Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 15 Apr 2005 [PDF]
• MARINE KILLED BY ENEMY MORTAR FIRE
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• MARINE KILLED BY SMALL ARMS FIRE

• Iraqi Army, US raids capture terrorists MNF-I/MNC-I 15 Apr 2005 -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers arrested 17 suspected terrorists during cordon and search operations in west Baghdad April 14.
• Detainee death leads to fight at Camp Bucca MNF-I/MNC-I 15 Apr 2005 -- Triggered by the murder of one detainee, a fight broke out between two groups of detainees at one of the compounds at the Camp Bucca theater internment facility at approximately 11 p.m., April 14th.
• Fight between detainees leaves 1 dead, several injured MNF-I/MNC-I 15 Apr 2005 -- A dispute broke out between two groups of detainees at one of the compounds of the Camp Bucca theater internment facility at approximately 11 p.m., April 15.
• Fallujah police candidates screened USMC News 15 Apr 2005 -- Marines patrol the streets of Fallujah every day providing security for military operations and maintaining the general stability of the area.
• Army helicopters transport injured Marines in Al Anbar Province USMC News 15 Apr 2005 -- When service members in the Al Anbar Province receive injuries that require treatment only given at a hospital, they are transported in one of the helicopters of the 571st Medical Company (Air Ambulance).

Deployments

US Policy

• Iraq Suicide Bombers Are Mostly Foreigners, Official Says AFPS 15 Apr 2005 -- Most of the people committing suicide bombings in Iraq today are foreigners, not Iraqis, a senior Multinational Force Iraq official told reporters at an April 14 meeting with reporters in Baghdad.

United Nations

• UN/US/Oil For Food VOA 15 Apr 2005 -- The United States and Britain have rejected U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan's allegations that they are partly to blame for the Iraq oil-for-food scandal. Mr. Annan made the comment in what he thought was an off-the-record meeting.
• Annan: U.S., U.K. Partly To Blame For Iraq Oil Scandal RFE/RL 15 Apr 2005 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says the United States and United Kingdom are partly to blame for allowing former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's regime to make billions of dollars from unsupervised oil exports while under UN sanctions.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: Muqtada Al-Sadr Returns To Political Scene RFE/RL 15 Apr 2005 -- Radical Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is back, riding on a wave of Iraqi discontent with foreign troops and the lack of law and order in the country. In a demonstration organized by al-Sadr last week, tens of thousands flocked to Baghdad demanding that U.S. troops leave. The demonstration was the largest since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Even though al-Sadr officially boycotted recent parliamentary elections, his movement is a strong force outside the elected body. Many also believe that al-Sadr's Al-Mahdi Army did not disarm last October after several months of bloody fighting with U.S. troops.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports