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Current Operations

• U.S. SOLDIER DROWNS CENTCOM 26 May 2003 -- A U.S. soldier drowned Monday afternoon after diving into an aqueduct south of Kirkuk, Iraq.
• ONE U.S. SOLDIER KILLED, THREE WOUNDED IN VEHICLE EXPLOSION CENTCOM 26 May 2003 -- One U.S. soldier was killed and three injured this afternoon when a High-Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV) ran over a landmine or unexploded ordnance on Highway 8.
• ONE SOLDIER KILLED AND TWO INJURED IN A COLLISION CENTCOM 26 May 2003 -- One soldier was killed and two injured while traveling down a main supply route northwest of Talil today.
• COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ'S RECOVERY CENTCOM 26 May 2003 -- Coalition Forces continue to assist in developing a safer and more secure environment in Iraq.
• COALITION AND IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE CENTCOM 26 May 2003 -- Coalition Forces continue to aggressively patrol Iraq to eliminate smuggling weapons trade and explosives.
• THIRD ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT CONVOY AMBUSHED CENTCOM 26 May 2003 -- One U.S. soldier was killed this morning, and another wounded when a 3d Armored Cavalry Regiment convoy was attacked this morning near Hadithah, a town about 120 miles northwest of Baghdad.
• COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ RECOVERY ARCENT CJTF-7 26 May 2003
• COALITION AND IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE ARCENT CJTF-7 26 May 2003
• ONE SOLDIER KILLED AND TWO INJURED IN A COLLISION ARCENT CJTF-7 26 May 2003
• ONE SOLDIER KILLED AND THREE INJURED IN A EXPLOSION ARCENT CJTF-7 26 May 2003
• SOLDIER DROWNED ARCENT CJTF-7 26 May 2003

Deployments

• TCN's easing Marine retrograde back home Marine Corps News 26 May 2003-- Third World Country Nationalists, or TCN, transport gear within Kuwait, which eases the transition of 1st Marine Division from the Middle East back to Camp Pendleton.

US Policy

United Nations

• I-A-E-A/IRAQ VOA 26 May 2003 -- The International Atomic Energy Agency says it is sending a small team of inspectors to Iraq to check whether any nuclear material is missing, following media reports of looting.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ/BREMER VOA 26 May 2003 -- Efforts are under way to help Iraq begin the process of restoring an economy that had been manipulated for decades by the regime of Saddam Hussein. The top U-S administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, says helping Iraq's economy is critical for freedom to flourish.
• IRAQ / HOSPITALS VOA 26 May 2003 -- The U-S administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, says that, while hospitals in Iraq are in extremely bad condition, his first priority is to get electricity flowing to at least enable doctors to perform surgery. But doctors in Baghdad say hospitals there are in critical condition and in severe need of repair and rehabilitation.
• Iraq: Filth And Deprivation Rack Baghdad's Only Mental Hospital RFE/L 26 May 2003 -- Baghdad's Al-Rashad Hospital was Iraq's only facility providing long-term care for patients suffering from chronic schizophrenia and other mental disorders. But like other hospitals throughout the city, Al-Rashad was stripped bare by looters in the days following the fall of Baghdad. The vast majority of its patients have fled. Some 300 remain, living in squalid conditions that grow worse by the day.

Foreign Reactions

• Iran, Jordan call for formation of democratic government in Iraq IRNA 31 May 2003 -- Minister of Mines and Metals Eshaq Jahangiri and Jordanian Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Shaher Bak in a meeting here Tuesday stressed the need for formation of a democratic government in Iraq.
• NATO: Parliamentary Assembly Discusses Iraq War And Its Consequences RFE/L 26 May 2003 -- The NATO parliamentary assembly is conducting its spring session in the Czech capital Prague this week. The meeting is bringing together hundreds of legislators from the 19 NATO member states and some 20 other countries -- mainly in Eastern Europe. The Iraq war and its consequences are high on the agenda.
• NATO: Assembly Attempts To Learn Lessons From Rift Over Iraq War RFE/L 26 May 2003 -- The U.S.-led war in Iraq exposed deep divisions within NATO and put a heavy strain on trans-Atlantic ties. What are the lessons to be learned for NATO? Parliamentarians from NATO countries and their neighbors have been discussing this issue at their spring assembly in Prague

News Reports

• Iraq: NGO Perusing Files It Says Detail Executions RFE/L 26 May 2003 -- An Iraqi nongovernmental organization says it is watching over large numbers of files that detail mass killings in the country and which provide clues to the disappearances of many people. With bureaucratic efficiency, the files record the names of those who were given death sentences and the dates the executions were carried out. The organization is working on making the names of the victims public so loved ones will finally know the fate of missing relatives.