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12 June 2004 Military News

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  • Transcript: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing 12 Jun 2004 -- Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Director for Coalition Operations and Daniel Senor, Senior Advisor, Coalition Provisional Authority
  • IRAQ / VIOLENCE VOA 12 Jun 2004 -- Gunmen fatally shot a senior deputy foreign minister in Iraq's interim government on Saturday, as he traveled to his Baghdad office. The attack follows a recent assassination attempt on another member of the interim government.

  • Foreign militants cordoned in Pak tribal region: Army IRNA 12 Jun 2004 -- Pakistan security forces have cordoned three "targets" in the country`s semi-autonomous tribal areas where cross-firing with over 50 foreign militants continued on Friday, military spokesman Major Gen Shaukat Sultan said.
  • PAKISTAN/AFGHAN BORDER VOA 12 Jun 2004 -- Pakistan's air and ground forces intensified an offensive against suspected al-Qaida hideouts in a mountainous region near the border with Afghanistan. At least 61 people, including 18 government soldiers, have died as the fighting enters its fourth day.
  • BLT 1/6 goes door to door looking for weapons and Afghan insurgents Marine Corps News 12 Jun 2004 -- Tucked away in the steep valleys, wadis and draws of a mountainous region in the south-central Afghanistan province of Oruzgan lay hundreds of small compounds and buildings.

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  • CONGO / COUP ATTEMPT VOA 12 Jun 2004 -- A day after Congo's government said it put down an attempted coup, the alleged ringleader is still at large.
  • BOSNIA/MASSACRE VOA 12 Jun 2004 -- Bosnia-Herzergovina's international administrator, Paddy Ashdown, has welcomed the admission by Bosnian Serb authorities that their security forces massacred up to eight-thousand Muslims at the town of Srebrenica in 1995. But Mr. Ashdown cautioned the admission is not a substitute for cooperation with the war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

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