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Current Operations

• COALITION FORCES DROP LEAFLETS IN SOUTHERN IRAQ 13 Jan 2003 -- Coalition aircraft dropped informational leaflets over southern Iraq today
• COALITION FORCES TARGET IRAQI ANTI-SHIP MISSILE LAUNCHER 13 Jan 2003 -- In response to Iraqi hostile threats against Coalition forces monitoring compliance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions in Southern Iraq, Operation SOUTHERN WATCH Coalition aircraft used precision-guided weapons today to strike an Iraqi anti-ship missile launcher near Al Basrah, approximately 300 miles southeast of Baghdad, at approximately 4:10 a.m. EST

Deployments

• PENTAGON / IRAQ UPDATE VOA 13 Jan 2003 -- The U-S military build-up now under way in the Gulf region will take several more weeks to reach the 150-thousand mark

US Policy

• White House Daily Briefing White House 13 Jan 2003
• Daily Press Briefing State Department 13 Jan 2003 -- Saudi Arabian Leaders / Talks with Turkey / Disarmament and Cooperation / UN Meeting / France on Counter Terrorism / Issue on War Criminals
• BUSH IRAQ VOA 13 Jan 2003 -- As the United States continues to build up its forces for possible action against Iraq, U-N weapons inspectors indicate they may need several months more and perhaps as much as a year to complete their work in Iraq. The initial White House response is that there is no timetable for the inspections.
• Haass Says Saddam Must Prove Compliance with International Obligations Washington File 13 Jan 2003 -- Ambassador Richard Haass, Director of the Office of Policy Planning Staff at the State Department, said on January 10 that Saddam Hussein must come into compliance with Iraq's international obligations and give up any weapons of mass destruction. Haass was speaking to the media in Rabat, Morocco, at the end of a trip to India and the United Arab Emirates
• BUSH HAS PUT NO "TIMETABLE" ON U.N. INSPECTIONS IN IRAQ Washington File 13 Jan 2003 -- President Bush "has not put a timetable" on how long the United Nations weapons inspections in Iraq should continue, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer told reporters January 13, following news reports that the inspectors said their work could take as long as a year

United Nations

• Tracking the Inspections 13 January 2003RFE/L 13 Jan 2003 -- A team of two International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspectors went to the Ibn Rushd State Company, owned by Iraq's Military Industrial Organization (MIO), in the Al-Sayyidiyah area of Baghdad.
• IRAQ / INSPECT / TROOPS VOA 13 Jan 2003 -- U-N weapons inspectors in Iraq spent their 45th day searching for banned weapons, as a contingent of British troops arrived in Kuwait to prepare for a larger British troop deployment to the Gulf region. This while an Iraqi official says Saddam Hussein will stay in power until the last Iraqi bullet is fired

Foreign Reactions

• FRANCE / ELBARADEI VOA 13 Jan 2003 -- The director of the International Atomic Energy Agency says weapons inspectors in Iraq will need several more months to complete their work. The I-A-E-A Director General Mohamed ElBaradei spoke in Paris
• BRITAIN / IRAQ VOA 13 Jan 2003 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he expects the United Nations will authorize military force against Iraq if Baghdad violates a disarmament resolution. But the prime minister says he would not put an arbitrary deadline on the U-N weapons inspections
• U-S/TURKEY BASES VOA 13 Jan 2003 -- A team of U-S military personnel has arrived in Turkey to inspect Turkish military bases for possible use in a war against Iraq. Washington is asking its NATO ally for permission to allow tens of thousands of American troops to use its territory for an invasion of Iraq from the north, if President Bush decides to go to war.
• POPE/IRAQ VOA 13 Jan 2003 -- Pope John Paul has spoken out strongly against war with Iraq, in an annual speech to diplomats at the Vatican

News Reports

• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 6, Number 1 Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty 13 January 2003 -- IRAQ TO LODGE COMPLAINT AGAINST UN INSPECTORS / IRAQI DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER SAYS CALLS FOR DIALOGUE IGNORED BY WASHINGTON / IRAQI NATIONAL MONITORING CHIEF ON COOPERATION, SCIENTISTS / IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER REQUESTS UN FACT-FINDING MISSION / IRAQI PRESIDENT DELIVERS ARMY DAY SPEECH / IRAQI PRESIDENT MEETS WITH ADVISERS, SONS / PARTY CLAIMS PRESIDENT'S SON FOILED COUP ATTEMPT / NEW IRAQI OPPOSITION PARTY ESTABLISHED / IRAQI FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS U.S. WANTS TO DOMINATE WORLD / IRAQI VICE PRESIDENT INAUGURATES FACTORY / ISRAEL SAYS ARROW MISSILE CAN INTERCEPT SCUDS / SAUDI FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS HE IS WAITING FOR 'PROOF' ON IRAQ / TURKISH DAILY REPORTS ON ESTABLISHMENT OF REFUGEE CAMPS / TURKISH FOREIGN MINISTER COMMENTS ON IRAQ, TURKOMANS, AND OIL... / ...AND TURKISH PRIME MINISTER EXPOUNDS... / ...AS HE WRAPS UP TALKS IN JORDAN / TURKISH PARTY LEADER SAYS TURKEY WILL NOT CONDONE STATE IN NORTHERN IRAQ / IRAQIS, KUWAITIS MEET IN JORDAN TO DISCUSS POWS / ASYLUM, ANYONE? / BRITISH LEADERS SAY 27 JANUARY DEADLINE 'NOT CRITICAL'... / ...AND FRENCH PRESIDENT SAYS 'COLLECTIVE ACTION' IS THE ONLY SOLUTION / RUSSIAN DEFENSE MINISTER: KREMLIN CONSIDERS UNILATERAL MILITARY ACTION AGAINST IRAQ ILLEGITIMATE / SPANISH DEFENSE MINISTER SAYS IRAQI MISSILES COULD REACH MEDITERRANEAN / UNMOVIC HEAD SAYS NO EVIDENCE FOUND BUT CLAIMS IRAQ IS STILL NOT IN COMPLIANCE... / ...AS IAEA HEAD SAYS NO NUCLEAR ACTIVITY DETECTED... / ...AND STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN CALLS IRAQI COOPERATION 'SUPERFICIAL / NEW 'OIL-FOR-FOOD' RESTRICTIONS ON IRAQ