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01 October 2004 Military News

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Current Operations

  • OIF/OEF Casualty Update 01 Oct 2004 [PDF]
  • ONE 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION SOLDIER KILLED
  • DoD Identifies Army Casualty

  • U.S. Troops Enter Samarra, Inflict Heavy Insurgent Losses RFE/RL 01 Oct 2004 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces pushed into the rebel Iraqi stronghold of Samarra today to wrest control of the northern town from insurgents.
  • IRAQ / SAMARRA VOA 01 Oct 2004 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces have pushed into the insurgent stronghold of Samarra, north of Baghdad and taken control of key government buildings and religious sites. U.S. military officials estimate close to 100 insurgents were killed, and say one U.S. soldier was killed and four were wounded.
  • OFFENSIVE OPERATIONS IN SAMARRA CENTCOM 01 Oct 2004 -- In response to repeated and unprovoked attacks by anti-Iraqi forces, Iraqi Security Forces and Multi-National Forces secured the government and police buildings in Samarra early in the morning of October 1 in support of the Iraq Interim Government and the people of Samarra.
  • Joint Iraqi - MNF Operation Commences in Samarra MNF-I/MNC-I 01 Oct 2004 -- About 1,000 Iraqi Security Forces, supported by Soldiers from the 1st Infantry Division are in the process of securing the government and police buildings in Samarra early Oct. 1 at the request of the Interim Iraqi Government and the people of Samarra.
  • U.S. Troops Enter Samarra RFE/RL 10 Oct 2004 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces pushed into the rebel Iraqi stronghold of Samarra today to wrest control of the northern town from insurgents.
  • Army makes progress on IRR mobilization Army News 01 Oct 2004 -- More than 1,100 Soldiers in the Individual Ready Reserve have reported to duty since the Army received its mobilization authority four months ago.

  • Statement by the NATO Secretary General NATO 01 Oct 2004 -- ISAF augmentation in support of Afghanistan's Presidential elections is complete
  • New Provincial Reconstruction Team Broadens Coalition's Efforts AFPS 01 Oct 2004 -- Leadership from the coalition, the U.S. Embassy, the Afghan national government and Farah province gathered at the site of the Farah provincial reconstruction team for its official opening Sept. 15.
  • Agencies Work to Rebuild Afghanistan AFPS 01 Oct 2004 -- Villagers gathered to watch as the first stones were laid for the new road here during a groundbreaking ceremony Sept. 16.
  • RFE/RL Afghanistan Report, Vol 3, Number 35 01 Oct 2004 -- AFGHAN LEADER COUNSELS PATIENCE / HUMAN-RIGHTS GROUP WARNS OF WARLORD INTERFERENCE IN AFGHAN ELECTION... / ...WHILE AFGHAN TRIBE INTIMIDATING MEMBERS INTO VOTING FOR KARZAI... / ...AS NEO-TALIBAN STATEMENT WARNS AFGHANS NOT TO VOTE / UN PEACEKEEPING CHIEF OUTLINES SECURITY PLAN FOR AFGHAN POLLS / KABUL DAILY SAYS OUTCOME OF ELECTIONS 'PREDETERMINED.' / AFGHAN LEADER SAYS ELECTIONS WILL BRING LEGITIMACY... / ...AND REJECTS FORMING COALITION... / KARZAI VISITS NORTHERN AFGHANISTAN TO MEET PRESIDENTIAL RIVAL / PARTY LEADER BACKS KARZAI / QANUNI SETS ELECTION PLATFORM / KARZAI SECURES RELEASE OF U.S. DETAINEES FROM CUBA... / ...AS ONE DEMANDS COMPENSATION... / ...WHILE AFGHAN FORCES KILL NEO-TALIBAN COMMANDER IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN... / ...WHO WAS FORMER U.S. DETAINEE IN CUBA / NEO-TALIBAN INSURGENTS KILL NINE SOLDIERS IN SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN / LIFE IN TWO CULTURES -- AFGHAN CHILDREN IN THE WEST / THIS WEEK IN AFGHANISTAN'S HISTORY

Defense Policy / Programs

  • Bush, Kerry Face Off In First Debate Washington File 01 Oct 2004 -- President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president, faced off on September 30 in the first of three presidential debates.
  • BUSH KERRY DEBATE VOA 01 OCt 2004 -- President Bush and Senator John Kerry sparred over Iraq and other foreign policy issues in the first of their three campaign debates.

  • Transcript: Special Defense Department Briefing 01 Oct 2004 -- Secretary of the Navy Gordon England
  • GUANTANAMO / TORTURE CHARGE VOA 01 Oct 2004 -- A British man detained by the U.S. military as an enemy combatant in the war on terror says he was tortured while held in Afghanistan and claims he saw fellow detainees killed by American soldiers there. The U.S. military is promising an investigation into this latest claim of prisoner abuse.
  • Annual Reviews of Detainee Cases to Begin at Guantanamo AFPS 01 Oct 2004 -- Officials are gearing up to begin the first hearings to determine if enemy-combatant detainees held at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are still a threat or can be released to their home countries.
  • Defense Department Report, October 1: Enemy Combatant Reviews Washington File 01 Oct 2004 -- Navy Secretary Gordon England says the process to review the status of detainees at a U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to see if they should continue to be held as "enemy combatants" ought to be completed by year's end.

