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• IRAQ / WRAP VOA 11 Oct 2004 -- Militiamen in Baghdad are handing over their heavy weapons in a deal to bring peace to a poverty-stricken area of the capital. In the meantime, car bomb making factories were discovered north of Baghdad following the re-taking of the city of Samarra.

• NATO TRAINING FORCES NOW UNDER MULTI-NATIONAL COMMAND CENTCOM 11 Oct 2004 -- The Multinational Security Transition Command - Iraq and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization announced the structure of the Iraqi security forces joint training, mentoring and equipping assistance effort, Oct. 8, at a press conference in Brussels, Belgium.

Deployments

US Policy

• U.S. Can Help, But Iraqis Need To Provide Their Security, Rumsfeld Says AFPS 11 Oct 2004 -- After a whirlwind, daylong tour of Iraq, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld arrived here Oct. 10 for next-day meetings with Macedonian government and military officials.
• Secretary of Defense visits troops at Al Asad USMC News 11 Oct 2004 -- In a trip designed to bring motivation and encouragement, the Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, visited the Marines of 1st Marine Expeditionary Force here Oct. 10.

United Nations

• UN Says Iraqi Nuclear-Related Materials Have Vanished RFE/RL 11 Oct 2004 -- The UN's nuclear watchdog told the Security Council today that equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons are disappearing from Iraq but that neither Baghdad nor Washington appears to have noticed.
• CHINA-ANNAN VOA 11 Oct 2004 -- U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan is in China, where he is holding discussions on issues including China's participation in a meeting on Iraqi security next month.
• Analysis: New Evidence Of Corruption In Iraq Oil Voucher Scheme RFE/RL 11 Oct 2004 -- Two separate reports have recently surfaced describing in greater detail allegations of corruption in the United Nations-administered oil-for-food (OFF) program in Iraq and the so-called "oil voucher" scheme by which various individuals and companies were given gifts of oil by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in return for political support. The main beneficiaries of this scheme, according to these reports, are alleged to have been Russian, French, and Chinese companies and individuals.
• IRAQ: Little progress on child mortality - UNICEF IRIN 11 Oct 2004 -- The least progress has been made in Iraq to reduce child mortality since 1990, following years of sanctions and the US-led invasion, according to a new global report by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Leads Effort to Rebuild Substation Near Sadr City AFPS 11 Oct 2004 -- Khalid Badrakhn is a businessman. Raised as a child in the Kurdish section of Iraq and educated at the United Kingdom's Aston University, he understands the two worlds in which he now lives: the one inside his air-conditioned office near Sadr City and the one of war that lies less than a mile outside of his window.
• IRAQI POLICE OFFICERS RECEIVE 10,000 PISTOLS CENTCOM 11 Oct 2004 -- The Multinational Security Transition Command - Iraq delivered 10,000 9mm Glock pistols to the Baghdad Public Service Academy, Saturday, for distribution to Iraqi Police Service recruits attending the school.
• IRAQI POLICE SERVICE TO GRADUATE LARGEST CLASS EVER CENTCOM 11 Oct 2004 -- The Iraqi Police Service will graduate 1,137 police recruits from a police basic training course at the Jordan International Police Training Center in Amman, Jordan, Thursday, as the single largest graduation of Iraqi officers from the country's basic training course.
• Iraqi Border Guards Receive New Vehicles to Increase Presence Along Border MNFI-MNC-I 11 Oct 2004 -- The 292 miles of Iraq-Iran border within 2nd Brigade Combat Team's area of operations should see a boost in security as Iraq's Department of Border Enforcement were supplied an additional 44 new vehicles on Sept. 19. All of the new vehicles, which consist of 2004 Jeep Liberties, Chevy Trailblazers and Nissan pick-up trucks, will be dispersed to DBE units in five districts bordering Iran.
• JORDAN: Focus on Iraqi refugees IRIN 11 Oct 2004 -- In a tent in the middle of the dusty desert landscape in soaring temperatures on the Jordanian/Iraqi border, an Iraqi refugee stands pumping iron in a makeshift gym to the rhythm of the latest Western pop songs.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 11 Oct 2004
• Iraq: Government, Al-Sadr Militia Pursue Peace Deal, But Details Remain Sketchy REF/RL 11 Oct 2004 -- For much of this year, U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq have had to cope with repeated uprisings by militiamen loyal to radical Shi'a cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. The worst uprisings -- in April and again in August -- cost hundreds of lives and saw fighting endanger one of Shi'a Islam's holiest shrines, the Imam Ali Mosque complex in Al-Najaf. Each of those uprisings ended in tenuous truces that failed to bring a full stop to the violence. U.S. forces in recent weeks have repeatedly bombed the militia's positions in its stronghold of Al-Sadr City in Baghdad, and militiamen have fought with U.S. and Iraqi army patrols. But now there are possible signs of a comprehensive peace agreement. The Iraqi government says it is giving Shi'a militiamen five days to hand in their weapons under a weekend peace deal agreed with aides of al-Sadr. In return, the government has agreed to commit more than $500 million to rebuilding Al-Sadr City.
• IRAQ: Family level support for Kirkuk IDPs IRIN 11 Oct 2004 -- Two Kirkuk-based local NGOs, in northern Iraq, are nearing the end of a project to provide emergency health care and income generation support to some of the poorest internally displaced people (IDP) families to return to the city since last spring.