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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 27 Sep 2006 [PDF]
• MNF-W Soldier dies in Anbar
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• MND-B Soldier dies from wounds following small-arms fire attack
• MNF-W Marine dies in Anbar

• Press Briefing, Sept. 27, 2006 MNF-I 27 Sep 2006 -- TOPIC: UPDATE ON SECURITY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Sept. 27 AFPN 27 Sep 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Sept. 27.
• AMC commander: Global mobility aircraft saving lives in Iraq AFPN 27 Sep 2006 -- Mobility aircraft in Iraq and Afghanistan are helping keep Soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Sailors out of harm's way.
• Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion 1 Returns Home Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- Sailors of Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion (NPDB) 1 returned home to Naval Station Norfolk Sept. 27.
• Navy Customs Battalion Quebec Returns to Norfolk Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- More than 290 Sailors from the Navy Customs Battalion Quebec returned to Naval Station Norfolk Sept. 26, after a six month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.
• Osama is alive: Taliban IRNA 27 Sep 2006 -- Top Taliban military commander Mulla Dadullah Akhund has claimed that Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden was alive.
• Terrorist Bomb Expert Captured in Afghanistan; 10 Taliban Rebels Killed AFPS 27 Sep 2006 -- Afghan and coalition forces captured a known makeshift bomb expert and terrorist cell leader today during an operation south of Asadabad, U.S. military officials reported.
• Rumsfeld Expresses Confidence NATO Will Provide Troops Needed in Afghanistan VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says he expects NATO countries to supply enough troops for peacekeeping duties in Afghanistan, where attacks by Taleban rebels have risen sharply.
• Afghanistan: Bush, Karzai Agree On Strategy Against Terror RFE/RL 27 Sep 2006 -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai met in Washington for more than an hour yesterday with U.S. President George W. Bush at a time when relations between Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan have been strained.

