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• IRAQ/GUN BATTLE VOA 14 Feb 2004 -- More than 20 people were killed and dozens were wounded Saturday in Iraq's violent Sunni triangle when insurgents conducted a daring raid on a police station to free prisoners.
• At Least 21 Killed In Coordinated Iraq Attack VOA 14 Feb 2004 -- Scores of heavily armed insurgents attacked a police station and a building belonging to the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps in the city of Al-Fallujah today, killing at least 21 people and injuring some 30 others.

• Soldier Killed, 9 Wounded in Afghanistan Mine Explosion AFPS 14 Feb 2004 -- One U.S. soldier was killed and nine were wounded by a mine Feb. 13 near Ghazni, Afghanistan.
• AFGHANISTAN / ATTACKS VOA 14 Feb 2004 -- A land mine explosion in Afghanistan has killed one U-S soldier and injured nine others, while two Afghans have been killed in a separate attack.

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Defense Industry

• Successful Launch of Last Boeing IUS Deploys U.S. Air Force Satellite Boeing 14 Feb 2004 -- On the final mission for the program, a Boeing [NYSE:BA] Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) payload booster vehicle successfully deployed a U.S. Air Force Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite today.
• Lockheed Martin-Built Titan IV Rocket Successfully Launches Defense Support Program Payload Lockheed Martin 14 Feb 2004 -- A Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT]-built Titan IV B rocket thundered off its Complex 40 seaside launch pad today at 1:50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time carrying a Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite into orbit for the U.S. Air Force. The DSP satellite constellation provides early warning of missile launches worldwide. An Inertial Upper Stage (IUS) transferred the satellite to its final orbit approximately 22,000 miles above Earth.
• 22nd Northrop Grumman-Built DSP Launched Successfully; U.S. Air Force Satellite Joins DSP Constellation On-Orbit Northrop Grumman 14 Feb 2004 -- The 22nd Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC)-built Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite was successfully launched today by the U.S. Air Force from Cape Canaveral Air Station.

Other Conflicts

• DRC: President get promises of aid during European tour IRIN 14 Feb 2004 -- Congolese President Joseph Kabila ended a four-nation European tour on Wednesday with promises of debt cancellation, the training of his new unified army, police; and help with the organisation of multiparty elections at the end of a two-year transitional government of national unity.

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