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• 1st ID SOLDIER KILLED, 2 WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK

• U.S. Soldier Killed in Explosion; Marines, Insurgents Fight in Fallujah AFPS 01 Aug 2004 -- One American soldier with the Army's 1st Infantry Division was killed and two others were injured when a remotely detonated improvised explosive device struck their patrol, near Samarra, Iraq, around 12:30 p.m. today.
• INSURGENTS ATTACK CONVOYS NORTHEAST OF FALLUJAH CENTCOM 01 Aug 2004 -- Fighting in Fallujah continued into the early morning hours Sunday, when three Multi-National Force-Iraq convoys traveling outside the northeast portion of the city were repeatedly attacked by anti-Iraqi forces.
• CAR BOMB KILLS 5 IRAQIS, WOUNDS MORE THAN 40 CENTCOM 01 Aug 2004 -- Five Iraqis, including two police officers were killed and more than 40 were wounded when a car bomb exploded outside of the Somer Police Station in southeastern Mosul during a morning shift change around 8:15 a.m. today.
• IRAQI INTERVENTION FORCE ASSUMES MISSION CENTCOM 01 Aug 2004 -- The Iraqi Intervention Force formally took responsibility for part of the 1st Cavalry Division's area of operation of Abu Dashir of the Al Rashid district in Baghdad July 31.
• 11th MEU TAKES CONTROL OF AN NAJAF, AL QADISIYAH CENTCOM 01 Aug 2004 -- The 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit assumed operational control of the An Najaf and Al Qadisiyah provinces from the U.S. Army during a ceremony here July 31.
• MARINES REPEL INSURGENT ATTACK NEAR FALLUJAH CENTCOM 01 Aug 2004 -- Anti-Iraqi forces repeatedly attacked a position held by Marines of the I Marine Expeditionary Force near Fallujah Saturday. The I MEF personnel manning the position took no casualties.
• Iraqi Insurgents Target Churches In Bomb Attacks RFE/RL 01 Aug 2004 -- A series of bomb blasts occurred outside of five Christian churches in Iraq today, causing deaths and injuries.
• IRAQ / CHURCH BOMBINGS VOA 01 Aug 2004 -- A nearly simultaneous series of car bombings has hit churches in two Iraqi cities. Officials say at least four churches were attacked in Baghdad and one in the northern city of Mosul. Casualty figures are still coming in, but it looks like the death toll will be significant. It is the first time that Iraq's Christian minority has been specifically targeted in the 15-month insurgency.

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• COTE D IVOIRE: Peace summit sees disarmament starting in October IRIN 01 Aug 2004 -- Under heavy pressure from a dozen African leaders and UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the leaders of the rival factions in Cote d'Ivoire have agreed to a new timetable to put the country's faltering peace process back on track, with the aim of starting a disarmament programme on 15 October.
• Côte d'Ivoire parties renew commitment to peace agreement UN News Centre 01 Aug 2004 -- Culminating two days of talks in Accra, Ghana, the parties in Côte d'Ivoire have pledged to fully and unconditionally carry out commitments outlined in past peace accords, the United Nations announced.
• ISRAEL/JORDAN VOA 01 Aug 2004 -- Israel claims the proposed sale of American missiles to Jordan means they could be acquired by other Arab nations, upsetting the strategic balance in the Middle East.
• PALESTINIANS/POLITICS VOA 01 Aug 2004 -- Supporters of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat disrupted a meeting of Palestinian politicians seeking reforms of the Palestinian Authority, firing guns in the air. The incident marks a spread in Palestinian infighting.

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