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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 20 Jul 2004 [PDF]
• SOLDIERS KILLED IN ACTION IN AL ANBAR PROVINCE
• MARINE KILLED IN ACTION IN AL ANBAR PROVINCE
• MARINE KILLED IN ACTION IN AL ANBAR PROVINCE

• Iraq: Assailants Shoot Down Regional Council Member In Al-Basrah RFE/RL 20 Jul 2004 -- Unknown assailants -- presumably insurgents opposed to the U.S.-backed interim government -- shot and killed a member of the regional council in Iraq's southern city of Al-Basrah today. It was the latest in what appears to be a systematic series of targeted attacks against figures in the new administration.
• Next group of Airman-Soldiers set to move into Iraq Air Force Link 20 Jul 2004 -- More than 150 Airmen completed the final stages of live-fire convoy training here July 16 before deploying north to Mosul as part of the 494th Air Expeditionary Force Truck Company.

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• IRAQ: Construction booming in the north IRIN 20 Jul 2004 -- Six months ago, the main boulevard in the southeastern city of Sulaymaniyah in northern Iraq was lined by waste ground. Now, a marble-clad municipal library, the foundations of a huge new shopping mall, and a skyscraper to house one of the region's three mobile phone companies jostle for space alongside dozens of other building sites.

Foreign Reactions

• Oral Answers to Questions - Iraq Hansard (House of Commons Daily Debates) 20 Jul 2004 -- "I said at the outset last week that I fully accepted Lord Butler's conclusions, and there are now four things that I would like to announce as a result."
• Blair Defends Iraq War Decision VOA News 20 Jul 2004 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair has strongly defended his decision to go to war in Iraq despite an investigation that found flaws in pre-war intelligence and Mr. Blair's style of governance.
• PHILIPPINES/HOSTAGE FREED VOA 20 Jul 2004 -- The Philippines has welcomed the release of a Filipino worker held hostage in Iraq. He was freed after Manila pulled its troops out of Iraq.
• Russia Reaffirms Position on Troops in Iraq VOA 20 Jul 2004 -- Russia's Foreign Ministry has again said it will not send troops to Iraq or Afghanistan.

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• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 20 Jul 2004
• IRAQ / HOSTAGE VOA 20 Jul 2004 -- The Filipino hostage being held in Iraq has been freed by his captors one day after the Philippine government removed the remaining members of its peacekeeping contingent in Iraq.
• CACI Corrects Public Information About Its Services Contract for U.S. Army Interrogation Support in Iraq CACI 20 Jul 2004 -- CACI International Inc (NYSE:CAI) today issued the following statement: