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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 21 Jun 2004 [PDF]
• FIRST INFANTRY DIVISION SOLDIER DIES OF WOUNDS
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• Transcript: Coalition Provisional Authority Briefing 21 Jun 2004 -- Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt, Deputy Director for Coalition Military Operations and Daniel Senor, Senior Advisor, CPA
• IRAQ WRAP VOA 21 Jun 2004 -- Four U.S. Marines have been killed in an attack west of the Iraqi capital, as a deadline imposed by Muslim militants threatening to execute a South Korean hostage expires.

• IRAN / BRITISH SHIPS VOA 21 Jun 2004 -- Iran says it has seized eight British sailors and three naval vessels that allegedly strayed into Iranian waters near Iraq. Britain confirms the boats and sailors are missing

Deployments

US Policy

• Iraqis Will Control All 26 Ministries by Week's End, Senor Says Washington File 21 Jun 2004 -- COALITION PROVISIONAL AUTHORITY REPORT, JUNE 21: IRAQ UPDATE / CENTRAL COMMAND UPDATE: COURT MARTIAL PRE-TRIAL HEARINGS
• Bremer Details Top Accomplishments of Post-War Iraq AFPS 21 Jun 2004 -- As he prepares to leave Iraq after the handover of sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government, the American who has led the country since the end of major offensive operations looked back and detailed what he believes are the three greatest accomplishment there to date.
• COURT MARTIAL PRE-TRIAL HEARINGS CENTCOM 21 Jun 2004 -- Statement by COL Jill Morgenthaler, MNF-I Public Affairs Officer.

United Nations

• Iraq: After Stormy Year, UN Assumes Central Role RFE/Rl 21 Jun 2004 -- Overlooked in Iraq's transfer of sovereignty process is the handoff of considerable responsibility to the United Nations after 1 July. The UN Security Council has designated the secretariat to assume key nation-building duties similar to its recent efforts in the Balkans and Afghanistan. It marks a major turnaround after a wrenching period for the UN in Iraq.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Instructors to Conduct Most Military Training AFPS 21 Jun 2004 -- From now on Iraqis will be conducting most of the training for Iraq's new armed forces, a senior U.S. military officer said today.
• Iraqis to Manage All Ministries Before June 30 AFPS 21 Jun 2004 -- Iraqis will assume management of all national government ministries before the June 30 transfer of sovereignty, the Coalition Provisional Authority's chief spokesman said today.
• Iraqi Government Reshapes Forces for National Security AFPS 21 Jun 2004 -- The prime minister of Iraq's interim government announced organizational changes for the country's security forces, along with a plan for taking on Iraq's enemies, at a June 20 Baghdad news conference.
• IRAQ: Power shortage in south prompts major health concerns IRIN 21 Jun 2004 -- With the summer heat well under way, power shortages across Iraq and particularly the south have prompted health concerns. At present there are only up to eight hours of electricity a day in the city of Basra.

Foreign Reactions

• SOUTH KOREA TROOPS/IRAQ HOSTAGE VOA 21 Jun 2004 -- South Korea is dispatching a six-member delegation to the Middle East in an attempt to gain the release of one its nationals kidnapped in Iraq. Bu the South Korean government says the kidnapping will not deter it from its plan to send additional troops to Iraq.
• Seoul To Send Troops To Iraq Despite Threats RFE/RL 21 Jun 2004 -- South Korea says it will go forward with its plans to send some 3,000 additional troops to Iraq, despite a threat from Iraqi militants to execute a South Korean hostage.

News Reports

• PENTAGON/FALLUJAH VOA 21 Jun 2004 -- Senior U.S. commanders say they are optimistic about developments in Fallujah, the troubled Iraqi city west of Baghdad widely regarded as a stronghold for anti-coalition insurgents, including foreign fighters. Yet none of the coalition's top objectives for restoring order in Fallujah have been met and some western security experts claim conditions there are deteriorating.
• IRAQ/ELECTRICITY VOA 21 Jun 2004 -- Restoring stable electricity supplies in Iraq had been a top priority for U.S.-led coalition authorities since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in April 2003. But efforts to turn the lights back on, and keep them on, have not been easy.
• IRAN / BRITISH SHIPS VOA 21 Jun 2004 -- Iran says it has seized eight British sailors and three naval vessels that allegedly strayed into Iranian waters near Iraq. Britain confirms the boats and sailors are missing
• IRAQ: Palestinian refugees still waiting to be moved IRIN 21 Jun 2004 -- They may be the world's longest-suffering refugees, but the Palestinian families sitting in the sweltering heat of the dusty football field at Haifa Sports Club in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday had no idea that it was World Refugee Day.