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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 06 OCt 2004 [PDF]

• MARINES CONTINUE CONDOLENCE PAYMENTS IN NAJAF CENTCOM 06 Oct 2004 -- Marines from the 11th MEU dispatched a mobile payment team to neighborhoods in Najaf for 10 hours yesterday, making $176,180 worth of "on the spot" solatia and collateral damage payments to Iraqis caught in the crossfire when multinational and Iraqi security forces battled Muqtada al-Sadr and his militia in August.
• MNF-I STRIKES IN FALLUJAH CENTCOM 06 Oct 2004 -- Multi-National Force-Iraq struck an Abu Musab al-Zarqawi safe house in southwest Fallujah this morning. Credible intelligence sources confirmed Zarqawi leaders were meeting at the safe house at the time of the strike. The precision strike occurred at 2:31 a.m. Central Baghdad Time.
• U.S., Iraqi Forces Conducting Anti-Insurgency Operations RFE/RL 06 Oct 2004 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces today conducted sweeping operations south of Baghdad and continued pounding suspected militant positions in the town of Al-Fallujah.
• 2ID brigade launches 'Operation Bulldog' in Ramadi Army News 06 Oct 2004 -- Soldiers who deployed to Iraq from Korea a month ago began a sweeping operation in Ar-Ramadi Sept. 30 to deny anti-coalition forces safe haven, round up suspected anti-coalition leaders, and find weapons caches.
• Iraqi Coastal Defense Force Joins Maritime Security Operations Navy NewsStand 06 Oct 2004 -- The Iraqi Coastal Defense Force (ICDF) integrated with coalition forces in the Northern Arabian Gulf, following a brief ceremony in Umm Qasr, Iraq, Sept. 30.

Deployments

US Policy

• Iraq Survey Group Final Report Central Intelligence Agency 30 Sep 2004 -- " Given Iraq's investments in technology and infrastructure improvements, an effective procurement network, skilled scientists, and designs already on the books for longer range missiles, ISG assesses that Saddam clearly intended to reconstitute long-range delivery systems and that the systems potentially were for WMD. (...) Iraq Survey Group (ISG) discovered further evidence of the maturity and signifi cance of the pre-1991 Iraqi Nuclear Program but found that Iraq's ability to reconstitute a nuclear weapons program progressively decayed after that date. (...) Saddam never abandoned his intentions to resume a CW effort when sanctions were lifted and conditions were judged favorable (...) In spite of exhaustive investigation, ISG found no evidence that Iraq possessed, or was developing BW agent production systems mounted on road vehicles or railway wagons."

• US POL / VICE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE VOA 06 Oct 2004 -- Republican Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic Senator John Edwards clashed over the war in Iraq and the U.S. economy, in their only scheduled debate in this year's race for the White House.
• Vice Presidential Candidates Debate Iraq, War on Terror, Economy Washington File 06 Oct 2004 -- Iraq and the war on terror played a prominent role in the October 5 debate between Vice President Cheney and Democratic vice presidential candidate Senator John Edwards of North Carolina. The debate was held at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.

• CONGRESS / IRAQ WMD VOA 06 Oct 2004 -- Chief U.S. weapons inspector Charles Duelfer says Iraq had no stockpiles of biological, chemical or nuclear weapons before last year's U.S.-led invasion. The Bush administration cited the threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction as a main reason for going to war.

United Nations

• UN / IRAQ STAFF VOA 06 Oct 2004 -- Organizations representing 60-thousand United Nations employees are urging Secretary-General Kofi Annan to pull all U.N. staff out of Iraq. The world body currently has 35 personnel stationed in the country, most of them helping with election preparations.

Reconstruction Issues

• Export-Import Bank Renews Agreement Insuring Exports to Iraq Washington File 06 Oct 2004 --The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) has updated its framework agreement with the Trade Bank of Iraq to reflect the transfer of sovereignty in Iraqi financial affairs from the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) to the Iraqi Ministry of Finance.
• IRAQ: Focus on back to school efforts despite insecurity IRIN 06 Oct 2004 -- Many school yards and playgrounds were empty in parts of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, despite the new school term underway on 2 October. Parents refused to send their children to school in fear of attacks on educational institutions.

Foreign Reactions

• IRAQ: 'TRAPPED' IN THE 'TANGLED WEB OF WAR' US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 06 Oct 2004

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 06 Oct 2004
• IRAQ: Syrian refugees face difficulties in troubled capital IRIN 06 Oct 2004 -- The Syrians in and around Baghdad may be Iraq's most unusual group of refugees. Many of the 500 Syrians live in central Haifa Street, scene of numerous bombings and firefights between insurgents and US forces in recent weeks.