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• Support battalion delivers new low cost means of supplying Iraqi Soldiers Army News 04 Jul 2010 -- Soldiers from 307th Brigade Support Battalion, 1st Advise and Assist Brigade, 82nd Airborne Division at Al Asad Air Base, not only have an inexpensive way to deliver small items like ammunition, food and water, they have trained members of 9th Regional Commando Bn., 2nd Bde., Iraqi Special Operations Forces, 7th IA Div., how to do it themselves.
• Troop safety aided by accurate information Army News 04 Jul 2010 -- Good leaders make sure their troops are squared away before they roll outside the wire. They check for water, ammunition and protective equipment. They check the little things to prevent big problems.
• TF Gunslinger, engineers refresh AGI skills Army News 04 Jul 2010 -- As a ground force convoy travels to its destination it receives enemy fire. This complex attack threatens the mission and aviation assets are called in for a Close Combat Attack.
• Winning is NATO’s Mission in Afghanistan, Petraeus Says AFPS 04 Jul 2010 -- The objective in Afghanistan is to win, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus said today as he formally assumed command of the International Security Force in Afghanistan.
• Four killed, six injured in terror attack in south Afghanistan RIA Novosti 04 Jul 2010 -- At least four people were killed and six injured in a terror attack carried out in southern Afghanistan, the local authorities said on Sunday.
• Petraeus on Afghanistan: 'We are in this to win' VOA 04 Jul 2010 -- U.S. General David Petraeus has formally assumed command of the 140,000-member NATO-led force in Afghanistan.
• Marines keep Garmsir bazaar safe on busiest day of the week USMC News 04 Jul 2010 -- Maneuvering through the bazaar crowd during the week’s busiest day, Marines from Headquarters and Service Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, patrolled the Hazer Joft bazaar in Garmsir, Afghanistan, June 2, to provide security and interact with bazaar patrons.

Defense Policy / Programs

• US Vice President Biden Meets Iraqi Leaders During Baghdad Visit VOA 04 Jul 2010 -- U.S. Vice President Joe Biden met with American troops in Baghdad to celebrate Independence Day, before meeting with Iraqi political leaders to try and coax them into speeding up the process of forming a new government.
• Bidens Celebrate Independence Day With Troops in Iraq AFPS 04 Jul 2010 -- As Americans back home celebrated with fireworks and festivities, Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, opted to spend their Fourth of July holiday in Iraq, thanking U.S. troops for the service and sacrifice that help to ensure the nation remains free.
• Robots, bomb suits and IED’s; LF train EOD tactics with ROKMC USMC News 04 Jul 2010 -- In a dirt soccer field there are four improvised explosive devices – each is wired, buried and dangerous. A squad of Marines patrols nearby and a Marine spots an IED, calls a halt to the patrol and clears the area. The Marines radio for Explosive Ordnance Disposal support and wait for their arrival. Soon the soft electrical whir of a motor can be heard in the distance. A robot approaches, rolls up to the IED, digs it up with a robotic arm and disarms the device. Seconds later a crowd forms around the exposed IED, but instead of worrying if it will explode they are learning the procedures of what just took place and how to safely deal with an IED when the scenario isn’t in a training environment.
• USS Constitution Underway to Celebrate Independence Day Navy NewsStand 04 Jul 2010 -- USS Constitution and her crew got underway July 4 to celebrate the nation's independence from Great Britain.
• Wing Reservists to Participate in Navy Fleet Exercise Navy NewsStand 04 Jul 2010 -- Four 507th Air Refueling Wing KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft and more than 180 Air Force Reservists will join forces with the U.S. Navy in July to support a Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC).
• US Marines, Bulgarian soldiers strengthen bonds through training USMC News 04 Jul 2010 -- Waves of Kalashnikov rifle fire, punctuated by the sharp crack of U.S. Marine Corps M-4 carbines, applauded through the lush hills and valleys of Bulgaria’s Novo Selo Training Area, July 2, but this was no firefight.
• Russian fighter jets make first ever nonstop flight across Russia to Far East RIA Novosti 04 Jul 2010 -- Russian fighter jets have performed the first ever nonstop flights from European Russia to the Russian Far East with in-flight refueling as part of the Vostok-2010 military drills, Chief of the General Staff Nikolai Makarov said on Sunday.
• Russia's Medvedev oversees naval phase of Vostok-2010 military drills RIA Novosti 04 Jul 2010 -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is overseeing on Sunday the naval phase of Russia's Vostok 2010 military drills in the Sea of Okhotsk in the Russian Far East on board the heavy nuclear-powered cruiser Pyotr Veliky.
• Two Russian ships leave Far East to participate in S. Korean drills RIA Novosti 04 Jul 2010 -- Two Russian vessels from the Russian Far Eastern regions of Primorye and Sakhalin left the port of Vladivostok early on Sunday to take part in anti-terrorist and rescue exercises in South Korea.
• Russian Black Sea fleet ship to take part in Ukrainian navy parade RIA Novosti 04 Jul 2010 -- For the first time in five years, a Russian warship will take part in a naval parade to mark Ukraine's Navy Day on Sunday, a Black Sea Fleet spokesman told RIA Novosti.

