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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 05 Nov 2004 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• ONE SOLDIER KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK
• ONE SOLDIER KILLED, FIVE WOUNDED BY INDERECT FIRE NEAR FALLUJAH
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• IRAQ/SITREP VOA 05 Nov 2004 -- U.S. forces are closing in on the Iraqi city of Fallujah, launching new air strikes on the rebel stronghold, while Iraq's prime minister warns that a long-threatened battle to regain control of the city could be imminent. At the Pentagon, Correspondent Nick Simeone tells us U.S. and Iraqi forces are now waiting for the order to move in.
• Fallujah-Ramadi Nov. 5 Operations Update MNF-I/MNC-I 05 Nov 2004 -- Iraqi Security Forces and the I Marine Expeditionary Force continue to degrade and disrupt anti-Iraqi forces in the Fallujah-Ramadi area. I Marine Expeditionary Force employed U.S. Marine Corps and U.S. Air Force air power to deliver precision munitions to destroy preplanned targets in Fallujah.
• Insurgents Target Children of Ramadi MNF-I/MNC-I 05 Nov 2004 -- An Army unit assigned to I Marine Expeditionary Force, discovered and defused an explosive-laden youth center in Ramadi Nov. 4, which was rigged by insurgents to detonate and potentially kill dozens of Iraqi children. They also discovered more than two tons of explosives hidden in a mosque.
• Air Force aircraft join Fallujah offensive AFPN 05 Nov 2004 -- U.S. Air Force aircraft launched precision munitions to destroy preplanned targets here Nov. 4.
• MSSG-26 improves convoy operations USMC News 05 Nov 2004 -- More than 20 Marines from MEU Service Support Group-26 conducted simulated convoy missions in conjunction with Stability and Support Operations (SASO) training at the II Marine Expeditionary Force Simulation Center, here, Nov. 1-5.
• Marines prepare for convoy ops USMC News 05 Nov 2004 -- The trucks rumble along through the cool air like an armored procession of steel and rubber. The gunner in the final truck reaches up to remove his sunglasses as the sun disappears behind a blanket of grey clouds.
• Stryker Brigade returns from Iraq Army News 05 Nov 2004 -- For a couple of thousand Fort Lewis families, the wait is over. And, for the remaining family and friends awaiting the return of 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, the end is in sight.

• Karzai Pledges Crackdown On Commanders, Drugs RFE/RL 05 Nov 2004 -- Afghan President-elect Hamid Karzai yesterday pledged to use his five-year term to crack down on commanders and the country's drug economy.

Defense Policy / Programs

• IRAQ / ARMY LAWSUIT VOA 05 Nov 2004 -- A U.S. Army captain has won a federal lawsuit, challenging the Army's right to extend his enlistment and send him to Iraq. The Army asked him to report to Iraq, even though he submitted resignation papers in June, after eight years of service.

• Army Reserve striving to boost recruiting, retention Army News 05 Nov 2004 -- The Army Reserve Command sent out notices last week to about 400 of its full-time Soldiers transferring them to recruiting duty.
• GW Catches Her First Super Hornet Navy NewsStand 05 Nov 2004 -- The surge carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) (GW) welcomed Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 122 "Flying Eagles," the Fleet Replacement Squadron for the Navy's newest fighter, the F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet, Nov. 3.
• GW Gears Up to Gear Down for Upcoming Yard Period Navy NewsStand 05 Nov 2004 -- USS George Washington (CVN 73) (GW) began an underway period Nov. 2, marking the third underway period for the surge carrier since returning from deployment in July.
• ESG 5 Begins Joint Task Force Exercise Navy NewsStand 05 Nov 2004 -- Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 5, led by Rear Adm. Christopher C. Ames, is participating in a Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX) off the coast of Southern California, which runs through Nov. 15.
• Body armor still does the job USMC News 05 Nov 2004 -- While warfighting experts are testing new methods, equipment and gear to minimize casualties on the battlefield, Marine Corps-issued body armor is responsible for keeping Cpl. Joshua Miles alive.

• Exercise ALLIED WARRIOR 04: NATO Response Force Gains Momentum NATO AJFC Naples 05 Nov 2004 -- ALLIED WARRIOR 04 (AW 04) is a Command Post Exercise for a Combined Joint Force Land Component Command (CJFLCC). It will take place from 08 to 24 November 2004 in Amersfoort, Ede and Harskamp in the Netherlands and in Verona and Naples in Italy.