Defense Policy / Programs

• US House Passes Bill on Detainee Interrogation VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- The House of Representatives Wednesday approved legislation establishing new guidelines for the handling of terrorist suspects in U.S. custody
• Transcript: Remarks by Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Minister of Defense for Albania Mediu 27 Sep 2006 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Minister of Defense for Albania Fatmir Mediu
• Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 17 Disestablished Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- Reserve Explosive Ordnance Mobile Unit (EODMU) 17 held a disestablishment ceremony at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. Sept. 23rd.
• Secretary, chief reiterate need for new tanker AFPN 27 Sep 2006 -- The Air Force must start buying new tankers now since it will take decades to replace its aging KC-135 Stratotankers, the Air Force secretary said.
• USS O'Kane Conducts Anti-submarine Warfare Exercise Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- Operating off the coast of southern California, the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS O'Kane (DDG 77) concluded a 16-hour anti-submarine warfare (ASW) active/passive track exercise, Sept. 22.
• Guardian Departs Vladivostok After Meaningful Visit Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- USS Guardian (MCM 5) departed Vladivostok, Russia, Sept. 23 after a four-day port visit in which Guardian joined USS Chancellorsville (CG 62) in building U.S.-Russian relations through cultural exchanges and community service.
• Salvor Departs Fiji Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- USS Salvor (ARS 52) departed the Republic of Fiji Sept. 17, completing a three-day port visit here filled with a number of relationship-building activities.
• NEPMU 7 Ends Service After Half a Century Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- Navy Environmental and Preventive Medicine Unit (NEPMU)7 held its disestablishment ceremony Sept. 22 at the Duomo Conference Center ceremony aboard Naval Air Station (NAS) Sigonella.
• Stennis Security Completes Force Protection Exercise Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- Sailors from USS John C. Stennis' Strike Group (CVN 74) completed their Force Protection Exercise (FPEX) while in port in San Diego, Sept. 20.
• New RSS Facilities to Improve Seabee Skills Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- Reserve Seabees will have access to new, high-tech training facilities in the fall at each of their 12 readiness support sites (RSS) to help improve military skills.
• Instruments enhance space weather forecasts AFPN 27 Sep 2006 -- Improving the prediction of ionospheric-created disturbances is the aim behind two weeks of digging through 3 feet of snow, ice and slush in the tundra of Greenland by four members of the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate, with assistance from Danish personnel.
• Rumsfeld Voices U.S. Support for NATO Enlargement AFPS 27 Sep 2006 -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld today gave voice to U.S. support for NATO enlargement at a news conference wrapping up a conference of southeastern European defense ministers here.
• Court postpones K-159 submarine hearings until October 23 RIA Novosti 27 Sep 2006 -- A Moscow district court has postponed hearings of a lawsuit filed by widows of submariners who died when their Russian nuclear submarine sank almost three years ago, a court official said Wednesday.
• Russian air carrier to rejoin Navy by end of 2006 RIA Novosti 27 Sep 2006 -- The Admiral Kuznetsov, Russia's only aircraft carrier, will join the Northern Fleet by the end of the year after modernization, the Navy's chief said Wednesday.
• Daily Press Briefing US Dept. of State 27 Sep 2006
• Press Gaggle by Dana Perino The White House 27 Sep 2006
• Press Briefing by Tony Snow The White House 27 Sep 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for September 27, 2006
• Boeing Completes Block E Avionics Upgrade of B-1 Bomber Fleet Boeing 27 Sep 2006 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] this week installed the final Block E avionics modification kit on the U.S. Air Force's active fleet of 67 B-1B Lancer long-range heavy bombers, completing a five-year, $680 million contract for enhanced computer hardware, software and weapons delivery capability.
• Boeing Synthetic Vision System Improves Visibility for Rescue Mission Pilots Boeing 27 Sep 2006 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] today announced the successful field testing of its new Enhanced/Synthetic Vision System (E/SVS) designed to increase situational awareness for rescue mission pilots during approach and landing in various environmental and ambient lighting conditions.
• Boeing Wins $27 Million SDB I Focused Lethality Munition Contract Boeing 27 Sep 2006 -- Boeing [NYSE: BA] recently received the first phase of a $27 million U.S. Air Force contract for the Small Diameter Bomb I Focused Lethality Munition (SDB I FLM) Joint Capability Technology Demonstration (JCTD).
• General Dynamics Awarded $45 Million Contract to Produce MK19 Grenade Machine Guns General Dynamics 27 Sep 2006 -- General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products, a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD), was awarded a $44.5 million contract by U.S. Army TACOM-ARDEC for the production of MK19 grenade machine guns. Deliveries will commence in January 2007 and extend through December 2008.
• LOCKHEED MARTIN SELECTED TO DEVELOP FAA ROAD MAP FOR UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEMS Lockheed Martin 27 Sep 2006 -- The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has selected Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] to support the development of a “Road Map” for introducing Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace System.
• Lockheed Martin's Compact Kinetic Energy Missile Successful in Flight Test Against Reinforced Urban Structure Lockheed Martin 27 Sep 2006 -- Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] successfully conducted a guided test flight of its Compact Kinetic Energy Missile (CKEM) against a reinforced urban structure (RUS) recently at Eglin Air Force Base, FL. All objectives for this test were achieved.
• Raytheon Delivers Advanced F-15 AESA Radar to U.S. Air Force for Flight Test Raytheon 27 Sep 2006 -- Raytheon Company has delivered its next-generation F-15 active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar system to the U.S. Air Force.
• Thales awarded contract for major submarine sonar upgrade Thales 27 Sep 2006 -- Alex Dorrian, Chief Executive of Thales UK, said "I am very pleased that the MoD has selected Thales UK for this important upgrade programme and we look forward to continuing our long established relationship with the Royal Navy's Submarine Service, providing them with the state of the art world class capability."

