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06 November 2003 Military News

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  • Transcript: DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers 06 Nov 2003 -- "The troops deployed in Operation Iraqi Freedom have a great deal to be proud of. (...) As we've indicated, the bulk of the U.S. troops that are currently in Iraq will be rotating out beginning next, I guess, January, February, March, April, in that period. And they will, needless to say, be replaced. The combat units serving in Iraq and most of the supporting units in the theater will be replaced over the coming period of months. We've notified some 85,000 combat personnel, comprising active units and three Guard combat brigades, that they'll be rotating into the theater. Two of these Guard units were alerted and mobilized over the past several weeks. The third will mobilize on November 15th."
  • Transcript: Briefing on the Force Rotation Plan 06 Nov 2003 -- "We are now at the point of announcing the plan for the next units, the next increment that will rotate into Iraq and Afghanistan in the first few months of next year. We are ready to announce most of the forces for Operation Enduring -- I should say Iraqi Freedom 2 and Operation Enduring Freedom 5. In the weeks ahead we will be announcing the remainder. The overall footprint of our forces derives from a number of considerations: as you heard earlier, clearly non-Iraqi coalition forces, U.S. forces, both active and reserve, contractors, and then Iraqi coalition forces.(...) It's important to note that there are about a thousand Navy sailors and perhaps 2,000 Air Force personnel who will provide direct support to the joint force on the ground in addition to those that are either at air bases in Iraq or at sea. But primarily today we will be addressing the ground force units as this unfolds."

  • Rumsfeld Announces Upcoming Troop Rotations for Iraq, Afghanistan Washington File 06 Nov 2003 -- In unveiling U.S. plans to rotate troops in Iraq next year, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said November 6 that the strategy will be to ensure that the Iraqi people are able to assume responsibility for governing, running essential services, and providing security.
  • 112,000 service members tapped for Iraq Army News Service 06 Nov 2003-- About 112,000 service members -- including more than 37,000 National Guard and Army Reserve Soldiers -- should be headed to Iraq and Kuwait early next year to replace the forces already on the ground, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced.
  • Police graduate from Tal Afar Academy Army News Service 06 Nov 2003-- Another trained group of police graduated from the Tal Afar Police Academy in northern Iraq Nov. 3.
  • Two Soldiers Killed In Separate Iraq Incidents AFPS 06 Nov 2003 -- Two U.S. soldiers were killed in Iraq over the past two days in separate incidents, according to U.S. Central Command releases.
  • Predictability, Stability at Heart of Rotation Policy AFPS 06 Nov 2003 -- Predictability and stability are at the heart of the new troop rotation policy DoD officials announced today.
  • Members Say Deploying More Troops to Iraq Would Be Counterproductive AFPS 06 Nov 2003 -- Boosting the number of U.S. troops in Iraq would be counterproductive and take away a job best suited for the Iraqis themselves, congressional representatives said today at the Pentagon.
  • PENTAGON/IRAQ VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has unveiled a troop replacement plan for Iraq that should see the overall number of American soldiers in the country decrease next year, if security conditions permit.

  • Bush Says Emergency Appropriations Support U.S. Mission, Troops Washington File 06 Nov 2003 -- Following is the text of a statement November 6 by the president concerning the signing of the "Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004."
  • Bush Signs $87 Billion Supplemental Appropriations Act Washington File 06 Nov 2003 -- President Bush reaffirmed the importance of investing in the future peace and stability of Iraq and Afghanistan at a November 6 ceremony at the White House during which he signed legislation granting $87 billion in supplemental appropriations to ongoing military and reconstruction efforts in those two countries.
  • President Signs $87.5 Billion Package for Iraq, Afghanistan AFPS 06 Nov 2003 -- "No enemy or friend can doubt that America has the resources and the will to see this war through to victory," said President Bush before signing the $87.5 billion supplemental appropriations bill for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

  • Security Council mission to Afghanistan declares tour a success UN News Centre 06 Nov 2003 -- The United Nations Security Council mission to Afghanistan today ended what it described as a "very successful visit," but warned that security remains the key problem facing the country.
  • AFGHANISTAN U-N VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- A top-level United Nations mission to Afghanistan says security and the total disarmament of militia forces are critical to economic development and free elections. Despite rampant security problems, the U-N delegates think national elections will probably take place next year, as scheduled.
  • Afghanistan: UN Delegates Urge Northern Warlords To End Rivalry RFE/RL 06 Nov 2003 -- Envoys from the UN Security Council met yesterday in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif for talks with the leaders of two former Northern Alliance militia forces that have clashed repeatedly since the Taliban regime was ousted two years ago.
  • RFE/RL Afghanistan Report, Vol 2, Number 39 06 Nov 2003 -- ASSESSING THE DRAFT CONSTITUTION (Part 1): PRESIDENTIAL POWERS AND THE ROLE OF RELIGION / AFGHANISTAN UNVEILS NEW DRAFT CONSTITUTION / DRAFT CONSTITUTION IS POSTED ON INTERNET / PUBLIC DEBATE ON CONSTITUTION MOVES INTO FULL SWING / WOMEN'S RIGHTS GROUP DISSATISFIED WITH DRAFT CONSTITUTION / FORMER AFGHAN PRESIDENT'S PARTY SAYS CONSTITUTION COULD LEAD TO DICTATORSHIP / DATE SET FOR CONSTITUTIONAL LOYA JIRGA / JUSTICE MINISTER BACKS 'POLITICAL COMPETITION.' / STATUS OF DARI, PASHTU LANGUAGES A SENSITIVE TOPIC / HIGH-LEVEL UN SECURITY COUNCIL DELEGATION VISITS AFGHANISTAN / NATO COMMANDER CAUTIOUS ON EXPANSION OF ISAF / VIOLENCE ERUPTS AGAIN IN NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN / FIGHTING BETWEEN COMMANDERS LOYAL TO KABUL CLAIMS LIVES / U.S. SOLDIER KILLED IN CENTRAL AFGHAN PROVINCE / MILITANTS KIDNAP TURKISH ENGINEER, THREATEN TO KILL HIM / EIGHT PEOPLE KILLED IN AERIAL BOMBING IN NORTHEASTERN AFGHAN PROVINCE... / ...AND SPOKESMAN DENIES COALITION PLAYED ROLE IN TRAGEDY / FORMER MUJAHEDIN LEADER SAID TO CALL FOR HOLY WAR AGAINST 'CRUSADERS' IN AFGHANISTAN... / ...ALTHOUGH NANGARHAR PROVINCE GOVERNOR DENIES REPORT... / ..AND CLAIMS THAT FORMER MUJAHEDIN LEADER HAS BEEN KIDNAPPED / CLASHES BETWEEN AFGHAN AND PAKISTANI FORCES REPORTED... / ...AS ISLAMABAD WANTS TRIPARTITE COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE INCIDENT / PAKISTANI FORCES KILL TWO SUSPECTED AL-QAEDA MEMBERS ALONG AFGHAN BORDER / AFGHANISTAN REPATRIATES THREE DETAINED PAKISTANIS / AFGHANISTAN SAYS IT WILL ERADICATE POPPY CULTIVATION WITHIN A DECADE / CHAIRMAN OF AFGHAN TEACHERS UNION REPORTS THREATS ON HIS LIFE / AFGHAN SUPREME COURT DENOUNCES 'MISS EARTH' CONTESTANT / THIS WEEK IN AFGHANISTAN'S HISTORY
  • AFGHANISTAN: Debate on draft constitution kicks off IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- Following Monday's unveiling of Afghanistan's draft constitution; Afghan observers said the historic document had positive and negative sides. "It [the new constitution] has some very good and promising aspects while there are some negative aspects as well," Professor Abdul Kabir Ranjbar the president of lawyers union of Afghanistan told IRIN on Tuesday.
  • AFGHANISTAN: First attack on aid community inside the capital IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- Following a bomb attack on the Kabul office of the international aid agency, Save the Children one day earlier, the agency told IRIN on Thursday that the incident had not produced any casualties and that they would continue their programme work in the capital.

Defense Policy / Programs

  • CENTRAL ASIA: Land mines conference highlights ongoing danger IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- An international conference on anti-personnel land mines was held in the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek, on Wednesday to examine the humanitarian and social problems caused by their use. "This conference is the first big event that will become the first step in solving the problem," Narine Berikashvilli, a conference participant from Georgia told IRIN in Bishkek.

