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• Coalition Forces Capture Terrorists, Seize Weapons AFPS 27 Jul 2006 -- Coalition forces captured 13 suspected terrorists and found several weapons caches throughout Iraq this week, U.S. military officials in Iraq reported.
• Citizens' Tips Help Foil Baghdad Attack, Lead Soldiers to Weapons AFPS 27 Jul 2006 -- Tips from Iraqi citizens led coalition and Iraqi soldiers to foil a terrorist attack and find weapons caches in Baghdad yesterday, U.S. military officials in Iraq reported.
• Blasts Rock Baghdad; Dozens Dead and Injured VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- A car bomb and mortar attack on an upscale Baghdad neighborhood has killed at least 31 people and wounded more than 115 others
• DoD Announces Units for Next Operation Iraqi Freedom Rotation 27 Jul 2006 -- The Department of Defense announced today additional major units scheduled to deploy as part of the next Operation Iraqi Freedom rotation.
• Coalition Forces Respond to Afghan Helicopter Crash AFPS 27 Jul 2006 -- Coalition forces from Combined Joint Task Force 76 responded to a helicopter crash that killed at least a dozen people yesterday in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan's Paktia province, military officials here reported.
• Coalition Forces Kill Extremists in Afghanistan AFPS 27 Jul 2006 -- Coalition forces killed 10 insurgents in separate operations in Afghanistan July 25 and today, U.S. military officials in Afghanistan reported.
• Pace Visits Afghanistan, Calls Taliban 'Tactical Problem' AFPS 27 Jul 2006 -- The Taliban is a tactical problem for the coalition in Afghanistan, but the coalition is a strategic problem for the Taliban, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here today.
• Analysis: NATO Takes Over in Afghanistan cfr.org 27 Jul 2006 -- The U.S. military is preparing to hand over military duties in Afghanistan's violence-plagued south to NATO by the end of July
• Backgrounder: NATO Takes On Afghan Security cfr.org 27 Jul 2006
• Controlling skies over dangerous territory AFPN 27 Jul 2006 -- Inside their mobile air traffic control tower, the air traffic controllers need only peer outside their windows or listen to their two-way radios to see and hear the war unfold before them.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Transcript: STAKEOUT MEDIA AVAILABILITY WITH SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DONALD RUMSFELD 27 Jul 2006 -- Presenter: SECRETARY OF DEFENSE DONALD RUMSFELD
• Mass Casualty Drill Readies ESG 5 Medical for Deployment Navy NewsStand 27 Jul 2006 -- Fleet Surgical Team (FST) 5, USS Boxer’s (LHD 4) medical department and medical personnel with the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) tested their capabilities during a mass casualty drill aboard Boxer July 20.
• CNO Visits Mercy Navy NewsStand 27 Jul 2006 -- Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Mullen took the opportunity to visit USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) July 23 while wrapping up a recent trip through Southeast Asia.
• Navy Aids in Wildfire Fight Navy NewsStand 27 Jul 2006 -- Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5 Sailors from Camp Pendleton, Calif., assisted firefighters from Los Angeles County in battling a massive wildfire on Catalina Island July 22-25.
• Pollard Relieves Benko as Force Master Chief Navy NewsStand 27 Jul 2006 -- Force Master Chief Mo Pollard relieved Force Master Chief Michael Benko as Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet master chief in a ceremony July 26 at Lockwood Hall at Pearl Harbor Naval Station.
• CARAT Symposium Shares American Views with Malaysian Officers Navy NewsStand 27 Jul 2006 -- A group of 40 senior Malaysian military officers are getting a U.S. perspective on issues such as maritime interception operations, operational law and rules of engagement, during a symposium which began here July 25.
• Search for John Paul Jones' Warship Going Well Navy NewsStand 27 Jul 2006 -- A search for Bonhomme Richard, the flagship of Capt. John Paul Jones, father of the U.S. Navy, kicked off in the waters off Flamborough Head, July 18.
• Army Chief: Commitments Needed to Keep Army Ready AFPS 27 Jul 2006 -- Today's Army is the best the U.S. has ever sent into combat, and initiatives under way will ensure it remains that way, the Army chief of staff said in a statement released last night.
