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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 09 Jun 2004 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• Iraqi Insurgents Kill 12 In Al-Fallujah RFE/RL 09 Jun 2004 -- Insurgents launched mortar attacks against Iraqi security forces in the western town of Al-Fallujah today, killing 12 Iraqis and wounding at least 10 other people.
• Marines start up boot camp in Iraq Marine Corps News 09 Jun 2004 -- There aren't any "Smokey Bear" covers, but make no mistake. Marines are opening a new boot camp center in Iraq.

Deployments

US Policy

• PENTAGON / BASES / IRAQ VOA 09 Jun 2004 -- Senior Bush administration officials say it is too soon to say whether the United States will seek to establish permanent military facilities in Iraq as part of its global realignment of forces.
• U.S. Embassy in Baghdad Likely to Be Its Largest Washington File 09 Jun 2004 -- The United States is planning to establish what is likely to be its largest embassy in Baghdad after control of the country is transferred to the Iraqi Interim Government on June 30.
• Plans to Open U.S. Embassy in Baghdad 'Well on Track' AFPS 09 Jun 2004 -- After June 30 the American and Iraqi governments will conduct diplomatic business "as equals," the U.S. State Department's coordinator for Iraq transition said here today.

• NATO Should Be Involved in Iraq, Bush and Blair Say at G8 Washington File 09 Jun 2004 -- President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair held an early morning meeting during the G8 summit in Sea Island, Georgia, June 9 to discuss the U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq that was approved the previous day, as well as the security situation in Iraq and the upcoming handover of sovereignty.
• U.N. Resolution Offers New Hope for Iraq, Officials Say Washington File 09 Jun 2004 -- With the passage of the milestone resolution on Iraq June 8, senior officials of the United States, United Nations, and the new interim government of Iraq expressed optimism that the resolution will be a turning point in the country's political process and its relations with the international community.
• Powell Hopes U.N. Resolution Changes Political Dynamic in Iraq Washington File 09 Jun 2004 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell hopes the new United Nations Security Council resolution on Iraq passed June 8 "will change the political dynamic in Iraq."
• Bush and Iraq's Al-Yawer Look Ahead to a New Iraqi Future Washington File 09 Jun 2004 -- President Bush and Iraqi President Sheikh Ghazi Al-Yawer met June 9 for talks that covered reconstruction efforts in Iraq as well as the country's potential future, a senior administration official says.
• Bush Welcomes Iraqi President Al-Yawer to G8 Summit Washington File 09 Jun 2004 -- President Bush welcomed Iraq's new president to the G8 Summit in Sea Island, Georgia, saying that he has great faith in the future of Iraq and that Ghazi Al-Yawer has the support of the United States.
• BUSH / CHIRAC / IRAQ VOA 09 Jun 2004 -- day after France joined other U.N. Security Council members in unanimously passing a new resolution on Iraq, Washington and Paris clashed over the role of NATO forces in the country. White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports from the southern state of Georgia where leaders of the major industrialized nations are gathered for the G-8 summit.
• BUSH / IRAQ PRESIDENT VOA 09 Jun 2004 -- Iraqi interim president Ghazi al-Yawar has told President Bush that Iraq is committed to moving toward democracy. White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports from the southern state of Georgia where the two leaders met on the sidelines of the G-8 economic summit.
• Bush: Resolution Passage Marks 'Important Day' for Iraq AFPS 09 Jun 2004 -- The passage of a new U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq marks "an important day for the Iraqi people," President Bush noted today at the G8 summit at Sea Island, Ga.
• Bush, Schroeder on "Rapidly Converging Path" Concerning Iraq Washington File 09 Jun 2004 -- President Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder "are clearly on a rapidly converging path with respect to Iraq," and they discussed "what Germany and the United States can do together, moving forward," a senior administration official told reporters after the two leaders met during the G8 summit June 8.
• Paul Wolfowitz on "The Road Map for a Sovereign Iraq" Washington File 09 Jun 2004 -- This column by Paul Wolfowitz, who is deputy secretary of defense, was published in the Wall Street Journal June 9 and is in the public domain. No republication restrictions
• U.S.: Ashcroft Denies Breach Of Torture Laws, But Refuses To Turn Over Memos RFE/RL 09 Jun 2004 -- The United States' top law-enforcement official has told Congress that President George W. Bush issued no orders contrary to U.S. or international laws that forbid the torture of military prisoners.

United Nations

• Iraq: UN Weapons Monitors Await Role From Security Council RFE/RL 09 Jun 2004 -- Among the issues that are not resolved in the UN Security Council resolution restoring Iraq's sovereignty is the fate of the weapons inspection team known as UNMOVIC. The team is still technically charged with verifying the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but has been sidelined since U.S.-led coalition forces toppled Saddam Hussein. Some council members want the group to return to Iraq and use their expertise to form a permanent weapons inspectorate. U.S. and new Iraqi leaders say it is too soon to decide on the UN inspection role.
• UN: Security Council Resolution Boosts Iraq's Reassertion Of Sovereignty RFE/RL 09 Jun 2004 -- The UN Security Council has given its unanimous support to the upcoming transfer of sovereignty to Iraq's caretaker government. The resolution authorizes a U.S.-led multinational force in Iraq to maintain security under provisions that require close coordination between U.S. and Iraqi leaders.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ WRAP VOA 09 Jun 2004 -- President Bush has met with Iraq's new interim president, a day after the United Nations gave its unanimous approval to the country's transition back to self-rule. But no sooner had the U-N approved the plan than a potential setback surfaced involving one of the country's three main groups vying for power.
• G8 Iraq Debt VOA 09 Jun 2004 -- The Group of Eight summit in Sea Island, Georgia Wednesday launched a Partnership for Progress in the Broader Middle East and North Africa. While the initiative says debt reduction is critical for Iraq the summit deferred action on the Iraq debt.
• Iraq: Will A Sovereign Government Help To Quell The Insurgency? RFE/RL 09 Jun 2004 -- The United Nations has unanimously approved a resolution endorsing the upcoming U.S. handover of power to a sovereign Iraqi government. But will the transfer of sovereignty help to quell Iraqi insurgencies?

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq: European Commission Proposes Aid Strategy RFE/RL 09 Jun 2004 -- The European Commission today proposed a new framework for the development of relations with Iraq.
• E.U./IRAQ VOA 09 Jun 2004 -- The European Union says it will progressively increase its involvement in Iraq's reconstruction if the country manages to achieve stability and move toward a representative democracy in the months ahead. The 25-nation bloc released a strategy paper outlining how it proposes to help the war-torn nation.
• BRITAIN/IRAQ VOA 09 Jun 2004 -- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has applauded the unanimous adoption of the U.N. Security Council resolution on Iraq Tuesday.

News Reports

• IRAQ: Interview with Minister of Science and Technology IRIN 09 Jun 2004 -- With a new mandate, Iraq's recently appointed minister of science and technology says he is now working hard to modernise a country still reeling from the effects of sanctions.