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• Navy EOD Team, Polish Security Operate in Iraq Navy Newsstand 09 Nov 2003-- For Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Task Force 56 personnel stationed in Al Hillah, Iraq, life is pretty surreal.
• IRAQ / VIOLENCE VOA 09 Nov 2003 -- An American soldier has been killed in Baghdad and U-S military operations continue in Saddam Hussein's hometown aimed at rooting out anti-coalition forces.
• Iraq: Three U.S. Soldiers Killed By Roadside Bombs RFE/RL 09 Nov 2003 -- The U.S. Army says that a roadside-bomb attack in the Iraqi capital Baghdad yesterday evening killed a U.S. soldier and wounded another, after a bomb attack in Al-Fallujah killed two earlier that day.
• TALEBAN RECRUITS OPENLY IN PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN EXPERT TELLS NATO NATO Parliamentary Assembly 09 Nov 2003 -- The Taleban are openly recruiting in Pakistan and Afghanistan and could make a comeback unless the international force currently policing the country takes action to disarm factional militias and establish real security, one of the world's leading experts on Afghanistan has warned NATO parliamentarians.
• OPIUM PRODUCTION SOARS IN POST-TALEBAN AFGHANISTAN NATO Parliamentary Assembly 09 Nov 2003 -- Opium production has soared in Afghanistan since the Taleban were overthrown, a NATO parliamentary committee heard.
• Top Pak diplomat begins US visit for Afghan talks IRNA 09 Nov 2003 -- A top Pakistani diplomat has embarked on a visit to the United States on a "two-prong" diplomatic mission, press reports said on Sunday.

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• Israel Aircraft Industries' MLM Division Tested Long-Range Artillery System Israel Aerospace Industries 09 Nov 2003 -- Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI)'s MLM Division tested on November 5, 2003, a long-range artillery system. The majority of the test objectives were achieved.

Other Conflicts

• PALESTINIANS/POLITICS VOA 09 Nov 2003 -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia says he has he has formed a new government and will present it to parliament next week for approval.
• ISRAEL/LEBANON VOA 09 Nov 2003 -- Israel's cabinet has narrowly approved a controversial exchange of prisoners with the militant Islamic group Hezbollah in Lebanon.

• U-N/RWANDA REFUGEES VOA 09 Nov 2003 -- The U-N refugee agency says it is making a final push to repatriate 80-thousand Rwandan refugees living in exile in neighboring countries. The U-N-H-C-R says all returns will be voluntary.

News Reports

• SRI LANKA / POLITICS VOA 09 Nov 2003 -- The political crisis that erupted this week in Sri Lanka, with a series of political maneuvers by the president to undermine the prime minister, shows no sign of letting up. Some fear that unless the two politicians find a way to work together, it will jeopardize peace negotiations aimed at ending a bloody, 20-year-old insurgency.
• AUSTRALIA / REFUGEES VOA 09 Nov 2003 -- The Australian navy has escorted a boat carrying 14 suspected asylum seekers back to Indonesia, where the group is now being held by local police. The boat arrived at an island off Australia's northern coast last Tuesday, and the incident has renewed criticism of Australia's immigration policies.
• GUATEMALA MONTT VOA 09 Nov 2003 -- Guatemalans are at the polls to elect their next president. The process is being watched closely to see how former dictator Efrain Rios Montt will fare.
• MAURITANIA: Opposition leader arrested after president re-elected IRIN 09 Nov 2003 -- President Maaouiya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania has been re-elected for a further six years with 66.7 percent of the vote, according to official results from Friday's election, which was denounced by the main opposition candidates as rigged.