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Current Operations

• Explosion kills One Soldier, Wounds Another

• Petraeus Ready for New Iraqi Security Mission AFPS 16 May 2004 -- With Iraqi sovereignty less than two months away, the man who commanded the 101st Airborne Division the first year of the Iraq war is up for an enormous, new challenge.
• Two Iraqi Women Working for Coalition Killed in Baghdad VOA News 16 May 2004 -- Two Iraqi women working for the U.S.-led coalition have been killed and two others wounded, in an attack on a vehicle in the Iraqi capital.
• Lejeune battalion gets well-deserved chance to clean up Marine Corps News 16 May 2004-- It's time for a bit of easy living for the Marines of 2nd Battalion, 2nd Marine Regiment. At least as easy as it gets at the base camp here.

Deployments

US Policy

• Powell Confident U.S. Will "Stay the Course" in Iraq AFPS 16 May 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell said today he is confident the United States will the stay course in Iraq.
• U-S IRAQ VOA 16 May 2004 -- The Bush administration is defending its Iraq policy at home and abroad. V-O-A's Paula Wolfson reports Secretary of State Colin Powell took the lead during the weekend - consulting with Arab leaders in Jordan, and speaking out in a series of interviews with American television networks.
• U-S / BERG KILLING VOA 16 May 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell says he would like to see the Arab world issue stronger condemnations of the recent beheading of an American civilian contractor in Iraq.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

• British Defense Secretary: Blair Determined to Finish Job in Iraq VOA News 16 May 2004 -- British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon says Prime Minister Tony Blair is absolutely determined to complete the mission in Iraq, but no decision has been made on increasing the number of British troops there.
• Iran slams sacrilege of holy sites in Iraq, warns of consequences IRNA 16 May 2004 -- Iran on Sunday strongly condemned US forces for entering the Iraqi cities of Karbala and Najaf and warned the United States of the `consequences` of breaching the sanctity of holy places.

News Reports

• Report: Rumsfeld OK'd Rough Interrogations in Iraq VOA News 16 May 2004 -- A published report about conditions in Iraq's U.S.-run prisons contends that U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld himself authorized harsh interrogations of detainees in Iraq, but Pentagon officials are strongly denying the account.