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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 24Mar 2005 [PDF]

• Task Force Baghdad Soldiers find ammunition cache MNF-I/MNC-I 24 Mar 2005 -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers discovered an ammunition cache at a house in southern Baghdad March 23.
• Task Force Baghdad Soldiers find, detonate 3 IEDs MNF-I/MNC-I 24 Mar 2005 -- Three improvised explosive attacks failed after explosive ordinance disposal teams detonated three IED's on March 23.
• Tip leads to arrest of IED suspect in Ad Dawr MNF-I/MNC-I 24 Mar 2005 -- Task Force Liberty Soldiers detained an individual suspected in an improvised-explosive device attack near Ad Dawr about 4 p.m., March 23.
• Task Force Baghdad Soldiers find IEDs MNF-I/MNC-I 24 Mar 2005 -- A Task Force Baghdad unit discovered two improvised explosive devices, one buried underneath the other, around 8:30 p.m. March 23.
• Second Marine Division Marines seize arms caches, detain suspected insurgents MNF-I/MNC-I 24 Mar 2005 -- Coalition Forces from the 2nd Marine Division have detained a total of 147 suspected insurgents since taking the reins from 1st Marine Division on March 17.

Deployments

US Policy

United Nations

• IRAQ: Interview with the UN Special Representative for Iraq, Ashraf Qazi IRIN 24 Mar 2005 -- The UN Special Representative for Iraq, Ashraf Qazi, a former Pakistani diplomat, is busy working on the political process by bringing together parties following January’s historic election.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance Updates USAID 24 Mar 2005 [PDF]
• Iraqi Scholars See Legitimate Constitution as Key to the Future Washington File 24 Mar 2005 -- Three prominent Iraqi scholars say that the formation of a successful democratic government in their homeland will depend very much on how the new Iraqi constitution is framed.
• IRAQ GOVERNMENT VOA 24 Mar 2005 -- In Iraq, intense negotiations continue over the formation of a new government, nearly two months after the country's parliamentary elections. The lack of progress may oblige leaders to postpone the next session of parliament, which was inaugurated last week.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 24 Mar 2005
• IRAQ: Barbers threatened by hardliners IRIN 24 Mar 2005 -- Muhammad Hussein, a 34-year-old barber, always opens his hairdressing salon in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early in the morning. His daily routine is to clean the floor, wash equipment and then take a few moments to enjoy a cup of tea with his partner and colleagues at work.