• New radio enhances F-15 capability AFPN 27 Jul 2006 -- A new radio installed in Air Force F-15E Strike Eagles is enhancing the fighter's ability to support the war on terrorism and homeland defense missions by enabling aircrews to communicate more effectively with ground troops and civilian aircraft.
• Exercise strengthens U.S., international combat skills AFPN 27 Jul 2006 -- Cooperative Cope Thunder 06-3 is the largest multi-lateral air combat exercise in the Pacific bringing together about 1,300 participants to train in Alaska.
• Creative troops, maintenance keep vintage tankers airborne AFPN 27 Jul 2006 -- Airmen who maintain the fleet of KC-135 Stratotankers at this base fight a constant battle to keep the vintage jets flying their vital refueling missions.
• Rice in Asia, Addresses Major International Security Issues VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has assured Asia's top diplomats that the United States will continue working for a lasting resolution to the Middle East crisis
• Backgrounder: NATO Looks to Expand Mission and Membership cfr.org 27 Jul 2006
• US to limit sale of military technology to Pakistan: India IRNA 26 Jul 2006 -- India would continue to engage Washington to limit the sale of advanced military technology to the neighboring country which could be used against India.
• Press Briefing by Tony Snow The White House 27 Jul 2006
• Daily Press Briefing US Department of State 27 Jul 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for July 27, 2006
• Boeing Announces Supplier Agreement with Eaton for Combat Search and Rescue Program Boeing 27 Jul 2006 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has announced an agreement with Eaton Corporation's aerospace division to support the proposed HH-47 Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) helicopter program for the U.S. Air Force.
• General Dynamics Information Technology Awarded $18 million Contract to Support U.S. Navy C4I Systems and Networks General Dynamics 27 Jul 2006 -- The U.S. Navy Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego (SSC San Diego) has awarded General Dynamics Information Technology, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), a contract to provide systems engineering, development and analysis in support of Joint and National Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (C4I) initiatives. The total potential value of the contract, if all options are exercised, is $18.5 million over a five-year period of performance.
• Boeing Completes Critical Wideband Gapfiller Satellite Ground Compatibility Tests Boeing 27 Jul 2006 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] today announced its Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) program has successfully completed two more key space-to-ground compatibility tests with partners Universal Space Network (USN) and ITT Industries. The joint tests, conducted at the Boeing Satellite Development Center in El Segundo, Calif., proved the interoperability between the satellite and two key ground control systems used during orbital operations.
• U.S. AIR FORCE AWARDS LOCKHEED MARTIN F-16 MISSION PLANNING DELIVERY ORDER Lockheed Martin 27 Jul 2006 -- The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] a Mission Planning Enterprise Contract (MPEC) delivery order to upgrade components for the U.S. Air Force’s fleet of F-16 Block 40 and 50 aircraft. This contract entails upgrading the F-16 Mission Planning Environment software. The initial value of this delivery order is $1.4 million, with options that could total $34.9 million over the six-year period of performance.
• SAIC Selected by Department of Homeland Security to Participate in EAGLE Program SAIC 27 Jul 2006 -- Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) today announced that it has been awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide information technology (IT) support to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). The Enterprise Acquisition Gateway for Leading Edge Solutions program, also known as EAGLE, has a five-year period of performance with two one-year options.

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICE OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 27 Jul 2006
• Bush Welcomes Progress Achieved at Rome Conference on Lebanon Washington File 27 Jul 2006 -- President Bush expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the July 26 Rome conference of the Lebanon Core Group, saying it laid the groundwork for further diplomatic action.
• U.S. Assistance Reaches South Lebanon Washington File 27 Jul 2006 -- Marine Corps Brigadier General Carl Jensen says the U.S. military in the Middle East is ready to deliver humanitarian assistance to Lebanon.
• Analysis: Crisis Sparks Fears of Wider War cfr.org 27 Jul 2006 -- After Israel suffers its bloodiest day since launching an offensive against Lebanon two weeks ago, the country's security cabinet decides not to expand its mission in Lebanon
• Israel Says Offensive Will Continue, Not Expand in Lebanon VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Israel's top security ministers have decided not to expand the ongoing ground offensive in Lebanon.
