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05 August 2004 Military News

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Current Operations

  • OIF/OEF Casualty Update 05 Aug 2004 [PDF]
  • 13th CORPS SUPPORT COMMAND SOLDIER KILLED IN ACTION
  • DoD Identifies Marine Casualties

  • IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, MARINES RESPOND TO CONTINUED ATTACKS IN NAJAF CENTCOM 05 Aug 2004 -- As the direct result of large-scale, repeated attacks on the main police station in An Najaf, the Multi-National Force responded to the Najaf Governor's request and rapidly provided reinforcement to Iraqi Police and National Guard units.
  • ISF, Marines respond to continued attacks in Najaf MNF-I/MNC-I 05 Aug 2004 -- As the direct result of large-scale, repeated attacks on the main police station in An Najaf, the Multi-National Force responded to the Najaf Governor's request and rapidly provided reinforcement to Iraqi Police and National Guard units.
  • Four TF Danger Soldiers wounded by IED MNF-I/MNC-I 05 Aug 2004 -- Four Task Force Danger Soldiers were wounded when an improvised device damaged their vehicle near Ad Dujayl around 6 p.m. Aug. 4.
  • Marines Strike Back at Muqtada Militia forces Marine Corps News 05 Aug 2004 -- Members of radical Shitte cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's self-designated Muqtada Militia launched attacks on 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit Marines and Iraqi security forces Aug. 5 from the Imam Ali-Shrine and neighboring cemetery, both located in an exclusion zone in the city of Najaf., violating international laws of war and a cease-fire agreement signed by Sadr and Iraqi officials in June.
  • IRAQ/INSURGENCY VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- The radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has called on his followers in Iraq to rise up and fight U.S. troops. The message comes as clashes broke out in at least three cities between his supporters and U.S. and Iraqi security forces.
  • IRAQ WRAP VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- In Iraq, a U.S. Marine helicopter was shot down in the southern city of Najaf during clashes between U.S. forces and fighters loyal to a radical Shi'ite cleric there. But some good news amid the non-ending violence: Iraqi athletes are celebrated ahead of their trip to the Olympics.
  • Marines Respond in Najaf; Soldier Killed in Convoy Attack AFPS 05 Aug 2004 -- Iraqi security forces and U.S. Marines battled suspected members of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's militia during what was described as a "large-scale" and "repeated" attack on the main police station in Najaf, military officials reported today.
  • IRAQI NATIONAL GUARD ASSIST IRAQI POLICE TO REPEL ATTACK CENTCOM 05 Aug 2004 -- A quick reaction force from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit was dispatched at the request of the governor of An Najaf province after the city's main Iraqi police station was attacked for the second time this morning.
  • Death Toll Rises In Iraq Blast Amid Intense Fighting RFE/RL 05 Aug 2004 -- The reported death toll has risen to nine, with at least 20 others injured, from an attack on a police station south of the capital Baghdad by gunmen and a suicide bomber. The attack took place in the city of Mawahil.
  • Marines keep presence in Al Kharma Marine Corps News 05 Aug 2004 -- Marines of Company I, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment are making it known. Marines aren't leaving any time soon.

