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Current Operations

• Squadron steadily punished Iraq's war assets Marine Corps News 29 May 2003-- They were the first Camp Pendleton aircraft squadron sent home from the war - but not before leaving scores of enemy tanks, armored personnel carriers and artillery pieces blackened and useless.
• Soldier Dies in Attack; 2 Civilians Die in Separate Incident AFPS 29 May 2003 -- Two incidents in the past day have led to the deaths of one American soldier and two Iraqi civilians who died in an apparent attack on a U.S. checkpoint.
• COALITION EFFORTS AID IRAQ'S RECOVERY CENTCOM 29 May 2003 -- Coalition Forces continue to assist in developing a safer and more secure environment in Iraq.
• VEHICLE ATTEMPTS TO RUN CHECKPOINT CENTCOM 29 May 2003 -- Two civilians were killed and two were injured in Samarra late Wednesday night when they attempted to drive their vehicle through a Coalition checkpoint.
• ALLEGED MURDERER MISTAKENLY RELEASED FROM U.S. CUSTODY CENTCOM 29 May 2003 -- U.S. military forces mistakenly released Mohammed Jawad An-Neifus from the Bucca Internment facility at Umm Qasr on May 18, 2003.
• US MILITARY CHECKPOINT ATTACKED IN SAMARRA CENTCOM 29 May 2003 -- On Monday at approximately 10:45 p.m., soldiers from the 4th Infantry Division conducting a patrol observed the occupants of three white trucks firing weapons in public.
• COALITION AND IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE (May 29, 2003) CENTCOM 29 May 2003 -- Coalition Forces continue to aggressively patrol Iraq to eliminate crimes against people and property, rid populated areas of weapons, ammunition and explosives, and stop the black market trade in fuel and other commodities.
• U.S. SOLDIER KILLED CENTCOM 29 May 2003 -- A U.S. soldier was killed by hostile fire while traveling on a main supply route in Iraq today.
• COALITION/IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE ARCENT CJTF-7 29 May 2003
• COALITION/IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE ARCENT CJTF-7 29 May 2003
• VEHICLE ATTEMPTS TO AVOID CHECKPOINT ARCENT CJTF-7 29 May 2003
• ALLEGED MURDERER MISTAKENLY RELEASED FROM COALITION CUSTODY ARCENT CJTF-7 29 May 2003
• COALITION CHECKPOINT ATTACKED IN SAMARRA ARCENT CJTF-7 29 May 2003
• U.S. SOLDIER KILLED ARCENT CJTF-7 29 May 2003
• 4TH INFANTRY DIVISION SOLDIER DIES AT CAMP BOOM ARCENT CJTF-7 29 May 2003

Deployments

US Policy

• PENTAGON / IRAQ VOA 29 May 2003 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he still believes coalition forces in Iraq will eventually find clear evidence of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction programs.
• US / IRAQ DIPLOMATS VOA 29 May 2003 -- The United States says diplomats who remained in Baghdad after the ouster of the Saddam Hussein government no longer enjoy diplomatic immunity and related privileges. The comments followed a raid by U-S troops early Wednesday at the Palestinian mission in Baghdad that U-S officials say netted a number of weapons.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ / KIRKUK VOA 29 May 2003 -- Iraqi Kurds are rushing back into an ethnically mixed and oil-rich region of northern Iraq, an area many thousands fled during the rule of Saddam Hussein. The Kurds have strong support from the U-S military as they extend their influence beyond the traditional boundaries of Iraqi Kurdistan.
• IRAQ REBUILDING VOA 29 May 2003 -- In this week's World Opinion Roundup, we hear a collection of editorial comments about the slow and somewhat uneven stabilization of Baghdad and the rest of the country

Foreign Reactions

• IRAQ / BLAIR VOA 29 May 2003 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair Thursday became the first Western leader to visit Iraq since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Mr. Blair met with British and American officials and Iraqi school children in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.
• BUSH / PUTIN / PREVIEW VOA 29 May 2003 -- President Bush is scheduled to hold talks Sunday with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the first time the two leaders have met since relations were strained over the U-S-led war in Iraq. Some analysts say the meeting will be used to ease tensions about Iraq, while others say the main item on the agenda will be concern about Iran's nuclear program.
• Iraq: British Prime Minister Arrives In Basra RFE/L 29 May 2003 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair arrived in Iraq today, the first leader of the U.S.-led coalition that ousted former leader Saddam Hussein to visit Iraq.
• IRAQ/BLAIR VOA 29 May 2003 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has arrived in Iraq, becoming the first western leader to visit the country since the fall of Saddam Hussein. Shortly before Mr. Blair arrived, the U-S military announced that another U-S soldier was killed in an ambush on a main supply route.
• U.S. war against Iraq dismissed as unjust KCNA 29 May 2003 -- The United States describes its Iraqi war as a war for "freedom" and "peace" but it can never justify the injustice and criminal nature of the war, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. The article brands the Iraqi war as a war of aggression against independence and peace, a war unilaterally perpetrated by the U.S. in disregard of international law and the UN and typical state-sponsored terrorism in the 21st century.

News Reports

• IRAQ / DEPLETED URANIUM VOA 29 May 2003 -- A nuclear policy group is calling for more research on the health effects of special ammunition used by the U-S military in the Iraq and other wars.
• IRAQ'S WMD VOA 29 May 2003 -- In the month since President Bush declared an official end to major combat operations in Iraq, U-S military weapons inspectors have failed to turn up any evidence of an illegal weapons program. If the United States fails to uncover the massive stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons it claimed that Iraq had, how will this affect U-S credibility?
• IRAQ / CHEMIST VOA 29 May 2003 -- An Iraqi chemist who worked in Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction program says he is happy to be free of the former Iraqi leader, who he says, made every Iraqi live in fear. But when it comes to the issue of weapons of mass destruction, the scientist told V-O-A Iraq quit producing them after the Gulf war in 1991.
• Iraq: Anti-American Sentiment Continues To Simmer In Sunni Stronghold RFE/L 29 May 2003 -- U.S. troops continue to be the target of sporadic attacks in Iraq. One American soldier was killed today by reported hostile fire while traveling on a major supply line. The incident comes on the heels of an incident on 27 May in which two soldiers were killed and nine injured in an ambush outside Al-Fallujah. It is not the first time the Sunni town has seen clashes between Iraqis and U.S. troops.
• Iraq: No Bodies Found In Suspected Hussein Hideout RFE/L 29 May 2003 -- The U.S. military today said it has found no signs of bodies in the rubble of a building bombed at the start of the Iraq war because it was suspected of being a hideout for deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
• IRAQ / ANIMALS VOA 29 May 2003 -- The world's largest animal welfare organization has launched an emergency appeal for donations to help Iraq's animals. The group says veterinarians in Iraq lack basic supplies to care for sick and injured animals, many which are essential to the country's agricultural regions.
• IRAQ / ANIMALS VOA 29 May 2003 -- The world's largest animal welfare organization has launched an emergency appeal for donations to help Iraq's animals. Melissa Milios reports from London the group says veterinarians in Iraq lack basic supplies to care for sick and injured animals, many which are essential to the country's agricultural regions.