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08 September 2004 Military News

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Current Operations

  • OIF/OEF Casualty Update 08 Sep 2004 [PDF]
  • ONE SOLDIER KILLED IN CONVOY ATTACK
  • TASK FORCE BAGHDAD SOLDIER KILLED IN IED ATTACK
  • DoD Identifies Army Casualty
  • DoD Identifies Army Casualty
  • DoD Identifies Air Force Casualty
  • DoD Identifies Army Casualty
  • DoD Identifies Army Casualties
  • DoD Identifies Army Casualties

  • Fighting continues in Eastern Baghdad Army News 08 Sep 2004 -- One Soldier was killed and several injured during engagements between Multi-National Forces and Iraqi insurgents Sept. 7 in the Al Thawra district of Eastern Baghdad, also known as Sadr City.
  • Marines clean house in Ludafiyah USMC News 08 Sep 2004 -- Six hundred Marines, 350 Iraqi Police Officers and 80 Iraqi National Guardsmen braved suicide bombers, mortars, roadside blasts and small arms fire as they cordoned and searched most of the houses in Lutafiyah Sept. 4.
  • Iraq: U.S. Says Retaking Of Hot Spots Will Await Training Of Iraqi Forces RFE/RL 08 Sep 2004 -- Top U.S. officials say any operations to retake Al-Fallujah and other towns largely under rebel control in the Sunni Triangle will have to await the training of Iraqi government forces, so they can assume a major role. The statements come amid increasing clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents around Fallujah that highlight concerns that the town is a haven for terrorists and bomb-makers targeting American forces and Iraqi civilians.
  • IRAQ VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- U.S. forces continue to conduct airstrikes against the Iraqi city of Fallujah, hitting a suspected militant hideout. The fighting comes as Iraqi human-rights workers condemn the abduction of two Italian aid workers Tuesday from their central Baghdad office.
  • U.S. Military Launches New Air Strikes In Al-Fallujah VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- U.S. warplanes launched another round of air strikes in Al-Fallujah, a stronghold of Sunni Muslim insurgents north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

  • New Afghan Army Recruiting Center Opens for Business AFPS 08 Sep 2004 -- A new recruitment center for the Afghan National Army opened for business in Faizabad Sept. 7.
  • Afghan, Iraqi Elections' Approach Likely to Increase Violence AFPS 08 Sep 2004 -- Violence in Iraq and Afghanistan is likely to increase as elections approach and terrorists realize those countries are close to implementing democratically elected governments, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Sept. 7.
  • Elections Take Center Stage in Afghanistan Outreach Initiative Washington File 08 Sep 2004 -- On October 9, Afghan citizens will vote in the country's first national election for president. But in a country where only 28 percent of the population has access to television and 20 percent has access to newspapers, how can the public, many voting for the first time, learn about the election process?
  • RFE/RL Afghanistan Report, Vol 3, Number 32 08 Sep 2004 -- UN, RIGHTS GROUP WARN OF ELECTION SHORTCOMINGS / AFGHAN PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN BEGINS AMID ALLEGATIONS OF IRREGULARITIES AND INSECURITY / RIVAL PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE ACCUSES AFGHAN LEADER OF BREAKING ELECTORAL LAW / EXCERPTS FROM THE AFGHAN ELECTORAL LAW / AFGHAN SUPREME COURT CALLS FOR DISQUALIFICATION OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE OVER ALLEGED BLASPHEMY / BROTHER OF SLAIN AFGHAN COMMANDER OPPOSES POLITICAL USE OF HIS IMAGE IN ELECTIONS / INDEPENDENT CANDIDATE CRITICIZES AFGHAN LEADER'S CAMPAIGN TACTICS / MEMBERS OF POLITICAL PARTY GATHER IN SUPPORT OF AFGHAN LEADER / AFGHAN LEADER MEETS BELGIAN AND FRENCH DEFENSE MINISTERS / CIVILIANS KILLED IN U.S. AIR RAID IN NORTHEASTERN AFGHANISTAN / PRT PERSONNEL ATTACKED IN LAGHMAN PROVINCE / NEO-TALIBAN CLAIMS TO HAVE KILLED SIX AFGHAN SOLDIERS IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN / WESTERN AFGHAN WARLORD REJECTS GOVERNMENT POST... / ...AND ASKS FOR HIS RIVAL'S PUNISHMENT / U.S. AMBASSADOR TO AFGHANISTAN HAILS DDR PROGRESS IN KABUL / U.S. CONSULTANT TO AFGHAN GOVERNMENT ARRESTED ON CHARGES OF HOMOSEXUALITY / THIS WEEK IN AFGHANISTAN'S HISTORY

