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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 31 Aug 2004 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Air Force Casualty
• TASK FORCE OLYMPIA SOLDIER DIES, TWO INJURED IN IED ATTACK
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties

• Thundering Third conducts 'Clean Sweep' near Fallujah USMC News 31 Aug 2004 -- The battalion known as the Thundering Third came down hard on enemy safehavens around Fallujah in their to-date largest operation alongside Iraqi forces recently.
• IRAQI POLICE AND MULTINATIONAL FORCES FOIL ROADSIDE BOMB ATTACKS CENTCOM 31 Aug 2004 -- Iraqi Police and Multinational Forces from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) foiled four roadside bomb attacks Monday in northern Iraq.
• MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE IRAQ MEDIA UPDATE 31 AUGUST 2004 CENTCOM 31 Aug 2004 -- Throughout Iraq, Multi-National Forces are working to transfer responsibility to the Iraqi National Guard, border police and Iraqi police. Iraqi National Guard units are continuing to operate independently, providing additional security throughout Iraq.
• Iraq Militants Reportedly Execute 12 Nepalis RFE/RL 31 Aug 2004 -- An Iraqi militant group says it has executed 12 Nepali hostages in Iraq.
• U.S. Forces Kill Several Iraqi Insurgents In Al-Fallujah RFE/RL 31 Aug 2004 -- The U.S. military says its forces killed several Iraqi militants late yesterday in the Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah.
• Securing Sadr City for Much Needed Civil Relief 1st Cavalry Division News 31 Aug 2004 -- As Operation Iron Fury moved into its second week, the 1st Cavalry Division's 2nd Battalion 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team reengaged Mahdi Militia Forces in an effort to secure locations within Sadr City for the resumption of Civil Military Operations, Aug. 27.
• Iron Horse Brigade Pushes Out Insurgents 1st Cavalry Division News 31 Aug 2004 -- Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion, 5th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team (BCT), spearheaded a task force which included elements of the 1st Battalion, 12th Cavalry Regiment and the 2nd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment-both from the Iron Horse Brigade- when they kicked-off Operation Iron Fury August 17.
• Iraqi Intervention Force Assumes Mission 1st Cavalry Division News 31 Aug 2004 -- The Iraqi Intervention Forces' 2nd Battalion, "Leopards," formally took responsibility for part of the 5th Brigade Combat Team's area of operations during a short ceremony July 31.
• 11th MEU Marines remember first dismounted attack USMC News 31 Aug 2004 -- The silence of the night was shattered as gunfire rang throughout the Old City district of Najaf.

Deployments

• Medical warriors deploy to Iraq AFPN 31 Aug 2004 -- About 100 Airmen from the 59th Medical Wing at Wilford Hall Medical Center here left Aug. 30 to staff a field hospital in Iraq.
• UK "refusing" to send more troops to Iraq IRNA 31 Aug 2004 -- The British Defense Ministry was reported Monday to have rejected repeated requests from commanders to send more troops to Iraq to cope with the upsurge in violence.

US Policy

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Power shortage continues IRIN 31 Aug 2004 -- Sixteen months after the conflict that ousted Saddam Hussein and temperatures are again reaching a scorching 140 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer heat.

Foreign Reactions

• ABU GHRAIB REPORTS: 'HIGHEST ECHELONS' RESPONSIBLE FOR 'SADISM' US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 31 Aug 2004
• IRAQ HOSTAGES VOA 31 Aug 2004 -- A prominent Islamic group in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad has called for the release of two French hostages held by militants for the past 11 days. The abductors have threatened to kill the two men if France did not repeal its law banning students from wearing Islamic headscarves in school.
• IRAQ WRAP VOA 31 Aug 2004 -- French diplomats are seeking the release of two kidnapped French journalists in Iraq, after 12 Nepalese hostages were killed by their captors.
• Iran Appeals For Release Of French Hostages In Iraq RFE/RL 31 Aug 2004 -- Iran today called for the immediate release of the two French journalists being held hostage in Iraq.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 31 Aug 2004
• IRAQ: Clean-up process starts in Najaf following fighting IRIN 31 Aug 2004 -- A clear-up operation has started in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf after three weeks of fighting between US forces and the Mehdi army loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada Sadr.