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• Anti-Iraqi Forces Active Over Weekend AFPS 29 Aug 2004 -- Multinational forces came under attack today near Mosul and Samarra, a Coalition Press Information Center release from Baghdad, Iraq, said.
• New Violence In Iraq As Al-Najaf Experiences Calm RFE/RL 29 Aug 2004 -- New violence is reported in Iraq as residents of Al-Najaf begin digging out after three weeks of fierce fighting between militiamen and U.S. and Iraqi forces.

• 22nd MEU Afghanistan Recap: Operation ASBURY PARK USMC News 29 Aug 2004 -- Ever since the fall of Afghanistan's Taliban regime in late 2001, Taliban and anti-coalition militia factions have been waging a guerilla-style war against U.S., Afghan, and Coalition forces. Using ambushes and other 'hit-and-run' tactics, these terrorist factions have always attempted to avoid getting into pitched battles.
• AFGHANISTAN/ATTACKS VOA 29 Aug 2004 -- A powerful bomb explosion in the center of the Afghan capital, Kabul, has killed at least seven people, including foreigners. The attack comes a day after a bomb blast in a southeastern province killed 10 people, mostly children.
• AFGHANISTAN/ATTACKS VOA 29 Aug 2004 -- In Afghanistan, a powerful bomb explosion has killed at least seven children and injured 15 others. A separate attack on election workers has caused the United Nations to suspend its operations temporarily in the eastern part of the country.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Reporters Offered Look Inside Combatant Status Review Tribunals AFPS 29 Aug 2004 -- As the world's attention was focused on the first hearings in war-crimes trials against four enemy combatants here this week, another type of proceeding was going on elsewhere on the base that ultimately will involve all 585 detainees held here.

Defense Industry

• Arrow Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems' Second Test at Point Mugu, U.S. Israel Aerospace Industries 29 Aug 2004 -- The Arrow anti-ballistic system participated Aug. 26, 2004, in a joint Israel - United States flight test as part of the ongoing Arrow System Improvement Program (ASIP)./li>

Other Conflicts

• SOMALIA/POLITICS VOA 29 Aug 2004 -- Somalia's new parliament was inaugurated Sunday at a ceremony in Kenya's capital.
• CHECHNYA/VOTE VOA 29 Aug 2004 -- Voting is under way in Russia's breakaway region of Chechnya to select a replacement for a president who was killed in a bomb attack. One man has blown himself up near a polling station, and there are fears separatist rebels could disrupt the vote.
• PANAMAN/VENEZUELA/CUBA VOA 29 Aug 2004 -- Venezuela has recalled its ambassador to Panama to protest comments by the outgoing Panamanian president regarding her reasons for pardoning four men convicted in a plot to assassinate Cuban President Fidel Castro. President Mireya Moscoso said she feared the men could be executed if they were extradited to Venezuela or Cuba by her successor.

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