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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 12 Jul 2004 [PDF]
• OIF/OEF Casualty Update (2) 12 Jul 2004 [PDF]
• TWO SOLDIERS KILLED, THREE WOUNDED IN ATTACK

• IRAQ WRAP VOA 12 Jul 2004 -- The Iraqi government has delivered a strong warning to insurgents, threatening to use the same techniques as its opponents to deal with those disrupting the country's security and reconstruction. Correspondent Nick Simeone tells us the tough, new warning came on a day when three more American soldiers were reported killed in insurgent attacks.
• INSURGENTS ATTACK ABU GHRAIB DETENTION FACILITY CENTCOM 12 Jul 2004 -- ABU GHRAIB, Iraq - Anti-Iraqi insurgents launched a mortar attack Sunday night on the Baghdad Central Corrections Facility at Abu Ghraib, where Multi-National Forces hold over 2,300 Iraqis for participating in or directly supporting activities threatening the security of Iraqi and Multi-National Forces.

Deployments

• Kearsarge Offloads 24th MEU in Arabian Gulf Navy NewStand 12 Jul 2004 -- USS Kearsarge (LHD 3) began offloading elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in the Arabian Gulf July 7, reaching the mid-point of its surge mission to the U.S. Central Command Area of Responsibility (AOR). The process took three days.

US Policy

• BUSH/TERROR/IRAQ VOA 12 Jul 2004 -- President Bush is defending his handling of the terrorist threat and the war in Iraq, which are major issues in the U.S. presidential campaign. V-O-A's Paula Wolfson reports, Mr. Bush says his actions have made America safer.
• U-S / IRAQ-SYRIA VOA 12 Jul 2004 -- The United States says cooperation between Syria and Iraq to secure their common border is badly needed and long overdue.

United Nations

• U.N./IRAQ ENVOY VOA 12 Jul 2004 -- U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has named an experienced Pakistani diplomat as U.N. special envoy in Iraq. Kerry Sheridan reports from VOA's New York Bureau, Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, currently Pakistan's ambassador in Washington, will take up the U.N. post in Bagdhad at an unspecified future date.
• Senior Pakistani diplomat named new UN envoy to Iraq UN News Centre 12 Jul 2004 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today named Pakistan's current Ambassador to the United States, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, as his Special Representative for Iraq.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ / EDUCATION VOA 12 Jul 2004 -- Insurgents in Iraq have struck at the heart of the country's higher learning centers, kidnapping noted researchers, university professors, and administrators. Fearing for their personal safety, many educators are leaving the country.
• Iraq: Baghdad Seeks Recognition From Neighbors RFE/RL 12 Jul 2004 -- Barham Salih, the deputy prime minister of Iraq's interim government, says Syria and Iraq will set up a special security force to prevent infiltrations by Islamic militants across their 600-kilometer common border. Salih made the remarks on 11 July during a visit to Damascus -- the first to Syria by an Iraqi official since the United States transferred sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government last month.
• Iraqi President Promises To Punish Insurgents RFE/RL 12 Jul 2004 -- Iraq's interim President Ghazi Ajil al-Yawir promised action today against those threatening Iraq's security.
• IRAQ: Interview with Health Minister Dr Ala'adin Alwan IRIN 12 Jul 2004 -- Iraq's new minister for health, Ala'adin Alwan, is forward-thinking in his ideas about how to modernise health care in the country. Educated in the UK, Alwan previously served as the World Health Organization's (WHO) representative and head of mission in Jordan and Oman. He also served as head of WHO's office on chronic and non-contagious diseases in Geneva.

Foreign Reactions

• SADDAM'S TRIAL: FIRST TEST FOR THE NEW IRAQ US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 12 Jul 2004
• IRAQ / EUROPE VOA 12 Jul 2004 -- The European Union says it will try to determine how best it can help Iraq reconstruct its economy and develop democratic institutions there. The vague commitment came after a meeting in Brussels between the 25-member bloc's foreign ministers and their Iraqi counterpart, Hoshyar Zebari, who asked the EU to adopt a higher profile in his country.
• Rowhani reiterates Iran`s interest in close ties with Iraq IRNA 12 Jul 2004 -- Iran`s National Security Council (NSC) secretary Hassan Rowhani reiterated Iran`s interest in maintaining close ties and cooperation with the Iraqi nation as well as the present government in that country.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 12 Jul 2004
• Blair confirmed Iraq had no usable WMD before war, says Cook IRNA 12 Jul 2004 -- Former Foreign Secretary Robin Cook has questioned the veracity of Tony Blair`s justification for invading Iraq by disclosing that the Prime Minister confirmed Saddam Hussein had no useable weapons of mass destruction before the war.