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• Iraqi Forces Find Weapons in Sadr's Office Near Shrine AFPS 11 Sep 2004 -- Iraqi police and the Iraqi Intervention Force found hundreds of illegal weapons hidden in secret rooms in the Najaf office of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Sept. 9, according to a statement released by Multinational Force Iraq today on behalf of Iraq's interior ministry.
• US repositions more fighter jets from Germany to Iraq: DPA IRNA 11 Sep 2004 -- The US military has relocated more fighter jets, among them at least a dozen A-10 bombers, from its air force base in Spangdahlem in Germany to Iraq, DPA reported Saturday.
• IRAQ OFFENSIVE VOA 11 Sep 2004 -- A senior Iraqi official has announced a new nationwide offensive against insurgents. The declaration comes as a bomb was detonated outside the U.S. consulate in the southern city of Basra, killing at least one.
• HUGE ILLEGAL WEAPONS CACHE FOUND IN AL-SADR'S NAJAF OFFICE CENTCOM 11 Sep 2004 -- The Iraqi Police and the Iraqi Intervention Force found hundreds of illegal weapons hidden in secret rooms in Muqtada al-Sadr's Najaf office Thursday.
• Reserve Marine squadron uses GPS parachutes in Iraq USMC News 11 Sep 2004 -- Reservists with Marine Aerial Refueler Transport Squadron 452, Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, are putting a new cargo parachute system to the test during combat operations here.

• Afghan Government In Talks With Taliban RFE/RL 11 Sep 2004 -- On the third anniversary of the 11 September 2001 terror attacks in the United States, the U.S. military said support for the ousted Taliban regime is waning.
• Afghan Governor Rejects Promotion To Ministry RFE/RL 11 Sep 2004 -- Powerful Afghan commander Ismail Khan today refused the government position offered by Afghan Interim Administration Chairman Hamid Karzai but accepted his dismissal as governor of Herat province.
• AFGHANISTAN POLITICS VOA 11 Sep 2004 -- Afghanistan's interim President Hamid Karzai has removed two provincial governors - including a powerful regional warlord - in a bid to consolidate the central government's authority. The move comes less than a month before landmark presidential elections on October 9th.
• AFGHANISTAN / TERRORISM VOA 11 Sep 2004 -- The U.S. military says that insurgents linked to Afghanistan's ousted Taleban regime and its allies are no longer a significant security threat to Afghanistan. The announcement comes weeks before the country's historic elections.

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Defense Industry

• BAE SYSTEMS Agrees To Acquire Digitalnet BAE Systems 11 Sep 2004 -- Acquisition will expand companys capabilities in managed information technology, information assurance, and network engineering

Other Conflicts

• CONGO/FIGHTING VOA 11 Sep 2004 -- Congolese government forces have launched fresh offensive against rebels still controlling large parts of the east of the country. There are no figures for casualties, but the United Nations says one town has been retaken and they army says it will continue until a dissident army officer is neutralized.
• RUSSIA / PROBE VOA 11 Sep 2004 -- Russian President Vladimir Putin reversed an earlier stand and has agreed to allow the upper house of Parliament to investigate the recent hostage-taking attack on a school in southern Russia. Close to 340 hostages died in the siege, almost half of them school-children.

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