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• Transcript: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing 05 Jun 2004 -- Dan Senor, Senior Adviser, Coalition Provisional Authority

• Iraqi Commandos ready to hit the streets with Marines Marine Corps News 05 Jun 2004 -- Newly minted Iraqi Commandos are ready to work with Marines in Iraqi against enemy forces, with a little help from soldiers.

Deployments

US Policy

• Powell: Military Agreement Enhances Prospects for U.N. Iraq Resolution Washington File 05 Jun 2004 -- Prime Minister Iyad Allawi of the interim Iraqi government has specified the procedures under which coalition forces will operate after June 30, which should pave the way for a new U.N. resolution calling for international support for Iraqi reconstruction and security, Secretary of State Colin Powell said June 5.
• More Terrorist Attacks in Iraq Likely Rumsfeld Says Washington File 05 Jun 2004 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says it is very likely terrorist groups will increase their activity as the time draws closer for handover of authority in Iraq to the newly created Iraqi Interim Government.
• Bush Affirms Commitment to Iraqi Interim Government Washington File 05 Jun 2004 -- Bush Affirms Commitment to Iraqi Interim Government
• Bush Confident UN Will Adopt Iraq Resolution Soon RFE/RL 05 Jun 2004 -- U.S. President George W. Bush says he is confident the United Nations Security Council will soon approve a resolution on the transfer of power to Iraq.
• POWELL/IRAQ VOA 05 Jun 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell says diplomats are making real progress on a new U-N resolution supporting Iraq's transitional government. V-O-A White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports from Paris, where President Bush is meeting with French leader Jacques Chirac.
• RUMSFELD/BANGLADESH VOA 05 Jun 2004 -- U-S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has held talks with leaders in Bangladesh, which a U-S official says were expected to include discussion of sending Bangladeshi troops to Iraq and Afghanistan. The stop was part of a brief visit to Asia, aimed at discussing the war on terrorism with American allies in the region.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

• Chirac, Bush Discuss Regional Security Issues, Iraq Washington File 05 Jun 2004 -- On the eve of celebrations in Normandy of the 60th anniversary of the June 6, 1944, allied landing that began the liberation of Western Europe, President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac discussed areas of agreement from Afghanistan to the Middle East, Haiti and Africa.
• Berlusconi, Bush Reaffirm Commitment to Security and Democracy in Iraq Washington File 05 Jun 2004 -- President George W. Bush and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, speaking on the anniversary of the liberation of Rome by Allied forces during World War II, renewed their commitment to work together to restore peace and democracy in Iraq and elsewhere in the world.
• Cambodian Official Urges Rumsfeld to See Iraq Through AFPS 05 Jun 2004 -- Long before the world heard of the mass graves Saddam Hussein filled in Iraq, the Khmer Rouge slaughtered millions of Cambodians in the mid-1970s after the United States stopped bombing their sanctuaries in Indochina.
• BUSH / CHIRAC VOA 05 Jun 2004 -- President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac say they now share the same convictions over the future of Iraq. The French president lead opposition to the U-S invasion to topple Saddam Hussein.

News Reports

• Blair deluding himself over Iraq`s WMDs, says former ISG chief IRNA 05 Jun 2004 -- The former head of the US-led Iraq Survey Group (ISG), David Kay, suggested Saturday that Prime Minister Tony Blair was deluding himself by insisting that Iraqi weapons of mass destruction could still be found.