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• MARINE KILLED AFTER IED BLAST NEAR HAQLANIYAH

• "Operation Lightning" Launched in Baghdad RFE/RL 29 May 2005 -- Iraqi security forces launched a 40,000-man security operation today to seal off Baghdad and hunt for insurgents.

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US Policy

• Top US General Says Zarqawi Probably Injured VOA 29 May 2005 -- America's top military officer says Washington believes terrorist leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has been injured in Iraq.
• Myers: 'Trend Lines Up in Iraq' AFPS 29 May 2005 -- Despite being plagued with ongoing violence that is killing scores of American troops and hundreds of Iraqi civilians, Iraq is making real progress on the path toward democracy and self-rule, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Richard Myers said today.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Shi'ite, Sunni Leaders Say They Will Work Together VOA 29 May 2005 -- In Iraq, influential Sunni and Shi'ite leaders say they will work together to calm sectarian tensions. Two organizations at the center of a bitter public dispute said after a meeting that they will not let the country slide into a civil war.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Media Monitoring UNAMI 29 May 2005
• Website: Al-Zarqawi Responding to Iraq Security Push RFE/RL 29 May 2005 -- An internet statement attributed to Al-Qaeda-affiliated leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi says he is overseeing a response to the "Operation Lightning" security push launched by Iraqi government forces in Baghdad today.
• IRAQ: Iraqi journalists complain of censorship IRIN 29 May 2005 -- Iraqi journalists say they are being censored by the US-led Coalition forces and the Iraqi government because of the topics covered by them in newspapers and on television.