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Current Operations

• FORMER REGIME LOYALISTS RESPONSIBLE FOR IED ATTACKS CAPTURED CENTCOM Release 16 Nov 2003-- Paratroopers from 1st Battalion, 505th Parachute Infantry Regiment captured two brothers in a planned operation earlier today.
• Update to Release 03-11-23: 17 KILLED, 5 WOUNDED IN BLACK HAWK CRASHES IN MOSUL CENTCOM Release 16 Nov 2003-- Two UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters assigned to the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) crashed in western Mosul at approximately 6:30 p.m. Nov. 15.
• OPERATION IVY CYCLONE II CENTCOM Release 16 Nov 2003-- The 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse has launched a series of combined arms operations to include air and ground strikes against identified targets, along with precision raids against non-compliant groups and individuals focused on neutralizing paramilitary, former regime loyalists, foreign fighters and other extremist and subversive elements within task force area of responsibility.
• Army Launches 'Ivy Cyclone II' to Target Insurgents AFPS 16 Nov 2003 -- The Army's 4th Infantry Division and Task Force Ironhorse have launched a combined-arms operation called Ivy Cyclone II in the effort to root out and crush insurgents in Iraq, U.S. Central Command officials announced today.
• IRAQ / HELICOPTERS CRASH VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- The U-S military in Iraq says hostile fire may have been responsible for the crash of two U-S Army Blackhawk helicopters in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday. Seventeen soldiers were killed in the crash, which was initially thought to be an accident.
• Iraq: U.S. Helicopters Collide, Killing At Least 17 RFE/RL 16 Nov 2003 -- The United States military says at least 17 American soldiers have been killed in the mid-air collision and crash of two Black Hawk helicopters in northern Iraq.

Deployments

• U.S. Presence in Iraq May Continue After June AFPS 16 Nov 2003 -- U.S. military forces may remain in Iraq when full sovereignty is given to the Iraqi people in June and the Coalition Provisional Authority dissolves, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, CPA administrator, said in an interview from Baghdad, Iraq, today.

US Policy

• Rumsfeld Cites Japan's Large Financial Contribution to Iraq Washington File 16 Nov 2003 -- The decision to send or not to send troops to Iraq is "up to each sovereign nation," Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in a media availability en route to Tokyo November 14.
• BUSH / IRAQ VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- President Bush says he is saddened by the loss of 17 American lives in the crash of two helicopters in Iraq. V-O-A White House correspondent Paula Wolfson reports Mr. Bush is also speaking out about a new audio tape that could contain the voice of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
• U-S IRAQ VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- America's chief administrator for Iraq says the United States will help write an interim Iraqi constitution that guarantees individual rights. V-O-A's Paula Wolfson reports in a series of interviews on U-S television, Paul Bremer talked about the steps that will lead to Iraqi self-rule by mid-2004.
• RUMSFELD / ASIA VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- U-S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says U-S troops will not pull out early from Iraq despite new plans to speed up the creation of a sovereign Iraqi government. Mr. Rumsfeld spoke on the way to Okinawa, Japan where he visited U-S troops and met with local officials.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Bremer Says Most Iraqis Want Coalition To Stay Until Country Stable Washington File 16 Nov 2003 -- The majority of Iraqis want coalition forces to stay in the country until the situation there stabilizes, the administrator for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq said in talk show appearances November 16.

Foreign Reactions

• BRITAIN / BUSH INTERVIEW VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- President Bush has expressed confidence that it will not take many years for democracy to take root in Iraq. Mr. Bush has discussed Iraq and other issues on British television ahead of this week's visit to Britain.
• BRITAIN / BUSH VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- President Bush's state visit to Britain this week was conceived as a way to honor him for his leadership in the global war on terrorism, but it has turned into a political and security headache for his British hosts.

News Reports

• IRAQ / SADDAM TAPE VOA 16 Nov 2003 -- A new audio tape, claimed to be from ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, has aired on Arabic language television. Correspondent Alisha Ryu in Baghdad reports the U-S military has launched a new round of offensives on insurgents, following Saturday's downings of two Black Hawk helicopters that killed 17 soldiers.