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Current Operations

• IRAQ / ATTACKS VOA 02 Sept 2003-- A car bomb has exploded at a police station in Baghdad killing one police officer and wounding more than a dozen other people
• IRAQ / ATTACKS VOA 02 Sept 2003-- A car bomb has exploded at a main police station in Baghdad, causing many casualties
• Iraq: Car Bomb Explodes At Baghdad Police Academy RFE/RL 02 Sept 2003-- A car exploded near a police academy in central Baghdad today, wounding bystanders, one severely.

• Bombings Show Iraq a Battlefield in War on Terror AFPS 02 Sept 2003-- Recent bombings in Iraq prove the country is another front in the global war on terrorism, the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority said in Baghdad today.
• Explosion Kills Two Soldiers South of Baghdad, Another Drowns AFPS 02 Sept 2003-- Two 220th Military Police Brigade soldiers were killed and one other was wounded Sept. 1 when their vehicle struck an improvised explosive device on a main supply route south of Baghdad, U.S. Central Command officials reported today.
• TWO SOLDIERS KILLED, ONE WOUNDED IN ATTACK CENTCOM 02 Sept 2003-- Two 220th Military Police Brigade soldiers were killed and one was wounded approximately 3:19 p.m. Sept. 1 when their High-Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicle struck an improvised explosive device along a main supply route south of Baghdad.
• PENTAGON / IRAQ / AFGHAN VOA 02 Sept 2003-- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to travel to both Iraq and Afghanistan this week
• 1AD SOLDIER KILLED IN HELICOPTER ACCIDENT CENTCOM 02 Sept 2003-- One 1st Armored Division soldier was killed and another was injured in a helicopter accident early Tuesday morning.
• Tallil's Predators on patrol in Iraq AFPN 02 Sept 2003-- Information. Today, it may be the world's hottest commodity. It is often the key to success in all walks of life: sports, business and definitely, in the military.
• Seabees Establish Steady Supply Lines Navy Newsstand 02 Sept 2003-- "If they need it we can get it," said Builder 3rd Class Brandon Twing, a tool room clerk assigned to the Material Liaison Office (MLO) at Camp Hope, Iraq.

Deployments

US Policy

• Transcript: Coalition Provisional Authority Update Briefing from Baghdad, Iraq 02 Sep 2003 -- "With the appointment of a cabinet, Iraq has taken a third important step toward sovereign self-government. The first step was the formation of the Iraqi Governing Council in July. Last month, the Governing Council appointed a preparatory committee, which will determine the means by which Iraq will, for the first time, write her own constitution. And now, there are Iraqi ministers responsible for the executive functions of Iraq's government."

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: New Cabinet To Be Sworn In Tomorrow RFE/RL 02 Sep 2003 -- Iraq's first post-Saddam Hussein cabinet is expected to be sworn in tomorrow in Baghdad. The 25-member cabinet was named yesterday by the Iraqi Governing Council. The cabinet appointments are divided among the country's various ethnic and religious communities.
• Iraq: Baghdad Residents Complain Of Crime As New Police Force Finds Its Legs RFE/RL 02 Sep 2003 -- Iraqis complain that crime is on the rise in the country. They say it has become more and more unsafe, even in the middle-class districts of the capital, Baghdad. People are robbed or abducted by armed gangs in the middle of the day. Cars are stolen. Women and children are too frightened to leave their homes. The new Iraqi police force does not seem to be effective yet in combating such activity. In the meantime, many ordinary Iraqis blame the U.S.-led occupation for all the evils.
• Coalition Working to Improve Water, Security, Economy in Iraq Washington File 01 Sept 2003-- Coalition forces continue to work steadily to improve daily life in Iraq. In an August 31 press release, U.S. Central Command (Centcom) reported on efforts to install a large generator to irrigate farmland in south central Iraq, provide jobs in the southern port of Umm Qasr, and train and equip police and security forces in the northern city of Mosul.
• IRAQ / RECONSTRUCTION VOA 02 Sept 2003-- Representatives from the United States and other major donor nations meet in Brussels Wednesday (today) to discuss strategies to pay for the reconstruction of Iraq.
• Bremer Hails Appointment of Iraqi Cabinet Ministers Washington File 02 Sept 2003-- Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) Administrator L. Paul Bremer has hailed the appointment of Iraqi cabinet ministers by the Governing Council September 1 as "another step on the path to Iraqi sovereignty."
• Terrorism in Iraq a "Desperate" Effort to Counter Progress, U.S. Says Washington File 02 Sept 2003-- The terrorist attacks in Iraq -- at the Jordanian Embassy and U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, and at the Imam Ali Mosque in Najaf -- show "how desperate" the remnants of the former regime and the foreign terrorists are to counter the important progress being made towards self-government in Iraq, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters September 2.
• IRAQ: Lack of water and power hampering Basra recovery IRIN 02 Sep 2003 -- People in the southern city of Basra had always been at the bottom of former ruler Saddam Hussein's list when it came to the provision of basic services. "The Southern cities of Basra, Emara and Nasiriyah were referred to by the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein as the black triangle because of their Shiite opposition majority," Naufal Sayed, a resident of Basra who was buying water in the street told IRIN.

Foreign Reactions

• Berlin urges "road map" for restoring Iraqi sovereignty IRNA 02 Sep 2003 -- Germany Thursday called for a "road map" which would outline the time-table for a rapid restoration of Iraqi sovereignty.

News Reports

• Iraq: Hundreds Of Thousands Gather For Al-Hakim's Funeral RFE/RL 02 Sep 2003 -- Hundreds of thousands of mourning Iraqis buried the symbolic remains of slain Shi'ite leader Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim in the center of the holy city of Al-Najaf today.
• State Department Noon Briefing, September 2, 2003 Washington File 02 Sept 2003-- Iraq, Department/Powell's meeting at the White House, Korea, China, Israel, Burma, Liberia, European Union, Turkey/Iraq, Japan/Iraq, Cuba, Indonesia, Israel/Palestinians, Turkey, Family Planning Funding/Kemp-Kasten Commission, Zimbabwe, Afghanistan
• TURKEY / KURDS VOA 02 Sept 2003-- Separatist Kurdish rebels from Turkey announced Tuesday they had called off a cease-fire that had been in effect the past four years. They say the cease-fire was ending because the Turkish government had failed to respond in kind.