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• Transcript: Enemy Prisoner of War Briefing from Umm Qasr, Iraq 08 May 2003 -- Briefing on enemy prisoner of war status categories, releases and paroles via telephone from Umm Qasr, Iraq. Participating were Army Col. John Della Jacono, chief of staff for the Coalition Forces Land Component Commander, and Army Col. Karl M. Goetzke, staff judge advocate for the Coalition Forces Land Component Commander

• SOLDIER KILLED IN BAGHDAD INCIDENT CENTCOM 08 May 2003 -- One V Corps soldier was killed by gunfire and another injured in separate shooting incidents in Baghdad today.
• IRAQ/SOLDIERS SHOT VOA 08 May 2003 -- U-S military officials say two separate shooting incidents in Iraq Thursday underscore how dangerous the country remains, more than a month after the fall of Saddam Hussein.
• U.S. Says It Has Found Possible Evidence Of Germ Warfare RFE/L 08 May 2003 -- After weeks of apparently fruitless searching, the United States says it has finally found possible evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But any unilateral U.S. discovery is likely to be dogged by controversy
• U.S. Says It Has Found Mobile Biological Arms Lab RFE/L 08 May 2003 -- The U.S. Defense Department says coalition forces in Iraq have found a suspected mobile biological weapons laboratory used by the toppled government of Saddam Hussein.
• IRAQ TRAVEL INFORMAITON CENTCOM 08 May 2003 -- Coalition forces continue to assist in developing a safer, more secure environment in Iraq. However, while conditions throughout Iraq are stabilizing, it is not a permissive environment for visitors.
• COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ'S RECOVERY CENTCOM 08 May 2003 -- Coalition forces continue to assist in the development of a safer and more secure environment in Iraq.
• COALITION FORCES PROVIDE SECURITY, STABILITY (CONT. 8 MAY) CENTCOM 08 May 2003 -- Coalition forces continue to actively patrol Iraq to make it safe for humanitarian assistance operations.
• COALITION FORCES PROVIDE SECURITY, STABILITY CENTCOM 08 May 2003 -- Coalition forces continue to actively patrol Iraq to make it safe for humanitarian assistance operations.
• COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ'S RECOVERY CENTCOM 08 May 2003 -- Coalition forces continue to assist in developing a safer and more secure environment in Iraq. Among recent activities
• Coalition Holds 2,000 Prisoners in Umm Qasr; 7,000 Others Released AFPS 08 May 2003 -- Seven thousand captured Iraqis have been released from the American internment facility at Umm Qasr, officials there said today. Roughly 2,000 remain captive.
• CAOC PUBLIC AFFAIRS MOVES TO NEW LOCATION CENTCOM 08 May 2003 -- The Combined Air Operations Center Public Affairs Office located at Prince Sultan Air Base, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, has relocated to Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar.
• Explosion Aboard USS Saipan Injures 11 Navy NewStand 08 May 2003 -- An explosion occurred May 7 in a berthing compartment aboard USS Saipan (LHA 2) injuring 11 personnel.
• Seabee Project Plays Vital Role in Operation Iraqi Freedom Navy NewStand 08 May 2003 -- What was once an open stretch of sand across a portion of a jointly owned air base, is now a critical parking apron for fighter jets traveling between the sea and the war scene.
• Iraqi Boy Accidentally Struck and Killed by Coalition Vehicle ARCENT CJTF-7 08 May 2003
• KUWAIT CONDUCTS FORENSICS TO IDENTIFY REMAINS ARCENT CJTF-7 08 May 2003
• Coalition Efforts Aid Iraq's Recovery ARCENT CJTF-7 08 May 2003
• Coalition Forces Provide Security, Stability ARCENT CJTF-7 08 May 2003
• Soldier Killed in Baghdad Incident ARCENT V CORPS 09 May 2003

Deployments

US Policy

• President Meets with Amir of Qatar The White House 08 May 2003 -- "It's my honor to welcome the Amir of Qatar to the Oval Office. The Amir has shown great leadership. He has led his country to join in a vast coalition to make the world more peaceful, to make the world more free."
• U-S / IRAQ SANCTIONS VOA 08 May 2003 -- The United States will formally introduce a U-N Security Council resolution Friday that will lift U-N sanctions imposed on Iraq after its 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The proposed resolution does not lift the U-N arms embargo.
• Bush Lifts U.S. Sanctions on Iraq, Will Ask U.N. for Same AFPS 08 May 2003 -- President Bush acted May 7 to lift trade and economic sanctions the United States had placed on Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
• EDITORIAL: HELPING IRAQ REBUILD VOA 08 May 2003 -- The U.S.-led coalition is working closely with the Iraqi people to help them rebuild their country. As President George W. Bush said, the coalition has confidence in the future of a free Iraq
• Powell Says U.S. Resolution Will Propose 'Vital' Role For UN RFE/L 08 May 2003 -- The United States is set to introduce a new UN draft resolution on lifting sanctions against Iraq. That could go some way in uniting a divided Security Council

United Nations

• Security Council to receive draft US resolution on Iraq tomorrow - President UN News Centre 08 May 2003 -- The United States is expected to present a draft resolution to the United Nations Security Council tomorrow calling for the lifting of sanctions on Iraq and dealing with the UN role there, with consultations on the text to possibly begin early next week

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ STABILIZATION FORCE TAKING SHAPE RFE/L 08 May 2003 -- The United States, Britain, and Poland have drawn up plans to establish a multinational security force to police Iraq, Polish Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz announced on 3 May.

• Opposition Groups Jockey For Position In Interim Government RFE/L 08 May 2003 -- The fate of Iraq's interim government is due to be determined within the next few weeks. The U.S. civil administration has declared that a council of up to nine Iraqis will lead the temporary government, and Iraqi opposition groups have responded by jockeying for position. The composition of the council is expected to be announced by the start of the Iraqi national conference later this month.
• IRAQ / SECURITY VOA 08 May 2003 -- U-S officials in charge of restoring security and stability in Iraq report steady progress, one month after Saddam Hussein was ousted from power.
• IRAQ / JUSTICE VOA 08 May 2003 -- Iraq has taken the first step to revive its criminal justice system, since Baghdad fell to U-S forces a month ago.
• REBUILDING IRAQ VOA 08 May 2003 -- The American press continues to focus on Iraq, and although the major fighting has been over for weeks, there is growing concern over several aspects of the post war period.
• IRAQ: Unemployment grips Basra IRIN 08 May 2003 -- As a United Nations vehicle pulls up outside the Al-A'yun Hotel in Basra city it is immediately mobbed by 70 to 80 people waving their CVs at the arriving official, jostling to gain his attention. "Any job, I will do anything," a voice from the back of the crowd rings out.

Foreign Reactions

• POLAND / IRAQ VOA 08 May 2003 -- Poland is preparing to play a big role in peacekeeping in Iraq, but is having trouble convincing other European countries to join in. Poland is seeking a U-N mandate for an international stabilization force in Iraq as a way to convince Germany and other European nations to take part in peacekeeping.
• BRITAIN / IRAQ VOA 08 May 2003 -- Britain's ambassador to the United Nations, Jeremy Greenstock, says a draft resolution the United States and Britain will introduce in the Security Council envisions U-N and other country involvement in a gradual transition to a new government in Iraq. The British U-N envoy spoke in Washington Thursday about post-war coalition plans for Iraq.
• Kuwait Minister of Defense Visits Camp Patriot Navy NewStand 08 May 2003 -- Kuwait's Defense Minister Sheikh Jaber al-Mubarak al-Sabah bid Gulf Country Council (GCC) troops participating in Peninsula Shield farewell and thanks May 7, from the parade deck of Kuwait navy base and Camp Patriot.

News Reports

• IRAQ / KURDS VOA 08 May 2003-- In the immediate aftermath of the war in Iraq, thousands of displaced people returned to the northern part of the country to reclaim their houses and farms in and around the city of Kirkuk. Regional experts gathered at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York recently to discuss ways to arbitrate the conflicts over property between returning Iraqi Kurds and Arabs