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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 09 Sep 2004 [PDF]
• 1ST FIRST INFANTRY DIVISION SOLDIER DIES, SEVEN SOLDIERS INJURED IN VEHICLE ACCIDENT
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• IRAQ AIR STRIKES VOA 09 Sep 2004 -- U.S. forces in Iraq have carried out more attacks in areas of the country controlled by insurgents, including what they say is a hideout used by supporters of suspected terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. The stepped up activity in Iraq's Sunni triangle follows what the Pentagon says have been increasingly sophisticated attacks by insurgents that have left nearly 20 Americans dead this week alone.
• ISF AND MULTI-NATIONAL FORCES CONTINUE OPERATIONS IN TAL AFAR CENTCOM 09 Sep 2004 -- Operations in Tal Afar continue today, as Iraqi Security forces and Multi-National Forces work to remove the terrorist threat that has forced hundreds of people from their homes.
• IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, MULTI-NATIONAL FORCES INITIATE OPERATIONS IN TAL AFAR CENTCOM 09 Sep 2004 -- Multi-National Forces and Iraqi Security forces initiated operations to restore control of Tal Afar to legitimate Iraqi government officials. The operation comes after MNF and Iraqi Security forces were repeatedly attacked by a large terrorist element that has displaced local Iraqi Security forces throughout the recent weeks.
• ISF, MULTI-NATIONAL FORCES DETAIN SIX, FOIL ROADSIDE BOMB, COLLECT WEAPONS CENTCOM 09 Sep 2004 -- Iraqi Security forces and Multi-National Forces from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) detained six people suspected of anti-Iraqi activities, foiled a roadside bomb attack and discovered a variety of weapons and munitions Sept. 9 in northern Iraq.
• IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, MULTI-NATIONAL FORCES - IRAQ ENTER SAMARRA CENTCOM 09 Sep 2004 -- Iraqi Security Forces partnered with Multi-National Forces and entered Samarra at about 10 a.m. Sept. 9 to reseat the city council leadership and conduct an assessment of the police stations.
• Nearly 20 Killed In Fighting In Tal Afar, Al-Fallujah RFE/RL 09 Sep 2004 -- Doctors in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar say at least 17 people were killed overnight and more than 50 wounded in fighting between insurgents and U.S. and Iraqi forces.
• Marines, Soldiers team up to battle insurgents, destroy weapons cache USMC News 09 Sep 2004 -- Following an insurgent improvised explosive device attack on coalition forces here Sept. 3, Marines and Soldiers killed two insurgents and captured four others during operations to destroy a suspected weapons cache.
• Officers Cite Overwhelming Iraqi Support for U.S. Forces AFPS 09 Sep 2004 -- More than 90 percent of the Iraqi people support the efforts of U.S. forces in their war-torn country, a panel of Army and Marine field commanders told the House Armed Services Committee here Sept. 8.
• Marines repair flight equipment in Iraq USMC News 09 Sep 2004 -- While in Iraq, the Marine Corps has been taking advantage of their air superiority in the fight against terrorism.

