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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 27 Feb 2004 [PDF]

• Transcript: Combined Joint Task Force 7 Briefing from Baghdad 27 Feb 2004 -- Presenter: Army Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez
• Iraqi Citizens Keep Leading U.S. Forces to Weapons and Suspects AFPS 27 Feb 2004 -- Iraqi citizens continue to point U.S. troops to sites where weapons and ammunitions are being found - even in some cases hand delivering turn-in of the deadly munitions.
• TF OLYMPIA SOLDIERS DETAIN SUSPECTS, COLLECT ARMS CENTCOM Release 27 Feb 2004-- Soldiers from 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, under the operational control of Task Force Olympia, detained one suspect and continued ongoing weapons-collection operations over the past 24 hours in northern Iraq.
• 1AD SOLDIERS DISCOVER WEAPONS CACHE CENTCOM Release 27 Feb 2004-- Task Force 1st Armored Division soldiers discovered and seized a weapons cache in the Al Rashid district Feb. 24.

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United Nations

• Sixteenth 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 27 Feb 2004 [PDF]

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Officials to Outline Priorities for Use of Reconstruction Funds Washington File 27 Feb 2004 -- Senior representatives from Iraqi ministries will meet with World Bank and United Nations officials and major donors to the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq February 28-29 to discuss the allocation of pledged resources to specific projects.
• IRAQ / CONSTITUTION AFPS 27 Feb 2004 -- Iraq's Governing Council says their draft of a new constitution will not be ready by this weekend, the original deadline. A number of disagreements remain on what the document should include.
• Iraq: Al-Sistani Drops Demand For Elections Before 30 June RFE/RL 27 Feb 2004 -- The leading Iraqi Shi'a Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called yesterday for elections to be held in the country by the end of 2004.
• UN envoy to Iraq rates joblessness and power shortages as priority problems UN News Centre 27 Feb 2004 -- Unemployment, electricity cuts, medicine shortages and water quality are the most pressing humanitarian problems facing Iraq, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's acting Special Representative for the country said after a two-day visit to Baghdad.

Foreign Reactions

• UK to open its biggest Middle East embassy in Baghdad IRNA 27 Feb 2004 -- Britain was reported Friday to be preparing to open its biggest embassy in the Middle East in Iraq and plans to have the new mission ready for diplomats, soldiers and other officials when the US-led occupation hands over power on July 1.
• UK legal adviser confirms resignations was over Iraq war IRNA 27 Feb 2004 -- A former legal adviser at the Foreign Office confirmed Friday that she resigned from her post because he did not agree with the government`s claimed legality of the Iraq war.
• Straw confirms Mexico query on UK spying ahead of Iraq war IRNA 27 Feb 2004 -- Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has confirmed that the Mexican government has asked him to clarify whether Britain GCHQ spying agency was involved in placing surveillance on other members of the UN Security Council in the run up to the Iraq war.

News Reports

• German tv airs video clips of US troops gunning down injured Iraqis IRNA 27 Feb 2004 -- German public television aired Thursday evening video footages of US troops shooting apparently unarmed and injured Iraqis.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 7, Number 07 27 Feb 2004 -- ISLAMIC MILITANT GROUP VOWS MORE ATTACKS / TRANSITIONAL ADMINISTRATION LAW ON SCHEDULE / IRAQI LEADER SAYS SUNNIS, SHI'A TAKING UNIFIED POSITION / BADR ORGANIZATION CALLS FOR GREATER SECURITY ROLE IN IRAQ / IRAQI TURKOMAN LEADER OPPOSES DRAFT CONSTITUTION / U.S. CIVILIAN ADMINISTRATOR HINTS ELECTIONS COULD BE DELAYED ONE YEAR / SUICIDE BOMBER STRIKES KIRKUK POLICE STATION / KURDS SEEK 'SPECIAL PROVISIONS' IN DRAFT CONSTITUTION / AL-SISTANI ISSUES FATWA FOR RETURN OF STOLEN GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS / SUNNI SHAYKH ASSASSINATED IN BAGHDAD / SUNNI LEADER SAYS SECTARIAN ISSUES THREATEN IRAQ / PLANNING MINISTER REPORTS ON UNEMPLOYMENT / SHI'ITE CLERIC LABELS KARBALA CITY COUNCIL ILLEGITIMATE, CALLS FOR BOYCOTT... / ...AS GOVERNOR CALLS FOR PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATIONS / GUNMEN ASSASSINATE HIGH-RANKING MOSUL POLICEMAN / COALITION, ICDC DETAIN TWO AL-DURI ASSOCIATES... / ...AND KILL AL-ZARQAWI ASSOCIATE / U.A.E. HOSTING DONOR CONFERENCE ON IRAQ THIS WEEK / GOVERNING COUNCIL PRESIDENT DENIES IRAQ WOULD LAY CLAIM TO KUWAITI TERRITORY / BRITISH COUNCIL, BBC WORLD TRUST TRAIN IRAQI JOURNALISTS IN JORDAN / UN SAYS ELECTIONS COULD BE HELD IN IRAQ BY YEAR-END / UN SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE IN IRAQ TO ASSESS HUMANITARIAN NEEDS / USAID ISSUES REPORT ON MASS GRAVES IN IRAQ / EUROPEAN STATES PREPARE TO RETURN IRAQI ASYLUM SEEKERS / RUSSIAN DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER SAYS ELECTIONS IMPOSSIBLE WHILE IRAQ IS OCCUPIED / HUNGARY MULLS EXTENSION OF MILITARY PRESENCE IN IRAQ / ROMANIAN PREMIER VISITS IRAQ