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• OPERATION IVY SERPENT CONTINUES CENTCOM 13 Jul 2003 -- The 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse launched Operation Ivy Serpent, a preemptive strike July 12, resulting in the capture of several members of the former regime and the confiscation of numerous weapons and ammunition caches.
• HUMANITARIAN PROJECTS HELP IRAQIS CENTCOM 13 Jul 2003 -- Soldiers of the 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse are helping rebuild Iraq with projects directed at improving facilities and providing jobs.
• COALITION CONTINUES EFFORTS TO REBUILD IRAQ CENTCOM 13 Jul 2003 -- Coalition forces tested water and provided money for refurbishment of a water treatment facility as part of recent reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
• COALITION SECURITY EFFORTS CONTINUE CENTCOM 13 Jul 2003 -- The 101st Airborne Division started border guard training for more than 100 border guards in the Chwarta and Halaba districts.
• ONE DEAD, TWO WOUNDED IN VEHICLE ACCIDENT CENTCOM 13 Jul 2003 -- One soldier was killed and two others injured at approximately
• OPERATION IVY SERPENT CENTCOM 13 Jul 2003 -- The 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse has launched the fourth series of operations, yesterday, focused on neutralizing paramilitary, Ba'ath Party loyalists and other subversive elements within Iraq.
• Rumsfeld: Attacks on Americans in Iraq Likely to Continue, Even Increase AFPS 13 Jul 2003 -- The closer coalition forces get to completely dismantling the remnants of Iraq's ousted Baath government, the "more vicious" attacks on American forces in that country are likely to become, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said today.

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US Policy

• Rumsfeld Discusses Assessments of Liberia, Iraq Washington File 13 Jul 2003 -- Humanitarian and military assessment teams are examining the situation in Liberia, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in remarks to the press outside an ABC studio July 13.
• Rumsfeld Briefs on Iraq, North Korea, Liberia Situations Washington File 13 Jul 2003 -- The situation in Iraq is "difficult" at the moment, but "the outcome is going to be a good outcome," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" July 13.
• Rumsfeld Says U.S. Forces Will Stay in Iraq Despite Difficulties Washington File 13 Jul 2003 -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in an interview with ABC July 13 that although more Americans will be killed in Iraq, it is important for the United States to be there, and he noted that "The president has said we're going to use as many forces as are necessary for as long as it takes because it is an important thing for this country and the coalition."
• White House Calls Iraq-Africa Uranium Controversy Overblown VOA News 13 Jul 2003 -- The White House says the controversy over President's Bush statement that Iraq was trying to buy uranium from Niger to build a nuclear bomb is overblown.
• BUSH/IRAQ/INTELLIGENCE VOA 13 Jul 2003 -- Bush administration officials are defending their handling of intelligence information prior to the war in Iraq, denying accusations they used questionable evidence regarding suspected weapons of mass destruction to win public support for action against Saddam Hussein. White House National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice spoke out on the controversy in a series of interviews on American television.
• CIA Chief Reportedly Deleted Iraq-Africa Connection From a Bush Speech VOA News 13 Jul 2003 -- Senior Bush administration officials say the CIA intervened to delete a reference to Iraq seeking to buy uranium from Niger from a presidential speech last October.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Governing Council Convenes in Baghdad VOA News 13 Jul 2003 -- A new interim governing council for Iraq held its first meeting Sunday in an important step toward creating a representative and democratic Iraqi government.
• Iraq: New Governing Council Holds First Meeting RFE/L 13 Jul 2003 -- A new body that gives Iraqis a say in running their country is meeting for the first time in Baghdad today.
• Iraq: UN envoy hails Governing Council, pledges support on long road to recovery UN News Centre 13 Jul 2003 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan's senior envoy to Iraq today hailed the formation of the country's new Governing Council and pledged the United Nations' full support on the long road to recovery.
• Iraqi Governing Council Convenes in Baghdad VOA News 13 Jul 2003 -- A new interim governing council for Iraq, representing the country's various religious and ethnic groups, convened for the first time in Baghdad Sunday.
• Postwar Government in Iraq Begins to Take Shape VOA News 13 Jul 2003 -- Iraq's first post-war interim leadership held its inaugural meeting in Baghdad on Sunday in a historic step toward national elections. The creation of the Iraqi governing council is stirring both optimism and skepticism among the Iraqi people.
• IRAQ / GOVERNING COUNCIL VOA 13 Jul 2003 -- Iraq's first post-war interim leadership held its inaugural meeting in Baghdad on Sunday in a historic step toward national elections. The creation of the Iraqi governing council is stirring both optimism and skepticism among the Iraqi people.

Foreign Reactions

• Russia: Moscow Raps U.S. Envoy Over Call For Joint Spying In Iraq RFE/L 13 Jul 2003 -- A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman said today that U.S. Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow's suggestion that the Russian and U.S. intelligence services cooperate in Iraq was "tactless."

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