  • 22nd MEU (SOC) Afghanistan Recap: Operation ULYSSES IV Marine Corps News 05 Aug 2004 -- Operation ULYSSES IV, the second mission undertaken by the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) in Afghanistan, lasted from April 15-19, and was designed to provide a detailed reconnaissance of the routes between Kandahar Air Field and Tarin Kowt, site of the MEU's future forward operating base.
  • RFE/RL Afghanistan Report, Vol 3, Number 27 05 Aug 2004 -- MAS'UD'S LEGACY / THIS WEEK ON RADIO FREE AFGHANISTAN / MEDICAL AID GROUP PULLS OUT OF AFGHANISTAN AFTER 24 YEARS OF SERVICE... / ...AND CRITICIZES THE POLICIES OF COALITION FORCES IN THE COUNTRY... / ...AS AFGHAN LEADER EXPRESSES REGRET OVER AID GROUPS' DEPARTURE... / ...WHILE KABUL PAPER URGES AUTHORITIES TO COME CLEAN ON AID WORKERS' CASE / TWO UN WORKERS AMONG SIX KILLED IN SOUTH-CENTRAL AFGHANISTAN... / ...AS UN REPRESENTATIVE IN AFGHANISTAN EXPRESSES OUTRAGE AT KILLINGS / TWO PEOPLE REPORTEDLY KILLED IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN FOR HOLDING REGISTRATION CARDS / AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES REPEL ATTACK ON VOTER-REGISTRATION CENTER IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN / NEO-TALIBAN CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR TWO ATTACKS ON VOTER-REGISTRATION CENTERS / EU DECIDES TO CONTRIBUTE MORE TO AFGHANISTAN'S ELECTION FUND / AFGHAN VOTER REGISTRATION TO END IN MID-AUGUST / AFGHAN DEFENSE MINISTRY TO DEPLOY 16,000 TROOPS TO SAFEGUARD ELECTIONS / NORTHERN WARLORD ASSUMES GOVERNORSHIP... / ...AND REPORTEDLY IS SUPPORTING KARZAI'S MAIN RIVAL IN ELECTIONS / AFGHAN POLITICAL PARTY SUPPORTS KARZAI'S CANDIDACY... / ...WHILE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE REPORTEDLY REFUSES OFFER TO QUIT RACE / ANALYST SAYS KARZAI'S POWER PLAY JUST MAY WORK / TWO U.S., FOUR AFGHAN SOLDIERS INJURED IN WEST-CENTRAL AFGHANISTAN / THIS WEEK IN AFGHANISTAN'S HISTORY
  • Marines seize ammunition cache in Afghanistan Marine Corps News 05 Aug 2004 -- The Camp Lejeune, North Carolina based unit was on the first day of a three-day patrolling operation in the town located approximately twenty kilometers northeast of Ghazni in central Afghanistan. Their mission was to ensure Taliban forces were unable to operate in the area and disrupt humanitarian efforts and elections.

Defense Policy / Programs

  • Canada and United States Amend NORAD Agreement Department of National Defence of Canada 05 Aug 2004 -- Minister of National Defence Bill Graham and Minister of Foreign Affairs Pierre Pettigrew today announced that the Government is amending the North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) agreement with the United States. The amendment authorizes NORAD to make its missile warning function - a role it has been performing for the last 30 years - available to the U.S. commands conducting ballistic missile defence.

  • President Signs Defense Bill The White House 05 Aug 2004 -- Remarks by the President at the Signing of H.R. 4613, the Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2005
  • White House Report, August 5: Bush Signs Defense Appropriations Bill Washington File 05 Aug 2004 -- President Bush signed the fiscal year 2005 defense appropriations bill August 5 that includes $25 billion in emergency funding for military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, $10 billion for missile defense and $95 million in aid for western Sudan.
  • Bush Signs $417 Billion Appropriations Bill AFPS 05 Aug 2004 -- President Bush signed the Defense Appropriations Bill into law during a White House ceremony today. The money will fund the global war on terror, personnel initiatives and further the transformation of the American military.
  • BUSH / DEFENSE SPENDING VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- President Bush has approved 25-billion-dollars of additional spending for U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq as part of a broader package of Pentagon funding for next year (fiscal year 2005, which starts in October).

  • Assessment team answering JEFX questions AFPN 05 Aug 2004 -- What distinguishes the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2004 here from an exercise is not just the addition of new innovations, but the work of more than 200 people on the experiment's assessment team.
  • Capital Region Joint Force Headquarters Readies for Battle AFPS 05 Aug 2004 -- A new command is taking its shakedown cruise this week in the National Capital Region. With spanking-new systems for protecting the seat of government, a new team of joint service members to work with and the mission of safeguarding the people and their institutions, the Joint Force Headquarters - National Capital Region is coming into its own.
  • Rumsfeld Discusses Intel Chief, Military Manning AFPS 05 Aug 2004 -- President Bush's idea of a national intelligence director outside the White House "is on the mark," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said Aug. 3.
  • Transformation Chief Outlines Strategy for New Battlefield AFPS 05 Aug 2004 -- Fighting on the new battlefield means a new strategy is in order, the Defense Department's director of force transformation said here Aug. 4 in an address to the Research and Development Partnership Conference.