• Pakistan military confirms killing 50 armed foreigners IRNA 09 Sep 2004 -- Pakistan military and official media confirmed the death of some 50 armed foreigners in a raid by fighter planes in the country`s tribal region close to Afghan border on Thursday.
• PAKISTAN/OFFENSIVE VOA 09 Sep 2004 -- Pakistan says it has destroyed a suspected training facility for foreign militants near the Afghan border. Military officials say 50 people died in the attack.
• Afghanistan: UN mission raps attack on aid workers and government response UN News Centre 09 Sep 2004 -- The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) today condemned an attack earlier this week against a local office of a non-governmental organization (NGO) that left 10 staff wounded and also criticized provincial authorities for not doing more to protect aid workers.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Rumsfeld: Ending Terrorism Could Take Long Time AFPS 09 Sep 2004 -- The world will know the war on terror is over when terrorism goes the way of piracy and slavery -- it will become so socially unacceptable terrorists will find no safe havens in the world, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said here Sept. 8.
• Navy Honors Sept. 11 by Naming New Ships for Arlington and Somerset 09 Sep 2004 -- Secretary of the Navy Gordon England named the eighth and ninth ships of the San Antonio-class of Amphibious Transport Dock ships as Arlington and Somerset.
• Commander Named for Sexual Assault Task Force 09 Sep 2004 -- Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness David S.C. Chu announced today the selection of Air Force Brig. Gen. K.C. McClain as the commander of the Joint Task Force for Sexual Assault Prevention and Response.
• Reserve Component Readiness Highest Ever AFPS 09 Sep 2004 -- The state of readiness among today's reserve- component forces is higher than it has been in the nation's history, the official responsible for equipping and training those forces said today.
• Radar techs keep combat zone airspace safe AFPN 09 Sep 2004 -- The sky over here is filled with aircraft around the clock -- A-10 Thunderbolt IIs share airspace with cargo aircraft and helicopters.
• Benning training mobilized IRR Soldiers Army News 09 Sep 2004 -- When the Army announced its plans to order 5,600 Soldiers in the Individual Ready Reserve to active duty for possible deployment with the next Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom rotations July 1, Fort Benning units were already working out ways to train those Soldiers.
• USS Connecticut Returns From Historic Deployment Navy NewsStand 09 Sep 2004 -- With Thin Lizzy's "The Boys are Back in Town," blasting through a pair of loudspeakers, USS Connecticut (SSN 22) pulled into Naval Submarine Base New London Sept. 2 after completing a nearly six-month deployment.
• 22nd MEU (SOC) wraps up wash down, begins last leg of voyage home USMC News 09 Sep 2004 -- After a week of nearly non-stop effort at Naval Station Rota, Spain, the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) has completed its wash down and agricultural inspections and is headed home.

• White House Daily Briefing, September 9 Washington File 09 Sep 2004 -- White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan briefed reporters September 9 as they accompanied President Bush to Colmar, Pennsylvania