Defense Industry

• Submarine Missouri Completes First Voyage General Dynamics 04 Jul 2010 -- The nation’s newest and most advanced nuclear-powered attack submarine, Missouri (SSN-780), returned to the Electric Boat shipyard today following the successful completion of its first voyage in open seas, called alpha sea trials. Missouri is the seventh ship of the Virginia Class, the most capable class of attack submarines ever built. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics (NYSE: GD).

Other Conflicts

• Behind The 'Blue Helmets' -- A Look At UN Peacekeepers RFE/RL 04 Jul 2010 -- When Nick Birnback took on his assignment as a UN peacekeeper in Bosnia-Herzegovina in 1998, an elderly Serbian couple had been gruesomely murdered in the western town of Drvar.
• Clinton Seeks To Restart Talks Between Azerbaijan, Armenia RFE/RL 04 Jul 2010 -- Emin Milli and Adnan Hajizada -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has visited Azerbaijan to seek a restart of peace talks over Nagorno-Karabakh, repair frayed bilateral ties, and press the oil-rich Caucasus nation on human rights.
• Clinton Presses Armenia, Azerbaijan for Nagorno-Karabakh Settlement VOA 04 Jul 2010 -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met Sunday with the leaders of Armenia and Azerbaijan to press for progress toward settling their long-standing dispute over Nagorno-Karabakh. Clinton completes her brief visit to the southern Caucasus region Monday in Georgia.
• Israel's Netanyahu Announces Strategy for White House Summit VOA 04 Jul 2010 -- Israel is setting out its strategy for a White House summit on Tuesday.
• War Crimes Suspect Spared Extradition by Australian Court VOA 04 Jul 2010 -- An Australian accused of war crimes during the Second World War has won an appeal against a decision to extradite him to Hungary. Australia's Federal Court has ruled that Charles Zentai, 88, should not be sent to Hungary to face allegations of war crimes because of his age and ill health.
• Darfur ex-combatants opt for voluntary discharge backed by UN-African mission UN News Centre 04 Jul 2010 -- More than 800 former combatants in the conflict in Sudan's western region of Darfur are expected to take part in a three-week voluntary discharge exercise that began today, with the support of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur (UNAMID).

News Reports

• Senior Lebanese Shi'ite Cleric Fadlallah Dies RFE/RL 04 Jul 2010 -- Lebanon's Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Muhammad Hussein Fadlallah, one of Shi'ite Islam's highest religious authorities and an early mentor of the militant group Hizballah, died in a Beirut hospital today, his family said.
• Lebanon's Top Shi'ite Cleric Dies VOA 04 Jul 2010 -- Lebanon's top Shi'ite Muslim cleric, whose influence reached beyond Lebanon, has died at the age of 75 after a long illness.
• Suspected Russian spy who jumped bail most likely fled Cyprus RIA Novosti 04 Jul 2010 -- An alleged Russian spy who jumped bail in Cyprus, "appears to have left" the country, CBC quoted the Cypriot president as saying.
• Spokesman: Amiri Kidnapping documents submitted to Swiss embassy IRNA 04 Jul 2010 -- Foreign Ministry Spokesman said here on Saturday evening that kidnapping documents of Shahram Amiri by Central Intelligent Agency (CIA) has been submitted to the Swiss embassy in Tehran as the US interest section in Tehran.
• Russian space freighter successfully docks with ISS RIA Novosti 04 Jul 2010 -- Progress M-06M cargo spacecraft successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS), RIA Novosti correspondent reported from Mission Control on Sunday.
• Rising Nationalism Threatens Kyrgyzstan RFE/RL 04 Jul 2010 -- One thing is clear from the testimony of witnesses of the ethnic violence that killed hundreds and possibly thousands of people in Kyrgyzstan last month: most of the victims were from the ethnic Uzbek minority.