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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 07 Jul 2004 [PDF]
• Vehicle accident near Ramadi kills one, injures four
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

• Marines, Soldier Added to Death Toll in Iraq AFPS 07 Jul 2004 -- Four U.S. Marines and a soldier were killed in two separate incidents in the past 48 hours, military officials reported.
• Iraqi Soldiers Killed In Rocket Attack RFE/RL 07 Jul 2004 -- The U.S. military has said five Iraqi soldiers were killed in a rocket attack last night on their base near Taji.

Deployments

• Emergency Measures, Not Desperate Attempts, Fill Troop Rotations AFPS 07 Jul 2004 -- Pentagon leaders today faced tough questions on Capitol Hill on issues of deployment and force structure as the military gears up for another round of troop rotations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• ESG 3 Assumes Maritime Security Mission Navy Newsstand 07 Jul 2004 -- Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 3 entered the Navy's U.S. 5th Fleet July 2, and is scheduled to take over the duties of maritime security operations in the Northern Arabian Gulf (NAG).
• U.S./MILITARY VOA 07 Jul 2004 -- Senior U.S. military officials have tried to reassure lawmakers on Capitol Hill about the Pentagon's ability to sustain adequate troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan.

US Policy

• US reports transferring nuclear material out of Iraq, UN atomic agency says UN News Centre 07 Jul 2004 -- Relaying information received from Washington, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency has told the Security Council that the United States transferred nuclear material out of Iraq last month.
• U.S. Removes Nuclear and Radiological Materials from Iraq Washington File 07 Jul 2004 -- Iraqi radiological and nuclear materials with a potential use in weapons programs or dispersal devices have been removed from the country and airlifted to the United States, according to a July 6 press statement from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).

• Rumsfeld Expects Iraqis Will Help Government End Violence AFPS 07 Jul 2004 -- As the Iraqi people become more confident in their new interim government, more of them will cooperate in the government's efforts to end the violence plaguing the country, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today.
• RUMSFELD / IRAQ VOA 07 Jul 2004 -- U-S Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says he thinks the assertive new security role by Iraq's interim government will help generate public support against the insurgency there. The U-S defense chief spoke at the close of U-S-Australian talks in Washington Wednesday that included a pledge by the Canberra government to maintain its troop presence in Iraq.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Emergency security laws announced IRIN 07 Jul 2004 -- Flanked by military leaders, Iraq's new ministers of justice and human rights announced emergency security laws on Wednesday that they said were necessary to restore safety to the country.
• IRAQ WRAP VOA 07 Jul 2004 -- The Iraqi government has announced a new law allowing it to take aggressive action to put down an on-going insurgency, including the right to declare martial law. But it remains far from certain whether Iraqi security forces will be able to enforce it or whether it will be up to foreign forces, nearly all of them American, to carry out any security clampdown.
• IRAQ / EMERGENCY LAW VOA 07 Jul 2004 -- Iraq has adopted a new law that gives the prime minister wide powers, including the ability to impose curfews and order house to house searches. The law is part of an effort by Iraq's new interim government to crack down on insurgents and terrorists.
• Iraq Unveils Tough New Security Law RFE/RL 07 Jul 2004 -- Iraq's interim government has unveiled new security measures that will give the prime minister power to declare emergency rule in parts of the country if he deems it necessary to combat insurgents.
• IRAQ: North remains heavily mined IRIN 07 Jul 2004 -- It is early morning in Tawila, a town straddling the Iran-Iraq border in the northern mountainous region of Hawraman in northern Iraq. On the main street, the shops are just opening, and local farmers make their way down the valley to the steep terraces where they grow vegetables and poplar trees for use in building.

Foreign Reactions

• Commons Hansard Debates text for Wednesday 7 Jul 2004: Oral Answers to Questions [7 Jul 2004] Hansard House of Commons 07 Jul 2004 -- "I told the Liaison Committee yesterday that, although I was confident that those weapons existed last year, I have to accept that they have not been found. "
• Indian foreign minister rules out sending troops to Iraq IRNA 07 Jul 2004 -- Indian External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh Tuesday emphasized in the Lok Sabha (Lower House of Parliament) that the question of sending Indian troops to Iraq did not arise and that the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government was being guided by the unanimous resolution adopted by parliament last year.

News Reports

• Iraq: In Capital, Local Police Show Signs Of Greater Effectiveness RFE/RL 07 Jul 2004 -- Iraq's interim government today unveiled its plan for tough new security measures. After more than a week of Iraqi sovereignty, the security situation in the Iraqi capital already appears better. Outbreaks of violence continue, but not on the massive scale seen just a few weeks ago. The Iraqi police force is hoping to ensure the relative calm continues, and law-enforcement personnel appear to be growing more effective.