• State Department Noon Briefing, November 5 Washington File 05 Nov 2004 -- Secretary Powell's Travel/Mexico Bi-National Commission, Deputy Secretary Armitage Travel/South Asia/United Arab Emirates, Policy on Public Disclosure of Department Officials' Travel, Assistant Secretary Burns' Travel, Status of U.S. Representation to the IAEA, India, Israel/Palestinians, Greece, Macedonia, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Uzbekistan, Syria, Qatar

Defense Industry

• General Dynamics Awarded Contract for Bradley Transmission Conversions General Dynamics 05 Nov 2004 -- The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command has awarded General Dynamics Land Systems, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), a delivery order for $9 million for Bradley Fighting Vehicle transmission conversions. This order is part of a $43 million firm-fixed price contract, originally awarded in October 2003; total value of delivery orders to date on this contract is $26 million.
• BAE SYSTEMS North America Completes Acquisition Of Alphatech BAE Systems 05 Nov 2004 -- Acquisition expands company's capabilities in image and signal processing, intelligence fusion, and information-based national security systems
• Boeing Delta II Launch of Air Force GPS Satellite Scrubbed Boeing 05 Nov 2004 -- Today's launch attempt of a U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, GPS IIR-13, aboard a Boeing [NYSE: BA] Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., was scrubbed.
• Boeing Delta IV Launch Date Set As Spacecraft Mated With Rocket Boeing 05 Nov 2004 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced today that the first launch of the Delta IV rocket remains on schedule for November 16 following satisfactory progress in the resolution of issues related to the RL10B-2 upper-stage engine on the vehicle.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 05 Nov 2004
• SOMALIA: Expert cautions over peacekeeping force IRIN 05 Nov 2004 -- A hasty imposition or deployment of a peacekeeping force to war-ravaged Somalia could ignite renewed conflict, Alejandro Bendana, team leader of the European Union (EU)-backed Somalia Strategic Demilitarisation Unit, warned on Thursday.
• SUDAN: UN envoy warns of increasing violence in Darfur IRIN 05 Nov 2004 -- The situation in the western Sudanese Darfur region has deteriorated and could easily descend into a state of anarchy and total collapse of law and order, the UN Secretary-General's special representative to Sudan, Jan Pronk, said.
• SOMALIA: Hundreds of thousands killed in years of war, says new president IRIN 05 Nov 2004 -- The new Somali leader, Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, said on Friday it was estimated that hundreds of thousands of his countrymen were killed during 14 years of war that devastated the Horn of Africa country, but added he believed the country could be pacified again.
• DRC: Thousands flee fighting in the south of North Kivu IRIN 05 Nov 2004 -- Up to 3,500 civilians have fled an area in the province of North Kivu near the border with South Kivu, in and around the village of Bweremana, following fighting reportedly between newly-integrated combatants of the army.
• NIGERIA: Fresh militia attack kills two, threatens truce in oil region IRIN 05 Nov 2004 -- A militia leader in Nigeria's troubled Niger Delta said on Friday that two of his followers were killed in an attack by a rival group, the first since a five-week-old ceasefire in the oil-rich region.
• COTE D IVOIRE: Army planes bomb north for second day, rebel leader says negotiations over IRIN 05 Nov 2004 -- Rebel leader Guillaume Soro said on Friday he was no longer prepared to negotiate with the government after Ivorian army warplanes pounded towns across the rebel-held north for the second day running, killing at least 18 people.
• Internally displaced camp in Sudan's Darfur looted and destroyed, UN says UN News Centre 05 Nov 2004 -- A humanitarian team, sent by the United Nations mission in Sudan, has found that the El Geer camp, from which Sudanese police and military units removed internally displaced people (IDPs) in Darfur, was looted and destroyed.
• CONGO/VIOLENCE VOA 05 Nov 2004 -- Fresh fighting broke out this week in the troubled east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. U.N. aid workers warned on Friday that about four-thousand civilians have been displaced during the clashes.
• IVORY COAST / ATTACKS VOA 05 Nov 2004 -- Rebels and opposition politicians in Ivory Coast have pleaded for international help as attacks against them by the military and supporters of President Laurent Gbagbo continued for a second day Friday. The violence comes even though there are more than ten-thousand peacekeepers in the country.
• INDONESIA TIMOR VOA 05 Nov 2004 -- Indonesia's supreme court has overturned the conviction of the only man so far imprisoned for the violence surrounding East Timor's vote for independence five years ago. The decision has provoked new criticism from some human rights activists of what they see as Indonesia's failure to punish those responsible for the deaths of over one thousand people.

News Reports

• FRANCE/ARAFAT VOA 05 Nov 2004 -- The Palestinian representative in France, Leila Shahid, has denied reports that the Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, is brain dead, but acknowledges that he is in a coma and hovering between life and death.
• ARAFAT HEALTH VOA 05 Nov 2004 -- Yasser Arafat is reported to be in a coma in a military hospital outside of Paris while officials discuss possible funeral arrangements, most importantly where the veteran Palestinian leader is to be laid to rest.

• BUSH RE-ELECTION: WORLD PONDERS, 'WHAT WILL GEORGE DO'? US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 05 Nov 2004