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• Cheney Answers Critics of Military Operations in Iraq, Afghanistan AFPS 10 Oct 2003 -- Vice President Richard B. Cheney today countered criticism of the administration's prosecution of the war on terrorism.
• 101st hands Syrian border control to Iraqis Army News Service 14 Oct 2003-- The 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) handed control of the Syrian border to the coalition-trained Iraqi Border Guard in a ceremony Oct. 1 at one of the 22 renovated posts along the border.
• NEW POLICE COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM ESTABLISHED BY V CORPS IS BAGHDAD'S 911 V Corps Release 14 Oct 2003-- With newly trained, freshly equipped Iraqi police, firefighting and ambulance services now operating here, Iraq has taken huge steps toward stability.
• IRAQ WRAP VOA 10 Oct 2003 -- Two more American soldiers have been killed and at least four more have been wounded in what the Pentagon is describing as an ambush in Baghdad (late Thursday). The incident occurred as the Bush administration strikes back at what public opinion polls suggest is growing skepticism about the U-S mission in Iraq.
• NINEVAH PROVINCE SCHOOLS BENEFIT FROM SEIZED IRAQI ASSETS CENTCOM 10 Oct 2003 -- Coalition soldiers and non-governmental organizations partnered to rebuild more than 800 schools in the Ninevah Province, current home of the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault).
• IRAQ/VIOLENCE VOA 10 Oct 2003 -- An ambush Thursday night in an impoverished section of Baghdad has left two U-S soldiers dead and four wounded. The ambush occurred in the same neighborhood where hours earlier a suicide bomber killed a total of 10 people.

Deployments

US Policy

• Senate Floor Statement on the Iraq-Afghanistan Supplemental - Senator John F. Kerry I cannot vote for the President's $87 billion request because his is not the most effective way to protect American soldiers and to advance our interests. Simple common sense tells us that we need more countries sharing the burden and more troops on the ground providing security. And we need a fairer way to pay the bill. I had hoped that the Administration would prepare for building the peace in Iraq as well as it prepared for fighting the war. But that was not the case.
• Rumsfeld: Reagan Legacy Present in Iraq Today AFPS 10 Oct 2003 -- Former President Ronald Reagan's legacy is present in Iraq today, as many nations freed from the grasp of tyranny now are helping the coalition bring freedom to the Iraqi people, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today.
• Cheney Calls Iraq "Central Front" in War on Terrorism Washington File 10 Oct 2003 -- "Iraq has become the central front in the war on terror," Vice President Cheney said October 10.
• EDITORIAL: TRANSITION TO A FREE SOCIETY VOA 10 Oct 2003 -- Reconstruction efforts in Iraq are bearing fruit. As Vice President Dick Cheney said, the Iraqi people are working to take the reins of government from the U.S.-led coalition that liberated the country from Saddam Hussein
• EDITORIAL: REMEMBERING SADDAM'S VICTIMS VOA 10 Oct 2003 -- Thirty-two kilometers west of Baghdad, sprawled over more than one-hundred hectares, lies one of Saddam Hussein's most infamous prisons, Abu Ghraib [rabe]. It was known as Iraq's gulag, where thousands of political prisoners were executed. Thousands more were forced to live in overcrowded, disease-infested cells. The threat of beatings, torture, and summary execution was ever-present.
• EDITORIAL: BUSH ON A FREE IRAQ VOA 10 Oct 2003 -- In Iraq, the U.S.-led coalition is conducting raids against terrorists and holdouts of the Saddam Hussein regime. "And at the same time," says President George W. Bush, the coalition "is helping to improve the daily lives of the Iraqi people"

United Nations

• Annan says he would like to see new Iraq resolution before donor conference UN News Centre 10 Oct 2003 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today that "ideally" he would like to see a new resolution on Iraq passed before the convening of a donor's conference on that country, scheduled for later this month in Madrid.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iran can play decisive role in Iraqi reconstruction: Hakim IRNA 10 Oct 2003 -- A member of Iraq`s Interim Governing Council said here Thursday that Iran can play a decisive role in reconstruction of Iraq.
• Bremer Cites 'Tremendous' Progress in Rebuilding Iraq AFPS 10 Oct 2003 -- Acknowledging that "organized extremists" continue to attack coalition forces, the administrator of the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq cited "tremendous" progress in creating a secure environment, restoring essential services and beginning economic and democratic transformation.
• Iraqi Governing Council to Determine Delegation for Madrid Conference Washington File 10 Oct 2003 -- Following is the official answer to a question taken at the October 10 regular State Department briefing; the answer was posted later in the day
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Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• AEI's Pletka Stresses Importance of Focusing on Iraqis' Well-Being Washington File 10 Oct 2003 -- Criticizing what she said was carping and political bickering in the current international dialogue about Iraq, Danielle Pletka, vice-president of the American Enterprise Institute, asserted that "We all seem to forget that this is actually a story about Iraqis."