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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 11 Feb 2004 [PDF]

• Transcript: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing 11 Feb 2004 -- CPA Senior Adviser, Daniel Senor and Deputy Director for Operations Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt
• EXPLOSION AT BAGHDAD ARMY RECRUITING STATION KILLS 47, WOUNDS MANY CENTCOM Release 11 Feb 2004-- An explosion occurred at an Iraqi Army Recruiting Station at approximately 7:40 a.m.; initial reports indicated the explosion killed 47 Iraqis and wounded at least 50 others.
• AL ANBAR REGION MAKES STEADY IMPROVEMENTS CENTCOM Release 11 Feb 2004-- The newly elected Al Anbar Provincial Council in Ar Ramadi met yesterday for the first time since its inception. The delegates were elected using a process of 25 caucuses throughout the province.
• New vehicles helping against IEDs Army News Service 11 Feb 2004-- The U.S. Army has a few new weapons to use in its war against the threat of Improvised Explosive Devices on Iraq's roadways.
• 82nd Airborne Commander: 'Iraqi-ization' Moving Forward AFPS 11 Feb 2004 -- Iraqi police and other security forces are assuming more responsibility for security in their country every day, the U.S. general in charge of forces in western Iraq said in Baghdad today.
• Coalition Releases Letter Meant for al Qaeda AFPS 11 Feb 2004 -- Saying it illustrates a calculated effort by foreign terrorists to derail democracy in Iraq, coalition and Iraqi officials in Baghdad today released a 17-page letter intended for al Qaeda leaders that a courier was carrying when he was captured last month.
• Car Bomb In Baghdad Kills 47 RFE/RL 11 Feb 2004 -- A suicide attacker blew up his car in Baghdad this morning amid a crowd of hundreds of people applying for jobs outside an army recruiting center.
• Iraq: Civilians -- Not U.S. Soldiers -- Becoming Targets Of Choice In Bombings RFE/RL 11 Feb 2004 -- This week's car bombings in Iraq appear to confirm a trend that Iraqi civilians -- not U.S. soldiers -- are becoming the target of choice for the anticoalition insurgency. While it's still unclear who's orchestrating the attacks, the bombings appear to be aimed at sowing discontent and fear among the general population.
• IRAQ / BLAST VOA 11 Feb 2004 -- A car bomb exploded in the early hours of Baghdad's Wednesday morning, killing at least 40 people in the second such bombing in Iraq in less than 24 hours.

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US Policy

• POWELL / CONGRESS / IRAQ VOA 11 Feb 2004 -- U-S Secretary of State Colin Powell again defended the Bush administration's decision to go to war in Iraq at a congressional hearing Wednesday, marked by skeptical questioning from, and some heated exchanges with, Democratic House members.
• PENTAGON/RUMSFELD/INTELLIGENCE VOA 11 Feb 2004 -- year ago, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld seemed to have no doubts about the intelligence he was receiving on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. Now he and other top Pentagon officials are taking what appears to be a more cautious line when it comes to assessing the accuracy of U-S intelligence.
• Commerce Secretary Evans Urges U.S. Businesses to Deal with Iraq Washington File 11 Feb 2004 -- Commerce Secretary Donald Evans has encouraged U.S. companies to do business with Iraq.

United Nations

• Continuing UN fact-finding mission in Iraq, Brahimi meets officials and activists UN News centre 11 Feb 2004 -- Lakhdar Brahimi, who is leading a United Nations team assessing the feasibility of early elections in Iraq, held meetings today with a number of officials as well as representatives of civic groups.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Update Joint Staff/Coalition Provisional Authority 11 Feb 2004 -- Power / Oil / Education / Health Care / Security / Governance / Economics [PDF 3.74 Mb]
• Iraqi Officials Committed to Market Reforms, Treasury's Taylor Says Washington File 11 Feb 2004 -- Iraq's top finance officials attending a recent meeting of finance ministers and central bank governors from the Group of Seven (G-7) industrialized countries underscored their commitment to market-based reforms that will be the basis of private-sector led growth, says Treasury Under Secretary John Taylor.
• Iraq Granted Observer Status at the World Trade Organization Washington File 11 Feb 2004 -- Iraq has been formally granted observer status -- the first step towards World Trade Organization (WTO) membership -- by a consensus agreement of the WTO General Council.
• Iraqi Reconstruction Efforts Aimed at Building Sound Economic Base Washington File 11 Feb 2004 -- The Iraqi Governing Council (IGC) and the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) are working to build a foundation upon which an economically healthy Iraq can grow, according to Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs Anthony Wayne.
• U-S / IRAQ VOA 11 Feb 2004 -- Middle East specialists who have just returned from Iraq say the new Iraqi government is working, but they are expressing concern that when an interim administration takes control June 30th there will still be major security and economic problems in the country. The analysts are also urging that U-S aid to reconstruct Iraq be speeded up.
• IRAQ: Focus on reconstruction disparities in north IRIN 11 Feb 2004 -- On the road leading south from the northern Iraqi governorate of Arbil the problems of reconstructing war-ravaged Iraqi society are distilled on one stretch of highway.

Foreign Reactions

• India seeks early return to normalcy in Iraq: Sinha IRNA 11 Feb 2004 -- Observing that India would like to see Iraq`s return to normalcy "as quickly as possible", Indian External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha on Tuesday said there was need to make the war-ravaged country a "responsible member" of the international community.

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