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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 02 Mar 2005 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• Saddam Tribunal Judge Reported Killed RFE/RL 02 Mar 2005 -- police officials have said that gunmen have killed a judge who was believed to have been working with the special tribunal that is planned to put former President Saddam Hussein and members of his former regime on trial.
• ISF and MNF relentless in pursuit of insurgents MNF-I/MNC-I 02 Mar 2005 -- Multi-National Forces detained one suspected terrorist, killed two and injured another during operations in northern Iraq March 2.
• IRAQ: US forces hand over security to Iraqi army in capital IRIN 02 Mar 2005 -- The US army handed over authority in several areas of the capital, Baghdad, to the 40th Brigade of the Iraqi army last week, Ministry of Defence (MoD) officials said.

Deployments

• VMGR-452 "Yankees" return home from Iraq USMC News 02 Mar 2005 -- The Marines of VMGR-452 returned from Iraq Feb. 25. For many of them, it was their second homecoming during the war on terror.

US Policy

• Richard Jones Tapped to Be Iraq Advisor Washington File 02 Mar 2005 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has named Ambassador Richard Jones as her chief advisor and coordinator for Iraq. Jones will be in charge of developing, coordinating and leading the implementation of the United States' Iraq policy.
• State Department Cites Human Rights Progress in Iraq Washington File 02 Mar 2005 -- A new State Department report hails human rights advances in Iraq since the coalition toppled the repressive Saddam Hussein regime in 2003.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq moves closer to new justice system Army News 02 Mar 2005 -- As Iraq's new army continues to form and grow, the effort to build an accompanying justice system took a historic step forward Feb. 23 with the first-ever Military Law Conference.
• Iraqi Army, Ministry of Defense, MNSTC-I co-op program breeds success MNF-I/MNC-I 02 Mar 2005 -- The Iraqi Army, Ministry of Defense, and the Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq (MNSTC-I) are enjoying the success of a co-op program for supply and logistics.

Foreign Reactions

• No plans for permanent military base in Iraq, says UK IRNA 02 Mar 2005 -- The British government has followed the US in denying aims to build a permanent military base in Iraq.

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 02 Mar 2005
• IRAQ: Interview with vice-president of Iraq, Ibrahim al-Jaffari IRIN 02 Mar 2005 -- Ibrahim al-Jaffari, interim vice-president of Iraq, and the man tipped to be the country's next prime minister, said the priorities for the country now are security, reconstruction and the future of Fallujah among others.