Defense Industry

• Romanian Type 22 Frigate Commissioned BAE Systems 09 Sep 2004 -- Regele Ferdinand, the first of two ex-Royal Navy Type 22 frigates being regenerated and modernised by a BAE Systems-led team for the Romanian Navy, was officially named and commissioned at Portsmouth today.
• Lockheed Martin Delivers Newest C-130J Super Hercules to 146th Airlift Wing; Sixth Decade of Airlift Excellence Begins Lockheed Martin 09 Sep 2004 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] delivered its 2,268th C-130 Hercules airlifter yesterday, continuing the longest, continuous, active military aircraft production line in history.
• Northrop Grumman Awarded $388 Million Contract for Next Phase of B-2 Bomber's Radar Modernization Northrop Grumman 09 Sep 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has been awarded a $388 million contract by the U.S. Air Force for the next phase of a program to modernize the B-2 radar system. This program continues the efforts of the Air Force and Northrop Grumman to enhance the stealth bomber's ability to operate as part of the military's increasingly integrated force structure.
• Raytheon to be Awarded Contract to Add Active Array to B-2 Bomber Radar Raytheon 09 Sep 2004 -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been notified it will be awarded a contract to modernize the radar system on the U.S. Air Force's B-2 "Spirit" stealth bomber with the addition of a new Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) antenna. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems (SAS) is the primary subcontractor on the B-2 Radar Modernization Program (RMP) for prime contractor Northrop Grumman Corporation, which will award the contract.
• U.S. Army -- Northrop Grumman Team Demonstrates Network-Centric Operations With Spiral 2 of Distributed Common Ground System -- Army Northrop Grumman 09 Sep 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Army have demonstrated the first mobile operational deployment of the Department of Defense's Distributed Common Ground System -- Army (DCGS-A), which will greatly advance open-system, multi-intelligence data sharing and interoperability among the United States' armed services.
• Boeing and MBDA Announce Missile Defense Partnership Boeing 09 Sep 2004 -- Boeing [NYSE:BA] and European weapons manufacturer MBDA have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop a cooperative relationship in the area of global missile defense.
• Paradigm signs first export contract for satcom services EADS 09 Sep 2004 -- Paradigm Secure Communications Ltd., has today signed its first export agreement to deliver military satellite communications services to the Portuguese Chief of Defence (CHOD).
• Navy Taps Raytheon to Develop SCA-compliant Multi-band SATCOM Terminal, Waveforms Under $23.3 Million Contract Extension Raytheon 09 Sep 2004 -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has received a $23.3 million addition to its Navy Multi-band Terminal (NMT) contract that was awarded in October 2003. The modified effort takes the original contract's value for the initial phase of development of the terminal from $61 million to $87 million.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 09 Sep 2004
• United States introduces draft resolution on Sudan crisis in Security Council UN News Centre 09 Sep 2004 -- The United States said it has received a "very positive" response in the Security Council today after circulating a draft resolution aimed at ameliorating the security and humanitarian crises engulfing the Darfur region of Sudan.
• No New U.S. Action Dictated by Finding of Genocide in Darfur Washington File 09 Sep 2004 -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin L. Powell made it official September 9: the government of Sudan and its cohorts, the Jingaweit militias, have committed and are committing genocide in Darfur.
• KERRY-DARFUR VOA 09 Sep 2004 -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that the United States should take the lead role in ensuring the immediate deployment of an international force to protect civilians in Sudan's western Darfur region. Senator Kerry made the comments in New Orleans
• UN/SUDAN VOA 09 Sep 2004 -- The United States has asked the U.N. Security Council to authorize an international investigation into charges of genocide in Sudan. A U.S. sponsored resolution threatens sanctions against Sudan's oil industry if the Khartoum government fails to stem violence in the Darfur region. The measure is encountering stiff opposition.
• POWELL-GARANG-SUDAN VOA 09 Sep 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell met Thursday with Sudanese southern rebel leader John Garang on efforts to conclude Sudan's north-south peace process. Mr. Garang endorsed Mr. Powell's depiction of violence in Sudan's western Darfur region as genocide.
• Border deadlock jeopardizes Eritrean-Ethiopian ceasefire, Annan reports UN News Centre 09 Sep 2004 -- Eritrea and Ethiopia remain stalemated, and the longer the deadlock continues the greater is the risk that an isolated incident could unravel a truce that ended a fierce border war four years ago, Secretary-General Kofi Annan warns in his latest report on the two Horn of Africa countries.
• SUDAN/POLITICS VOA 09 Sep 2004 -- A senior Sudanese government official says international pressure to bring peace to the war-torn Darfur region of western Sudan may scuttle negotiations to end the violence.
• POWELL-SUDAN-GENOCIDE VOA 09 Sep 2004 -- U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday government-backed Arab militias in Sudan's western Darfur region have committed genocide against the local black African population. In Senate committee testimony, he urged international pressure on Khartoum authorities to rein-in the militiamen and allow deployment of African Union monitors.
• UN: U.S. Seeks More Pressure On Sudan To Stop Darfur Atrocities RFE/RL 09 Sep 2004 -- U.S. officials have circulated a new draft resolution in the UN Security Council that seeks stronger measures to end the rampant human rights abuses still being committed in Sudan. The resolution includes a reference for the first time to sanctions on Sudan's oil trade and a call for bolstering international monitors there. The council is due to discuss the draft today. At the same time, a U.S. State Department report may indicate whether U.S. officials regard the Darfur actions as genocide.

• U.S. Helsinki Commission Condemns Massacre in Beslan, Russia Washington File 09 Sep 2004 -- Members of the U.S. Helsinki Commission have added their voices to those throughout the world that have condemned the terrorist massacre at the school in Beslan in the North Ossetia region of the Russian Federation.
• Russia: Recounting The Beslan Hostage Siege -- A Chronology RFE/RL 09 Sep 2004 -- It has been nearly a week since the end of the hostage crisis in North Ossetia on 3 September. With each passing day, a few new details emerge about what exactly went on in Beslan. But many fundamental questions remain unanswered.

News Reports

• FIRST RETURN TO FLIGHT EXTERNAL TANK RETURNS TO VERTICAL ASSEMBLY BUILDING Lockheed Martin 09 Sep 2004 -- In a major step toward returning the Space Shuttle to flight, Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) loads ET-120, the first Return to Flight External Tank (ET) in Cell A of the Vertical Assembly Building at the NASA Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans where Liquid Hydrogen Tank/Intertank flange closeout work will be completed.