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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 27 Oct 2004 [PDF]
• Convoy Attack Kills One, Injures One
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

• Sadr City Weapons Buyback Ends With Mixed Success AFPS 27 Oct 2004 -- Iraqi soldiers and police, and U.S. soldiers have completed their project with local leaders to facilitate a weapons buyback program to make life safer for the residents of Baghdad's Sadr City section.
• Seabees Provide Needed Water For Troops In Iraq Navy NewsStand 27 Oct 2004 -- U.S. Navy Seabees deployed to Iraq are improving the quality of life for their fellow military personnel in the region.

Deployments

• IRAQ / BRITISH FORCES VOA 27 Oct 2004 -- About 850 British troops in Iraq are moving north toward Baghdad from the city of Basra. The arrival of the British troops appears to further indicate an impending major ground assault west of Baghdad.

US Policy

• Transcript: Interview with Reporters 27 Oct 2004 -- Briefing on weapons storage area at al Qa Qaa
• Officials Say Chances of Enemy Ordnance Move Nearly Nil AFPS 27 Oct 2004 -- The chances that enemy forces moved 377 tons of heavy ordnance out of the Al Qaqaa arms facility after U.S. forces arrived in the area are nearly impossible, said Army Col. David Perkins, who commanded the American troops who took the area during major combat operations in Iraq in 2003.
• BUSH IRAQ WEAPONS VOA 27 Oct 2004 -- The apparant disappearance of tons of explosives from an Iraqi military installation has become an key issue in the final days of the U.S. presidential campaign. Democratic Party nominee John Kerry says the disappearance, which was reported this week, is the latest in a series of Bush administration blunders in Iraq. But at rallies in states where the race for the White House is tight, President Bush, the Republican Party incumbent, attacked Mr. Kerry's motives.

United Nations

• HUMAN RIGHTS PRESS CONFERENCE ON REQUESTED VISITS TO DETENTION CENTRES United Nations 27 Oct 2004
• Talks between UN envoy and Iraqi Foreign Minister focus on elections UN News Centre 27 Oct 2004 -- The United Nations envoy for Iraq, Ashraf Jehangir Qazi, met with Foreign Minister Hoshiar Zubari today for talks on the upcoming international conference on Iraq as well as the security situation and preparations for the country's first democratic elections slated for next January.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Capital's electricity supply gets major boost IRIN 27 Oct 2004 -- A newly refurbished 96-megawatt generator has come online at a power plant to the northwest of Baghdad, bringing enough electricity for more than 275,000 homes, officials said this week.

Foreign Reactions

• Russia Touts Return Of Iraq Arms Inspectors RFE/RL 27 Oct 2004 -- Russia has called for the United Nations Security Council to discuss the return of UN weapons inspectors to Iraq following the disappearance of 342 metric tons of high explosives in the country.
• JAPAN/IRAQ HOSTAGE VOA 27 Oct 2004 -- A group in Iraq believed led by Islamic militant Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has taken a Japanese man hostage, and is threatening to behead him if Tokyo does not remove its troops from Iraq within 48 hours. A video of the hostage was posted on the Internet and aired on an Arabic satellite television network.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 27 Oct 2004
• Massacre Of Iraqi Army Troops Investigated RFE/RL 27 Oct 2004 -- Iraqi authorities say an investigation has been launched into the massacre of 49 newly trained Iraqi Army recruits.
• Iraq: Army Massacre Being Investigated RFE/RL 27 Oct 2004 -- The 23 October massacre by insurgents of 49 newly trained Iraqi Army recruits continues to reverberate within Iraq. Authorities have now launched an investigation into the killings. The investigators will be probing whether insurgents infiltrated military ranks to obtain information about troop movements.
• Iraq: Amnesty Report Cites Concern Over U.S. Commitment To Stop Torture RFE/RL 27 Oct 2004 -- The human rights group Amnesty International has issued a new report blaming the U.S. administration for fostering what the group calls a "war mentality" that led to the torture of prisoners as well as other violations of the Geneva Conventions. Coming just a week before the U.S. presidential election, the report harshly criticizes the administration of George W. Bush for allegedly being more interested in finding ways to skirt laws that are meant to protect human rights rather than complying with them.