Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

Operations
Deployments
US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
News Reports

Current Operations

• Large Al Anbar caches uncovered by Coalition MNF-I 04 Jun 2005 -- Marines, Sailors and Soldiers and Iraqi Security Forces assigned to 2nd Marine Division located approximately 50 weapons and ammunition caches in Al Anbar within the last 72 hours.
• Iraq Ops Yield Suspects, Weapons, Missing Artifacts AFPS 04 Jun 2005 -- Operations in Iraq during the past three days yielded a terrorist hideaway, terror suspects, weapons and ammunition stockpiles, and a treasure chest of Iraqi artifacts looted from the Baghdad Museum more than two years ago.

Deployments

US Policy

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Kurdish Regional Parliament in Iraq Convened for First Time VOA 04 Jun 2005 -- Iraq's Kurdish regional parliament held its first session Saturday, four months after the country's general elections. The move marks a major step forward for the Kurdish region of Iraq, which is hoping to maintain a high degree of self-rule, as Iraq's interim government prepares to debate its new constitution.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Judge Says Saddam's Morale Has Collapsed RFE/RL 04 Jun 2005 -- The Iraqi judge assigned to preside over the war crimes trial of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad says that the former president's morale has plummeted.