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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 07 Jun 2004 [PDF]
• MARINE KILLED IN ACTION
• ONE SOLDIER KILLED BY CAR BOMB
• One Soldier, Two Iraqi Civilians Killed, Other Wounded By Car Bomb
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Coalition Forces Rescue Italian, Polish Hostages AFPS 08 Jun 2004 -- Coalition forces rescued four civilian hostages today south of Baghdad, military officials reported.
• Civil Affairs Operations Continue in Iraq AFPS 08 Jun 2004 -- Soldiers from the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, assigned in support of the 1st Marine Division in Iraq1 visited the Ali Jassim tribal area clinic to inspect improvement work there.
• Ammunition Facility Accident Claims Soldiers' Lives AFPS 08 Jun 2004 -- Several coalition soldiers were killed today in an accident during engineering work at an ammunition and explosive storage facility near Suwayrah, Iraq, Multinational Force Iraq officials reported.
• Transcript: Press Conference with Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez 08 Jun 2004 -- Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez, Commander, Coalition Ground Forces; Ambassador De Martino Of Italy and Ambassador Wielgosz Of Poland
• IRAQ / HOSTAGES VOA 08 Jun 2004 -- The top American general in Iraq says three Italians and a Polish citizen, who were abducted at different times in the past seven weeks, were freed in a U-S-led rescue operation south of Baghdad.
• CAR BOMB IN MOSUL TARGETED GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS CENTCOM 08 Jun 2004 -- A car bomb was detonated in downtown Mosul several hundred meters from the City Hall around 9:15 a.m. June 8.

Deployments

• USS Kearsarge Deploys in Support of OIF, Global War on Terrorism Navy Newstand 08 Jun 2004 -- Sailors and Marines embarked in USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) departed June 7 on an eight-week deployment to the Central Command area of responsibility in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and the global war on terrorism.

US Policy

• Bush, Putin Hail Passage of U.N. Resolution on Iraq Washington File 08 Jun 2004 -- President Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed passage June 8 of the United Nation Security Council resolution endorsing the new interim government of Iraq.
• Negroponte Calls U.N. Resolution a "Milestone" for Iraq Washington File 08 May 2004 -- Calling the new U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq "an important milestone," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Negroponte said June 8 that the resolution "makes clear that Iraq's sovereignty will be undiluted and that the government of Iraq will have the sovereign authority to request and to decline assistance, including in the security sector."
• BUSH BLAIR IRAQ VOA 08 Jun 2004 -- President Bush says the new U.N. resolution on Iraq is a great victory for the Iraqi people and will lead to broader stability throughout the Middle East. White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports from the southern state of Georgia where President Bush is meeting with world leaders ahead of the start of the G-8 summit.
• POWELL / IRAQ VOA 08 Jun 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell held talks in Washington Tuesday with the new president of Iraq's interim government, Ghazi al-Yawar. Mr. Powell said the assumption of power by the interim government means that insurgents operating in Iraq will be fighting the interests of their own people.
• Powell Meets Iraqi Interim President Ghazi al-Yawar Washington File 08 Jun 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell said the U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq, expected to be approved June 8, will clarify the role of the international community and the coalition forces in a sovereign Iraq.

United Nations

• U.N. Security Council Unanimously Endorses Iraqi Government Washington File 08 May 2004 -- The Security Council June 8 recognized the restoration of full sovereignty to Iraq in a unanimously approved resolution marking a new political phase in the relationship between Iraq and the international community.
• U-N / IRAQ RESOLUTION ADOPTED VOA 08 Jun 2004 -- The U-N Security Council has unanimously adopted a resolution restoring Iraq's sovereignty on June 30th. The measure gives U-S led military forces a mandate to provide security in Iraq through the end of next year.
• Annan pledges UN will play its role in Iraq's next phase UN News Centre 08 Jun 2004 -- Describing the Security Council's unanimous adoption of a resolution on Iraq as "a genuine expression of the will of the international community," Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today he welcomed its passage and pledged the United Nations would play its part in the next phase of the country's transition from war and occupation.
• IRAQ WRAP VOA 08 Jun 2004 -- The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution endorsing Iraqi sovereignty. But violence continues to plague Iraq with deadly bombings reported in the north. But four Western hostages have been released and some of their kidnappers detained.
• U.N. OKs New Iraq Resolution AFPS 08 Jun 2004 -- As President Bush predicted earlier today, the United Nations has passed a new resolution on Iraq.
• Security Council unanimously endorses formation of interim Iraqi government UN News Centre 08 Jun 2004 -- A week after the formation of an interim government of Iraq, the United Nations Security Council today unanimously endorsed the new leadership and paved the way for Iraqis to assume "full responsibility and authority" for their country, including decisions on security matters, at the end of the month.
• Iraq: UN Security Council Prepares To Endorse Transfer Of SovereigntyRFE/RL 08 Jun 2004 -- With most of the substantive issues settled, the UN Security Council is expected to adopt later today a resolution endorsing the handover of sovereignty to interim Iraqi authorities on 30 June. Council members say the latest draft includes enough assurances from Washington that Iraqi authorities will maintain a high level of control over security matters after the transfer of power. Chief UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi told the council that the incoming government's top challenge will be to resolve the country's security issues.
• U.N. / IRAQ PREVIEW VOA 08 Jun 2004 -- The U.N. Security Council is preparing to unanimously adopt a U.S. and British-sponsored resolution on Iraq. France and Germany, two countries that had asked for last-minute changes, have signaled approval of the measure.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: Prime Minister Says Most Militias Agree To DisbandRFE/RL 08 Jun 2004 -- Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says almost all of the country's powerful militias have agreed to disarm and that their members will either go into state-controlled security services or return to civilian life. If fully implemented, the deal could mark a major step forward for efforts to rebuild Iraq as a civil society.
• IRAQ: New housing project for displaced people IRIN 08 Jun 2004 -- Men in blue overalls laying the concrete foundations of new apartment buildings in the hot noon-day heat are the new face of Iraq's largely stalled reconstruction effort. They're slapping concrete between the boards of the foundations to hold them together. Piles of steel girders rest between the foundations, along with sacks of dry cement.
• IRAQ: Briefing paper on food security IRIN 08 Jun 2004

Foreign Reactions

• IRAQ'S NEW INTERIM GOVERNMENT FACES AN UPHILL STRUGGLE US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 08 Jun 2004

News Reports

• IRAQ WRAP VOA 08 Jun 2004 -- The U.N. Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution endorsing Iraqi sovereignty. But violence continues to plague Iraq with deadly bombings reported in the north. But four Western hostages have been released and some of their kidnappers detained.