  • Oklahoma Guard ready to train Afghan National army Army News Service 06 Nov 2003-- For the first time, one of the National Guard's 15 enhanced brigades will lead Task Force Phoenix, the mission to train the new Afghan National army.
  • CHINA / INDIA MILITARY EXERCISES VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- China and India are preparing to hold their first joint naval exercises. The drill marks an improvement in relations between the two neighbors.
  • India-China joint naval exercise off east China Sea soon IRNA 06 Nov 2003 -- Three frontline warships of Indian Navy will carry out a search and rescue exercise with the marine units of the Chinese Navy on Friday on the east China Sea.
  • Germans in talks with Israelis over delivery of two submarines: daily IRNA 06 Nov 2003 -- Germany`s leading shipyard company HDW is reportedly involved in negotiations with Israel to construct two more German `Dolphin` submarines which could be modified to carry nuclear warheads on them, the daily Berliner Zeitung said Thursday.

  • Moldova: Incoming NATO Head Urges Solution On Transdniester RFE/RL 06 Nov 2003 -- The incoming NATO secretary-general, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, has urged Moldova to reach a resolution with its breakaway Transdniester region.
  • Cope North kicks off in Guam Marine Corps News 06 Nov 2003-- Navy Electronic Attack Squadron 128 joined forces with Japan Air Self-Defense Force in participation of this year's Cope North exercise in Guam Tuesday.

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Other Conflicts

  • DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND THE SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT United Nations 06 Nov 2003

  • Bush Says Democracy in Mideast Will Be a Focus of U.S. Policy Washington File 06 Nov 2003 -- Democracy in the Middle East will be a focus of U.S. foreign policy for decades to come, President Bush said, and the "establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution."

  • AFRICA / SECURITY VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- Establishing Africa's own rapid reaction forces to stop conflicts on the continent is a hot topic of discussion among regional groupings. But security experts say a lack of money and political will make the goal a distant prospect.

  • Annan extends mandate of his special envoy for Great Lakes region UN News Centre 06 Nov 2003 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan intends to extend the mandate of his Special Representative for the African Great Lakes Region, Assistant-Secretary-General Ibrahima Fall, until the end of next year, according to a letter released today.

  • ERITREA-ETHIOPIA BORDER VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- The Ethiopian and Eritrean governments have said they will improve security along their contested border to prevent further violence. The pledge follows a weekend shootout at the border in which one Eritrean died.
  • ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Sides agree to cooperate to avoid border incidents IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- Both Eritrea and Ethiopia have told the UN they will cooperate to avoid a recurrence of last weekend's deadly shooting incident in the border area.
  • ERITREA-ETHIOPIA: Troops not involved in shooting incident, says Ethiopian government IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- The Ethiopian government says its troops were not involved in a "shooting incident" on its border with Eritrea.

  • Shooting at UN troops in DR of Congo wounds one peacekeeper UN News Centre 06 Nov 2003 -- United Nations peacekeepers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) "vigorously responded" to attacks on blue helmet troops last night, kicking off a prolonged firefight in which one UN soldier was lightly wounded, according to a dispatch released today from Kinshasa.
  • DRC / FIGHTING VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- Fresh fighting has erupted in Congo's northeastern town of Bunia, where U-N troops returned fire on militiamen attacking U-N positions in the center of town. One Bangladeshi U-N soldier was injured in the clash.
  • DRC: Former rebel training camp to close in South Kivu IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- The UN has hailed the closure of Nyamununi camp in South Kivu Province, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), which had been used by the Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD-Goma) former rebel movement, now party to the country's transitional national government, to train its fighters.
  • DRC: MONUC offices come under fire in Bunia, one peacekeeper wounded IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- One UN peacekeeping soldier was wounded on Wednesday when the offices of the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) in the northeastern town of Bunia came under fire.

  • U-S/LIBERIA/TAYLOR VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- Legislation signed by President Bush Thursday to fund military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan also includes provisions for a reward for the capture of exiled former Liberian leader Charles Taylor.
  • LIBERIA: Klein warns against continuing skirmishes IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary General for Liberia, Jacques Paul Klein, has warned Liberian warring factions against continuing to fight each other and committing atrocities against civilians in Nimba county.

