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Current Operations

• 'Different Elements' Behind Attacks in Iraq, Secretary Says AFPS 20 Aug 2003 -- The attacks on U.S. and coalition forces are coming from a mixture of "different elements," Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said during an interview with National Public Radio Aug. 18.
• Separate Attacks Kill Two Americans in Iraq AFPS 20 Aug 2003 -- Two separate attacks today have claimed the lives of two Americans in Iraq.
• IRAQ/U-N EXPLOSION VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- Investigators and emergency personnel continued to search the rubble of the United Nations compound in Baghdad Wednesday after a truck bomb killed at least 17 people and injured more than 100.
• ANOTHER MEMBER OF "IRAQI TOP 55" IN COALITION CUSTODY CENTCOM Release 20 Aug 2003-- Taha Yasin Ramadan al-Jizrawi, number 20 on the coalition's list of most wanted government officials, is now under custody of coalition forces.
• Americans, Iraqis defeat blaze Marine Corps News 20 Aug 2003-- As impenetrable black smoke and scorching flames towered over the barren desert outside the city, local firemen, Marines and sailors prevented a potential environmental catastrophe after a calculated attack set a fuel pipeline on fire.
• ONE KILLED, ONE INJURED AFTER CONVOY FIRED UPON CENTCOM 20 Aug 2003-- One 3rd Corps Support Command soldier was killed and another injured in a two-vehicle accident while driving south on the main supply route southeast of the town of Ad Diwaniyah.
• 101st Airborne destroys three weapon caches, arrests man for anti-American activity Army News Service 20 Aug 2003-- Soldiers from the Fort Campbell, Ky.-based, 101st Airborne Division found three large weapons caches near Mosul Aug. 17-18.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bremer Says Recent Attacks in Iraq Do Not Indicate Chaos Washington File 20 Aug 2003 -- The U.S. civil administrator in Iraq said August 20 that the bombing of the United Nations field headquarters the day before in Baghdad, an attack on the Jordanian embassy two weeks ago, and attacks on water and oil pipelines indicate a strong element of terrorism in Iraq, but "that does not mean chaos."
• Bush Discusses Israel, Iraq Terrorist Attacks with Top Advisors Washington File 20 Aug 2003 -- President Bush the morning of August 20 discussed the August 19 terrorist bombings in Iraq and Israel with his National Security Council via a video conference call from his Texas ranch, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters in Crawford, Texas.
• BUSH / IRAQ VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- President Bush is consulting with foreign leaders and his own top foreign policy advisors in the wake of the bombing of the U-N headquarters in Iraq. Meanwhile, the attack investigation goes on.
• BUSH- DeMELLO VOA 19 Aug 2003 -- President Bush is paying tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello, the veteran U-N diplomat who died in the bloody bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad. Mr. Bush says he was killed while trying to help the Iraqi people.

