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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Jul 2004 [PDF]
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• SOLDIERS OF V CORPS TASK FORCE REACT TO ATTACK ON IRAQI NATIONAL GUARD COMPOUND US Army V Corps 13 Jul 2004 -- Five Soldiers from V Corps' 1st Infantry Division and one ING Soldier were killed, and 18 1st Infantry Division Soldiers and four ING Soldiers were wounded in the attack. The front section of the building, which housed troops of the division's Task Force 1-26 Infantry and ING Soldiers, collapsed from the blast.
• Airman dies in Iraq Air Force Link 13 Jul 2004 -- An Airman assigned to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing and attached to the U.S. Army's 494th Truck Company at Balad Air Base, Iraq, was killed in action July 11.
• IRAQ WRAP VOA 13 Jul 2004 -- A Bulgarian hostage in Iraq has reportedly been executed by militants, while the fate of two other hostages, another Bulgarian and a Filipino, still hang in the balance.

Deployments

• Australia Sending More Troops To Iraq RFE/RL 13 Jul 2004 -- Australia today announced it is sending 30 more troops to Iraq to protect its diplomats and military instructors already engaged in reconstruction in the country.

US Policy

• U-S / PHILIPPINES HOSTAGE VOA 13 Jul 2004 -- The United States expressed disappointment Tuesday over a statement by the Philippine government that it will pull its troops out of Iraq "as soon as possible" because of the kidnapping of a Filipino national there. U.S. officials say such action would send the wrong signal to terrorists.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Guardsmen join Coalition in combined operation Army News Service 13 Jul 2004 -- One Iraqi National Guardsman was killed and nine others wounded when their convoy was attacked this morning in Mosul. Soldiers returned fire, killing one of the terrorists before they fled.
• IRAQ/ NATO VOA 13 Jul 2004 -- Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari has told the NATO alliance that his country urgently needs NATO to implement its pledge to train Iraq's security forces. NATO is still trying to decide how and where to conduct the training because of differences among the allies.
• Iraq: Foreign Minister Says NATO Assistance Needed Urgently RFE/RL 13 Jul 2004 -- Iraqi interim Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said today it is a matter of "urgency" for NATO to fulfill the promise it made at last month's Istanbul summit to begin training and equipping Iraqi troops.

• Iraq: Archives, Libraries Devastated By War, Looting RFE/RL 13 Jul 2004 -- Employees of Iraq's National Library and Archives are struggling to overcome the destruction wrought during the first weeks of the U.S.-led war. Many irreplaceable documents, photographs, maps, and books -- some centuries old -- were either destroyed in the fighting or were stolen in the rampant looting that followed. A vital part of Iraq's culture seems to have disappeared forever.
• IRAQ / HUMAN RIGHTS VOA 13 Jul 2004 -- According to Iraq's minister of human rights, the former government of Saddam Hussein conditioned Iraqis to accept human-rights violations and to engage in them. The minister is concerned that Iraq's new security forces and the public at large have not received enough education regarding human rights.
• TWO-THOUSAND EMPLOYED IN LARGEST EMPLOYMENT PROJECT TO DATE 13 Jul 2004 -- First Cavalry Division on July 10 broke ground on the Al Boetha landfill, a $35 million project which will be the largest employment effort in 5th Brigade Combat Team's area of operation, providing jobs for 2,000 Iraqi workers.
• IRAQ: Iranian refugees moving to north IRIN 13 Jul 2004 -- Swedish NGO Qandil is working in collaboration with the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to build accommodation for 250 Iranian Kurdish refugee families who recently went to the northern Sulaymaniyah governorate, saying they had left deteriorating conditions in Al-Tash camp in the western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar.
• IRAQ: New prosthetic centre gives children in Basra hope IRIN 13 Jul 2004 -- A newly opened prosthetic unit for children in the southern Iraqi city of Basra is giving youngsters who've become victims of mine accidents and other diseases affecting their mobility a new lease of life.

Foreign Reactions

• BRITAIN / ITALY / IRAQ VOA 13 Jul 2004 -- The leaders of Britain and Italy, both in political trouble at home, met in London to issue a strong defense of their involvement in Iraq.
• UK government denies intentionally lying over Iraq arms IRNA 13 Jul 2004 -- The British government has denied that it intentionally lied over Iraq`s weapons of mass destruction to justify last year`s war to overthrow Saddam Hussein`s regime.
• PHILIPPINES/IRAQ HOSTAGE VOA 13 Jul 2004 -- Government officials in the Philippines struggled throughout the day with the case of a Filipino civilian held hostage by Islamic militants in Iraq. As Angelo de la Cruz's family arrived in the Middle East, speculation mounted that Manila might give in to the kidnappers' demands.

News Reports

• IRAQ: Human rights officials visit security detainees IRIN 13 Jul 2004 -- Officials at Iraq's Human Rights Ministry are now able to make weekly visits to previously off-limits security detainees at Abu Ghraib prison near the capital, Baghdad, to make sure abuse documented in pictures taken by US soldiers there never happens again, they say.
• CONGRESS/IRAQI WOMEN VOA 13 Jul 2004 -- A delegation of women from Iraq is visiting (the U.S.) Congress this week as part of a U.S. government-funded program aimed at giving them a glimpse of the American political process and democratic system.