Other Conflicts

• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY THE OFFICES OF THE SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL AND THE SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT United Nations 27 Sep 2006
• UN: GUAM Brings Frozen Conflicts To World Stage RFE/RL 27 Sep 2006 -- The countries that make up GUAM (now renamed the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development-GUAM) are pushing for a resolution of their "frozen" conflicts at the United Nations.
• Rice Calls for Government of Sudan to Accept U.N. Peacekeepers Washignton File 27 Sep 2006 -- "The government of Sudan must immediately and unconditionally accept a U.N. peacekeeping force into Darfur," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said September 27.
• Rice Warns Sudan of 'Consequences' for Refusing Darfur Force VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Wednesday Sudanese authorities will be held responsible and "bear the consequences" if they continue undermining efforts to reinforce peacekeeping operations in Darfur
• UN Optimistic Sudan Will Allow Advisors VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- The United Nations says it is optimistic Sudan will accept a proposal to send U.N. military advisors and material support to Darfur, to aid the struggling African Union mission
• UGANDA: Rebel moves threaten peace talks, says army IRIN 27 Sep 2006 -- In a move that could affect peace talks between the government and Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), the Ugandan army has accused the insurgents of violating a recent agreement by abandoning an assembly site designated by the truce deal.
• Ugandan Army Accuses Rebels of Deserting Camp, Violating Truce VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- The Ugandan army has accused Lord's Resistance Army rebels of violating a truce by deserting a neutral camp in southern Sudan.
• ISRAEL: Sderot still under fire IRIN 27 Sep 2006 -- With the end of the war between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, rocket attacks on the north of Israel are now no more than a bad memory
• Lebanon: UN force tends to humanitarian needs following Israeli-Hizbollah conflict UN News Centre 27 Sep 2006 -- The newly reinforced United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon has taken on a humanitarian dimension, clearing roads, treating the sick and distributing water although this in not its primary function, with individual contributing battalions often bearing the additional cost themselves.
• Israeli Air Raid on Gaza Kills Palestinian Girl VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- A Palestinian teenager has been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Gaza Strip
• NIGERIA: Rehabilitation, harassment concerns mar Bakassi pullout IRIN 27 Sep 2006 -- Thousands of people who fled the disputed Bakassi Peninsula after a handover over from Nigeria to Cameroon last month remain displaced in Nigeria, while people who stayed behind allege Cameroonian security forces are harassing them.
• Islamists Disarm Somali Warlord Fighters in Kismayo VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- A southern Somali warlord and his fighters have been disarmed in the southern port city of Kismayo, just days after Islamist forces took over the town.
• Bosnian Serb Gets 27 Years for War Crimes VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- Former Bosnian Serb political leader Momcilo Krajisnik has been sentenced by the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal to 27 years in prison for crimes against humanity committed against Muslims and Croats in the early years of the Bosnian War
• Assam militants pull out of talks with Delhi IRNA 27 Sep 2006 -- Representatives of a dominant separatist guerrilla group in India's restive northeastern state of Assam, currently holding peace talks with New Delhi aimed at ending three-decades of insurgency, Wednesday pulled out of the peace process.
• India steps up security along Bhutanese border IRNA 27 Sep 2006 -- India has decided to step up security along its unfenced border with Bhutan to prevent movement of separatist guerrillas from the country's restive northeast to the Himalayan kingdom, officials Wednesday said.
• LTTE supremo agrees to resume talks with Sri Lankan Govt IRNA 27 Sep 2006 -- Raising hopes for the revival of the peace process, Tamil Tiger supremo Velupillai Prabhakaran has agreed to open talks with the Sri Lankan government and pledged 'commitment' to the process.
• ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: Annan recommends extending UNMEE mandate IRIN 27 Sep 2006 -- The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended a six-month extension to the mandate of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE), but warned that arrests, detentions and expulsions of mission staff by Eritrean authorities were "particularly troubling".

News Reports

• Thailand promises swift return to democracy during address to UN debate UN News Centre 27 Sep 2006 -- Thailand will end martial law and return soon to democracy and, in the meantime, its interim constitution will provide full protection of civil liberties, the country's Permanent Representative to the United Nations told the General Assembly today, a week after a coup took place in the South-East Asian nation.
• US Presses for Turkish, Iraqi Cooperation on PKK VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- The United States is intensifying its efforts to put an end to terrorist acts perpetrated by the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK