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11 June 2004 Military News

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  • DoD Identifies Army Casualty

  • Scuffles Disrupt Friday Prayers in Iraqi City of Najaf VOA News 11 Jun 2004 -- The main Friday prayers in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf were canceled after scuffles broke out between supporters and opponents of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.
  • Rival Shi'a Groups Clash In Iraqi Holy City RFE/RL 11 Jun 2004 -- Supporters of radical Shi'a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr today threw stones and shoes at members of a rival Shi'a group, the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, in the Iraqi holy city of Al-Najaf.
  • Multinational Force Patrol Attacked In Iraq RFE/RL 11 Jun 2004 -- The Polish-led multinational security force in central Iraq says one of its patrols came under attack today south of Baghdad.

  • Coalition in Afghanistan Denies Border Violation Reports AFPS 11 Jun 2004 -- Media reports that a U.S. military helicopter violated Pakistani airspace June 9 in a northwestern tribal area near the Afghanistan border are unfounded, the senior spokesman for Combined Forces Command Afghanistan said today in a written statement.
  • PAKISTAN/AFGHAN BORDER VOA 11 jun 2004 -- In Pakistan, thousands of troops, supported by helicopter gunships are attacking suspected hideouts of the al-Qaida terror network in a semi-autonomous tribal region near the Afghan border. Nearly 60 people have died in the three-day offensive, including 15 government soldiers.
  • Pak Islamic groups reject use of force in tribal area IRNA 11 Jun 2004 -- Pakistani Islamic groups on Friday condemned the military operation in the country`s tribal region along the border with Afghanistan and called for its immediate halt.
  • Tribal operation to continue: Pak minister IRNA 11 Jun 2004 -- Security forces in Pakistan launched a major operation in the tribal region on Friday to eliminate "terrorists and extremists," Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat told the National Assembly.
  • PAK / AFGHAN BORDER FIGHTING VOA 11 Jun 2004 -- Military officials in Pakistan say thousands of troops are engaged in heavy fighting with suspected foreign militants for a third day in a tribal region bordering Afghanistan.

Defense Policy / Programs

  • Civilian Leaders See Simulated Anti-Terrorism Operations AFPS 11 Jun 2004 -- Civilian leaders from throughout the United States watched U.S. Navy fighter jets launch a simulated strike against a suspected terrorist training camp in Tunisia, then looked on as a SEAL team boarded and took control of a vessel posing as a ship transporting components for weapons of mass destruction.

  • Exercise Collective Effort 04 NATO 11 Jun 2004 -- Exercise Collective Effort is a biennial NATO-led Logistics Interoperability Exercise involving more than 500 soldiers, and will take place in and around Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic, from June 11-18, 2004. Participating nations include Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, and Poland.

  • Duma OKs Key Shift In Russian Military Command RFE/RL 11 Jun 2004 -- The Russian Duma passed a law today giving Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov operational control of the army.

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Other Conflicts

  • DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 11 Jun 2004

  • DRC: Kinshasa calm after coup attempt IRIN 11 Jun 2004 -- Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was calm on Friday following an attempted coup by a section of the presidential guard, a UN official told IRIN.
  • UN officials condemn attempted coup in DR Congo UN News Centre 11 Jun 2004 -- As the situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was being normalized after an attempted coup early today in its capital, United Nations officials condemned the uprising and pledged to help the country's transitional political process.
  • DRC: Coup attempt foiled in Kinshasa IRIN 11 Jun 2004 -- A coup attempt in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) by a section of the presidential guard has been foiled, Foreign Affairs Minister Antoine Ghonda told IRIN on Friday.
  • D-R-C / COUP ATTEMPT VOA 11 Jun 2004 -- President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila says an attempt by what officials said was a small band of renegade soldiers to overthrow his government has failed. President Kabila went on national television, after a chaotic night of fighting in the capital, Kinshasa, to say his government is in control.

  • Moscow Complains To U.S. Over Georgian Troop Use RFE/RL 11 Jun 2004 -- A top Russian diplomat has met with U.S. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow to complain of Georgia's use of U.S.-trained troops in a separatist region.
  • U.N. / Sudan VOA 11 Jun 2004 -- U.N. Security Council has authorized the initial phase of what is expected to become a peacekeeping mission for southern Sudan. The council also used the occasion to urge an end to a separate conflict in western Sudan.
  • Security Council sends advance team to Sudan in anticipation of peace accord UN News Centre 11 Jun 2004 -- The United Nations Security Council today endorsed Secretary-General Kofi Annan's proposal for an advance team to travel to Sudan ahead of a planned political mission as expectations rise that a peace deal will soon be signed to end a long-running civil war in the country's south.
  • Atrocities in Uganda prompt UN to call on rebels to halt attacks against civilians UN News Centre 11 Jun 2004 -- Deploring the murder of 128 people over the past month in a series of massacres by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in northern Uganda, the top United Nations humanitarian official today called on the rebel group to stop attacking civilians immediately.
  • Azerbaijan, Armenia Work On New Peace Plan RFE/RL 11 Jun 2004 -- Azerbaijani Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov says Azerbaijani and Armenian negotiators are taking a new approach to settling their dispute over the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
  • SUDAN: G8 call on Khartoum to disarm Janjawid militias IRIN 11 Jun 2004 -- Leaders from the world's seven wealthiest countries plus Russia, commonly known as the G8 leaders, who have been meeting in the United States have called on the Sudanese government to immediately disarm the Janjawid militias ravaging western Sudan's Darfur area.

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