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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 27 Dec 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• 13th SC(E) Soldier dies in Iraq
• Marine killed in Al Anbar
• Second Soldier dies of injuries sustained in vehicle rollover
• Press Briefing, Dec. 27, 2006 MNF-I 27 Dec 2006 -- TOPIC: UPDATE ON SECURITY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ
• Five Iranians Detained in Recent Baghdad Raids AFPS 27 Dec 2006 -- Several Iranian nationals were detained in recent coalition raids conducted in Iraq's capital city, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad today.
• Gates Approves 82nd Airborne Division Deployment to Kuwait AFPS 27 Dec 2006 -- The 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade Combat Team received orders today to deploy to Kuwait in early January to become the theater command's "call forward" force.
• Boxer Sailor Returns From Repairing Iraqi Weather Station Navy NewsStand 27 Dec 2006 -- USS Boxer's (LHD 4) Aerographer's Mate 1st Class (AW/SW) Clayton Corbin returned safely to Boxer after repairing an automated weather station at Iraq's Al Basra Oil Terminal (ABOT) in the Northern Persian Gulf Dec. 7-16.
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Dec. 27 AFPN 27 Dec 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Dec. 27.
• Air Force dining facility in Baghdad honors hero AFPN 27 Dec 2006 -- While many Americans removed bows and pulled back ribbons from neatly wrapped presents, Airmen here unveiled a tribute to a fallen hero, stressed the importance of airpower and cut the ribbon to mark the opening of the first Air Force dining facility in Baghdad.
• DoD Announces Unit Deployment 27 Dec 2006 -- The Department of Defense announced today that the 2nd Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. will deploy to the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility beginning in early January 2007 to become the theater command's call-forward force.
• US Officials: More Than 3,000 Troops Expected to be Sent to Kuwait VOA 27 Dec 2006 -- Senior U.S. defense officials say the Pentagon is expected to send more than 3,000 troops into Kuwait to be ready for use in Iraq.

Defense Policy / Programs

• Press Gaggle by Scott Stanzel The White House 27 Dec 2006

Defense Industry

• DoD News: Contracts for December 27, 2006

Other Conflicts

• SOMALIA: UN warns of humanitarian crisis as aid flights suspended IRIN 27 Dec 2006 -- A humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Somalia where fighting has forced the suspension of relief air food operations for hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) warned on Wednesday.
• Neighbouring countries must stay out of Somalia fighting, Annan says UN News Centre 27 Dec 2006 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today appealed to Somalia's neighbours to stay out of the spiralling violence in the country, where Ethiopia has admitted sending troops amid fighting between the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC).
• Government Official: Ethiopia Not Planning to Take Control of Mogadishu VOA 27 Dec 2006 -- Somali government troops, backed by Ethiopian forces, Wednesday were heading to the Somali capital, the base of the Islamic Courts Union
• Ethiopian, Somali Government Forces Continue Advances Against Islamist Troops VOA 27 Dec 2006 -- After a week of intense fighting to recapture territory from Islamists in Somalia, Ethiopian troops and forces loyal to the Somali interim government have regained the key town of Jowhar and have moved within 30 kilometers of the Islamist-held capital of Mogadishu
• SUDAN: Violence displaces more civilians in Darfur IRIN 27 Dec 2006 -- Thousands of people have gone into hiding in hills near the North Darfur village of Abu Sakin after Arab militias continued their destructive rampage across parts of the western Sudanese region, aid workers said.
• Sudan has accepted plan leading to hybrid UN-African Union mission in Darfur: Annan UN News Centre 27 Dec 2006 -- President Omar el-Bashir of Sudan has accepted a three-phased approach leading to the deployment of a hybrid United Nations-African Union (AU) force in the strife-torn Darfur region, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
• US Offers Rare Criticism of Israel Over Settlement Plan VOA 27 Dec 2006 -- The United States has criticized Israeli plans to construct a new settlement in the occupied West Bank.
• Israel to Target Palestinian Rocket Squads While Maintaining Truce VOA 27 Dec 2006 -- Israel says it will make a limited - "pinpoint" - response to Palestinian rocket attacks, but will maintain a ceasefire that it agreed to with Palestinians late last month.
• Faced with intransigence, Annan suggests cuts to UN Ethiopian-Eritrean peace mission UN News Centre 27 Dec 2006 -- Faced with Ethiopia's refusal to implement the binding decisions of a Boundary Commission and Eritrea's imposition of "harsh, humiliating impediments," Secretary-General Kofi Annan is proposing a major reduction in the United Nations mission monitoring the ceasefire that ended the border war between the two countries six years ago.

News Reports

• Former U.S. President Gerald Ford Dead At 93 RFE/RL 27 Dec 2006 -- Gerald Ford, the 38th president of the United States, has died at the age of 93.
• Former US President Gerald R. Ford Dies at 93 VOA 27 Dec 2006 -- Former President Gerald Ford, who healed a divided nation in the wake of President Richard Nixon's resignation and the Watergate scandal, has died in the U.S. state of California at the age of 93
• Gerald Ford, Former U.S. President, Dead at 93 Washington File 27 Dec 2006 -- Gerald R. Ford, the improbable 38th president of the United States, and the man charged with upholding the nation's democratic traditions and soothing its sharp partisan divides in the aftermath of Richard M. Nixon's resignation from the presidency, died December 26 at 6:45 p.m. PST (December 27, 0245 GMT). He was 93.
• America Mourns Gerald Ford Washington File 27 Dec 2006 -- Across the United States, messages of sympathy and fond remembrance followed the death of Gerald Ford, the nation's 38th president.
• Rumsfeld Remembers Ford as Patriot Who Restored Confidence AFPS 27 Dec 2006 -- Former Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld remembered the late President Gerald R. Ford as a patriot who led the United States through difficult days and helped restore confidence in its government.
• Ford Helped U.S. Recover from Watergate AFPS 27 Dec 2006 -- Americans will remember former President Gerald R. Ford as a man with the courage to heal a nation.
• Successful launch of the Corot scientific satellite Thales 27 Dec 2006 -- The Corot scientific satellite was successfully launched today by a Soyuz 2-1b rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. French space agency CNES was the prime contractor for this satellite, assigning industrial responsibility to Alcatel Alenia Space. The Corot satellite is designed to study the structure of stars and also search for new planets outside our solar system.