• Bush Warns Against 'Fake' Peace in Mideast VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- President Bush says he wants to see an end to the fighting between Israeli forces and Lebanese-based Hezbollah militants as soon as possible
• Conflict in Southern Lebanon Continues Unabated VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- The conflict in southern Lebanon continues as Israeli forces battle Hezbollah guerillas
• Rice, in Malaysia, Considers Return to Middle East VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to decide Friday whether to pay a return trip to the Middle East to try to help broker a durable cease-fire in the Lebanon conflict
• Experts: Israeli-Hezbollah Fighting Could Continue for Weeks VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Fierce fighting between Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants has entered its third week, in a conflict that has killed more than 400 Lebanese and at least 50 Israelis
• Lebanon: NATO Option Looks Unpopular RFE/RL 27 Jul 2006 -- As the world community starts to consider if an international force should be deployed in Lebanon, attention has turned to NATO as its most likely source.
• Security Council calls for comprehensive Israeli inquiry into killing of UN peacekeepers UN News Centre 27 Jul 2006 -- Voicing its shock and distress at the Israeli Defence Forces' (IDF) killing of four unarmed United Nations military observers in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, the Security Council today called on the Israeli Government to conduct a full investigation.
• Zawahiri Threatens Revenge for Israeli Attacks VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- A key al-Qaida leader has called for revenge against Israel's offensives in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
• Israel Increases Air, Artillery Attacks in Lebanon VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Israel stepped up air strikes and artillery fire against Hezbollah targets in Lebanon Thursday, one day after suffering heavy casualties in an ongoing battle for a strategic town in southern Lebanon.
• UN Says Israel Shelled Lebanese Post Despite Pleas to Stop VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- U.N. officials say they asked Israel to stop shelling a military outpost in Lebanon hours before it was destroyed, killing four U.N. observers. Israel denies it deliberately targeted the post.
• Rice: 'Willing and Ready' to Resume Mideast Peace Effort VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she is "willing and ready" to return to the Middle East and try for a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
• Australia Would Send Peacekeepers to Lebanon Under Right Conditions VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard says his country could send troops to join a peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon if international forces have the power to disarm Hezbollah militants.
• Israeli Jets Strike Communications Tower Near Beirut VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Israel has bombed sites in Lebanon, hours after the Jewish state suffered its worst losses in two weeks of fighting Hezbollah guerrillas.
• Rice Warns Iran, Syria Over Lebanon Cease-Fire RFE/RL 27 Jul 2006 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has warned Syria and Iran not to "torpedo" attempts to achieve a cease-fire in Lebanon.
• Zawahiri Threatens Revenge for Israeli Attacks VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Al-Qaida's number two leader has vowed revenge for Israel's offensives in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.
• Georgian Authorities: Government Troops Regain Control of Strategic Area VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Georgian authorities say government forces have taken full control of a strategic area of the country's breakaway republic of Abkhazia, after a rebellion led by a local paramilitary leader.
• Civilian Killed In Georgia's Kodori Gorge Operation RFE/RL 27 Jul 2006 -- A senior Georgian official says one woman was killed in a clash between Georgian security forces and members of a rebel militia in the Kodori Gorge, which straddles the breakaway region of Abkhazia and the rest of Georgia.
• Georgia security forces to stay in rebellious gorge at present RIA Novosti 27 Jul 2006 -- Georgia's defense minister said Thursday Georgian security forces would stay in the troubled Kodori Gorge for the time being.
• Russian peacekeepers in Abkhazia zone told to shoot if attacked RIA Novosti 27 Jul 2006 -- Russian peacekeepers in the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict zone have been ordered to open fire in the event of a deliberate attack on their positions, a senior Russian military officer said Thursday.
• Operation in Kodori Gorge over, bounty on militia leader's head RIA Novosti 27 Jul 2006 -- Georgia's Interior Ministry has completed a special operation in the remote Kodori Gorge, the presidential chief of staff said Thursday.
• Situation in Kodori Gorge normal - Abkhaz defense official RIA Novosti 27 Jul 2006 -- A deputy defense minister in Georgia's self-proclaimed republic of Abkhazia downplayed Thursday an operation launched by the Tbilisi authorities in a gorge that is the de facto border between the breakaway region and Georgian-controlled territory.
• Georgia resumes operation against militia in Abkhaz gorge RIA Novosti 27 Jul 2006 -- Georgia resumed Thursday what it called an anticrime operation in a remote gorge that forms the de facto border between government-controlled territory and the breakaway republic of Abkhazia.
