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• Transcript: DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers 05 Aug 2003 -- "With the deaths of Uday and Qusay Hussein last month, confidence is growing in Iraq that the Ba'athists will not be returning to power. As a result, more Iraqis are coming forward to help the coalition as the coalition works to get the country back on a path of stability and self-government. And the people coming in are providing helpful information as the coalition deals with the remnants of the Ba'ath regime that are seeking to undermine their progress."
• Combat communicators keep airmen in touch AFPN 05 Aug 2003-- As the fourth aircraft touched down after the Army seized the airfield here, the base gained one of its mission essential teams -- combat communicators.
• NCWG-1 Warfare Reservists Provide Humanitarian Aid to Iraq Navy Newsstand 05 Aug 2003-- Reservists assigned to Naval Coastal Warfare Group (NCWG) 1 returned to the southern Iraqi city of Umm Qasr to deliver school supplies and child-sized picnic tables to children in this poverty-stricken community.
• Combat Ops, Reconstruction Continue in Iraq AFPS 05 Aug 2003 -- Coalition forces continued operations against Baath Party loyalists, the Fedayeen Saddam and former regime supporters with raids, patrols and captures throughout Iraq, coalition officials said today.
• PENTAGON / IRAQ VOA 05 Aug 2003 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is voicing fresh confidence that U-S troops will find deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. But Mr. Rumsfeld says it is impossible to know if Saddam's death or capture is imminent.
• IRAQ / ATTACK / RAIDS VOA 05 Aug 2003 -- An American civilian contractor working in Iraq was killed Tuesday when a bomb exploded under his truck north of Tikrit.
• COALITION AND IRAQI POLICE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE CENTCOM Release 05 Aug 2003-- In the last 24 hours, coalition forces conducted 25 raids, 885 day patrols and 709 night patrols and conducted 176 day patrols and 165 night patrols jointly with Iraqi police.

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US Policy

• State's Reeker Urges Broad Support for Iraqi Governing Council Washington File 05 Aug 2003 -- The State Department has urged members of the Arab League and countries in the region to support the new Iraqi Governing Council, which is providing the Iraqi people a path to democratic self-rule.
• Rumsfeld Says Iraqis Growing More Confident About Country's Future Washington File 05 Aug 2003 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that following the deaths last month of Uday and Qusay Hussein, "confidence is growing in Iraq that the Ba'athists will not be returning to power," and more Iraqis are coming forward with information to help the coalition get the country back on a path of stability and self-government.
• Iraq: Officials Explore Ways To Try Hussein For Crimes Against Humanity RFE/L 05 Aug 2003 -- The United States is reportedly planning to create a special tribunal of Iraqi judges to try Saddam Hussein and other former senior Iraqi officials for crimes against humanity. The idea, which hinges on capturing the culprits alive, has been floated by anonymous sources in the U.S. media. But it's already sparked a heated debate in Washington.

United Nations

• Some 5.5 million Iraqi students to get textbooks thanks to UN fund transfer UN News Centre 05 Aug 2003 -- Some 5.5 million Iraqi students and 25,000 teacher trainees will receive textbooks for the next academic year under a funding agreement approved by a United Nations Security Council committee.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Development Fund Seeks Control of Saddam Regime's Assets Washington File 05 Aug 2003 -- The acting governor of the Central Bank of Iraq has asked the United Nations for help in getting countries to transfer assets of the Saddam Hussein regime to the Development Fund for Iraq.

Foreign Reactions

• EGYPT / ARAB LEAGUE VOA 05 Aug 2003 -- Foreign ministers of Arab League member countries have decided not to send troops to Iraq. The U-S had requested the Arab League do so.
• BRITAIN / WEAPONS VOA 05 Aug 2003 -- A spokesman for British Prime Minister Tony Blair has apologized for suggesting a dead scientist at the center of a controversy over Iraq's weapons, who is to be buried Wednesday, suffered delusions of grandeur. The comments have led to calls for Mr. Blair to fire the spokesman.

News Reports

• U.S.: Democrat Who Backed Iraq War Defines Differences With Bush In Campaign RFE/L 05 Aug 2003 -- U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from the northeastern state of Connecticut, strongly supported President George W. Bush's decision to go to war in Iraq. But now Lieberman, who hopes to challenge Bush for the presidency next year, is distancing his foreign-policy position from Bush's. Lieberman is also distinguishing himself from other potential candidates for the White House.