  • Security Council shows support for recent moves towards peace in Burundi UN News Centre 06 Nov 2003 -- Members of the United Nations Security Council today backed recent moves towards ending the civil strife that has plagued Burundi for a decade.
  • Secretary-General welcomes upcoming conference of Ivorian parties UN News Centre 06 Nov 2003 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed a plan by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to bring together government leaders, rebel groups and opposition politicians from Côte d'Ivoire next week in Accra, Ghana, in an attempt to revive a French-brokered peace process.
  • ACEH MARTIAL LAW VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- The Indonesian government is announcing it is extending martial law in its restive northern Aceh (Ah-chay) Province for six months. Human-rights groups are worried about violence inflicted on the province's civilians.
  • RWANDA-TANZANIA/GENOCIDE TRIAL VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- Four former Rwandan government ministers are on trial at a U-N war crimes tribunal in Arusha, Tanzania, charged with masterminding the 1994 genocide.
  • SUDAN: Religious leaders' efforts to promote peace IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- The government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) have hailed recent efforts by muslim and christian leaders to promote peace and dialogue as part of efforts to end their country's 20-year civil war.
  • SOMALIA: Another delegate dies mysteriously in Nairobi IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- A delegate attending the ongoing Somali peace talks in Kenya has died, just two weeks after the mysterious murder in Nairobi of a senior member of Somalia's Transitional National Government.

News Reports

  • SHAPE News Morning Update SHAPE 06 Nov 2003 -- U.S. rejects return of inspectors to Iraq¨ Britain warns of rough months ahead in Iraq / Germany sets law for Sept 11 hijack scenario / German Cabinet proposes one-year extension of troop deployment for war on terrorism / Kyrgyz security agency says it prevented terror attack against U.S.-led coalition base / President Putin says West unhelpful on Chechnya
  • SHAPE News Summary & Analysis SHAPE 06 Nov 2003 -- Daily: France split between NATO and European defense / U.S. presidential contender Clark, former President Clinton advocate shifting military operation in Iraq to NATO / Iceland offers to take over management of Kabul airport

  • State Department Noon Briefing, November 6, 2003 Washington File 06 Nov 2003 -- Powell/policy address at City College of New York Nov. 10, Armitage/travels, Department/efforts to encourage Mideast democracy, POW/damage claims, Iraq, Georgia/elections, North Korea, Canada, Burma/UN Envoy

  • SRI LANKA POLITICS VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- The president of Sri Lanka has taken over state-run media in the latest move in a political battle with the country's prime minister. Troops also have taken to the streets of the capital Colombo on the president's order, a day before the prime minister returns from abroad.
  • Talks only way out in Sri Lanka: India IRNA 06 Nov 2003 -- India`s External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday called on Sri Lankan leaders to resolve differences through dialogue, even as the country`s President, Chandrika Kumaratunga, cancelled her scheduled visit to New Delhi, local press reported here on Thursday.

  • MAURITANIA / ELECTIONS VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- A day before the Presidential election in Mauritania, the police arrested the leading opposition candidate on Thursday only to be released without charge. The incident has raised concerns over transparency at Friday's election.
  • MAURITANIA / ELECTIONS VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- Police in Mauritania have arrested the leading opposition presidential candidate, a day before the election.
  • MAURITANIA: Main opposition candidate arrested on eve of presidential election IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- Mohamed Khouna Ould Haidalla, the main opposition challenger to Mauritanian President Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya, was arrested on the eve of Friday's presidential election, eyewitnesses and officials of Ould Haidalla's election campaign officials said.

  • GUATEMALA ELECTION VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- Many observers in Guatemala and abroad will be watching closely to see how retired-General Efrain Rios Montt fares in presidential elections Sunday. Human rights activists accuse Rios Montt of ordering the genocide of Maya Indians during his short, but iron-fisted dictatorship in the 1980s. He is the candidate for the ruling Guatemalan Republican Front, known here as the F-R-G.
  • IRAN/U-S RULING VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- Judges at the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled Thursday that neither Iran nor the United States has to pay compensation for attacks on each other during the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.
  • BURMA / SUU KYI VOA 06 Nov 2003 -- The United Nations human rights envoy to Burma has met pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been detained since a government crackdown on her party five months ago. Paulo Sergio Pinheiro also met detained senior members of her National League for Democracy party.
  • BURUNDI: Opposition party prepares to join transitional government IRIN 06 Nov 2003 -- Former Burundian President Jean Baptiste Bagaza announced on Wednesday that his Parti pour le redressement national (PARENA) was preparing to join the transitional government led by President Domitien Ndayizeye.



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