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• IRAQ / WRAP VOA 11 Oct 2004 -- Militiamen in Baghdad are handing over their heavy weapons in a deal to bring peace to a poverty-stricken area of the capital. In the meantime, car bomb making factories were discovered north of Baghdad following the re-taking of the city of Samarra.
• NATO TRAINING FORCES NOW UNDER MULTI-NATIONAL COMMAND CENTCOM 11 Oct 2004 -- The Multinational Security Transition Command - Iraq and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced the structure of the Iraqi security forces joint training, mentoring and equipping assistance effort, Oct. 8, at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium.
• Secretary of Defense visits troops at Al Asad USMC News 11 Oct 2004 -- In a trip designed to bring motivation and encouragement, the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, visited the Marines of 1st Marine Expeditionary Force here Oct. 10.

• AFGHANISTAN: Focus on presidential poll IRIN 11 Oct 2004 -- Shivering under her all-enveloping burqa, Noorjahan, a 45-year-old housewife, stood in a long queue on Saturday, waiting patiently to cast her vote at a central polling station in the capital, Kabul.
• Annan urges lawful approach to Afghan poll dispute as experts named to probe UN News Centre 11 Oct 2004 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today hailed the Afghan people for their historic presidential election on Saturday and urged the candidates to lawfully resolve their dispute over polling irregularities, as the United Nations named two experts to serve on a panel which will probe the complaints.
• AFGHANISTAN ELECTION VOA 11 Oct 2004 -- Afghanistan's election body says it hopes to finish its probe into possible voting fraud and other irregularities before final results are announced sometime in the coming weeks.
• Afghanistan: Election Officials Try To Learn From Mistakes In Vote REF/RL 11 Oct 2004 -- Afghanistan's presidential election is being called a major success by its international and Afghan organizers. Voter turnout has been described as "massive." Terrorist attacks threatened by Al-Qaeda militants and remnants of the Taliban appear to have been thwarted by tight security across the country. Still, the UN-Afghan Joint Electoral Management Body (JEMB) admits that mistakes were made on 9 October when millions of Afghans cast secret ballots for the first time in order to choose their country's leader. The JEMB and an independent panel are now examining those mistakes to ensure they are not repeated when Afghanistan takes its next important step on the road to democracy -- the elections for parliament and local administrative offices slated for spring of 2005.
• Negotiations Begin On Afghan Elections RFE/RL 11 Oct 2004 -- Negotiations are under way in Afghanistan to reach an agreement over the 9 October disputed presidential poll.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Transfer of Detainee Control Completed 11 Oct 2004 -- The Department of Defense announced today that it transferred Yaser Esam Hamdi, an enemy combatant held at the Consolidated Naval Brig in Charleston, S.C., to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Hamdi arrived in Saudi Arabia on October 11.

• GUINEA-BISSAU: Mutineers amnestied but armed forces left leaderless IRIN 11 Oct 2004 -- The government of Guinea-Bissau has signed an agreement with a group of soldiers who staged a mutiny last week, promising them an amnesty and the appointment of a new military high command.

Defense Industry

• Raytheon To Provide Rolling Airframe Missiles To Korean Navy Under $25 Million Contract Raytheon 11 Oct 2004 -- Raytheon Company (NYSE: RTN) has been awarded a $25 million contract by the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) to provide Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Missile Weapon Systems for three KDX-3 Aegis Class destroyers.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 11 Oct 2004
• HAITI / VIOLENCE VOA 11 Oct 2004 -- In Haiti, armed gangs loyal to former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide took to the streets on Monday, looting shops and burning cars. Two people died in gunfights. UN troops and national police are struggling to restore order throughout the Haitian capital.
• ISRAEL / GAZA VOA 11 Oct 2004 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he will present his controversial Gaza Strip withdrawal plan to parliament on October 25th.
• SOMALIA/POLITICS VOA 11 Oct 2004 -- The election late Sunday of Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed as president of Somalia has not raised expectations among some observers the country will return to peace and unity after more than a decade of lawlessness.

News Reports

• EU / LIBYA / BURMA VOA 11 Oct 2004 -- The European Union has ended more than a decade of sanctions against Libya and eased an arms embargo to reward Tripoli for giving up programs to develop weapons of mass destruction. The move follows a decision by the United States last April to lift most of its commercial sanctions after Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi announced he was scrapping his weapons programs.
• BURMA/OPIUM VOA 11 Oct 2004 -- A new U.N. report says that Burma, the world's second-largest producer of opium, has reported a 29-percent decline in poppy cultivation and a 54-percent drop in opium production during the past year. U.N. officials, while praising these improvements, warn the gains may not be sustainable without additional international funding.
• PRESS BRIEFING BY UNITED NATIONS OFFICE ON DRUGS, CRIME United Nations 11 Oct 2004
• LOCKHEED MARTIN-BUILT AMC-15 SATELLITE READY FOR LAUNCH FROM BAIKONUR COSMODROME Lockheed Martin 11 Oct 2004 -- The AMC-15 telecommunications satellite, designed and built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] for SES AMERICOM of Princeton, NJ, is ready for launch Oct. 15, 2004 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard a Proton/Breeze M launch vehicle provided by International Launch Services, a Lockheed Martin joint venture.
• Northrop Grumman Wins Bid to Compete for $39 Million in NASA Airframe Structures Work Northrop Grumman 11 Oct 2004 -- Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE:NOC) will help NASA's Langley Research Center, Hampton, Va., mature key airframe structures technologies under a recently awarded indefinite delivery/ indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract.