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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 19 OCt 2004 [PDF]
• 1ST INFANTRY DIVISION SOLDIER DIES FROM NON-COMBAT RELATED INJURY

• IRAQ / WRAP VOA 19 Oct 2004 -- Insurgents fired mortars at an Iraqi National Guard headquarters north of Baghdad. The Defense Ministry says four people were killed and dozens of others were injured. Meanwhile, the head of a British charity in Iraq became the latest kidnapping victim, and U.S. forces continued to attack suspected insurgent positions in Fallujah.
• Iraq: 18 U.S. Soldiers Refuse To Obey Orders RFE/RL 19 Oct 2004 -- Eighteen men and women from a U.S. Army reserve unit are under investigation for refusing to obey orders in Iraq. The soldiers were told to deliver fuel from the Tallil military air base near Al-Nasiriyah to Taji, outside Baghdad. But the soldiers say the mission was flawed and too dangerous and that they would have been easy prey for insurgents who frequently attack along the 360-kilometer supply route. The case is raising questions about discipline in the U.S. military and the quality of training and equipment provided to American soldiers.
• Zarqawi Safe House Destroyed MNF-I/MNC-I 19 Oct 2004 -- Several Abu Musab Al Zarqawi safe houses and weapons storage facilities in southern Fallujah were struck this evening as part of continued operations to thwart the Zarqawi terrorist network plans to attack the Iraqi government and its people during Ramadan.
• Four Killed In Attack At Iraqi National Guard Center RFE/RL 19 Oct 2004 -- Iraqi and U.S. officials say four members of the Iraqi National Guard were killed and some 80 Iraqis were wounded in a mortar attack on the guard headquarters north of Baghdad.

Deployments

• Kirkuk firefighters train Iraqis AFPN 19 Oct 2004 -- A siren pierces the early evening night calling attention to the bright yellow firetruck speeding toward a pillar of smoke in the distance.

US Policy

• Iraq: Building a New Society Washington File 19 Oct 2004 -- Following is a fact sheet issued by the State Department entitled "Iraq: Building a New Society"
• Iraq: U.S. Rejects Saudi Proposal For Muslim UN Force RFE/RL 19 Oct 2004 -- Washington has formally rejected a Saudi proposal for a Muslim force under UN control to guard UN election staffers in Iraq. The White House says U.S. commanders have strong reservations about such force because it would be outside the coalition command structure. But as Washington rejects the initiative, where does that leave U.S. hopes for convincing Muslim countries to take part in securing Iraq?
• U.S. Would Accept Fundamentalist Iraq RFE/RL 19 Oct 2004 -- U.S. President George W. Bush says he would be disappointed but would accept it if Iraqis voted to create an Islamic fundamentalist government in democratic elections.

United Nations

• Elections in Iraq on track, Annan says UN News Centre 19 Oct 2004 -- Elections in Iraq, scheduled for January 2005, are on track and should take place if the situation holds, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
• IRAQ: Schools in need of basic facilities face overcrowding - UNICEF IRIN 19 Oct 2004 -- Thousands of schools across Iraq are still in need of major rehabilitation and basic facilities, while the southern governorates are facing overcrowding problems in their classrooms, a report by the Iraqi Ministry of Education (MoE) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has revealed.

Reconstruction Issues

• Second New Generator Comes On Line at North Baghdad Power Station AFPS 19 Oct 2004 -- For the second time in two days, Iraqi and U.S. engineers have commissioned a new generator near the capital city.
• IRAQ: Focus on election preparations in north IRIN 19 Oct 2004 -- With Iraqi elections scheduled for January, no part of the country will be busier than the Kurdish-controlled north. Voters there will be asked to visit the polling stations three times - for national and governorate elections and to choose representatives of the Kurdistan Parliament, based in Arbil.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 19 Oct 2004
• Iraq: Prime Minister Extends Arms Amnesty RFE/RL 19 Oct 2004 -- Iraq's government will launch a nationwide arms-collection campaign next week. The campaign will build on a relatively successful arms-for-cash program going on in Baghdad's Al-Sadr City area. Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says the program will first be extended to the southern, mainly Shi'a city of Al-Basrah, and then possibly to the rest of the country.