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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 14 Sep 2004 [PDF]
• SOLDIERS KILLED IN BAGHDAD / MNF-I/MNC-I Release
• ONE TASK FORCE OLYMPIA SOLDIER DEAD, FIVE WOUNDED DURING ATTACK
• DoD Identifies Navy Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• IRAQI SECURITY FORCES, MULTI-NATIONAL FORCES FOIL ROADSIDE BOMB CENTCOM 14 Sep 2004 -- Iraqi Security forces and Multi-National Forces from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) foiled a roadside bomb attack and discovered a variety of weapons and munitions Sept. 13 in northern Iraq.
• IRAQ WRAP VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- A car bomb has killed at least 47 people in the Iraqi capital, while an attack on an oil pipeline in the north left much of the country without power.
• IRAQ BOMB VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- A car-bomb detonated at a Baghdad police station, killed at least 35 people and injured scores more. Many of the victims were recruits signing up for jobs as police officers, others were shoppers at a nearby market.
• Explosion Rocks Central Baghdad RFE/RL 14 Sep 2004 -- Iraq's Health Ministry says a car bomb blast that tore through a crowded marketplace in central Baghdad killed at least 47 people and wounded over 100 others.
• U.S., Kuwait and Australia Combine Forces for EOD Operation Navy NewsStand 14 Sep 2004 -- Members of Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Mobile Unit 3, Det. 11 assigned to Commander, Amphibious Squadron (CPR) 5, along with members of the Australian and Kuwaiti navies, took part in a combined training exercise Sept. 4 in Kuwaiti territorial waters.
• Airborne guardians: HMLA-169 escort missions support convoy operations USMC News 14 Sep 2004 -- The belief in guardian angels can be traced back throughout antiquity. From Babylonian and Assyrian monuments, to the Bible and more modern times, their mission has been to serve as protectors, with a special charge to deliver others from danger.
• 3rd MAW Marines amplify security after contraband detection USMC News 14 Sep 2004 -- During a routine gate inspection here Sept. 10, 4th Low-Altitude Air Defense Battalion Marines and reservist augments working with Security Battalion, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, discovered five Iraqi nationals leaving base with contraband in their possession.

• Afghanistan: Asian ECO Leaders Create Reconstruction Fund RFE/RL 14 Sep 2004 -- Asian political leaders have created a special fund to help Afghanistan with priority reconstruction projects. The fund was announced today as heads of state from 10 countries in the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) gathered in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. On the sidelines of the summit, the presidents of Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan have been talking about a proposed highway project that could become a major trade route for their countries.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Transcript: Secretary Rumsfeld Media Availability at Ft. Campbell, Kentucky 14 Sep 2004 -- Q: Secretary, Secretary Powell -- Secretary of State Powell, recently on NBC's "Meet the Press" said that he found - wanted to set the record straight once and for all. There were no weapons of mass destruction and he found no correlation between 9/11 and the former Iraqi regime. My question to you, sir, is do you agree with that statement?
  SEC. RUMSFELD: Yes. (...) But it's a clear fact that the deposits of weapons of mass destruction have not been found since the end of the war - end of the major combat operations.

• GW Makes Successful Return to Sea Navy NewsStand 14 Sep 2004 -- USS George Washington (CVN 73) (GW) Sailors returned to sea Sept. 13 to perform carrier qualifications, conduct training drills and fine tune their warfighting skills, in order to keep the surge carrier in top form if the need to deploy should arise.
• Fleet ASW Focuses on Fleet Training Navy NewsStand 14 Sep 2004 -- Fleet Anti-submarine Warfare Command (FLTASWCOM) began training its Sailors and civilians in June to integrate the antisubmarine warfare (ASW) concept, readying them to take this expertise to the fleet later this year.
• Squadron 'cleans house' to build new home AFPN 14 Sep 2004 -- Stepping out of the sweltering heat into the cool shadows of hardened aircraft shelter No. 21, many visitors might notice the new paint on the walls or the freshly swept floors and the spacious room.
• Stennis Fighters Go Head-to-Head with MiG 29s in the Pacific Navy NewsStand 14 Sep 2004 -- Soviet-designed MiG-29s flew against F/A-18C Hornets, F/A-18E Super Hornets and F-14D Super Tomcats Sept. 7 during joint air-to-air combat exercises over the South China Sea.
• Radio ID Tagging Aims to Improve Military Logistics AFPS 14 Sep 2004 -- Across-the-board use of high-tech inventory- tracking tags for military shipments should benefit both warfighters and the bottom line, senior U.S. officials said here today.
• Urban Warfare, Jointness Raise New Challenges for Rescue AFPS 14 Sep 2004 -- Urban warfare - fighting from street to street, building to building -- makes it extremely difficult for rescue teams to extract American combatants who are isolated behind enemy lines, said DoD's top official for prisoner of war and missing personnel affairs.
• American Impatience Strength and Weakness, Deputy Says AFPS 14 Sep 2004 -- Americans are an impatient people, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said, adding that this is both strength and a weakness.

