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Current Operations

• COALITION AND IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE (May 28, 2003) CENTCOM 28 May 2003 -- Coalition Forces continue to aggressively patrol Iraq to eliminate crimes against people and property, rid populated areas of weapons, ammunition explosives, and stop the black market trade in fuel and other commodities. Coalition Forces also continue to conduct joint security patrols with Iraqi police in their efforts to increase the professionalism of the police force and prepare them for their role in a self-governed Iraq.
• COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ'S RECOVERY (May 28, 2003) CENTCOM 28 May 2003 -- Coalition Forces continue to assist in developing a safer and more secure environment in Iraq.
• COALITION AID IRAQ'S RECOVERY ARCENT CJTF-7 28 May 2003
• COALITION/IRAQI POLICE SECURE IRAQ ARCENT CJTF-7 28 May 2003
• COALITION DISCOVERS AND RECOVERS MORE IRAQI GOLD ARCENT CJTF-7 28 May 2003

Deployments

US Policy

• Iraqi Mobile Biological Warfare Agent Production Plants Central intelligence Agency 28 May 2003 -- "Coalition forces have uncovered the strongest evidence to date that Iraq was hiding a biological warfare program. (...) The design, equipment, and layout of the trailer found in late April is strikingly similar to descriptions provided by a source who was a chemical engineer that managed one of the mobile plants. Secretary of State Powell's description of the mobile plants in his speech in February 2003 to the United Nations (see inset below) was based primarily on reporting from this source." [PDF Version 741 Kb]

• Iraq Suffering From 'Freedom Deficit' AFPS 28 May 2003 -- Iraq can be a model for other Arab nations as Iraqi citizens work to establish a representative government in their country, a senior defense policy maker said today.
• Feith Says Iraqis Must Build Their Own Country Washington File 28 May 2003 -- The role for the United States and its coalition partners in Iraq is to set conditions that will allow free Iraqis to build their own country in their own way, says Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith.

United Nations

• UN: Annan Chooses Human Rights Chief As Iraq Representative RFE/L 28 May 2003 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan yesterday formally presented his choice for the UN's special representative in Iraq -- UN human rights chief Sergio Vieira de Mello.
• Iraq: UN relief agencies focus on garbage collection, vaccination campaigns UN News Centre 28 May 2003 -- United Nations relief agencies continued their rehabilitation efforts in Iraq today, ranging from garbage collection to vaccination campaigns to the possible revival of marshlands drained by the regime of Saddam Hussein.

Reconstruction Issues

• USAID Awards Five Iraq Community Development Contracts Washington File 28 May 2003 -- The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has awarded five contracts to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to promote citizen involvement in community development in Iraq.
• Political Parties Support De-Ba'athification, But Fear Regime's Return RFE/L 28 May 2003 -- Iraq's U.S. civilian administration is barring former administration, army and secret-service officials from current state employment as part of its proposed de-Ba'athification process. U.S. authorities say the move is meant to assure the Iraqi people that Saddam Hussein's regime will not return to power. Iraq's emerging political parties say they support de-Ba'athification, but still have fears they have not seen the end of Hussein's regime.
• PENTAGON / IRAQ POLICE VOA 28 May 2003 -- A senior Defense Department official says the United States has appealed to nearly 50 countries to provide police advisors for Iraq but so far only a few have agreed.
• Iraq Reconstruction and Women VOA 28 May 2003 -- Traditionally, Iraqi women have assumed some political role even under Saddam Hussein. But they appear to be largely overlooked in U-S post-war decision making. They are also under increasing pressure from fundamentalist leaders who want to keep them covered up and at home. And women are the disproportionate vicitms of the crime now rampant in Iraq.
• WOMEN / AFGHANISTAN / IRAQ VOA 28 May 2003 -- As post-war work continues in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U-S government is teaming up with advocates of women's rights to try to raise the status of women in the two countries.
• Kurdish Lawyer Elected Mayor Of Kirkuk RFE/L 28 May 2003 -- The new council of the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk today elected a Kurdish lawyer as mayor.

Foreign Reactions

• U.S./Russia: Will Weekend Handshakes, Summit Smiles Signal Healing In Trans-Atlantic, Trans-European Rifts? RFE/L 28 May 2003 -- St. Petersburg's 300th anniversary celebrations this weekend will mark the first time since the end of the war in Iraq that the leaders of Britain, Germany, France, Russia, and the United States will find themselves at the same forum. The leaders will then travel to Evian, France, for another joint appearance at this year's G-8 summit. Do the meetings signal an end to the trans-Atlantic and trans-European rifts over Iraq, or has too much damage been done to be repaired so quickly?

News Reports

• Iraq: Once-Outlawed Satellite Dishes Sprouting Like Mushrooms On Baghdad's Rooftops RFE/L 28 May 2003 -- Satellite television dishes are sprouting like mushrooms on rooftops in post-Saddam Hussein Baghdad. The trade in TV gear is flourishing, and enterprising Iraqi entrepreneurs see bright prospects for this business, which was banned during the rule of Saddam Hussein.
• TURKEY: Border relief resources move into Iraq IRIN 28 May 2003 -- Relief workers in the southeastern Turkish border town of Silopi have turned their attention to the humanitarian crisis inside Iraq after concerns over an influx of refugees into Turkey failed to materialise.