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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 10 Jun 2004 [PDF]

• Iraq: Insurgent Attack Signals Rising Tensions In Al-Fallujah RFE/RL 10 Jun 2004 -- Insurgents have attacked the Iraqi security force entrusted with keeping the peace in Al-Fallujah. The attack is surprising because the security force already includes some insurgents in its own ranks as part of the deal to end fighting with U.S. troops two months ago.
• Coalition helps Mosul after car bomb, stops other attack Army News 10 Jun 2004 -- A car bomb killed 10 Iraqi civilians in Mosul June 8, but Coalition forces in that northern Iraq city prevented another explosion near there June 7.

Deployments

US Policy

• BUSH IRAQ G8 VOA 10 Jun 2004 -- President Bush has wrapped-up the G8 summit of major industrialized nations saying he is encouraged by the response of world leaders to assist Iraq's new transitional government. Mr. Bush says he does not expect that support to include more troops from NATO.
• DoD Issues Detainee Death Investigation Procedures 10 Jun 2004 -- The Department of Defense announced today that the secretary of defense issued new guidance on procedures for investigations into deaths of any person held as a detainee in the custody of the U.S. Armed Forces.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ WRAP VOA 10 Jun 2004 -- Iraq's new interim president has pledged that the country's Kurdish minority will enjoy the same rights as Shiites and Sunnis once a new constitution is written. But at a news conference in Washington, he stopped short of saying the special status that the Kurdish region in northern Iraq has enjoyed for more than a decade will continue once the new document is written.
• Iraq: Brahimi Confident Kurds' Constitution Fears Can Be Resolved (Part 1) RFE/RL 10 Jun 2004 -- UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is expressing confidence that Iraqi Kurds will be able to resolve their dispute with the country's majority Shi'as over a clause in the interim constitution protecting their autonomy. A new UN resolution on Iraqi sovereignty has omitted any reference to the interim constitution, leaving many Kurds worried they may soon see their political goals dashed by the new Iraqi government.
• Iraq: Kurds Threatening To Walk Away From Government (Part 2) RFE/RL 10 Jun 2004 -- Iraqi Kurds are threatening to walk away from the Iraqi government if they are not given any guarantees on their autonomous status. Kurdish leaders were dealt a setback this week when the United Nations Security Council opted not to mention Iraq's interim constitution -- with its strong protection of Kurdish rights -- in its new resolution on the country's sovereignty. Iraq's Shi'a majority has hotly opposed the Kurds' demands for autonomy.
• IRAQ: Focus on need for census IRIN 10 Jun 2004 -- A crush of at least 20 men hold on to the bars at the immigration window at an Interior Ministry office in the al-Karkh district of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, jostling to apply for temporary documents showing they belong in Iraq. On any given day hundreds can be seen queuing up here with at east 100 applicants per day.

Foreign Reactions

• IRAQ UNSC RESOLUTION: A 'VAST' INTERNATIONAL CONSENSUS US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 10 Jun 2004
• Powell-India VOA 10 Jun 2004 -- India's foreign minister said his government would reconsider its earlier refusal to commit troops to peacekeeping in Iraq.
• IRAQ / U.S. VOA 10 Jun 2004 -- Iraq's new president, Sheik Ghazi al-Yawar, says it may take another year for Iraq's security forces to take full control of protecting the country's stability. He expects multinational forces to remain in the country well beyond the June 30th handover of sovereignty. President al-Yawar also insists that the interim administration and any future government in Iraq must make sure that power is shared and not concentrated in one ruler.
• Iraqi Prime Minister Calls Saboteurs Traitors AFPS 10 Jun 2004 -- Those seeking to damage or destroy the country's petroleum, water and electrical infrastructure are betraying Iraq, the country's prime minister declared today.

News Reports

• CACI Rejects Lawsuit as Slanderous and Malicious CACI 10 Jun 2004 -- CACI International Inc (NYSE:CAI) today issued the following statement: Yesterday, a New York-based human rights activist group filed a lawsuit in San Diego federal court. The suit accuses CACI, Titan Corporation of San Diego, and several named individuals of conspiring with the U.S. government to carry out various crimes against detainees at detention centers in Iraq.