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• FORMER REGIME LOYALISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR IED ATTACKS CAPTURED CENTCOM Release 16 Nov 2003-- Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment captured two brothers in a planned operation earlier today.
• Update to Release 03-11-23: 17 KILLED, 5 WOUNDED IN BLACK HAWK CRASHES IN MOSUL CENTCOM Release 16 Nov 2003-- Two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) crashed in western Mosul at approximately 6:30 p.m. Nov. 15.
• OPERATION IVY CYCLONE II CENTCOM Release 16 Nov 2003-- The 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse has launched a series of combined arms operations to include air and ground strikes against identified targets, along with precision raids against non-compliant groups and individuals focused on neutralizing paramilitary, former regime loyalists, foreign fighters and other extremist and subversive elements within task force area of responsibility.
• U.S. Presence in Iraq May Continue After June AFPS 16 Nov 2003 -- U.S. military forces may remain in Iraq when full sovereignty is given to the Iraqi people in June and the Coalition Provisional Authority dissolves, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, CPA administrator, said in an interview from Baghdad, Iraq, today.
• Army Launches 'Ivy Cyclone II' to Target Insurgents AFPS 16 Nov 2003 -- The Army's 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse have launched a combined-arms operation called Ivy Cyclone II in the effort to root out and crush insurgents in Iraq, U.S. Central Command officials announced today.
• IRAQ / HELICOPTERS CRASH VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- The U-S military in Iraq says hostile fire may have been responsible for the crash of two U-S Army Blackhawk helicopters in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday. Seventeen soldiers were killed in the crash, which was initially thought to be an accident.
• Iraq: U.S. Helicopters Collide, Killing At Least 17 RFE/RL 16 Nov 2003 -- The United States military says at least 17 American soldiers have been killed in the mid-air collision and crash of two Black Hawk helicopters in northern Iraq.
• AFGHANISTAN U-N WORKER VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- The United Nations says a French U-N worker shot by gunmen in southeastern Afghanistan, later died of her wounds. Passers-by grabbed the assailants, who are now in police custody.

Defense Policy / Programs

• SECRETARY RUMSFELD STATEMENT ON RICHARD PERLE 16 Nov 2003 -- When Richard Perle stepped down as Chairman of the Defense Policy Board on March 26, 2003, I asked him to remain a member of that board and said, "I have known Richard Perle for many years and know him to be a man of integrity and honor."
• Marines push limits with aerial refueling Marine Corps News 16 Nov 2003-- Three CH-53E "Super Stallion" Helicopters pushed farther and flew longer thanks to the fuel and support of two KC-130 "Hercules" Aircraft.
• RUMSFELD / ASIA VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- U-S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says U-S troops will not pull out early from Iraq despite new plans to speed up the creation of a sovereign Iraqi government. Mr. Rumsfeld spoke on the way to Okinawa, Japan where he visited U-S troops and met with local officials.

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Other Conflicts

• ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia says he hopes to open talks soon with Islamic factions on a cease-fire with Israel.
• IVORY COAST / REBELS VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- A delegation of former rebels from Ivory Coast, known as the New Forces, has traveled to Togo to discuss with President Gnassingbe Eyadema options for reviving the failing peace process in their country.
• BURUNDI/PEACE TALKS VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- The president of Burundi and the leader of the country's main rebel group have met in Tanzania to sign a peace accord that may end 10 years of civil war. But another rebel group has refused to sign on.
• CONGO/SURRENDER VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- The top Rwandan Hutu rebel commander based in the Democratic Republic of Congo has formally surrendered to the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan government. His movement, the F-D-L-R (Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda) has been based in eastern Congo for nine years, following the flight of Hutu extremists to eastern Congo after their involvement in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
• COTE D'IVOIRE: Prime minister meets rebel leaders in Burkina Faso IRIN 16 Nov 2003 -- Cote d'Ivoire's Prime Minister, Seydou Diarra, and Ivorian rebel leaders have agreed to meet other parties involved in the Ivorian peace process in the Ghanaian capital, Accra, in an effort to unblock the political stalemate in Cote d'Ivoire.

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