  • State Department Noon Briefing, August 5 Washington File 05 Aug 2004 -- Department/U.S. statement on terrorism, related statements on terrorism from other countries, Powell/U.S. foreign policy, Germany, Canada, Sudan, India, Israel/Palestinians, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Georgia, Thailand

  • Winders Return Home Following Summer Pulse NNS 05 Aug 2004 -- The Sidewinders of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 86 have returned home to Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, S.C., after a successful deployment in support of Summer Pulse '04.

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

  • DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 05 Aug 2004

  • UN envoy and Sudanese Foreign Minister pen deal to disarm militias in Darfur UN News Centre 05 Aug 2004 -- The senior United Nations envoy to Sudan and the country's Foreign Minister have signed an agreement committing Khartoum to take "detailed steps" in the next 30 days to disarm the militias responsible for deadly attacks in the Darfur region, improve security for the 1.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) and alleviate the humanitarian crisis, a UN spokesperson said today.
  • Secretary of State Colin Powell on Darfur Washington File 05 Aug 2004 -- This column by Colin L. Powell, who is secretary of state, was published in the Wall Street Journal August 5 and is in the public domain. No republication restrictions.
  • Powell / Sudan VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell says the Bush administration will make a decision "in the next couple of weeks" as to whether the situation in Sudan's western Darfur region meets the legal definition of genocide. But he told minority journalists in Washington Thursday the decision will not alter the U.S. approach to the crisis.
  • SUDAN / DARFUR VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- The Sudanese government says there is no popular support in Sudan for foreign military intervention in Darfur that falls outside of cease-fire monitoring activities. The comment follows Wednesday's announcement of an African Union plan to bolster its military mission to western Sudan from 300 troops to two-thousand.
  • BUSH/SUDAN VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- President Bush has approved 95-million-dollars of humanitarian assistance for refugees displaced by violence in western Sudan.

  • ISRAEL/EGYPT VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- Israel announced that it will reopen Friday the international Rafah border crossing between Gaza and Egypt. The move will allow 15 hundred Palestinians stranded for nearly three weeks to return to their homes in the Gaza Strip
  • Côte d'Ivoire: Security Council urges parties to make good on peace pledges UN News Centre 05 Aug 2004 -- The Security Council today welcomed the recent agreement by Côte d'Ivoire's leaders to resume the country's stalled peace process, and called on them to observe deadlines for disarming militias and drawing up a selection process for presidential candidates.
  • GEORGIA PRESIDENT / CONFLICT VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- Georgia's president says he is committed to a peaceful resolution of the conflict in his country's breakaway South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions.
  • POWELL/GEORGIA/RUSSIA VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell says the United States is using its good offices with both Georgia and Russia to try to ease tensions in two breakaway regions of Georgia. Mr. Powell held talks on the issue late Thursday with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.
  • ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- An Israeli diplomat says that there has never been an Israeli pledge to freeze settlement activity in the West Bank as called for in the international road map peace plan. His statement came as the Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, held talks Thursday with a visiting U.S. envoy on a range of issues including the settlements
  • INDIA/KASHMIR ATTACK VOA 05 Aug 2004 -- Suspected Islamic militants attacked a paramilitary camp in Indian Kashmir, killing nine soldiers. It is the second attack in the region in a week, and came as India and Pakistan opened talks on the disputed region.

News Reports

  • SHAPE News Morning Update SHAPE 05 Aug 2004 -- Snubbed Afghan defense minister throws weight behind Karzai rival, eschews violence / Germany considering sending Iraq trainers to UAE / Athens puts money and manpower into security / UN envoy urges support for African Union peacekeeping mission in Sudan
  • SHAPE News Summary & Analysis SHAPE 05 Aug 2004 -- NATO advance guard to go to Iraq in "two or three days" / UN says Iraq force is stalled / Additional Bundeswehr troops to secure elections / Greater Dutch military deployment in Afghanistan considered / Greek Defense Chief: Armed forces fully prepared for Olympic Games



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