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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 12 OCt 2004 [PDF]
• TASK FORCE OLYMPIA SOLDIER DIES FOLLOWING CAR BOMB ATTACK ON MULITNATIONAL FORCES CONVOY
• SOLDIER'S STATUS CHANGED FROM DECEASED TO KIA
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• IRAQ SITREP VOA 12 Oct 2004 -- In Iraq, U.S. and Iraqi forces have stepped up their military operations in areas of the country under the control of Sunni rebels. Ahead of elections set for January, Iraqi and coalition forces are attempting to restore government control over as much of the country as possible.
• IRAQ / SADR CITY VOA 12 Oct 2004 -- Police stations in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City are overwhelmed with huge crowds of Mehdi army members showing up to hand over their weapons. It is part of a deal to bring peace to the impoverished community that has been wracked with violence and fighting for several weeks.
• Marines Return Fire in Hit MNC-I/MNC-I 12 Oct 2004 -- At approximately 4:00 p.m. Oct. 11, Marines and Iraqi National Guard members began receiving small arms fire from the Sharqi Mosque in Hit.
• Precision Strike Destroys Zarqawi Location MNC-I/MNC-I 12 Oct 2004 -- A center for Abu Musab al Zarqawi terrorist meetings was destroyed today following a successful precision strike.
• Fallujah Safehouse Destroyed MNC-I/MNC-I 12 Oct 2004 -- At 4:02 am Oct. 12, Multi-National Forces conducted another successful strike in Fallujah, against the Abu Musab al Zarqawi terrorist network. The precision strike destroyed a known terrorist safe house in north east Fallujah.
• 1st Marine Division Supports Iraqi Security Force Raids on Local Mosques MNC-I/MNC-I 12 Oct 2004 -- Iraqi Security Forces, supported by Marines and Soldiers from the 1st Marine Division, began a series of raids on seven mosques in Ramadi today.
• Insurgents Use Mosques for Attacks MNC-I/MNC-I 12 Oct 2004 -- In recent weeks, First Marine Division units conducting security operations in support of Iraqi Security Forces have noticed more insurgent activity in and around the mosques of Ramadi.
• 3rd MAW conducts mass casualty drill at Al Asad USMC News 12 Oct 2004 -- The first combined-service mass casualty drill was conducted here Oct. 5 and was hailed by 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing participants and medical planners as a tremendous success.
• 4th LAAD Battalion hosts ranges in Iraqi Desert USMC News 12 Oct 2004 -- The Marine Corps has always placed a high importance on the training of their troops.

Deployments

• 1st Armored Division welcomed back to Germany Army News 12 Oct 2004 -- After a 15-month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2,500 Soldiers of the 1st Armored Division rallied for a day-long welcome home ceremony Oct. 7.

US Policy

• U.S. To Investigate Report On Iraqi Nuclear Material RFE/RL 12 Oct 2004 -- A U.S. diplomat today said the United States will investigate a report by the UN nuclear watchdog agency that equipment and material that could be used to make nuclear bombs has disappeared from Iraq.

United Nations

• UN watchdog concerned by disappearance of nuclear material from Iraq UN News Centre 12 Oct 2004 -- Satellite images show equipment and materials that could be used to make nuclear weapons have disappeared from Iraq, the United Nations atomic watchdog agency has warned, and it has called on countries to provide information concerning their whereabouts.
• Analysis: IAEA Concerned Over Dismantlement Of Former Iraqi Nuclear Sites RFE/RL 12 Oct 2004 -- Muhammad el-Baradei, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), sent a letter to the current UN Security Council President Sir Emyr Jones Parry last week expressing concern about the whereabouts of equipment from dismantled sites that formerly housed the Iraqi nuclear program, as well as other sites monitored by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification, and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC) and the IAEA.

Reconstruction Issues

• POLICE TRAINERS FACILITATE IRAQI EQUIPMENT EXCHANGE EFFORT CENTCOM 12 Oct 2004 -- A shipment of standard-issue police gear was distributed in the past week to Iraqi Police Service officers in Irbil as part of a newly founded police gear exchange program initiated by Multinational Security Transition Command - Iraq police advisors helping the Iraqi government to train, mentor, and equip its police forces.
• IRAQ: Massive efforts needed on reconstruction IRIN 12 Oct 2004 -- With last week seeing the 100th day since Iraq's interim government came to power, officials acknowledge the scale of the task of reconstructing the country but say that some progress is being made.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 12 Oct 2004