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Current Operations

• Raids Net Iraqi Generals in Fallujah AFPS 05 Nov 2003 -- U.S. service members captured two Iraqi generals suspected of being the money behind terrorist activities in Fallujah, Combined Joint Task Force 7 officials said today.
• BRITAIN / IRAQ VOA 05 Nov 2003 -- Britain has announced the death of another serviceman in Iraq, but Prime Minister Tony Blair says there is progress toward restoring normalcy there, despite increasing violence.

Deployments

• PENTAGON/IRAQ TROOPS VOA 05 Nov 2003 -- The U-S military is preparing to announce a call-up of replacement forces for Iraq including a return of U-S Marines and reservists. The decision comes amid increasingly sophisticated attacks on coalition forces there and no sign that other countries are ready to contribute more troops of their own.
• U-S MILITARY/IRAQ VOA 05 Nov 2003 -- U-S military officials have been trying to reassure skeptical members of Congress about the military situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Lawmakers continue to question whether there are sufficient numbers of troops in Iraq, and what commanders are doing to develop Iraqi forces to take over some of the load now shouldered by American troops.

US Policy

• Senator McCain Calls for More Troops in Iraq Washington File 05 Nov 2003 -- Senator John McCain called on the Bush administration to commit more troops to the effort to secure Iraq in a November 5 speech before the Council on Foreign Relations, a think tank focused on U.S. foreign policy.
• Wolfowitz Says $87.5 Billion Signals Ongoing U.S. Support for Iraq Washington File 05 Nov 2003 -- Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the $87.5 billion approved by Congress for security and reconstruction assistance in Iraq and Afghanistan sends "a clear and strong signal" to the Iraqi people that "the United States will be with them until we are no longer needed."

United Nations

• U.N. Hopes to Increase Operations in Iraq, Official Says Washington File 05 Nov 2003 -- The United Nations hopes to expand its operations in Iraq, despite having pulled its international staff out of the country in late October for consultations on security issues, a top U.N. official says.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Update Joint Staff/Coalition Provisional Authority 05 Nov 2003 -- Power / Oil / Education / Health Care / Security / Governance / Economics [PDF 4.75 Mb]
• Coalition Official Explains Why Iraq Needs a New Army Washington File 05 Nov 2003 -- As the first battalion of the New Iraqi Army moves to assume its duties and the first units of the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps start operating with U.S. units, it's being argued by some that the creation of these military units is a bad idea, or at least unnecessary -- that the United States could and should have relied on Saddam Hussein's old army and saved itself the trouble of creating a new one. Some even say we should try to do that now by recalling the old army to service some six months after its defeat. It's an argument that doesn't add up.
• Local Iraqi Councils Take Shape with U.S. Aid Washington File 05 Nov 2003 -- Iraqi Local Council Members Participate in First Democratic Panels, Backed by U.S. Aid

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq: Iraqis Looking For Loved Ones Complain U.S. Officials Are Uncooperative RFE/RL 05 Nov 2003 -- Iraqis complain that it is hard to get help or information from officials in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. They complain that the U.S. officials they need to see have isolated themselves inside a former presidential compound in Baghdad and think little about those on the other side of the walls. The situation is making many Iraqis discontented and angry, especially when they are looking for missing loved ones.
• Iraqi Governing Council delegation will travel to Iran, Syria, Turkey IRNA 05 Nov 2003 -- A high-ranking delegation of the Iraqi Governing Council will travel to Iran, Syria and turkey as of November 16, sources close to the council announced here Wednesday.
• UK denies cuts in Iraq spending IRNA 05 Nov 2003 -- Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon denied Wednesday that military spending on Iraq was not being squeezed by budget restraints.

News Reports

• Iraqi American Helping to Bring Democracy to Baghdad Washington File 05 Nov 2003 -- Neighborhood by neighborhood, Ban Saraf is helping to bring democracy to Iraq. Saraf, an Iraqi American working in Baghdad for the non-profit RTI International, said in a recent interview with a Washington File reporter that the city's 88 neighborhood councils she helped organize are making steady progress in identifying their communities' priorities, including those of groups previously excluded from local decision-making and allocation of resources.
• Rule of Law a Necessity for Iraq, Jurist Says Washington File 05 Nov 2003 -- This column by Donald Walter, who is a U.S. District Court Judge in Shreveport, Louisiana, was published in the Wall Street Journal November 4 and is in the public domain.
• IRAQ: Trade ministry preparing to resume food distribution IRIN 05 Nov 2003 -- Many Iraqi trade ministry staff will soon return to their jobs distributing monthly food rations across the country under the Oil-for-Food programme, currently being administered by the UN.