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30 August 2004 Military News

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Current Operations

  • OIF/OEF Casualty Update 30 Aug 2004 [PDF]
  • DoD Identifies Army Casualty
  • DoD Identifies Army Casualty

  • IRAQ WRAP VOA 30 Aug 2004 -- Iraq's interim government has been talking with Sunni Muslim and tribal leaders in the western cities of Fallujah and Ramadi in a bid to end insurgencies there. The peace agreement that ended firebrand Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's uprising against Iraqi and U.S. forces in Najaf still holds, and Mr. al-Sadr now is calling on supporters elsewhere in Iraq to stop fighting, too.
  • Sudan: Darfur Crisis Highlights Struggle Over Genocide, Intervention RFE/RL 30 Aug 2004 -- Ten years after the Rwanda genocide, human rights watchdogs are concerned that history is repeating itself in Sudan. Despite months of reports about atrocities committed against civilians in the western region of Darfur, the UN Security Council has so far been unwilling to authorize an intervention to stop the violence, responsible for the world's worst current humanitarian crisis. This is in part because of a lack of consensus over whether genocide is occurring. Rights experts say international action is needed, regardless of how the situation is defined.
  • Saboteurs Halt Oil Exports In Southern Iraq RFE/RL 30 Aug 2004 -- Oil exports from southern Iraq have completely ceased following a series of pipeline attacks by saboteurs.
  • ING, 24th MEU capture large weapons cache during raid USMC News 30 Aug 2004 -- Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, working closely with Iraqi National Guardsmen, conducted a raid in central Iraq Aug. 26, netting a large weapons cache that included dozens of weapons, munitions and explosive making devises.

  • Annan voices deep concern at weekend series of deadly bombings in Afghanistan UN News Centre 30 Aug 2004 -- Noting the high death toll from the two explosions in Afghanistan over the weekend, Secretary-General Kofi Annan today voiced his deep concern at the continuing violent attacks on the country's electoral process.
  • Afghanistan: Deadly Explosions Raise Fears About Security Ahead Of Vote RFE/RL 30 Aug 2004 -- The Taliban is claiming responsibility for a car bomb in Kabul yesterday that killed at least nine people -- three Afghans, three Americans, and three Nepalese. The bomb was detonated in front of the offices of the U.S.-based private security firm DynCorp -- a company that has contracts to train officers for the Afghan National Police and to provide security for Afghan Transitional Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai. The attack came just hours after an explosion at a religious school in the country's southeastern Paktiya Province killed eight Afghan children and at least one adult.
  • Militia Division Disarms in Kabul, Becomes 'Heroes of Peace' AFPS 30 Aug 2004 -- The 31st Division of the Afghan militia forces' Central Corps disarmed in a Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration event held at the division's barracks in Mataw Qala, West Kabul, Aug. 23.
  • AFGHANISTAN/BLAST AFTERMATH VOA 30 Aug 2004 -- Afghanistan's Taleban militia has claimed responsibility for Sunday's bomb attack in Kabul, which killed at least nine people. The Taleban has promised more such attacks before the country's presidential elections. U.S. and Afghan officials are jointly investigating the attack.
  • COALITION SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES CONDUCT RAID, KILL ENEMY LEADER CENTCOM 30 Aug 2004 -- Coalition Special Operations Forces and Afghan military forces raided an anti-coalition compound and killed a senior enemy leader in a mission Friday in Zabul Province, Afghanistan.

Defense Policy / Programs

  • State Department Noon Briefing, August 30 Washington File 30 Aug 2004 -- Syria, Greece/Powell's cancellation of trip, Department/investigation into spying at the Pentagon, Iraq, Sudan, Lebanon, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Afghanistan, Russia, North Korea, Panama

Defense Industry

  • Lockheed Martin Delivers Virtual Combat Convoy Trainer Lockheed Martin 30 Aug 2004 -- Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) delivered eight Virtual Combat Convoy Trainers (VCCTs) to the U.S. Army to help train troops to recognize and respond to potential convoy threats including Improvised Explosive Devices. Two suites, consisting of four trainers each, were built and shipped to Camp Shelby, MS and Fort Bragg, NC.
  • Lockheed Martin Unmanned Remote Minehunting System Installed for USS Momsen Commissioning Lockheed Martin 30 Aug 2004 -- When the U.S. Navy’s newest guided missile destroyer, USS Momsen, was commissioned this past Saturday, it became the world's first warship equipped with Lockheed Martin's [NYSE: LMT] Remote Minehunting System (RMS). The RMS provides the Navy with its first-ever organic mine reconnaissance capability using an unmanned, remotely operated vehicle.
  • Northrop Grumman Wins Contracts to Supply Steering Systems for U.S. Navy Destroyers Northrop Grumman 30 Aug 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) Sperry Marine business unit has been awarded contracts to supply the U.S. Navy with steering systems for three new USS Arleigh Burke DDG 51-class guided missile destroyers.
  • Department of Defense Contract Gives Northrop Grumman Unique Capability To Bond Laser Materials Northrop Grumman 30 Aug 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) was recently awarded a contract by Air Force Research Laboratory/Directed Energy Directorate in support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense / High Energy Laser Joint Technology Office, to develop a new capability to bond laser materials.

Other Conflicts

  • DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 30 Aug 2004

  • BURUNDI: Fighting displaces another 3,000 IRIN 30 Aug 2004 -- An estimated 3,000 civilians were displaced on Saturday following fighting between rebels and government troops in the northwestern province of Bujumbura Rural.
  • SUDAN: AU scolds Sudan for new attacks as UN deadline expires IRIN 30 Aug 2004 -- Nigerian President and current African Union chairman Olusegun Obasanjo said on Monday that AU ceasefire monitors had confirmed recent attacks by Sudanese government troops on Darfur civilians and urged Khartoum to put a stop to the violence.
  • U.S.-CHECHNYA ELECTION VOA 30 Aug 2004 -- The United States says Sunday's elections in Chechnya, won in a landslide by a Kremlin-backed candidate, were seriously flawed and fell short of international standards.
  • CHECHNYA/VOTE VOA 30 Aug 2004 -- The Kremlin-backed candidate for president in Russia's breakaway region of Chechnya has won an election whose outcome was never really in doubt. But many Chechens appear to believe the vote will do little to end the long-running conflict over independence.
  • SUDAN/DARFUR VOA 30 Aug 2004 -- A senior U.N. official says the Sudanese government is not doing enough to provide security for people displaced by fighting in the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan.The official made his comments as a U.N. deadline for the Sudanese government to restore security and order to the region expired.
  • NIGERIA/SUDAN TALKS VOA 30 Aug 2004 -- The Sudan peace talks being held in Nigeria are expected to enter their second week after several delays, including a rebel boycott to mourn the loss of civilians they claim were killed recently by government forces.

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