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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 01 Nov 2004 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
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• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

Deployments

• U.S. Marines Welcome Arrival of the Black Watch MNF-I/MNC-I 01 Nov 2004 -- A British armored battle group of approximately 850 soldiers, led by the 1st Battalion of the Black Watch Regiment, has redeployed from Basra to an area south of Baghdad to bolster U.S. and Iraqi forces hunting down insurgents.

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Reconstruction Issues

• First NATO Course for Iraq Underway in Norway NATO 01 Nov 2004 -- Nineteen Iraqi security personnel are here at NATO's Joint Warfare Centre participating in the first training conducted outside of Iraq in support of the training mission announced by the Alliance at the Istanbul Summit in June.
• Iraq: Allawi Threatens New Offensive To Take Over Al-Fallujah RFE/RL 01 Nov 2004 -- Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi says time is running out for Al-Fallujah residents to evict foreign fighters from the city of face a U.S.-Iraqi military operation to do so. The last-minute warnings come amid growing reports that U.S. troops who ring Al-Fallujah are preparing for hard fighting in the city and expect it to begin soon.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 01 Nov 2004
• Baghdad Deputy Governor Shot Dead RFE/RL 01 Nov 2004 -- Reports say a deputy governor of Baghdad, Hatam Karim, was gunned down by unknown assailants in the southern district of Dora today.
• IRAQ: US refuse in demand - but causing health problems IRIN 01 Nov 2004 -- Refuse discarde by US forces in Iraq is being collected and sold on by local people desperate to make a living any way they can. But some of it is causing health problems. Spoiled food, used medicines, toothbrushes and blades, and items such as milk and juices well past their expiry dates are proving tempting to some Baghdad residents - many of whom believe anything American is worth having.
• IRAQ: Cancer, not WMD, may be Saddam's legacy IRIN 01 Nov 2004 -- A woman with a headscarf, her long-sleeved shirt pushed up high on her arm to make room for an intravenous injection of chemotherapy drugs, lies quietly on a bed at the Baghdad Cancer Hospital.