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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 21 Jul 2004 [PDF]
• ONE FIRST ID SOLDIER KILLED, SIX WOUNDED IN IED ATTACK
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

• USS John F. Kennedy Aircraft Destroy Two Anti-Iraqi Positions Navy Newsstand 21 Jul 2004 -- Strike Fighter Squadrons of Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 17, currently embarked on USS John F. Kennedy (CV 67) operating in the Middle East region in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, destroyed two anti-Iraqi positions July 20, after dropping bombs on identified targets.
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing - Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Myers 21 Jul 2004 -- Participating were Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld and Air Force Gen. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Six More Hostages Taken in Iraq VOA News 21 Jul 2004 -- A militant group in Iraq has taken six foreign truck drivers hostage and has threatened to behead one every 72 hours if their countries do not withdraw all their nationals from Iraq.
• 1st ID Soldier Killed, Six Wounded in IED Attack AFPS 21 Jul 2004 -- A 1st Infantry Division soldier was killed and six others were wounded today when an improvised explosive device struck their vehicle during a patrol near Duluiyah, Iraq.
• Iraqis, Americans Battle Near Samarra RFE/RL 21 Jul 2004 -- American soldiers battled militants in late night fighting near Samarra in northern Iraq
• U.S. Soldier Killed In Iraq RFE/RL 21 Jul 2004 -- Another U.S. soldier has been killed in Iraq, bringing to 900 the number of U.S. military dead since the beginning of military operations in March 2003.

Deployments

• Rumsfeld Says More US Troops in Iraq Possible VOA News 21 Jul 2004 -- With violence continuing across Iraq, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is refusing to rule out the possibility of sending even more American troops to the country, beyond the 140,000 currently deployed there. But U.S military officials continue to believe more troops are not necessarily the solution to Iraq's on-going security problem.
• DoD Doesn't Plan on Extending Reserve Soldiers AFPS 21 Jul 2004 -- The Defense Department does not plan on extending any reserve component service member beyond the 24-month limit, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said at a Pentagon news conference today.

US Policy

United Nations

• UN team to check remaining Iraqi nuclear materials in line with non-proliferation UN News Centre 21 Jul 2004 -- The United Nations atomic watchdog agency is planning to inspect remaining nuclear materials in Iraq this month to ensure that they conform to the country's safeguard obligations under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Parts of north rely on smuggling to survive IRIN 21 Jul 2004 -- Situated in a thin stretch of mountain country that protrudes into Iran like an accusing finger, Penjwin village in the northern Iraqi governorate of Sulaymaniyah seems largely to have been forgotten by the humanitarian community.
• IRAQ: Returnees to north settling slowly IRIN 21 Jul 2004 -- After a pilot convoy to repatriate Iraqi Kurdish refugees from Iran through a new border crossing reached its destination in northern Iraq without a hitch in late June, the organisers, the office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Iran and the International Rescue Commission (IRC) in Iraq, plan to repeat the procedure at the end of this month.

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq: Bulgaria, Philippines React Differently To Hostage Crises RFE/RL 21 Jul 2004 -- The Philippines and Bulgaria both deployed troops to Iraq. Both countries welcome warm relations with the United States, which is leading the Iraqi occupation. But when their nationals were taken hostage in Iraq, they responded in radically different ways. The Philippine government surrendered to the demands of the kidnappers and withdrew its troops from Iraq. But Bulgaria has refused to budge.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 21 Jul 2004
• Iraq Dismisses Report on Nuclear Warheads as 'Stupid' VOA 21 Jul 2004 -- The Iraqi Interior Ministry has dismissed as "stupid" a report in a local newspaper that nuclear warheads were found near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit.
• IRAQ: Interview with Minister for Communications IRIN 21 Jul 2004 -- Iraq's new minister for communications, Mohamed Ali al-Hakim, is the forward-thinking head of a telecommunications network that was virtually bombed into oblivion by US forces in March 2003.