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• Iraq Coalition Forces Find Arms Caches, Continue Offense AFPS 06 Aug 2003 -- Coalition forces uncovered arms caches and more Iraqi civilians are beginning to work with forces to create stability in the country, said a Combined Joint Task Force 7 spokesman in Baghdad Aug 6.
• American Forces Pull Hidden MiG fighters out of Iraqi Desert AFPS 06 Aug 2003 -- American forces have found Russian fighter jets buried in the Iraqi desert, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said in an Aug. 5 press briefing.
• COALITION AND IRAQI PEOPLE WORK TO MAKE IRAQ SECURE CENTCOM Release 06 Aug 2003-- Support and cooperation from Iraqi citizens is enabling Coalition forces to seize weapons and detain former regime loyalists.
• SOLDIER KILLED IN ACCIDENTAL FALL CENTCOM Release 06 Aug 2003-- A soldier from the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) was killed when he fell from the roof of a fixed site at approximately 7:30 p.m. Aug. 5 in Mosul.
• SOLDIER DIES FROM APPARENT HEART ATTACK CENTCOM Release 06 Aug 2003-- A US soldier assigned to Coalition Forces Land Component Command died earlier today from an apparent heart attack.
• Command post exercise precursor to turnover Marine Corps News 06 Aug 2003-- U.S. Marine and international forces participated in five-day command post exercise dubbed Common Thrust, which many consider a trial run for the upcoming military turnover of southern Iraq.
• Ground forces commander: 'You cannot fail' Marine Corps News 06 Aug 2003-- Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Combined Joint Task Force 7 commanding general, took time Aug. 4 to talk to Marines of the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, commending their work and answering their questions.
• Ground forces commander: 'You cannot fail' Marine Corps News 06 Aug 2003-- Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, Combined Joint Task Force 7 commanding general, took time Aug. 4 to talk to Marines of the 4th Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion, commending their work and answering their questions.
• Predawn raid captures Iraqi terrorists Marine Corps News 06 Aug 2003-- Before the sun rose on the first day of August, a Marine and an interpreter knocked on the door of a square, cement house overlooking the Tigris River in Rashid, on the outskirts of Baghdad. The message was simple: open the door; the Marines are here.

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• PAUL BREMER VOA 06 Aug 2003 -- U-S soldiers say Iraqi informants and local police are helping them round up Saddam Hussein loyalists in northern Iraq. An American officer says Wednesday coalition forces raided seven locations overnight, in and near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit. The Americans arrested 18 loyalists of the ousted regime and seized what they described as large amounts of weapons. Coalition forces say Iraqi police also turned over a man suspected of organizing attacks against U-S soldiers. The man is the brother of one Saddam Hussein's top bodyguards. Meanwhile, U-S soldiers in Tikrit are soon to begin training 35 Iraqis as the first members of a civil defense force. Paul Bremer is the U-S Administrator for Iraq. Mary Tillotson, host of VOA's international call in talk show "Talk to America spoke with Ambassador Bremer today about the current situation in Iraq and reconstruction efforts:

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Coalition Provisional Authority Trains 45 Iraqi Humanitarian Deminers Washington File 06 Aug 2003 -- The United States has trained 45 Iraqi humanitarian deminers, marking a critical step in helping Iraq develop its own capacity to rid the country of large amounts of land mines and unexploded ordnance, according to a media note released by the State Department in Washington August 6.
• Iraq: Is International Recognition Next Step For Governing Council? RFE/RL 06 Aug 2003 -- The UN chief, Kofi Annan, has urged the UN Security Council to recognize Iraq's new Governing Council. How close is the U.S.-appointed body to getting international recognition, and what benefits would this bring?
• IRAQ / WOMEN VOA 06 Aug 2003 -- A leading human rights group says many Iraqi women and girls have been abducted, assaulted and raped by Iraqi men since the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime. The group, Human Rights Watch, has called on the coalition to do more to ensure their safety, and the coalition says it is beginning to address the issue.
• IRAQ: Food shipments meet targets, but Iraqis fear a future without rations IRIN 06 Aug 2003 -- As the sun blazes down on the small street in Baghdad’s Al-Washash district, two women wait quietly for their monthly food ration. "Without the ration we couldn’t survive. If they stopped it the black market prices would immediately go up and we wouldn’t be able to get anything," one of them tells IRIN. "I have a family of five to feed. My husband died a long time ago and I’m responsible for them."

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