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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 10 Nov 2004 [PDF]
• FALLUJAH CASUALTY UPDATE
• One Soldier Killed, One Injured in IED Attack
• SOLDIER KILLED BY INSURGENT SMALL ARMS FIRE
• DoD Identifies Air Force Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty

• Transcript: Coalition and Iraqi Forces Briefing 10 Nov 2004 -- Major General Abdul Qader Mohammed Jassem Mohan, Chief of Iraqi Military Operations; Lieutenant General John Sattler, USMC, Commander, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Fallujah
• FALLUJAH BATTLE VOA 10 Nov 2004 -- Reports from the Iraqi city of Fallujah say U.S. led forces have now fought their way through at least half the city, seizing more territory and locating some of the hideouts used by terrorists to capture and kill foreign hostages. On the third day of the ground assault, the American general leading marines told reporters an unspecified number of rebels have been killed or captured while continuing to characterize coalition and Iraqi casualties as light.
• TERRORISTS USE MOSQUE TO FIRE UPON FORCES CENTCOM 10 Nov 2004 -- In Fallujah today, Multi-National Force-Iraq struck terrorists illegally using a mosque to fire upon Iraqi and coalition troops.
• FORCES RETAKE KEY CIVIC CENTERS IN FALLUJAH CENTCOM 10 Nov 2004 -- Early this morning, multinational and Iraqi officials here stated that forces had fought their way through half of the city, including the Jolan District, suspected of being the epicenter of insurgent activity in the city. The combined Iraqi and multinational force operation had encountered light resistance along the way into the heart of the city, running into small pockets of fighters as they made their way through the restive town.
• U.S. Troops Push Into Al-Fallujah RFE/RL 10 Nov 2004 -- U.S.-led forces today pushed insurgents into a narrow strip of Al-Fallujah after the military said it seized control of 70 percent of the restive Sunni city.
• IRAQ/WRAP VOA 10 Nov 2004 -- The U.S. and Iraqi offensive on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah progressed rapidly on Wednesday, with U.S. military officials announcing they are in control of 70 percent of the city. But in Baghdad, a previously unknown militant group kidnapped members of Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's family and is threatening to kill them unless the attack on Fallujah stops within 48 hours.
• U.S. Forces Push Deeper Into Al-Fallujah RFE/RL 10 Nov 2004 -- Some 10,000 U.S. soldiers, along with 2,000 Iraqi troops, are continuing efforts today to seize full control of the Iraqi city of Al-Fallujah from insurgents.
• Forces Retake Key Civic Centers in Fallujah DefendAmerica.mil 09 Nov 2004 -- Combined Iraqi and multinational force operation encountered light resistance along the way into the heart of the city, running into small pockets of fighters
• MNF-I provides Close Air Support for Ground Troops MNF-I/MNC-I 10 Nov 2004 -- Two Multi-National Force aircraft attacked a building in Fallujah with an air-to-surface guided missile, Nov. 9 after Multi-National and Iraqi forces received fire from anti-Iraqi elements located inside the building. The building was destroyed.
• MNF-I Strikes Anti-Iraqi Element Building MNF-I/MNC-I 10 Nov 2004 -- Two Multi-National Force aircraft successfully struck a building containing anti-Iraqi elements in Fallujah with one laser-guided bomb, Nov. 9. The target was destroyed.
• One Soldier Killed, One Injured in IED Attack MNF-I/MNC-I 10 Nov 2004 -- A 1st Infantry Division Soldier was killed and one injured after their combat patrol was struck by an improvised explosive device near Balad at about 4:20 a.m. on Nov 10.
• 3/5 brings the fight to Fallujah USMC News 10 Nov 2004 -- Marines of Company K, 3rd Battalion 5th Marine Regiment led an assault on insurgents near Fallujah, Nov. 8.
• Marine close air support hammers terrorists in Fallujah with precision JDAM USMC News 10 Nov 2004 -- With a massive Marine air and ground offensive underway in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, Marine close air support continues to put high-tech steel on target with more accurate conventional weapons against suspected terrorist strongholds.

Deployments

• 42nd Infantry Division advance party deploys Army News 10 Nov 2004 -- The vanguard of the New York National Guard's 42nd Infantry Division and Task Force Liberty has departed for Operation Iraqi Freedom-3.

US Policy

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Railway reconstruction vital for economic development IRIN 10 Nov 2004 -- A huge restoration project to get Iraq's neglected railways running again is underway, with work starting on three main rail stations in the northern city of Mosul, Baghdad and the southern city of Basra, the Ministry of Transport (MoT) told IRIN in the capital.

Foreign Reactions

• Falluja assault will be military failure, warns Cook IRNA 10 Nov 2004 -- Former British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook warned Wednesday that the major assault on the Iraqi city of Falluja will prove counter-productive.
• Former UK defense chief pessimistic about US assault on Fallujah IRNA 10 Nov 2004 -- Britain`s former assistant chief of the Defense Staff, Sir Timothy Garden, is pessimistic about the outcome of the major US assault on Fallujah and suggests that it could even lead to civil war in Iraq.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 10 Nov 2004
• Iraq: Kidnapping Of Allawi's Relatives Apparently Aimed At Halting Al-Fallujah Attack RFE/RL 10 Nov 2004 -- A key member of Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's party says the kidnapping of Allawi's relatives in Baghdad yesterday is a clear political attack and apparently is aimed at forcing a halt to the U.S.-led offensive in Al-Fallujah. A group claiming to hold the three hostages says it will kill them in 48 hours unless Allawi orders an end to the Al-Fallujah offensive and the release of prisoners. U.S. troops today were continuing to fight street-by-street for control of Al-Fallujah. By midday, Iraqi government troops fighting alongside the Americans had raised the Iraqi flag over a police station in the city center. U.S. military officials say they have moved into 70 percent of Al-Fallujah and expect to flush out the remaining insurgents in the next two days. Correspondents embedded with troops in the urban battle report that resistance by snipers and small squads of insurgent fighters remains stiff.
• Members Of Iraqi Premier's Family Kidnapped RFE/RL 10 Nov 2004 -- A spokesman for Iraq's interim government says gunmen have kidnapped three members of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's family.
• IRAQ: Medical needs massive in Fallujah - Red Crescent IRIN 10 Nov 2004 -- Twenty doctors along with dozen of Iraqis were killed by a US air strike on a government clinic on Tuesday in the centre of Fallujah, 60 km west of Baghdad according to Dr Sami al-Jumaili, who survived the strike.