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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update
• Family Members of Key Suspect Detained in Iraq Military Operations AFPS 26 Nov 2003 -- Military operations in northern Iraq Nov. 25 by U.S. forces led to the arrest of the wife and daughter of the Ibrahimal-Duri, a senior Saddam official who is believed to be the mastermind behind attacks on U.S. forces, according to CENTCOM officials today.
• IRAQ / ARREST VOA 26 Nov 2003 -- U-S soldiers in Iraq have arrested the wife and daughter of one of Saddam Hussein's closest aides, who is suspected of orchestrating attacks on American troops. Visiting British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, experienced first hand the anti-coalition violence that has escalated in recent weeks.

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US Policy

• EDITORIAL: JUSTICE IN IRAQ VOA 26 Nov 2003 -- A future of hope for the people of Iraq must include the assurance that justice will be done. In the words of Coalition Civil Administrator Paul Bremer, "In a country such as Iraq, where there has been much injustice, the quest for justice takes on a special importance and urgency." Today in Iraq, justice is being done.

United Nations

• Fifteenth quarterly report on the activities of the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission in accordance with paragraph 12 of Security Council resolution 1284 (1999) UNOMIVC 26 Nov 2003 [PDF]

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: Shi'a Group Says No Need To Fear Majority Rule RFE/RL 26 Nov 2003 -- An influential Shi'a politician says he only supports the direct election of a provisional Iraqi government and insists the Sh'ia should have a major role in a future democratic Iraq.

Foreign Reactions

• Iraqis Look Forward to Self-Government, British Diplomat Says AFPS 26 Nov 2003 -- Britain's top diplomat said today in Baghdad that members of the Iraqi Governing Council are pleased that an Iraqi-run government is slated to assume governance of the country early next summer.
• U.S. Pressure for Additional Troop Dispatch Blasted KCNA 26 Nov 2003 -- The issue of troop dispatch to Iraq by south Korea has not cropped up at the will of the south Korean people and authorities but under the unilateral gangster-like demand and pressure of the United States, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article

News Reports

• IRAQ: Transitional government seeks WTO observer status IRIN 26 Nov 2003 -- Representatives from the Iraqi trade ministry hope to receive observer status at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) after visiting Geneva this week. Such status, and future accession to the world economic group will open up Iraq to the world, according to Fakhr al-Din Rashan, the deputy trade minister.