• SOMALIA/AFRICA PEACEKEEPERS VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- A spokesman for the former, but little-recognized, Somali government is confident Somalia's new government will uphold a pledge of troops and equipment to the African Union's standby peacekeeping force.

• U.S. Confident in Six-Party Framework with N. Korea, Powell Says Washington File 14 Sep 2004 -- Secretary also discusses South Korea, Iran, Russia, Sudan, and Iraq
• State Department Noon Briefing, September 14 Washington File 14 Sep 2004 -- Iraq, Turkey, Russia, Israel/Palestinians, Egypt, Cyprus, Syria, North Korea, Iran, Secretary's Senate Foreign Relations Committee Testimony Cancelled, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Sudan, Nepal

Defense Industry

• BAE SYSTEMS Begin Cooperation With Kaman On Maritime Helicopter Package BAE Systems 14 Sep 2004 -- BAE Systems Avionics Group and Kaman Aerospace Corporation have begun cooperation to provide a low-cost, high-capability intermediate maritime helicopter package based on Kamans SH-2G Super Seasprite and BAE Systems mission system and sensor suite. Initial efforts will be focussed on NATO interoperable communications and navigation systems, autonomous self-protection suites, sensor and target acquisition packages that will enhance situational awareness, as well as a range of anti-submarine and anti-surface weapons. The resulting aircraft will provide the worldwide Naval Aviation community with the ideal combination of proven systems and proven aircraft.
• U.S. Army Selects General Dynamics-Lockheed Martin Team for Combined WIN-T Approach General Dynamics 14 Sep 2004 -- The U.S. Army today announced that it has revised its acquisition strategy for the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) program. The Army will modify the current contracts held by General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) to enable the two contractors to work together on meeting the tactical networking needs of both the current and future forces.
• General Dynamics Awarded Defense Contract for Engineering Services General Dynamics 14 Sep 2004 -- General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems has been selected by the Defense Microelectronics Activity (DMEA) to provide engineering services under the Advanced Technology Support Program III. The indefinite delivery / indefinite quantity multiple-award contract has a maximum potential value of $4.7 billion over 15 years if all options are exercised. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems is a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD). The award was announced by the Department of Defense on Sept. 8.
• Precision, Environmental Sensitivity are Hallmarks of New F-35 Robotic Coatings Facility at Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin 14 Sep 2004 -- An 82,000-square-foot facility that will employ advanced robots to apply precisely measured coatings to F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) components also will set new standards for environmental friendliness.
• With Weight Issues Resolved, F-35 Focus Turns to Production Lockheed Martin 14 Sep 2004 -- Engineers have removed more than 2,700 pounds (1,225 kilograms) of unwanted estimated weight from the short-takeoff/vertical-landing (STOVL) version of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, while increasing propulsion efficiency and reducing drag. The result is an F-35 JSF design recommendation that is expected to meet or exceed all of its performance requirements.
• U.S. Army Selects General Dynamics - Lockheed Martin Team for Warfighter Information Network - Tactical Program Lockheed Martin 14 Sep 2004 -- The U.S. Army today announced that it has revised the acquisition strategy for the Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) program. Industry teams led by General Dynamics [NYSE: GD] and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] have now begun the process of creating a combined effort under the revised strategy. The program could potentially be worth as much as $10 billion over its total lifecycle. Combining both teams now brings a “best of breed” approach to the program and enables the Army to better synchronize WIN-T with current and future transformation programs.
• Northrop Grumman to Offer RainStorm Advanced Precision Targeting System Northrop Grumman 14 Sep 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) has released a new software product called RainStorm that will locate and pinpoint targets for precision-guided munitions with unprecedented speed and accuracy. RainStorm is used on the personal computers and UNIX systems in command and control centers and networks worldwide and is the follow-on to RainDrop, which is currently the most widely used precise positioning system in the Department of Defense.
• Raytheon and EADS Space Transportation Sign Cooperative Agreement for Ballistic Missile Defense Interceptors EADS 14 Sep 2004 -- Raytheon Company and EADS SPACE Transportation have signed a cooperative agreement to begin collaborating on ballistic missile defense (BMD) interceptor programs in Europe, the United States and around the world.
• Raytheon, EADS ST Sign Cooperative Agreement for Ballistic Missile Defense Interceptors Raytheon 14 Sep 2004 -- Raytheon Company and EADS SPACE Transportation have signed a cooperative agreement to begin collaborating on ballistic missile defense (BMD) interceptor programs in Europe, the United States and around the world.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 14 Sep 2004
• UN/SUDAN SANCTIONS VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- The United States has resubmitted a draft U.N. Security Council resolution threatening sanctions against Sudan's oil industry. The re-write is designed to win broader backing for the measure, which drew strong opposition when it was circulated last week. But the revised version retains tough language that prompted a veto threat from China.
• SUDAN: Thousands of IDPs dying every month - WHO IRIN 14 Sep 2004 -- Between 6,000 to 10,000 of an estimated 1.2 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur are dying every month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Monday. Many of those who die are children aged five and under, it added.
• Sudan: UN agencies and aid partners discuss how to speed up relief in Darfur UN News Centre 14 Sep 2004 -- Senior officials at United Nations humanitarian agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) met this morning to discuss how to accelerate their relief efforts in the wake of a World Health Organization (WHO) report showing that hundreds of people are dying every day in Sudan's strife-torn Darfur region.
• Genocide "Embedded" in Sudan's War Strategy, Garang Says Washington File 14 Sep 2004 -- Sudanese rebel leader John Garang says the violence by government- supported militias called Jingaweit in Darfur is the logical conclusion to a method of waging civil war that has genocide at its very core.
• SUDAN/DARFUR VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- After months of waiting for permission from Sudan's government, a senior Amnesty International official has begun a week-long tour of the country's war-torn Darfur region.

