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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 10 Sep 2004 [PDF]
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• U.S. MARINES PREVENT CONSTRUCTION OF FIGHTING POSITIONS IN FALLUJAH CENTCOM 10 Sep 2004 -- At about 11:50 a.m., Marines destroyed earthmoving equipment that was being used by anti-Iraqi forces to prepare fighting positions near the city.
• MULTI-NATIONAL FORCES, IRAQI NATIONAL GUARD CONTINUE OPERATIONS IN TAL AFAR CENTCOM 10 Sep 2004 -- Multi-National Forces from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) and the Iraqi National Guard continued operations in Tal Afar Sept. 9. In other operations in northern Iraq, Soldiers detained 15 people suspected of anti-Iraqi activities and foiled a roadside bomb attack.
• IRAQI SECURITY FORCES AND MARINES DETAIN 17 AND FIND WEAPONS CENTCOM 10 Sep 2004 -- Iraqi security forces, assisted by Marines from the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, conducted a cordon-and-search operation in Haswah today as part of an ongoing effort to disrupt criminal and other anti-Iraqi activity in Northern Babil Province.
• SEABEES WORK WITH IRAQIS ON BERTHING FACILITY CENTCOM 10 Sep 2004 -- The Seabees of Naval Mobile Construction Battalion Fourteen (NMCB-14) are supplying engineering and quality control to a project awarded to a Turkish contractor who hires Iraqi workers using materials that come from Kuwait and Jordan, making this a truly multinational project.
• U.S. Forces Carry Out Operations In Three Iraqi Cities RFE/RL 10 Sep 2004 -- United States military forces have been carrying out operations targeting insurgents in three Iraqi cities.
• 'Greyhawks' return home after trial by fire USMC News 10 Sep 2004 -- Lt. Col. David W. Coffman, commanding officer of Marine Medium Helicopter Squadron 161, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, and squadron Sgt. Maj. Charles L. Booker, cased their squadron colors and the Stars and Stripes at their headquarters building here Sept. 2.

• Civil-Military Missions Helping Win War on Terrorism AFPS 10 Sep 2004 -- In some of the most remote areas in Afghanistan, things are changing. Civil-military missions are taking medical assistance and resources for rebuilding to places like Shah Wali Kot, presenting a different approach to driving back the enemy and gaining the confidence of local villagers.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Department of Defense Statement on Seymour Hersh Book 10 Sep 2004 -- Based on media inquiries, it appears that Mr. Seymor Hersh's upcoming book apparently contains many of the numerous unsubstantiated allegations and inaccuracies which he has made in the past based upon unnamed sources.
• Transcript: Secretary Rumsfeld's Speech at the National Press Club 10 Sep 2004 -- Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
• Logistics transformation roadmap takes shape AFPN 10 Sep 2004 -- In less than 18 months, Air Force officials are seeing the benefits of "eLog21," the service's logistics plan for the new century.
• Carrier Strike Group Staffs Renamed Navy NewsStand 10 Sep 2004 -- Under the Navy's newest initiative, Cruiser-Destroyer and Carrier Groups will now be designated as Carrier Strike Groups (CSG) and aligned directly under the numbered fleet commanders. This realignment gives key operational leaders authority and direct access to the people needed to more effectively accomplish the Navy's mission.
• USS Chung-Hoon Arrives in Pearl Harbor Navy NewsStand 10 Sep 2004 -- The Navy's newest ship, the guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93), arrived Sept. 10 at her new homeport of Naval Station Pearl Harbor.
• No Religious, Political Justification for Terrorism, Powell Says Washington File 10 Sep 2004 -- Terrorists reject democracy, reject openness and have "abandoned civilized means" of making their opinions known through the killing of innocent people, according to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
• Exercise Planners: Failure Now Could Mean Success Later AFPS 10 Sep 2004 -- No one wants to fail. But sometimes, failure in the present can lead to success in the future. At least that is how Marine Col. Gene Pino sees it.

• UN: Russian Statement On Preemption Revives Focus On UN Role RFE/RL 10 Sep 2004 -- Russia's assertion of the right to launch preventive attacks against terrorists outside the country has raised new questions about whether the war on terror is eroding international law. The UN Charter permits states to act in self-defense in the event of attack. But following policy shifts by Russia and the United States, UN experts say there is need for more clarification on the issue of preemptive strikes. A UN expert group formed after the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq is expected to issue recommendations soon on the matter.

• Indian Cabinet gives a go ahead for revival of AWACS project IRNA 10 Sep 2004 -- Five years after a setback to its indigenous Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) program, Indian Cabinet Committee on Security (CCS) gave the go ahead for the revival of the project setting a timeframe of seven years for its development at a cost of Rs 18 billion.
• EAST AFRICA: Eleven nations to provide troops to AU Standby Force IRIN 10 Sep 2004 -- A 3,000-strong East African brigade will soon be on standby to carry out peacekeeping operations under the flag of the African Union (AU). Defense chiefs from 11 nations agreed on Friday in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, to set up the unit.

• State Department Noon Briefing, September 10 Washington File 10 Sep 2004 -- Iran, Sudan, Grenada, Nepal, India, Japan, Guantanamo/detainee released, al-Zawahiri tape, North Korea, China/Hong Kong
• White House Daily Briefing, September 10 Washington File 10 Sep 2004 -- White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan briefed reporters on Air Force One September 10 as they accompanied President Bush on a trip to Huntington, West Virginia.