United Nations

• Condemning attack on UN, Security Council vows resolve to build peace in Iraq UN News Centre 20 Aug 2003 -- Condemning the deadly terrorist bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad as "an attack against the international community as a whole," the Security Council today declared that the world body would not be intimidated by such attacks and was determined to see the Iraqi people build peace and justice in their country.
• Annan returns to New York determined to carry on UN mission after Iraq attack UN News Centre 20 Aug 2003 -- Declaring "we shall not be deterred," United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan rushed back to New York today to consult with the Security Council on the terrorist attack in Baghdad that killed top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, seeking greater security but determined to continue the world body's mission in Iraq.
• United Nations "to Stay the Course" in Iraq Washington File 20 Aug 2003 -- Just five days before a truck bomb destroyed the headquarters of the U.N. mission in Iraq killing at least 16 people including the secretary general's special envoy, Sergio Vieira de Mello, the Security Council authorized the new U.N. operation, providing a firmer legislative basis for the critical humanitarian and political work already underway since May.
• Security Council Vows to Continue U.N.'s Work in Iraq Washington File 20 Aug 2003 -- After observing a minute of silence for those who died in Baghdad in the pursuit of peace, the Security Council August 20 "unequivocally condemned" the terrorist attack on U.N. headquarters and vowed to continue to help the Iraqi people build peace and justice in their country.
• U-N / IRAQ VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- U-N Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the United Nations will continue its work in Iraq. But he says U-N officials are reassessing their security arrangements following the terrorist attack (Tuesday) at the United Nations' Baghdad headquarters that left at least 17 people dead.
• U-N / IRAQ (L-UPDATE) VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- One day after a terrorist attack at U-N headquarters in Baghdad left at least 17 people dead, the U-S Ambassador to the United Nations says the Security Council will discuss a possible, second resolution on Iraq.
• Iraq: UN Becomes A Target For Iraqi Groups Battling Coalition RFE/RL 20 Aug 2003 -- In the wake of the bombing of the UN headquarters in Baghdad yesterday, many are asking why the world body should be a target for opponents of the U.S.-led occupation. But one answer may be that many of the groups fighting the coalition in Iraq regard the UN -- seen by so many as mostly a humanitarian organization -- as a strategic target in their battle with Washington.
• U-S / IRAQ VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- Top U-N officials say the organization will continue its humanitarian work in Iraq, despite Tuesday's bombing in Baghdad that killed at least 17 people. Analysts say such terrorist attacks are designed to spread chaos in Iraq and derail efforts by the United States and other nations to bring security and democracy to the country.
• UN: Vieira de Mello -- More Than Three Decades Of Service In Crisis And War Zones RFE/RL 20 Aug 2003 -- Sergio Vieira de Mello, the senior UN official who was killed yesterday in Baghdad, spent more than 30 years working to improve living conditions for ordinary people caught up in war and crisis.
• UN: Organization Shaken After Top Diplomat Killed In Iraq Blast RFE/RL 20 Aug 2003 -- The worst attack ever against a UN facility has killed at least 17 people, including top UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, a key figure in the political transformation of Iraq. UN officials, shaken by the attack, have vowed to press ahead with efforts to restore stability and independence to Iraq.
• JORDAN / U-N EVACUEES VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- Victims of the Tuesday truck bomb attack at the United Nations headquarters in Iraq have begun to arrive in Jordan. The first planeload of evacuees arrived Wednesday at a military airport outside the Jordanian capital.
• Iraq: UN Stages Partial Evacuation Of Its Staff In Baghdad RFE/RL 20 Aug 2003 -- The United Nations says it is evacuating wounded staff from Baghdad to Amman, Jordan, the day after a truck bomb blast in the Iraqi capital killed at least 17 people.
• UN reassessing security in Iraq after attack but will persevere undaunted - Annan UN News Centre 20 Aug 2003 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today the United Nations was reassessing security arrangements in Iraq following the terrorist attack Tuesday in Baghdad that killed top envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and other officials, but vowed that the world body would persevere with its essential work there undaunted.
• Iraq: Annan Says UN Will 'Will Not Be Intimidated' RFE/RL 20 Aug 2003 -- UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today the United Nations' work in Iraq will not be derailed by yesterday's deadly bombing at the UN headquarters in Baghdad.
• IRAQ/ANNAN VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan has vowed that U-N staff will remain in Iraq despite the bombing at the organization's headquarters in Baghdad that killed at least 17 people, including the top UN envoy.

Reconstruction Issues

• Work to Rebuild Iraq Will Go Forward, Says Senior U.S. Civilian in Iraq AFPS 20 Aug 2003 -- The United States' work with the United Nations to help build Iraq will go forward, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. civil administrator in Iraq, said today.
• IRAQ /BREMER SECURITY VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- The head of the Iraq coalition Provisional Authority, Paul Bremer, says he feels safe at his fortified headquarters in Baghdad, even after the deadly bombing Tuesday at the U-N compound.
• PENTAGON / IRAQ BOMB ANALYSIS VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- The bombing of the U-N headquarters building in Baghdad is being viewed as one of the most serious threats yet to the U-S-led effort to restore order in Iraq.

