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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 23 Sep 2004 [PDF]
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• IRAQI SECURITY FORCES LEAD CENTRAL BAGHDAD OPERATION CENTCOM 23 Sep 2004 -- Twenty-four suspected insurgents were captured along with a wide array of weapons and munitions during a 10-hour operation aimed at clearing out terrorist elements in central Baghdad Tuesday.
• Engineers facilitate Iraqi detainee release Army News 23 Sep 2004 -- About 200 former prisoners from Abu-Ghraib prison stepped off buses to a welcome committee of local sheiks and members of the Iraqi media Sept. 15 in Baghdad.
• New wave of Marines provide logistical support for I MEF USMC News 23 Sep 2004 -- Nearly 5,000 Marines and sailors here are smiling, ready to return to their loved ones, thanks to a new wave of 1st Force Service Support Group personnel who arrived over the last month.

Deployments

• NATO Agrees to Expand Training Mission in Iraq Washington File 23 Sep 2004 -- The United States praises NATO for agreeing to expand its training mission in Iraq, State Department spokesman Adam Ereli said.

US Policy

• Transcript: President Bush and Prime Minister Allawi Press Conference The White House 23 Sep 2004

• RUMSFELD IRAQ ELECTIONS VOA 23 Sep 2004 -- Just hours after Iraq's interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi vowed elections would take place on schedule in January, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned voting might not be able to go ahead in areas of the country under control of insurgents.
• Bush Promises Allawi U.S. Will Stand by Iraq AFPS 23 Sep 2004 -- President Bush today vowed to stand by the Iraqi people, following a meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi at the White House.
• U-S POLITICS WRAP VOA 23 Sep 2004 -- The situation in Iraq continues to dominate the U.S. presidential election campaign. While President Bush met with Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Washington Thursday, Democrat John Kerry intensified his criticism of the Bush approach on Iraq at a campaign stop in Ohio.
• BUSH - IRAQ VOA 23 Sep 2004 -- President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi say democracy will come to Iraq, despite the setbacks of recent days. They vowed at a White House news conference that elections will take place as planned in January.
• ALLAWI/CONGRESS VOA 23 Sep 2004 -- The interim prime minister of Iraq, Iyad Allawi, has told a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress that the Iraqi people are determined not to allow insurgent and terrorist attacks to spoil plans for elections in January.

United Nations

• Iraq: Mixed Signals On Support For Security At UN RFE/RL 23 Sep 2004 -- There have been mixed signals from leaders at the UN General Assembly about contributing forces to safeguard Iraq's elections. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf has remained noncommittal about providing peacekeepers, while Georgian Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili affirmed her country's offer of hundreds of troops to a UN special protection force.
• $377 million awarded by UN for damages incurred in 1990 invasion of Kuwait UN News Centre 23 Sep 2004 -- A United Nations panel today approved awards of nearly $377 million in compensation to victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion and subsequent occupation of Kuwait.

Reconstruction Issues

• Bush, Iraqi Prime Minister Say Elections Set for January 2005 Washington File 23 Sep 2004 -- President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi reaffirmed that Iraq would meet its goal of holding national elections in January 2005, but warned that violence may escalate during the period leading up to voting.
• IRAQ: Focus on displacement in Kirkuk IRIN 23 Sep 2004 -- There are reports of the continuing displacement of Arabs from Kirkuk in the north of Iraq, many of whom are living around old military bases 10 km north of the city, according to local aid agencies.

Foreign Reactions

• Pakistan rules out sending troops to Iraq IRNA 23 Sep 2004 -- Pakistan on Thursday ruled out dispatching its army to war-ravaged Iraq "under present circumstances".
• Iraq: Hostage Crises Rivet Britain And Italy, But No Solutions In Sight RFE/RL 23 Sep 2004 -- Britain is ruling out negotiations with the captors of Kenneth Bigley, the only surviving member of the trio of American and British contractors taken hostage in Iraq last week. The hostage takers have released a video of Bigley appealing directly to Prime Minister Tony Blair to do something to save his life and emotions in Britain are running high. At the same time, there are unconfirmed reports today that hostage takers have killed two female Italian aid workers seized in Baghdad earlier this month.
• Iraqi Premier Not Willing To Release Female Prisoner RFE/RL 23 Sep 2004 -- Iraq's interim government today said Prime Minister Iyad Allawi is not willing to allow the release of Rihab Taha, a biological weapons researcher held in U.S. custody.
• Allawi Refuses to Negotiate with Hostage Takers VOA News 23 Sep 2004 -- Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says his government will not bow to the demands of hostage-takers in Iraq who have beheaded two Americans and are threatening to kill a British captive.
• IRAQ: NATO agrees to expand presence IRIN 23 Sep 2004 -- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) agreed on Wednesday to expand its presence in Iraq, sending more instructors to train Iraqi security forces, following an appeal from Iraq’s interim government, a NATO official said.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 23 Sep 2004