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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 07 OCt 2004 [PDF]
• CONVOY ATTACK KILLS ONE, WOUNDS TWO
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• 1st INFANTRY SOLDIER KILLED, CIVILIAN WORKER WOUNDED

• Transcript: Special Defense Department Briefing on Construction and Non-Construction Projects in Iraq 07 Oct 2004 -- Bill Taylor, The Iraq Reconstruction Management Office; Charles Hess, The Project And Contracting Office
• Iraqi and U.S. Forces continue push USMC News 07 Oct 2004 -- Iraqi security forces, backed by elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, captured 13 suspected militants in the central Iraqi town of Haswah Oct. 6 as the joint force continued to aggressively target anti-Iraqi forces throughout Northern Babil province.
• Marines take high altitude detour to deliver the goods in Iraq USMC News 07 Oct 2004 -- Marine forces operating in Iraq are receiving their "bullets and band aids" in a timely manner, courtesy of a small unit of Marines here.
• Reserve Marines crucial to mission in Iraq USMC News 07 Oct 2004 -- Melissa A. Wolf just started her first semester as a Southern Illinois University freshman when it happened. She was called to duty.

Deployments

• Second Brigade Transfers Authority MNF-I/MNC-I 07 Oct 2004 -- The transfer of authority of the Multi-National Division Central South 2nd Brigade Combat Team occurred in a ceremony Oct. 7 at Camp Delta near Al Kut City in Wasit Province. Ukrainian Maj. Gen. Serhiy Popko assumed authority from Maj. Gen. Serhiy Ostrovsky.
• Parade, Festivities Mark 1st AD's Return to Germany From Iraq AFPS 07 Oct 2004 -- A formal military parade and a huge festival featuring food and entertainment here today officially welcomed home the soldiers of the Army's 1st Armored Division and other units that served in its Iraq task force.
• Wolfowitz, Sanchez Praise 1st AD's Extended Iraq Service AFPS 07 Oct 2004 -- The deputy secretary of defense and the former commander of coalition forces based in Iraq praised the 1st Armored Division here today for its service in Iraq, which lasted three months longer than originally planned.

US Policy

• President Bush Discusses Iraq Report The White House 07 Oct 2004 -- "Chief weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, has now issued a comprehensive report that confirms the earlier conclusion of David Kay that Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there."
• Remarks by John Kerry on CIA report on Saddam Hussein's WMD John Kerry for President 07 Oct 2004 -- "Yesterday, the CIA released a wide-ranging report on Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. The report concluded that Iraq had essentially dismantled its weapons of mass destruction and stopped any further military WMD production after the end of the first gulf war. (...) The President this morning was in absolute full spin mode about the CIA report."

• BUSH WMD VOA 07 Oct 2004 -- President Bush says he was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power despite a new CIA report that concludes the then-Iraqi leader had not produced or possessed weapons of mass destruction for more than a decade. The immediacy of the threat from those weapons was the president's biggest justification for invading Iraq, and Mr. Bush's Democratic challenger has been quick to use the new report to criticize the president.
• BUSH / WMD VOA 07 Oct 2004 -- The White House says President Bush was right to remove Saddam Hussein from power despite a new CIA report that concludes the then-Iraqi leader had not produced or possessed weapons of mass destruction for more than a decade. The immediacy of the threat from those weapons was the president's biggest justification for invading Iraq.
• Chief U.S. Inspector Concludes Iraq Possessed No WMD Stockpiles RFE/RL 07 Oct 2004 -- The chief U.S. weapons inspector has issued a long-awaited report that concludes that at the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein had no viable chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons programs.

United Nations

• UN IRAQ OIL VOA 07 Oct 2004 -- Russian and French officials are strongly denying allegations they illegally benefited from the U.N.- administered Oil-for-Food Program in Iraq. The allegations are in a U.S. report that lists hundreds of individuals, firms, and governments that Saddam Hussein is said to have tried to bribe in an effort to undermine U.N. sanctions against him. The list includes the U.N. official in charge of the Oil-for-Food Program.
• UN envoy back in Iraq for meetings on transition UN News Centre 07 Oct 2004 -- The top United Nations envoy for Iraq has returned to Baghdad this week and is meeting with a wide spectrum of Iraqi political leaders and actors to see how the world body can best help the transitional process, a UN spokesman said today.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Reconstruction Effort Aims to Support January 2005 Elections Washington File 07 Oct 2004 -- The head of the Iraq Reconstruction Management Office, Ambassador William Taylor, says reconstruction work is proceeding with a sense or urgency to demonstrate to the Iraqi people that their lives are improving by the time they vote in the January 2005 elections.
• Reconstruction Funds Flow Into Iraq, Projects Move Forward AFPS 07 Oct 2004 -- The pace of reconstruction projects is picking up in Iraq as officials make commitments for the $18.44 billion Congress allotted to the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund.
• IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION VOA 07 Oct 2004 -- A top U.S. official in Baghdad says Iraq's reconstruction is being hampered because billions of dollars allocated to pay for rebuilding the country have been diverted for security instead. The United States is expected to ask donor nations next week to kick in more money for Iraqi reconstruction.
• IRAQI POLICE SERVICE GRADUATES NEARLY 1,000 FROM TRAINING CENTCOM 07 Oct 2004 -- The Iraqi Police Service had 955 police officers graduate Oct.7 in Baghdad. The training classes range from a one-week post blast course designed to teach officers techniques used to investigate explosion incidents, to an eight-week basic police training course.
• IRAQ: Refurbishment of schools in the south continues IRIN 07 Oct 2004 -- Salah Sabah, a maths teacher and an assistant at Irshad Primary School in the southern city of Basra, has been visiting the Educational Directorate regularly since the year 2000 to ask for help to rehabilitate his school.

Foreign Reactions

• BRITAIN / IRAQ VOA 07 Oct 2004 -- Britain says a CIA report that concludes Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion last year nonetheless confirms that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein posed a threat that could not be ignored.
• AUSTRALIA/ELECTION SCENESETTER VOA 07 Oct 2004 -- Australia's election campaign is in its final stages, with the country's role in Iraq again a major talking point. Australian Prime Minister John Howard says he does not need to apologize for joining last year's war, despite a new report concluding that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction at the time of the U.S.-led invasion. The opposition Labor Party has said it will withdraw Australian troops from Iraq if it wins Saturday's vote.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 07 Oct 2004
• IRAQ / SADR CITY VOA 07 Oct 2004 -- While Iraq's interim government has accepted an initiative from an armed militia group to give up its weapons and quit fighting, a senior interim government official says there were never any negotiations with the group. The official said the government, as he put it, "has not, and will never" negotiate with armed militias.
• IRAQ: ICRC delivers aid in Samarrah IRIN 07 Oct 2004 -- Food, blankets, heaters and stoves have been handed out in Samarrah, some 125 km northwest of Baghdad, where US troops have killed more than 100 insurgents in recent days, according to International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC) spokesman Ahmed al-Rawi.