Foreign Reactions

• NATO, OSCE Condemn Attack on UN Office in Baghdad Washington File 20 Aug 2003 -- The deputy Secretary-General of NATO, Minuto Rizzo, and the Secretary-General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), Jan Kubis, have condemned the August 19 bomb attack in Baghdad that claimed the lives of at least 20 persons, including United Nations Special Representative and High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello.
• U.S., 27 Other Nations Providing Troops to Iraq Washington File 20 Aug 2003 -- Following is the official answer to a question taken at the August 20 regular State Department briefing; the answer was posted later in the day
• IMF's Kohler on Attack on UN Headquarters in Baghdad Washington File 20 Aug 2003 -- Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Horst Köhler has expressed regret over the attack on the United Nations (UN) headquarters in Baghdad.
• World Bank Head on Bombing of U.N. Offices in Iraq Washington File 20 Aug 2003 -- World Bank President James Wolfensohn has expressed "shock and deep regret" about the August 19 bombing of the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq.
• IRAQ BLAST / REACT VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- There is shock and consternation in Brazil following Tuesday's bomb blast in Baghdad that killed U-N special envoy to Iraq, Brazilian diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello.
• U.K.: Campbell Denies 'Sexing Up' Dossier, But Observers Have Doubts RFE/RL 20 Aug 2003 -- Alastair Campbell, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's director of communications, yesterday defended his claim that he did not "sex up" the government dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Campbell spoke before the Hutton inquiry, set up to examine the apparent suicide of government weapons expert David Kelly. But many observers say they still have doubts about Campbell's involvement in the document that helped the British government justify its case for war -- and are looking ahead to Blair's own appearance before the panel.
• Tributes pour in for slain UN envoy as world body vows to pursue its mission UN News Centre 20 Aug 2003 -- The United Nations system worldwide paid homage today to top UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello and other staffers killed in Tuesday's terrorist bombing in Baghdad, expressing sorrow at the grievous loss, voicing outrage at the savage attack and vowing to redouble the world body's humanitarian and peacekeeping work.
• U-N/GENEVA REAX VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- Expressions of shock as well as tributes are pouring in for the U-N High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was slain in the explosion Tuesday at U-N headquarters in Baghdad. Mr. Vieira de Mello's co-workers in Geneva say his death has strengthened their determination to fight for justice and human rights.
• Iraq: International Community Condemns Attack On UN In Baghdad RFE/RL 20 Aug 2003 -- The international community is condemning an attack yesterday on the UN headquarters in Baghdad, in which a truck bomb killed at least 17 people -- including Sergio Vieira de Mello, the UN's top envoy to Iraq.
• UN BOMB / ASIA REACT VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- Leaders in the Asia-Pacific region are reacting with anger to the news that the senior United Nations envoy in Iraq was among the 17 people killed in the bombing of the U-N headquarters in Baghdad. As Steve Herman reports from Tokyo, Sergio Vieira de Mello was a well-known and much respected figure in the region.
• Justification of Iraq war still lacking IRNA 20 Aug 2003 -- Two weeks into the inquiry into the death of former Iraq arms inspector David Kelly, Prime Minister Tony Blair`s office continues to deny any wrongdoing in making the case to overthrow Saddam Hussein`s regime.

News Reports

• U.S.: Experts Say Bomb Attack Could Lead To Greater Cooperation With UN RFE/RL 20 Aug 2003 -- Experts say yesterday's bomb blast at UN offices in Baghdad could eventually result in closer cooperation between the UN and the U.S.-led occupation. They say UN critics of the U.S.-led war in Iraq may now be forced into greater involvement in Iraq -- if only to demonstrate support for the UN. The blast underscores the continuing difficulties the U.S.-led coalition is having in pacifying Iraq and could put pressure on the U.S. to rethink its security strategy.
• U-S/AFRICA/URANIUM VOA 20 Aug 2003 -- A senior U-S military commander has visited Niger, whose leaders have been voicing fresh complaints over the now-discredited U-S and British claims linking the West African country to a uranium deal with Iraq.