- July 7, Marine Lt. Col. Patrick Malay, commanding officer of 3rd Battalion 5th Marines, requested that Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7 build a structure to support a payment operation for former Iraqi military. A crew of more than 20 men and women from the battalion began working the next day at the Ad Diwaniyah Textile Mill in central Iraq.
• Lessons learned: MARCENT wisdom helps prepare for UFL Marine Corps News 24 Aug 2003-- It took several long, hard months of continuous preparation for the Marines of Marine Forces Pacific for the unexpected Operation Enduring Freedom, as well as Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• CARAT takes SE Asia by storm Marine Corps News 24 Aug 2003-- The nearly 450 Marines and Sailors of Landing Force Cooperation Afloat Readiness And Training recently returned home to Okinawa after two months of traveling the South China Sea and visiting several different Southeast Asian nations along the way.

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Other Conflicts

• GAZA / STRIKE VOA 24 Aug 2003 -- Israeli helicopter gunships have fired missiles in Gaza City, killing at least four Palestinians. Officials say two of them were members of the militant Islamic group Hamas. The attack is the second such operation in Gaza against Hamas activists in the past four days.
• PALESTINIANS SECURITY VOA 24 Aug 2003 -- Palestinian leaders are engaged in a power struggle over who will handle the key security portfolio following the collapse of a seven-week-old ceasefire by Palestinian armed groups.

News Reports

• Ukraine: Kuchma Supports Compromise On Consitutional Amendments RFE/RL 24 Aug 2003 -- Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma announced today that he is withdrawing his proposed amendments to the country's six-year-old constitution.
• RED CROSS/CHINA FLOODS VOA 24 Aug 2003 -- The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies says the situation for nearly four-million people in China remains dire, one-month after severe floods hit 26 Chinese provinces. The agency says 150-million people have been affected by the floods.
• RUSSIA/HELICOPTER VOA 24 Aug 2003 -- The bodies of 20 people killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday in Russia's Far East have been recovered from a remote area. Officials are investigating the cause of the crash, which killed the governor of the oil-rich Sakhalin region.
• RUSSIA AIR SHOW VOA 24 Aug 2003 -- A nearly weeklong air and space show that brought together aircraft and aerospace companies from many nations has ended in Russia. American military planes were at the biennial show for the first time.
• RWANDA / ELECTION VOA 24 Aug 2003 -- Millions of people in the east African country of Rwanda will head to the polls Monday to vote in the country's first multi-party presidential elections. The election is seen as a test of how far Rwanda has come since the genocide in 1994 when an extremist Hutu government orchestrated the slaughter of nearly a million Tutsi minority and moderate Hutus. The election has brought half-buried ethnic tensions back to the surface.