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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 29 Oct 2004 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• Marines Round Up 16 More Insurgents in Northern Babil MNF-I/MNC-I 29 Oct 2004 -- Iraqi Security Forces and elements of the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit captured 16 suspected insurgents in south-central Iraq on October 28, continuing to chip away at a loose network of hostile forces seeking to fuel violence south of Baghdad.
• 1st Infantry Division Soldiers and Multi-National Forces capture IED cell members MNF-I/MNC-I 29 Oct 2004 -- Acting on information obtained, 1st Infantry Division Soldiers from Task Force 1-27 and Multi-National forces detained an IED cell leader and three others at two locations near Zab at about 9:30 p.m. Oct. 28.
• 1st FSSG Marines brave western Iraq's roads to deliver the goods USMC News 29 Oct 2004 -- While some Marines are combating threats in the insurgent-ridden streets of Fallujah and Ramadi, Marines here are braving Iraq's roadways to provide essential supplies to forward operating bases in western Iraq.

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US Policy

• Transcript: Special Defense Department Briefing On Al-Qaqaa Munitions Facility In Iraq 29 Oct 2004 -- Principle Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Lawrence Di Rita and Major Austin Pearson, Member of The 24th Ordnance Company, 24th Corps Support Group
• PENTAGON/MISSING WEAPONS VOA 29 Oct 2004 -- The Pentagon is trying to clear up a controversy over the possible disappearance of 340 (metric) tons of explosives from a military base in Iraq, but more questions remain to be answered. A U.S. soldier with the army division charged with removing explosives in Iraq says he cannot be sure if what he removed corresponds with the missing explosives.
• Ordnance Officer Confirms About 250 Tons of Munitions Removed From Iraqi Site AFPS 29 Oct 2004 -- A U.S. Army ordnance company removed roughly 250 tons of munitions from Iraq's Al Qaqaa weapons depot in mid-April 2003, that unit's commander said in the Pentagon today.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Premier To Send Team To Al-Fallujah RFE/RL 29 Oct 2004 -- Iraqi officials say interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi will send a team to rebel-held Al-Fallujah to discuss clearing the city of insurgents and heavy weapons.

Foreign Reactions

• JAPAN / IRAQ HOSTAGE VOA 29 Oct 2004 -- Japanese government officials Tokyo say they believe that the body of a 24-year-old Japanese man, taken hostage by a militant group earlier in the week in Iraq, has been found.
• Analysis: France Pushes For Iraqi 'Opposition' Conference RFE/RL 29 Oct 2004 -- French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier recently issued a call in Paris for a conference to be held next month that would include members of the Iraqi "opposition." He said on 25 October that he wants another conference to be held alongside or following a 22-23 November international conference on Iraq in Sharm Al-Shaykh, Egypt, to take into account what he identified as "Iraqi political forces."
• JAPAN/IRAQ HOSTAGE VOA 29 Oct 2004 -- There is no word out of Iraq about the fate of a Japanese hostage who was threatened with execution by militants if Japan did not pull its small contingent of soldiers out of Iraq by Friday.

News Reports

• Iraq: New Survey Suggests 100,000 Civilians May Have Died As Result Of War RFE/RL 29 Oct 2004 -- A startling new survey by U.S. and Iraqi researchers has concluded that an estimated 100,000 civilians may have died in Iraq as a direct or indirect consequence of the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. That estimate -- far higher than previous ones -- is certain to generate controversy just days before the U.S. presidential election. The researchers based the survey on comparisons of the death rate in households across Iraq during the months before and after the war. They concluded that most of those who died were probably women and children killed in air strikes by coalition forces.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 7, Number 40 29 Oct 2004 -- MILITANTS LIKELY TIPPED OFF IN ATTACK ON IRAQI NATIONAL / DOMESTIC MEDIA TAKES AN ACTIVE ROLE IN ELECTION DISCOURSE / IRAQ'S MISSING EXPLOSIVES / FRENCH FOREIGN MINISTER CONTINUES PUSH FOR IRAQI 'OPPOSITION' CONFERENCE / CAR BOMB IN NINAWAH KILLS TRIBAL LEADER / SEVENTEEN IRAQI OFFICERS KILLED IN CAR-BOMB ATTACKS / HOUSE-TO-HOUSE SEARCHES BEGIN IN AL-SADR CITY / SCIRI ACCUSES IRAQI INTELLIGENCE OF TORTURE / MUSLIM SCHOLARS ASSOCIATION THREATENS TO BOYCOTT ELECTIONS / Al-ZARQAWI GROUP ABDUCTS JAPANESE NATIONAL IN IRAQ / BRITISH TROOPS IN IRAQ BEGIN REDEPLOYMENT / IRAQI PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES AL-FALLUJAH, GUARDSMEN / SOUTHERN IRAQI TRIBES VOW TO AVENGE KILLING OF NATIONAL GUARDSMEN / IRAQI DEFENSE MINISTER DEEMS TALKS WITH AL-FALLUJAH DELEGATION 'UNSUCCESSFUL.' / ARAB LEAGUE SAYS IT WILL MONITOR ELECTIONS IF SECURITY SITUATION PERMITS / UN OFFICIAL SAYS IRAQ CAN HOLD CREDIBLE ELECTIONS ON TIME
• IRAQ: Interview with new environment minister IRIN 29 Oct 2004 -- Iraq’s new Ministry of Environment (MoE) was created after last year's US-led war. Its brief is to deal with a myriad of environmental problems, many of which are the legacy of decades of conflict, including radiation at the country’s nuclear bomb-making site at Tuwaitha, about 30 km south of Baghdad. Minister Mishkat Moumin, currently in the United States learning about environmental advocacy, answered IRIN’s questions by e-mail. Before taking on her new role, Moumin specialised in human rights.