• ISRAEL / GAZA DISENGAGEMENT VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- Israel's Security Cabinet has approved compensation payments for Jewish settlers who will be removed from their homes under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's Gaza disengagement plan.
• ISRAEL / SYRIA VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he rebuffed a U.S. effort last year to restart peace talks with Syria. He made the surprise revelation during an interview published today in a leading Israeli newspaper.

• UN RESOLUTION 1559: A BLOW TO SYRIAN 'BULLYING' AND 'MEDDLING' US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 14 Sep 2004
• UN/LIBERIA VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- According to some human rights advocates, the United Nations needs to do more to ensure lasting peace in Liberia. Longtime activist Kerry Kennedy says the disarmament process will not succeed unless the root economic causes of the decades-long civil war are addressed.
• DRC: Government troops seize rebel stronghold, general says IRIN 14 Sep 2004 -- Government troops in the Democratic Republic of Congo captured on Monday the town of Minova, the stronghold of dissident soldiers in the eastern province of South Kivu, a high-ranking officer told IRIN.
• Security Council extends UN mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea another 6 months UN News Centre 14 Sep 2004 -- With the stalemate in the peace process between Ethiopia and Eritrea ongoing, the Security Council today extended for another six months the United Nations peacekeeping operation overseeing the ceasefire between the two Horn of Africa neighbours.
• BRITAIN / CHECHNYA VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- A senior Chechen envoy is calling for the international community to pressure Russia into negotiations with Chechnya, saying more tragedies like the Beslan school siege could result if the Caucasus region continues to radicalize. Akhmed Zakayev spoke at a news conference in London, where he lives in exile.
• NEPAL US SECURITY VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- The U.S. Ambassador to Nepal is urging Washington to allow families of U.S. officials in Kathmandu to return home days after an American cultural center was bombed by suspected Maoist rebels.

News Reports

• BURMA FOOD AID VOA 14 Sep 2004 -- A senior United Nations World Food Program official is criticizing Burma's agricultural and economic policies, saying they are causing malnutrition in one third of children under age five