Defense Industry

• Team US101 Announces 11 Ohio And West Virginia Suppliers to Support Next Marine One Helicopter Lockheed Martin 10 Sep 2004 -- Team US101 has announced that 11 companies in Ohio and West Virginia will supply components to the American-built US101 medium-lift helicopter. Team US101 is competing to provide the president of the United States with a fleet of next-generation helicopters better known by their call-sign: “Marine One.”
• Northrop Grumman-built New York (LPD 21) Represents Nation's Resolve to Never Forget Northrop Grumman 10 Sep 2004 -- In describing the Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC)-built amphibious transport dock ship New York (LPD 21) and her sister ships today, U.S. Navy Secretary Gordon England said, "These ships...these champions of freedom, stand for life, liberty and the pursuit of all who threaten it and will ensure that we will never forget 9/11."
• U.S. Air Force Selects Northrop Grumman Team for E-10A Battle Management Contract Northrop Grumman 10 Sep 2004 -- The U.S. Air Force has selected a Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC)-led team to develop the service's E-10A aircraft's Battle Management Command and Control (BMC2) subsystem, one of the most important programs in the development of Joint Network Centric Warfare in this decade.
• Northrop Grumman's Maritime Security Cutter Represents First New Multi-mission U.S. Coast Guard Ship Built in Past 25 Years Northrop Grumman 10 Sep 2004 -- U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Patrick Stillman, program executive officer for the Integrated Deepwater System, said the first Maritime Security Cutter, Large (WMSL 750) which began construction yesterday at Northrop Grumman Corporation's (NYSE:NOC) shipyard will permit the Coast Guard "to attend to the national security efforts with rigor and diligence that far exceeds the capability and capacity of your Coast Guard today."

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 10 Sep 2004
• World: What Constitutes Genocide Under International Law, And How Are Prosecutions Evolving? RFE/RL 10 Sep 2004 -- The U.S. government yesterday called what is happening in Sudan's western region of Darfur "genocide" for the first time. "When we reviewed the evidence compiled by our team and then put it beside other information available to the State Department and widely known throughout the international community -- widely reported upon by the media and by others -- we concluded, I concluded, that genocide has been committed in Darfur and that the government of Sudan and the Janjawid [pro-government Arab militias] bear responsibility and that genocide may still be occurring," U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But what constitutes genocide under international law, and how is the process of prosecuting such crimes changing?

• U.S. Presents New Resolution on Darfur to U.N. Security Council Washington File 10 Sep 2004 -- The United States September 9 formally presented to members of the Security Council a draft resolution on Sudan that asks the United Nations to establish an international commission to investigate whether acts of genocide have occurred in Darfur. The United States also endorsed an expanded, "proactive" monitoring of the situation by the African Union (AU).
• NIGERIA: Over 100 killed in month of violence in Port Harcourt IRIN 10 Sep 2004 -- At least 100 people have been killed and more than 6,000 displaced from their homes in Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt as a result of gang violence over the past month and attempts by the security forces to suppress it, a local human rights group said on Friday.
• NIGERIA-SUDAN: US genocide declaration casts shadow over Darfur talks IRIN 10 Sep 2004 -- Peace talks between the Sudanese government and rebels in its western Darfur region were adjourned on Friday as both sides pondered the implication of a US government declaration that genocide had been committed in Darfur.
• TURKEY/KURDS VOA 10 Sep 2004 -- Turkish security forces killed four Kurdish rebels and lost three of their own in four days of clashes in the predominantly Kurdish province of Siirt.
• INDIA/NEPAL MAOISTS VOA 10 Sep 2004 -- India has agreed to upgrade its security assistance to help Nepal fight an increasingly violent communist insurgency. The Nepalese Prime Minister has made it clear his country cannot quell the eight-year-old Maoist rebellion without India's help.
• ISRAEL / PALESTINIANS VOA 10 Sep 2004 -- An Israeli helicopter gunship fired a missile into a Gaza refugee camp, killing one militant and wounding a number of other people, while Palestinian militants fired more rockets into southern Israel.
• ISRAEL SETTLEMENTS VOA 10 Sep 2004 -- A large number of prominent Israeli hard-liners are describing Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's plan to dismantle Jewish settlements in Gaza and a small portion of the West Bank as a "crime against humanity." And, as tensions increase over the plan, some are saying the country risks civil war.
• SUDAN: Government denies US description of Darfur conflict as genocide IRIN 10 Sep 2004 -- The Sudanese government has rejected the description by the United States of the conflict in Sudan's western region of Darfur as genocide, and accused Washington of exploiting a humanitarian crisis for political gain.
• BESLAN TRAGEDY: 'RUSSIA'S 9/11' US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 10 Sep 2004

News Reports

• ZIMBABWE/LEGAL VOA 10 Sep 2004 -- Simon Mann, the purported leader of a mercenary group accused of plotting to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, was sentenced to seven years in prison in Zimbabwe Friday on weapons charges. Most of the rest of the suspected mercenaries were sentenced to spend a year in prison for breaking immigration and aviation laws.
• C-A-R / MERCENARY PLOT VOA 10 Sep 2004 -- The president of the Central African Republic says he suspects a merecenary plot to remove him from power.
• PRESS BRIEFING ON DPI/NGO CONFERENCE United Nations 10 Sep 2004
• Orbital Selected By NASA For $6 Million Lunar Exploration Study Contract Orbital Sciences Corp. 10 Sep 2004 -- Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE: ORB) today announced that it was awarded a one-year contract, worth up to $6 million, by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to perform a Concept Exploration and Refinement (CE&R) study for human lunar exploration systems and the development of the crew exploration vehicle..