• Clashes Flare Anew Near Breakaway Province of Abkhazia VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Long-running tensions have significantly escalated near the separatist region of Abkhazia in western Georgia, this week, after Georgian officials launched a raid which they say is aimed at putting down a defiant local militia
• DR Congo: rebel coalition in east lays down arms in UN-brokered deal UN News Centre 27 Jul 2006 -- Just a few a days ahead of historic elections planned for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), a major rebel coalition plaguing the eastern part of the country has agreed to put down its weapons in a breakthrough brokered by the United Nations.
• Analysis: Congo's Ray of Hope cfr.org 27 Jul 2006 -- Holding an election in a country that hasn't had one in four decades presents a substantial challenge
• Backgrounder: Congo's Elections cfr.org 27 Jul 2006
• DRC: Troops to be deployed in Ituri's most troubled areas, general says IRIN 27 Jul 2006 -- Specially trained Congolese troops will be deployed to the most security sensitive areas in the north-eastern district of Ituri before, during and after Sunday's general elections to ensure peace, area army commander Gen Mbuayama Nsiona said on Thursday.
• Congolese Rebels Reach Peace Accord Ahead of Elections VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- The United Nations says rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have agreed to lay down their weapons in advance of Sunday's elections - the country's first multi-party balloting in more than 40 years.
• 19 Members of Somalia's Cabinet Resign VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- Nineteen Cabinet ministers in Somalia's fragile secular interim government in Baidoa resigned Thursday, possibly in an attempt to facilitate a power-sharing deal with rival Islamists
• UN envoy presses for resumption of peace talks in letter to Somali Islamic leader UN News Centre 27 Jul 2006 -- The senior United Nations envoy to Somalia today wrote to the chairman of the Executive Council of Islamic Courts in the troubled country to reiterate his call for the resumption of peace talks with the Transitional Federal Government, a UN spokesman said.
• PRESS CONFERENCE ON CÔTE D’IVOIRE ELECTIONS United Nations 27 Jul 2006
• Dialogue needed in Côte d'Ivoire to smooth path to peace, UN envoy says UN News Centre 27 Jul 2006 -- Accelerated progress toward elections in Côte d'Ivoire that was sparked by the summit of regional leaders convened by Secretary-General Kofi Annan earlier this month has also brought to the fore tensions that ignited recent violence, which need to be eased through dialogue, a UN envoy said today.
• COTE D IVOIRE: First militia fighters hand over weapons IRIN 27 Jul 2006 -- Some 150 militiamen in western, government-controlled Cote d'Ivoire became the first armed fighters to hand over their weapons on Wednesday in a rare breakthrough in the country's hobbling peace process.
• In Sri Lanka, UN refugee chief calls on all sides to allow displaced to return home UN News Centre 27 Jul 2006 -- Sri Lanka's Government and separatist Tamil Tigers should resume peace talks and create the conditions necessary for more than 300,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return home because they have been enduring a conflict that has lasted over 20 years, the head of the United Nations refugee agency said while visiting the country.
• Lankan Tigers call air strikes a 'blatant ceasefire violation' IRNA 27 Jul 2006 -- Condemning the Wednesday Sri Lankan air force bombings on rebels area, the Tamil Tigers asserted that such ir strikes are violation of the country's ceasefire and claimed that attacks wounded two civilians.
• United States Still Pursuing Peace in Darfur, State's Bolton Says Washington File 27 Jul 2006 -- The United States continues to "push hard" to bring relief to the people in the Darfur region of western Sudan, where at least 200,000 people have died and more than 2 million have been displaced since 2003, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said July 27.
• Nepal: UN team arrives to forge 'common understanding' on peace process role UN News Centre 27 Jul 2006 -- A high-level United Nations team has arrived in Nepal aiming to forge a "common understanding" about the scope and nature of a UN role in the peace process in the strife-torn Himalayan kingdom, with the head of the mission stressing it will take into account views from all sectors of society.

News Reports

• US Ambassador to UN Defends Record VOA 27 Jul 2006 -- U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton defended his record before a Senate panel Thursday, with just months left before his recess appointment to the world body expires
• Russia: Chavez Ends Tour With Putin Visit RFE/RL 27 Jul 2006 -- Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin today in Moscow for talks focusing on arms sales and energy cooperation.