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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 02 Nov 2004 [PDF]

• AIR STRIKE IN FALLUJAH CENTCOM 02 Nov 2004 -- A U.S. Air Force plane engaged a pre-planned target using precision ordnance, which destroyed a known enemy cache site on the southeast side of the city, in support of the Regimental Combat Team-7 of the I Marine Expeditionary Force at 11:27 p.m., Nov. 1.
• MARINES ENGAGE INSURGENTS, CAMERAMAN KILLED CENTCOM 02 Nov 2004 -- Marines from the 1st Marine Division of the I Marine Expeditionary Force engaged several insurgents in a brief small-arms firefight that killed an individual who was carrying a video camera earlier Monday morning.
• Car Bomb Wounds Soldier MNFI-MNC-I One Task Force Baghdad Soldier was wounded when a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device detonated Nov. 2 on a patrol at about 9:05 a.m. in western Baghdad.
• Bomb Explodes Near Iraqi Ministry Building RFE/RL 02 Nov 2004 -- A suspected car bomb exploded in central Baghdad today, reportedly causing casualties.
• 3/5 Marines rehearse advanced urban tactics in Iraq USMC News 02 Nov 2004 -- Patrolling urban hotspots such as Ramadi, Najaf and Fallujah, Marines are often combating anti-Iraqi forces hiding in buildings, apartments and small rooms.

Deployments

• OIF rotation begins with smoother transition Army News 02 Nov 2004 -- Heavy-equipment transporters loaded with M1-A1 Abrams tanks and Bradley Fighting Vehicles sat in about a dozen single-file lines on a sandy staging area Oct. 23 at Camp Buehring, Kuwait. An array of 30 or 40 more vehicles dotted the horizon, awaiting the rest of the trucks slated to carry them into battle.

US Policy

United Nations

• Iraqis can now check voter registration lists prepared with help of UN experts UN News Centre 01 Nov 2004 -- Iraqis will now be able to check if their names are properly registered on voter rolls prepared by the Independent Electoral Commission for Iraq with help from United Nations electoral experts.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Aid required urgently for Al-Mahmoudya IRIN 02 Nov 2004 -- Al-Mahmoudya city, about 20 km southeast of Baghdad and the base for British troops recently deployed in the area, is facing medical, food and water needs amid a deteriorating security situation. Some families have begun to leave the city and say that those who remain are risking their lives.
• IRAQ: Medical clinic renovation in the south IRIN 02 Nov 2004 -- The opening of the Hay Al-Jihad clinic (previously called Al-Samoud) earlier this month has been good news for around 117,000 residents of that area of Al-Amnal Dakhilay, southwest of Basra city in the far south of the country.

Foreign Reactions

• NATO Begins Training Iraqi Forces Washington File 02 Nov 2004 -- NATO is conducting its first training course for Iraqi security personnel at its Joint Warfare Centre in Norway, part of the training mission the alliance took upon itself at its Istanbul Summit in June.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 02 Nov 2004