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• Transcript: Secretary Rumsfeld on Special Defense Department Operational Update 26 Nov 2003 -- "Consider what they've accomplished in just the week ending November 23rd. In that very short period, coalition forces conducted nearly 12,000 patrols and more than 230 targeted raids; they captured some 1,200 enemy forces and killed 40 to 50 enemy fighters, and wounded some 25 to 30. That's a one-week snapshot, but it provides a sense of the determined offensive pressure which the coalition is applying against the enemy."
• Rumsfeld, Myers Cite Coalition Accomplishments in Iraq AFPS 25 Nov 2003 -- Americans everywhere should be thankful for service members serving in Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said today.
• Arab TV Stations Filmed Attacks in Iraq, Rumsfeld Says Washington File 25 Nov 2003 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Richard Myers said November 25 during a Pentagon news briefing that there is evidence two Arab cable news television stations have cooperated with terrorists in Iraq by filming attacks on U.S.-led coalition forces and Iraqi civilians.
• Insurgents Focusing on 'Despicable' Attacks Against Iraqis AFPS 25 Nov 2003 -- The coalition's intensified offensive operations in Iraq have reduced attacks on American forces by about 50 percent during the past two weeks, but as a result, desperate Saddam Hussein loyalists have turned their aggression toward innocent Iraqis, officials told reporters in Baghdad today.
• Iraq: U.S. Headquarters In Baghdad Comes Under Attack RFE/RL 25 Nov 2003 -- The Baghdad headquarters of the U.S.-led administration in Iraq came again under attack today after dark. Reports say at least two rockets landed near the compound and a large crater was blown in the middle of one road. There were no immediate reports of casualties.
• IRAQ / SECURITY VOA 25 Nov 2003 -- The top civilian administrator in Iraq says coalition opponents are attacking more Iraqis than coalition troops in response to stepped up U-S military action against insurgents. U-S officials are expecting more anti-coalition violence before implementing Iraqi self rule.
• Iraq: Bremer Says Militants Shifting Focus To Attacks On Civilians RFE/RL 25 Nov 2003 -- The chief U.S. administrator for Iraq, L. Paul Bremer (pictured), says Iraqi insurgents have shifted the focus of their attacks from foreign troops to Iraqis working with the U.S.-led coalition.
• 4 ID PATROLS NET MORE WEAPONS, EXPLOSIVES CENTCOM Release 25 Nov 2003-- 4th Infantry Division also known as "Task Force Ironhorse" has over the past 24 hours, conducted 199 patrols, seven raids and captured 18 individuals.

Deployments

US Policy

• U.S.-Coalition Goal Remains for Iraqis to Run Country, Feith Says AFPS 25 Nov 2003 -- The U.S. and coalition goal in Iraq is "to give the Iraqi people the opportunity to create a new and thriving Iraq" for themselves, a senior Defense Department official said here Nov. 24.
• EDITORIAL: IRAQ'S FUTURE VOA 25 Nov 2003 -- The future of Iraq will be defined by the efforts of Iraq's citizens. This is already happening. Iraq has a governing council which has appointed Iraqis to head ministries. Local councils provide self-government in Iraqi towns and cities. And a free press provides Iraqis with a wide variety of opinions.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Update Joint Staff/Coalition Provisional Authority 25 Nov 2003 -- Power / Oil / Education / Health Care / Security / Governance / Economics [PDF 4.75 Mb]
• Iraq Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance Updates USAID 25 Nov 2003 [PDF]
• IRAQ: Interview with minister of human rights Abd al-Basit Turki IRIN 25 Nov 2003 -- Abd al-Basit Turki has recently been appointed human rights minister of Iraq's interim government. Turki has voiced concern about the increase of human rights violations since the war ousting Saddam Hussein and has asked US officials to address the issue. In an interview with IRIN in Baghdad, Turki said he was commited to helping the thousands of people currently detained by Coalition forces, as well as building a society based on human rights in Iraq.
• IRAQ: Health care stabilising - for those who can pay IRIN 25 Nov 2003 -- A not-so-well-kept secret has come to light in Iraq’s otherwise well-run hospitals: patients have to pay, sometimes quite a lot, to get care in what is otherwise a virtually free health-care system.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraq: Authorities Treading Fine Line In Action Against Al-Arabiyah RFE/RL 25 Nov 2003 -- The U.S.-appointed interim government in Iraq has temporarily banned an Arabic-language television station from operating in the country for airing an audiotape purportedly from former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. On the tape, the speaker calls for attacks against coalition forces in Iraq. The ban was supported by the U.S., but has been criticized by media groups for violating rights to freedom of expression.
• IRAQ / MEDIA VOA 25 Nov 2003 -- Iraqi employees of the Arabic-language television station al-Arabiya are expressing anger and disappointment over the Governing Council's decision Monday to shut down its Baghdad bureau. Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from the Iraqi capital that the decision marks a dramatic escalation in the long-running dispute between the Dubai-based television station and coalition and Iraqi authorities.
• IRAQ-DEMOCRATS VOA 25 Nov 2003 -- Iraq continues to be a major issue in the early stages of the battle for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination. The nine Democrats running for president are hammering away at President Bush, and each other, over how best to handle the situation in Iraq.
• IRAQ: Safety concerns and lack of cash curb Eid festivities IRIN 25 Nov 2003 -- Although residents of the southern Iraqi city of Basra feel happy to celebrate their first feast of the festival of Eid al-Fitr, without the toppled leader, Saddam Hussein, for the first time in 35 years, apprehensions over security and the general shortage of money have led to muted festivities.