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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 02 Feb 2004 [PDF]

• Transcript: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing Ongoing Operations of Task Force 1st Armored Division and Iraqi Civil Defense Corps in Baghdad 02 Feb 2004 -- "Today I'm going to update you on the Task Force 1st Armored Division's ongoing operations in the city of Baghdad. Because this operation is aimed at, focused on the former -- continuing to defeat the former regime operating here, some of it will be familiar to you. But the piece of it that may not be familiar that I want to highlight is the participation in these operations by the Iraqi Civil Defense Corps."
• General Touts Success of Joint U.S.-ICDC Operations AFPS 02 Feb 2004 -- Thanks to joint operations, the insurgency in Iraq is less organized and more fearful than it was month ago, the commander of the 1st Armored Division said in a Baghdad news conference today.
• Rocket Attack Kills 1 Soldier, Injures 12 AFPS 02 Feb 2004 -- One 4th Infantry Division soldier was killed and 12 others were wounded during a rocket attack on Logistics Support Area Anaconda near Balad, Iraq, Feb. 1.
• Accident kills British soldier in southern Iraq PLA DAily 02 Feb 2004 -- The British Ministry of Defense announced Sunday that another British soldier has been killed in a"tragic accident" in Iraq.

Deployments

• V CORPS' 18TH MILITARY POLICE BRIGADE PASSES RESPONSIBILITY FOR IRAQ MISSION TO III CORPS MP UNIT V Corps 02 Feb 2004-- V Corps' 18th Military Police Brigade handed over the responsibility for the MP mission in Baghdad forces to the 89th Military Police Brigade with a transfer of authority ceremony at the Warrior Palace here Jan 31.

US Policy

• Bush to Form Independent Commission to Study Intelligence on WMD Washington File 02 Feb 2004 -- President Bush told reporters February 2 that he will form an independent, bipartisan commission to study intelligence on the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction around the world, but he said he wants to meet first at the White House with David Kay, the former head of the Iraq Survey Group (ISG).
• Bush, Former WMD Search Leader Kay Meet at White House Washington File 02 Feb 2004 -- President Bush and David Kay, the recently resigned head of the Iraq Survey Group looking for banned weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, had luncheon February 2 at the White House, White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan told reporters.
• BUSH IRAQ WEAPONS WRAP VOA 02 Feb 2004 -- President Bush has decided to order an independent investigation into alleged failures of U-S intelligence after the chief U-S weapons inspector in Iraq failed to find any weapons of mass destruction there. The decision amounts to a reversal for the president, who had built his case for going to war on Saddam Hussein's failure to give up chemical and biological stockpiles.
• BUSH IRAQ WEAPONS VOA 02 Feb 2004 -- President Bush is setting up an independent investigation to look at intelligence gathered prior to the Iraq war -- specifically, assertions that Saddam Hussein had amassed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. The announcement came shortly before Mr. Bush met at the White House with the former chief U-S weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay.
• BUSH IRAQ WEAPONS VOA 02 Feb 2004 -- President Bush is setting up an independent investigation to look at intelligence gathered prior to the Iraq war -- specifically, assertions that Saddam Hussein had amassed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. The announcement came shortly before Mr. Bush met at the White House with the former chief U-S weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay.
• Bush To Order Probe Into Prewar Iraq WMD Charges RFE/RL 02 Feb 2004 -- U.S. President George W. Bush today said that he will establish an independent panel to investigate prewar intelligence which claimed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
• Bush to set up independent intelligence inquiry: White House PLA DAily 02 Feb 2004 -- Under the mounting political pressure, US President George W. Bush is reportedly to sign an executive order to set up an independent inquiry into the prewar intelligence failures about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

United Nations

• IRAQ: Interview with Ross Mountain, UN Secretary-General's Acting Special Representative for Iraq IRIN 02 Feb 2004 -- Ross Mountain has begun work as the UN Secretary-General's Acting Special Representative for Iraq. He was formerly the UN's Assistant Emergency Relief Coordinator and Director of the Geneva Office of the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). In an interview with IRIN from the Jordanian capital, Amman, Mountain spoke of the important humanitarian role local UN staff continue to play in Iraq and the intensive UN planning underway in Jordan and Cyprus for Iraqi reconstruction.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Update Joint Staff/Coalition Provisional Authority 02 Feb 2004 -- Power / Oil / Education / Health Care / Security / Governance / Economics [PDF 4.74 Mb]

Foreign Reactions

• BRITAIN / IRAQ INQUIRY VOA 02 Feb 2004 -- The British government says it will announce soon whether to follow the U-S lead and order an inquiry into the intelligence on whether Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
• Japanese lower house passes bill of SDF dispatch to Iraq PLA DAily 02 Feb 2004 -- Japan's House of Representatives on Saturday endorsed the dispatch of the country's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to Iraq, and a bill for an extra fiscal 2003 budget to finance it, with the backing of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's governing coalition.
• TONY BLAIR 'VINDICATED' BY HUTTON REPORT US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 02 Feb 2004

News Reports

• Iraq: Suicide Attacks In Irbil Could Lead To Stronger Kurdish Unity RFE/RL 02 Feb 2004 -- In northern Iraq yesterday, suicide bombers killed at least 65 people and wounded more than 250 in separate attacks against Kurdish political parties. The bombings represent the first major attacks directed against political parties in Iraq. They also mark the first serious incidents in the Kurdish north, until now considered to be the most peaceful region in the country.