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• NATO to Deploy Security Trainers to Iraq in Early August Washington File 31 Jul 2004 -- NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said July 30 that the alliance will send about 40 people to Iraq in early August to begin a security training mission in Iraq.

US Policy

• Powell, Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Discuss Reconstruction Washington File 31 Jul 2004 -- The United States and its coalition partners remain committed to helping the Iraqi government defeat the insurgency that "seeks to deny the Iraqi people their hopes for a better life," Secretary of State Colin Powell said July 30.

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Foreign Reactions

• IRAQ/HOSTAGES VOA 31 Jul 2004 -- The Arabic television channel al-Jazeera says two Turkish truck drivers have been kidnapped in Iraq by followers of terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Meanwhile, an Iraqi mediator negotiating the release of seven other foreign hostages says he is confident that they will be released. The kidnappers threatened to start killing the men if no progress was made by a Saturday night deadline, but the deadline passed with no news.
• IRAQ/HOSTAGES VOA 31 Jul 2004 -- An Iraqi mediator negotiating the release of seven foreign hostages says he is confident that they will be released. He says the Kuwaiti company employing them has sent a representative to Baghdad. The kidnappers have threatened to start killing the men if no progress is made before a deadline that has been extended to Saturday night.
• FM responds to remarks of Iraqi officials IRNA 31 Jul 2004 -- Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi here Saturday referred to the anti-Iran remarks made recently by certain Iraqi officials and said they constituted proof the neighboring country was being maladministered.
• U.S.-led Coalition Forces on Eve of Collapse - KCNA News Analyst's Article - KCNA 31 Jul 2004 -- As already reported, the Philippines finished the withdrawal of its troops from Iraq on July 19. It brought to five those nations which completed the pullback of their troops from Iraq.

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