Defense Policy / Programs

  • Tribunal Finds Guantanamo Detainee Not Combatant; Man to be Sent Home AFPS 08 Sep 2004 -- A tribunal in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has determined a detainee there is not an enemy combatant, and the U.S. government will release the man to his home country soon, the official in charge of the tribunal process said.
  • Transcript: Special Department of Defense Briefing with Navy Secretary Gordon England 08 Sep 2004 -- Secretary of the Navy Gordon England
  • ENEMY COMBATANTS VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- A U.S. military tribunal has found that an accused terrorist being held at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba can go free after determining he was improperly classified as an enemy combatant. It is the first time since the tribunals began reviewing cases two-months ago that a detainee in the war on terrorism has had his designation as an enemy combatant overturned.

  • Military personnel data system managed like a weapons system AFPN 08 Sep 2004 -- Three years ago, Air Force Personnel Center officials here replaced the 30-year-old computer mainframes running on obsolete software with the military personnel data system.
  • Officials complete F-15 accident investigation AFPN 08 Sep 2004 -- Air Force officials completed their investigation of the F-15 Eagle crash that happened May 21 on the shoreline of St. George Island, Fla.
  • New training program for navigators, EWOs begins soon AFPN 08 Sep 2004 -- A new combat systems officer training program for Air Force navigators and electronic warfare officers begins here Sept. 30 with the 562nd and 563rd Flying Training Squadrons.
  • Aircrew training ensures air superiority AFPN 08 Sep 2004 -- Superb people and state-of-the-art technology help make the U.S. Air Force the most formidable air power in the world. But the general who oversees flying training for more than 19,000 Airmen a year said the biggest single factor that makes America's military stand out from other countries is its emphasis on training.
  • Enterprise Enters Northrop Grumman Newport News Shipyard Navy NewsStand 08 Sep 2004 -- USS Enterprise (CVN 65) (Big E) entered the Northrop Grumman Newport News shipyard Sept. 3 for a scheduled Extended Selected Restricted Availability (ESRA).
  • Heavy Winds Ground Yukon Navy NewsStand 08 Sep 2004 -- The oiler USNS Yukon (T-AO 202) grounded while anchored in the harbor of Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, during the early hours of Sept. 8.
  • USS Abraham Lincoln Gears Up for Deployment Navy NewsStand 08 Sep 2004 -- USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) will depart in mid-October for a scheduled deployment. The ship will conduct naval operations in support of national and theater cooperative security commitments in the western Pacific.
  • New multi-purpose knife replaces old bayonet USMC News 08 Sep 2004 -- The order to fix Bayonets was once a common phrase heard by Marines. Today the Marine Corps has a new weapon replacing the Bayonet - the Multi-Purpose Bayonet model number OKC-3S from the Ontario Knife Company.
  • Tina Jonas Officially Welcomed as Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) 08 Sep 2004 -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hosted a formal welcome ceremony today for Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) Tina W. Jonas.
  • Fewer Troops Won't Reduce Deterrence in South Korea, Rumsfeld Says AFPS 08 Sep 2004 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is "not one slight bit" worried that fewer U.S. troops in South Korea will mean a reduced deterrent capability on the peninsula.
  • Joint/Interagency Cooperation Needed in Terror War AFPS 08 Sep 2004 -- Further breaking down barriers to joint operations and increasing cooperation among all branches of the federal government are the Holy Grail of the global war on terrorism, the sea service chiefs said at a conference here Sept 7.

  • UKRAINE / BRITAIN VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- Ukraine says it will take steps to curb corruption and improve governance as it makes a new push to join NATO, the trans-Atlantic military alliance. The issue came up during a visit to London by Ukrainian Defense Minister Yevhen Marchuk

  • State Department Noon Briefing, September 8 Washington File 08 Sep 2004 -- Sudan, Russia, North Korea, Iran, South Korea

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

  • DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 08 Sep 2004

  • Russian General Claims Right To Preemptive Strikes RFE/RL 08 Sep 2004 -- Comments by a Russian military official suggesting that Moscow has a right to launch preemptive strikes against terrorist threats anywhere in the world met with cautious responses today.
  • Russia: U.S. Urges Chechen Settlement, Sympathizes In School Siege RFE/RL 08 Sep 2004 -- In the wake of the Beslan hostage tragedy, President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will increase efforts to extradite people with suspected ties to terrorism. At the top of the Foreign Ministry's extradition wish list is Ilyas Akhmadov, a former official in the separatist Chechen government of Aslan Maskhadov, who has been granted asylum in the United States. Russia has criticized the U.S. stance on Akhmadov and other Chechen separatists. But U.S. officials this week made efforts to demonstrate their solidarity with Russia on the issue of Beslan, pledging aid to the victims and seeking to downplay its ties with Chechen officials.
  • RUSSIA / RESPONSE VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- Russia's Federal Security Service has offered a 10-million dollar reward for information leading authorities to the two most prominent Chechen rebel leaders. Russia also says it may launch pre-emptive strikes on bases used for training militants.

  • POWELL / SUDAN / GENOCIDE VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- The State Department says a U.S. investigation of violence in Sudan's western Darfur region has confirmed a "pattern" of ethnic-based attacks by Arab militiamen and Sudanese government forces against black African villagers. Secretary of State Colin Powell is expected to tell a U.S. Senate panel Thursday if the activity fits the legal definition of genocide.
  • SUDAN / REBEL LEADER VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- The leader of Sudan's southern rebel movement says the humanitarian crisis in the country's western Darfur region can only be solved by forming a new government of national unity.

  • Middle East: Tensions Build Between Syria, Israel As U.S. Pressures Damascus RFE/RL 08 Sep 2004 -- Tensions appear to be rising between Israel and Syria. Last week, the Israeli leadership threatened to retaliate against Palestinian targets in Syria following a suicide bombing in Israel. At the same time, Damascus is coming under heightened pressure from both the United Nations Security Council and the United States to withdraw some 17,000 troops from Lebanon and cease the Syrian "occupation" of its neighbor. Washington also seeks an end to Syrian support for Palestinian militants and greater efforts to prevent anti-American guerrillas from entering Iraq. Analysts expect pressure on Damascus to continue to build, with possible Israeli strikes in Syria, as the Bush administration seeks to carry through on its plans to reshape the political landscape of the Middle East.
  • ANGOLA: Cabinda separatists merge to negotiate with government IRIN 08 Sep 2004 -- Separatists waging a low-intensity struggle against Angolan troops for control of oil-rich Cabinda have merged in a bid to engage the authorities in dialogue over the future status of the troubled province.
  • BURUNDI: Army denies complacency during attack on refugees IRIN 08 Sep 2004 -- The Burundian army denied on Wednesday that troops stood idly by as local and foreign rebels killed at least 152 Congolese Tutsis at the Gatumba refugee camp inside Burundi's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
  • LIBERIA: Disarmament finally begins in Lofa county IRIN 08 Sep 2004 -- The United Nations opened a new disarmament centre for former fighters of the LURD rebel group at Voinjama in the remote northwest of Liberia on Wednesday, but reiterated that it would wind up its nationwide disarmament programme by the end of October.
  • SIERRA LEONE / SPECIAL COURT VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- The watchdog group, Human Rights Watch, says it is concerned by the lack of funding for the U.N.-backed war-crimes court in Sierra Leone.
  • UN/SUDAN RESOLUTION VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- The United States is asking the U.N. Security Council to step up pressure on Sudan to protect civilians in Darfur. A new U.S.-sponsored draft resolution threatens sanctions against the Khartoum government if it fails to comply.
  • INDIA/NEPAL/MAOISTS VOA 08 Sep 2004 -- Indian airlines have stepped up security on flights connecting with Nepal after a tip that Maoist rebels are planning to hijack an Indian airplane. Nepal's prime minister begins a visit to New Delhi to ask for help in dealing with the rebellion.

News Reports

  • The Boeing Company Announces Major Commercial Satellite Contract Boeing 08 Sep 2004 -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] announced today it received a contract by DIRECTV to build three Boeing 702 model satellites. These spacecraft will provide DIRECTV with unprecedented national and local broadcast coverage in High Definition Television (HDTV).
  • Northrop Grumman to Help NASA Define Space Exploration Architecture Northrop Grumman 08 Sep 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been selected by NASA to help define the architecture of space transportation systems that will allow astronauts to travel initially to the moon, and later to Mars and beyond during the next few decades.



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