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Current Operations

Deployments

• USS Theodore Roosevelt Battle Group Completes COMPTUEX, Commences Deployment NNS 04 Feb 2003 -- Ships and aircraft of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Carrier Battle Group successfully completed their Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) today, and have been certified ready to deploy. The battle group, commanded by Rear Adm. John C. Harvey Jr., will deploy from the Puerto Rican Operating Area today in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and other contingencies if required.
• Two Robins units receive deployment orders ACC 04 Feb 2003 -- The 5th Combat Communications Group and 116th Air Control Wing here received orders to deploy to the Central Command theater of operations.

  US Policy

• Rumsfeld: World Stage Not a Court of Law AFPS 04 Feb 2003 -- The world stage isn't a court of law, and the United States isn't trying to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that Saddam Hussein is a threat, but to convince reasonable people of this, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.
• Powell-U-N-Iraq VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell goes before the U-N Security Council Wednesday for a crucial briefing aimed at reinforcing the Bush administration's case that Iraq is not complying with last November's disarmament resolution, and that efforts to resolve the situation peacefully have nearly reached an end.
• PENTAGON/IRAQ VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is lying when he denies having weapons of mass destruction and links to terrorist groups.
• PENTAGON/STEALTH/FRANKS VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- Stealth fighters like those used for bombing attacks on Baghdad on the first night of the 1991 Gulf War have left the United States for an undisclosed location in the Middle East.
• U-S IRAQ PROOF VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell's appearance Wednesday before the U-N Security Council provides the Bush administration with its best opportunity to sway international opinion on the threat posed by Iraq's weapons program. Secretary Powell's presentation is already being compared to the 1962 showdown at the United Nations between the United States and the Soviet Union, over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba.

United Nations

• Blix Won't Ask for More Time for Inspectors Washington File 04 Feb 2003 -- Saying that it is "five minutes to midnight," chief U.N. weapons inspector Hans Blix said February 4 that Iraq must cooperate immediately with U.N. weapons inspectors on the substance of its weapons of mass destruction programs.
• UN monitors press forward with inspections in Iraq UN News Centre 04 Feb 2003 -- On the eve of a Security Council meeting to hear a briefing by the United States on its evidence of Iraq's suspected arms programme, United Nations monitors on the ground pressed forward with their inspections today.
• Iraq should provide more evidence of 'substance,' chief UN inspector says UN News Centre 04 Feb 2003 -- As the top United Nations disarmament officials prepare for another round of talks with Iraqi authorities this weekend, Hans Blix said today it is essential for Baghdad to actively produce any prohibited items or show "credible evidence" for their absence as a show of cooperation with the inspection process.
• US briefing on Iraq among key issues for Security Council in February, President says UN News Centre 04 Feb 2003 -- Tomorrow's briefing by United States Secretary of State Colin Powell will be the first big event on the Security Council's calendar for the month of February, the President of the 15-nation body said today.
• U-N-H-C-R / IRAQ VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- The head of the U-N refugee agency says his organization is working with Iraq's neighbors to prepare for a flood of refugees in case of a war against Iraq
• UNMOVIC IAEA Press Statement on Inspection Activities in Iraq UNMOVIC/IAEA 04 February 2003
• Tracking Inspections in Iraq RFE/L 04 Feb 2003

Foreign Reactions

• Bahraini Monarch Urges Saddam Hussein to Comply With U.N. AFPS 04 Feb 2003 -- The king of Bahrain stood in front of the Pentagon today and told reporters Saddam Hussein should disarm.
• AUSTRALIA /HOWARD/IRAQ VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- Prime Minister John Howard has told the Australian Parliament that the international community must act decisively against Saddam Hussein. Mr. Howard was attempting to justify military action against Baghdad in the face of significant domestic opposition to a war
• IRAQ VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- With the threat of war with Iraq looming, Arab officials are increasing their efforts to prevent armed conflict. The Arab League has announced plans to hold its annual summit sooner than had been scheduled and has raised the possibility of sending a last-ditch peace mission to Baghdad
• TURKEY/IRAQ VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- Turkey's top politician warned lawmakers that if they do not back the United States in a possible war against Iraq, Turkey will risk not having a say in shaping the future of its Arab neighbor. Tayyip Erdogan's comments, just ahead of a key parliamentary debate, mark a shift in Turkey's efforts to stay out of a possible war against Iraq.
• FRANCE/BRITAIN VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- At a meeting in France, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and the French President Jacques Chirac failed to bridge their differences over how to ensure that Iraq is free of weapons of mass destruction. The leaders emphasized their meeting was particularly cordial and they tried to downplay their disagreements.
• ASIA ECONOMIES / WAR VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- War talk has unsettled trading in Asian stock markets for months now. As the United Nations Security Council deliberates its next move on Iraq, economists in Asia warn that a conflict could weaken the region's economies, some of which are just coming out of recession.

News Reports

• SADDAM INTERVIEW VOA 04 Feb 2003 -- British television channel has aired an interview with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. It was conducted by former long-time Labor party politician Tony Benn for Channel Four Television in Baghdad two days ago.