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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 21 Apr 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Navy Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Col. Gray from Iraq 21 Apr 2006 -- Presenter: Commander, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, Col. David R. Gray
• CENTAF releases airpower summary AFPN 21 Apr 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's airpower summary.
• Band of Brothers Soldiers Detain Suspects, Unearth Major Cache AFPS 21 Apr 2006 -- U.S. soldiers from Task Force Band of Brothers scored successes in two operations this week.
• Afghans Report IEDs; Afghan Aviators Complete Historic Mission AFPS 21 Apr 2006 -- Afghans reported improvised explosive devices to local officials in two separate incidents today, and Afghan National Army aviators completed their first combat-support mission April 15, military officials in Afghanistan reported today.
• AFGHANISTAN: Rights groups critical of upsurge in civilian casualties IRIN 21 Apr 2006 -- Rights groups have expressed concern about the killing of civilians during Afghan and US-led coalition operations targeting insurgents in the country's restive southern and eastern regions.
• Analysis: Afghan President Gets Key Cabinet Picks, But At What Price? RFE/RL 21 Apr 2006 -- The lower house of the Afghan parliament approved 20 of President Hamid Karzai's 25 cabinet nominees on April 20.

Defense Policy / Programs

• DoD Creates Defense Spectrum Organization 21 Apr 2006 -- The Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration and DoD Chief Information Officer John G. Grimes has directed the director of the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) to establish the Defense Spectrum Organization as a center of excellence for radio frequency spectrum analysis, planning and support.
• Lincoln Makes History Pierside In Laem Chebang Navy NewsStand 21 Apr 2006 -- USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) made history April 20, mooring in Laem Chebang, Thailand, the first time a U.S. aircraft carrier has done so.
• Congressional Staff Members Tour HS-10 Navy NewsStand 21 Apr 2006 -- Six congressional staff members toured Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron (HS) 10 at Naval Base Coronado, April 19.
• Navy Secretary Visits Naples Navy NewsStand 21 Apr 2006 -- Secretary of the Navy Donald C. Winter visited Naples, Italy, April 21 as part of a visit to meet with Sailors and staff throughout the U.S. Naval Forces Europe area of operations (AOR).
• Navy Spells Out Policy on Tattoos, Body Art, Piercings Navy NewsStand 21 Apr 2006 -- Chief of Naval Personnel Vice Adm. John C. Harvey Jr. released a message April 21 clarifying the Navy’s regulations regarding tattoos, body art and/or mutilations and dental ornamentation.
• Red Flag-Alaska readies Airmen for deployment AFPN 21 Apr 2006 -- Red Flag-Alaska 06-2 participants have arrived and set up shop at this interior Alaska base to prepare for the annual exercise previously called Cope Thunder.
• F-22 CTF tests missile noise, vibration AFPN 21 Apr 2006 -- The F-22 Combined Test Force here achieved another first when an F-22A Raptor flew with an AIM-120D missile in its weapons bay to test the effect of noise and vibration on the missile.
• Analysis brings information faster to warfighters AFPN 21 Apr 2006 -- Fusion for the Air and Space Operations Center is one of many important initiatives currently being tested here during Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006.
• Main experiment under way for JEFX '06 AFPN 21 Apr 2006 -- After three spirals spanning five months, the main experiment for the Joint Expeditionary Force Experiment 2006 is finally under way here.
• White House Briefing, April 21 Washington File 21 Apr 2006 -- President Bush's schedule, Bush call to Prime Minister-elect Prodi, Prime Minister Rasmussen's Camp David visit, high energy prices, AEI, economy, Iraq, Prime Minister Berlusconi of Italy, week ahead
• State Department Briefing, April 21 Washington File 21 Apr 2006 -- Nepal, Iran, counter-terrorism report, Zoellick/Iraqi Finance Minister meeting, Iraq, China

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for April 21, 2006
• Boeing to Lead U.S. Team for Air Traffic Management Project in Europe Boeing 21 Apr 2006 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] will lead the U.S. industry team that will help a consortium of European companies and EUROCONTROL devise a new, streamlined air traffic management system for Europe. The project is known as the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) program.
• Lockheed Martin's Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod Achieves Initial Operational Capability With New York Air National Guard Lockheed Martin 21 Apr 2006 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] and the Air National Guard (ANG) F-16 fighter-jet equipped 174th Fighter Wing in Syracuse, NY, celebrated the Initial Operational Capability (IOC) of Lockheed Martin’s Sniper® Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP) at a ceremony here today.
• LOCKHEED MARTIN DELIVERS 4,300TH F-16 Lockheed Martin 21 Apr 2006 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] announced it has achieved a significant production milestone with the delivery of its 4,300th F-16 aircraft yesterday.
• Thales lands order for 17 Sirius systems Thales 21 Apr 2006 -- For the delivery of seventeen Sirius Infra Red Search and Track systems. The Canadian Department of National Defence (DND) has ordered thirteen Sirius systems and the Royal Netherlands Navy has ordered four Sirius systems. The contracts also include logistic services and the supply of spare parts. DRS Technologies is the prime contractor for this contract, with Thales Nederland acting as principal subcontractor.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND THE SPOKESPERSON FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT United Nations 21 Apr 2006
• Nepalese King Calls for Formation of Interim Government VOA 21 Apr 2006 -- Following days of anti-monarchy protests, Nepal's King Gyanendra has called upon opposition parties to appoint a new prime minister, who will head an interim government until elections are held next year
• Nepal King to hand over power to people IRNA 21 Apr 2006 -- Bending over the large scale protests for the last 16 days Nepal King Gyanendra today called on opposition parties to put forward their candidate for prime minister.
• SUDAN: Darfur relief operation could collapse, warns Egeland IRIN 21 Apr 2006 -- Rampant insecurity, government obstruction and reduced international support have hampered lifesaving relief operations for millions of people in the troubled western Sudanese Darfur region, the top United Nations humanitarian official told the Security Council on Thursday.
• UN Official Warns Relief Efforts Could Collapse in Darfur VOA 21 Apr 2006 -- The top U.N. humanitarian official says the relief effort in Sudan's Darfur region is on the verge of collapse because of a lack of funds and government restrictions on aid workers.
• U.N.'s Annan Calls on Syria, Iran To End Hizballah Support Washington File 21 Apr 2006 -- United Nations - Secretary-General Kofi Annan again has called on Syria and Iran to stop interfering in Lebanon.
• GREAT LAKES: Ministers want illegal armed groups sanctioned IRIN 21 Apr 2006 -- Foreign ministers from four of Africa's Great Lakes countries adopted on Friday a "working document" that could result in sanctions being imposed on leaders of illegal armed groups that continue to destabilise peace and security in the region.
• Chechnya: Separatist Leaders Admit To Logistical, Financial Problems RFE/RL 21 Apr 2006 -- After a long winter, Chechnya's top two separatist military leaders came out this week rattling the sabers.
• CIS: New Stimulus For Resolution Of 'Frozen Conflicts'? RFE/RL 21 Apr 2006 -- U.S. Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns says the United States will press for the so-called frozen conflicts of the former Soviet Union -- Nagorno-Karabakh, Abkhazia, South Ossetia, and Transdniester -- to be included on the agenda of the summit of the Group of Eight leading industrialized nations in St. Petersburg in July
• Chad: growing insecurity risks leaving hundreds of thousands hungry, UN warns UN News Centre 21 Apr 2006 -- Any continuation or escalation of the current conflict in Chad could leave up to 700,000 thousands of people short of food in both eastern Chad and across the border in the strife-torn Sudanese region of Darfur, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned today.
• UGANDA: LRA leaders not entitled to amnesty - minister IRIN 21 Apr 2006 -- Leaders of the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) are no longer entitled to amnesty from prosecution following an amendment of a law that offers clemency to surrendering insurgents, the minister in charge of internal affairs said on Friday.
• BURUNDI: UNHCR suspends operations at Gasorwe camp after skirmish IRIN 21 Apr 2006 -- The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) has suspended its activities at Gasorwe camp in Burundi's northeastern province of Muyinga after protests at the camp turned violent.
• 4 Killed in Sri Lanka Violence VOA 21 Apr 2006 -- Two separate ambushes in northeastern Sri Lanka have killed at least three security forces and wounded three more in the latest violence threatening the nation's fragile cease-fire.
• EU Official Urges Jakarta to Speed Up Aceh Law VOA 21 Apr 2006 -- The European Union's foreign policy chief has urged Indonesia to speed the passage of an overdue law for governing the province of Aceh, in accordance with a peace deal signed last year with separatist rebels.

News Reports

• PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF LEBANON United Nations 21 Apr 2006
• Solomon Islands PM Refuses to Step Down VOA 21 Apr 2006 -- The Solomon Islands' newly elected Prime Minister Snyder Rini is standing firm against demands by opposition members that he resign to ease tensions on the island nation.
• Lebanon Challenges Syria on Disputed Border VOA 21 Apr 2006 -- Lebanon's prime minister, Fuad Siniora, has challenged Syria to establish diplomatic relations and demarcate their border
• Japan Sends Envoy to South Korea to Discuss Island Dispute VOA 21 Apr 2006 -- A senior Japanese envoy is meeting South Korean officials in Seoul in an attempt to resolve a worsening dispute over an island chain both countries claim