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• Seabees Bring Comforts of Home to Camp in Iraq Navy NewStand 23 Dec 2003 -- The hot summer days in Iraq actually start with a hint of a cool breeze, and they usually end the same way.
• Coalition Working Steadily to Improve Daily Life in Iraq Washington File 23 Aug 2003 -- In Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, U.S. Marines are engaged in the massive clean-up and restoration of a dilapidated athletic building, which will become the city's new women's and youth center, according to a U.S. Central Command (Centcom) press release.
• MARINES HELP REBUILD WOMEN'S CENTER CENTCOM 23 Aug 2003 -- The Marines carried shovels and sickles as they waded through the chest-high grass surrounding the dilapidated athletic building. When the building is finished it will become the city's new women's and youth center.
• CONFISCATED, DESTROYED WEAPONS EQUAL SAFER IRAQ CENTCOM 23 Aug 2003 -- Coalition forces continued to confiscate and destroy weapons and ammunition in Iraq on Aug. 22.
• IRAQ/BRITISH DEATHS VOA 22 Aug 2003 -- British military officials in Iraq say three British soldiers have been killed in southern Iraq.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bush: "No Retreat" in War Against Terrorism Washington File 23 Aug 2003 -- The terrorist bombings of U.N. headquarters in Baghdad and a bus filled with families in Jerusalem last week again reveal the nature of terrorism and why it must be defeated wherever it exists, President Bush said in his weekly radio address to the nation on August 23.
• BUSH / TERRORISM VOA 23 Aug 2003 -- President Bush is condemning this week's suicide bombings in Baghdad and Jerusalem, saying there will be no retreat in the war on terrorism.
• IRAQ/BREMER VOA 22 Aug 2003 -- The American civil administrator in Iraq says Iraq has become one of the battlefields in the war on terrorism, following Tuesday's bomb attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed 23 people. The remarks by Paul Bremer came as three British soldiers were killed in an attack in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

United Nations

• Annan vows to honour Sergio Vieira de Mello's dying wish that the UN remain in Iraq UN News Centre 23 Aug 2003 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today paid tribute to Sergio Vieira de Mello, the senior United Nations Iraq envoy who was killed in a massive terrorist bombing earlier this week, by vowing to honour his dying wish that the UN complete its mission in the war-ravaged nation.

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• BRAZIL MEMORIAL / VIEIRA DE MELLO VOA 23 Aug 2003 -- United Nations envoy to Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello, was honored during a memorial ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday after his body was flown back aboard a Brazilian military aircraft. Mr. Vieira de Mello was among those killed in a truck bomb attack Tuesday that destroyed part of the U-N headquarters in Baghdad.