  • ARMY LAUNCHES NEW HUMAN RESOURCE CONTRACTING CAPABILITY Army News Release 01 Oct 2004 -- The U.S. Army announced today a program designed to provide contract support to the Army's Human Resource (HR) community. HRsolutions represents a transformational capability enlisting the support of the private sector to meet the Army's manpower and personnel needs.
  • Academy Airmanship operations take flight under AETC AFPN 01 Oct 2004 -- The U.S. Air Force Academy's airmanship operations realigned under the Air Education and Training Command as the newly named 306th Flying Training Group on Oct. 1.
  • Hawaii Creates Largest Naval Security Group Navy NewsStand 01 Oct 2004 -- Naval Security Group Activity Kunia and Naval Security Group Activity Pearl Harbor merged commands in a ceremony Sept. 30 at the USS Nevada Memorial to establish a single Naval Security Group Activity, Hawaii.
  • USS Ticonderoga Decommissioned Navy NewsStand 01 Oct 2004 -- Friends, family members, plankowners and former crew members said farewell to USS Ticonderoga (CG 47), as she was decommissioned in a traditional Navy ceremony at her homeport, Naval Station Pascagoula, Sept. 30.
  • Readiness Training Institute Preps Medical Pros for Battlefield AFPS 01 Oct 2004 -- The best medical skills, honed at the most renowned medical schools, won't do much good in combat if the provider doesn't survive to use them.
  • DoD Hosts First Proliferation Security Initiative Maritime Interdiction Game 01 Oct 2004 -- The Department of Defense announced today that it welcomed operational experts from seventeen countries to the first Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) maritime interdiction game hosted by the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island September 27 through October 1.

  • State Department Noon Briefing, October 1 Washington File 01 Oct 2004 -- Caribbean/hurricane assistance, Iraq, Syria/Lebanon, Israel/Palestinians, North Korea, Sudan, India/Ukraine, OSCE/query on letter to Secretary Powell, Bahrain, Iran
  • White House Daily Briefing, October 1 Washington File 01 Oct 2004 -- Presidential debate, Israel/Gaza Strip, week ahead

Defense Industry

Other Conflicts

  • DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND SPOKESMAN FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT United Nations 01 Oct 2004

  • NIGERIA: Obasanjo pledges to stem tide of militancy in oil-rich Delta IRIN 01 Oct 2004 -- Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said on Friday that he had agreed to discuss the grievances of an ethnic militia group that is threatening to shut down oil production in the southeast of the country, but warned that he would do nothing to undermine the broader national interest.
  • UGANDA: Sporadic clashes in war-ravaged north IRIN 01 Oct 2004 -- Three days of sporadic fighting in war-ravaged northern Uganda between government forces and rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) suggests that the situation in the region is still fragile, religious leaders told IRIN.
  • Chad steps up security at UN camps after three refugees are killed UN News Centre 01 Oct 2004 -- Chadian authorities are tightening security in and around 10 United Nations refugee camps in the east of the country - where more than 200,000 Sudanese people have gathered after fleeing violence in the Darfur region - after three refugees were killed there in the past week amid rising tensions with locals.
  • US / ISRAEL / GAZA VOA 01 Oct 2004 -- The United States expressed regret Friday over civilian casualties from Israel's ongoing military push in the Gaza Strip, urging it to use only "proportional force" in countering attacks by Palestinian militants.
  • ISRAEL/PALESTINIANS VOA 01 Oct 2004 -- Israel has sent reinforcements into Gaza, after the security cabinet approved Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's call for intensifying military operations there. The aim is to stop Palestinian rocket attacks against Jewish settlements and Israeli border towns.
  • SUDAN/PEACE VOA 01 Oct 2004 -- A Kenyan government minister has warned southern Sudanese community leaders not to rely too heavily on donor aid to rebuild and develop their region. The area has been the scene of a 21-year civil war, but a peace agreement is nearly completed. The Kenyan official spoke at the beginning of a three-day conference on what southern Sudan will need if peace is restored.
  • GREAT LAKES: Four more countries join regional conference initiative IRIN 01 Oct 2004 -- Four more countries have been accepted as "core" members to the UN-African Union (AU) International Conference on the Great Lakes region, bringing the number of core countries to 11, the office of Ibrahima Fall, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General to the Great Lakes, reported on Friday.
  • SUDAN: Continuing violence breeding tension in North Darfur - sources IRIN 01 Oct 2004 -- Attacks by armed gangs on internally displaced persons (IDPs) and clashes between armed groups have continued in the troubled Sudanese state of North Darfur, creating "a fragile security situation" and widespread fear among civilians living in camps within the region, humanitarian sources said on Thursday.
  • LIBERIA/REFUGEES VOA 10 Oct 2004 -- The U.N. refugee agency is launching a three-year program to return home 340-thousand Liberian refugees scattered throughout West Africa during 14 years of civil war. The UNHCR says this is one of the agency's largest voluntary repatriation efforts in the region.
  • NIGERIA / OIL TALKS VOA 10 Oct 2004 -- Talks between a militia leader and the Nigerian president aimed at ending further violence in the oil-rich southern region are in a third day in Abuja. But the rebel leader has accused the Nigerian government of violating a temporary ceasefire, which had been agreed upon Wednesday.

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