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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 15 Jun 2004 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• IRAQ SITREP-UPDATE VOA 15 Jun 2004 -- For the second consecutive day, a convoy carrying foreign contractors has been attacked in Iraq. The U.S. military is reporting at least two people killed. An apparently worsening security situation comes just days before Iraqis are set to take full control of their country from coalition forces.
• Transcript: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing 15 Jun 2004 -- Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Director for Coalition Operations and Dan Senor, Senior Adviser, CPA
• IRAQ SITREP VOA 15 Jun 2004 -- For the second consecutive day, attackers have targeted a convoy of foreign contractors near Baghdad and the U.S. military reports an unknown number of people may have been killed. The attacks come just days before Iraqis are set to take full control of their country from coalition forces.

Deployments

US Policy

• Coalition Officials Expect Violence to Continue in Iraq AFPS 15 Jun 2004 -- Coalition officials expect more violence leading up to and after the June 30 handover of authority in Iraq, officials in Baghdad said today.
• U.S. Officials Deny That Hussein Will Be Handed Over RFE/RL 15 Jun 2004 -- U.S. officials say they are not aware of any immediate plans to hand over former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and other detainees to Iraq's new government.
• CONGRESS/HALLIBURTON VOA 15 Jun 2004 -- Controversy over recent revelations concerning the oil services company Halliburton found its way to Capitol Hill Tuesday as a congressional committee began new examinations of the role of private contractors in Iraq.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Military Buys First Pair of Recon Aircraft AFPS 15 Jun 2004 -- The Iraqi military soon will be cleared for flight after the purchase this week of two aircraft in Jordan, coalition officials in Baghdad said today.
• Iraqis Now Control 15 of 26 Government Ministries AFPS 15 Jun 2004 -- With just over two weeks remaining before the formal handover of sovereignty on June 30, the transition of authority to Iraq's new government is more than half complete, Coalitional Provisional Authority officials said in Baghdad today.
• Iraqis Now Running 60 Percent of Own Government, CPA Says Washington File 15 Jun 2004 -- With just over two weeks to go Until Iraqi authorities assume sovereignty in their country, nearly 60 percent of the government there has already been transitioned to Iraqi control, says Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) spokesman Dan Senor.
• IRAQ / RECOVERED ARTIFACTS VOA 15 Jun 2004 -- Security officials in Iraq say a sting operation has recovered hundreds of stolen artifacts destined for overseas black markets. The artifacts were illegally dug up from archeological sites around the ancient city of Babylon, about 90-kilometers south of Baghdad.
• IRAQ: NGOs cautious about handover IRIN 15 Jun 2004 -- As negotiations continue in New York and other spots where world leaders gather, humanitarian groups and other foreigners in Iraq are making their own calculations about where they'll be during the scheduled handover of power on 30 June to Iraqi officials.
• IRAQ: Focus on future of detainees IRIN 15 Jun 2004 -- Hundreds of relatives stand at the menacing barbed-wire entrance to the heavily fortified Abu Ghraib prison in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad waiting for a chance to see loved ones inside.

Foreign Reactions

• IRAQ / OIC VOA 15 Jun 2004 -- The legitimacy of Iraq's interim government received a crucial boost Tuesday after the country's neighbors endorsed the newly formed government. Hours later, foreign ministers from some 50 Islamic countries gathered in Istanbul approved a draft resolution backing the Iraqi interim government.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 15 Jun 2004
• Iraq: Plans For Saddam Hussein's Trial Advance, But Many Details Uncertain RFE/RL 15 Jun 2004 -- Plans for putting Saddam Hussein on trial are advancing as Iraq's prime minister says the United States will hand over the former leader to Baghdad within two weeks. But many questions about the trial remain, including when it will be held, how the Iraqi government will ensure security, and whether the proceedings will be internationally monitored to guarantee fairness.
• PENTAGON/IRAQ/NUCLEAR VOA 15 Jun 2004 -- Iraq regains its sovereignty July First, and in a little noticed development, Iraqi authorities have begun rebuilding facilities at the Tuwaitha research center once used by Saddam Hussein to pursue his regime's nuclear-weapons ambitions.