Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 09 Aug 2005 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• MARINE KILLED IN AR RAMADI
• U.S. SOLDIER KILLED IN CAR BOMB ATTACK

• Transcript: Defense Department Briefing 09 Aug 2005 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld; and General Richard Myers, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Pentagon Says Iran Not Stopping Weapons Trafficking VOA 09 Aug 2005 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has criticized the Iranian government, saying it is not stopping the flow of weapons across its border into Iraq
• EOD Airmen rely on high-tech, raw nerves AFPN 09 Aug 2005 -- Soldiers of the 56th Brigade Combat Team encounter explosive situations daily as they travel along Iraq's highways during convoy escort missions.
• Suicide Car Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier in Baghdad AFPS 09 Aug 2005 -- A terrorist detonated a car bomb near a Task Force Baghdad convoy today, killing one U.S. soldier and wounding two others in central Baghdad, Iraq, U.S. officials announced.
• Iraqi Police Detain Suspected Terrorists, Discover IED Caches AFPS 09 Aug 2005 -- Iraqi police found one mortar launch tube and arrested one suspected terrorist during a raid in the New Baghdad District in Baghdad, Iraq, Aug. 8, according to a Multinational Force Iraq report.
• Coalition, Iraqi Ministry Sign Historic Public Health Charter AFPS 09 Aug 2005 -- The children of Husseiniya, a town north of here, play among heaps of trash, lakes of standing groundwater and open sewage.
• Coalition, Iraqi ministry sign Husseiniya charter Army News 09 Aug 2005 -- On Aug. 1 Coalition Forces and members of the Iraqi ministry signed a charter to correct the health and public works crisis in Husseiniya.
• IED safe haven destroyed MNF-I 09 Aug 2005 -- Coalition Forces destroyed a house in Baghdad August 6 after confirmation that the structure was being used by terrorists as a storage site for improvised explosive devices.
• UPDATE: Operation Quick Strike nets car bomb factory MNF-I 09 Aug 2005 -- Iraqi Security Force soldiers and Marines from Regimental Combat Team-2 discovered a bomb in a building in Haqliniyah during Operation Quick Strike August 8 .
• Baghdad Attacks Target Police RFE/RL 09 Aug 2005 -- There was another series of attacks against Iraqi security forces in Baghdad today.

Deployments

• Iraq: Is U.S. General Hinting At Firm Timetable For Withdrawal From Iraq? RFE/RL 09 Aug 2005 -- U.S. President George W. Bush has long insisted that he will not set a timetable for the withdrawal of coalition forces from Iraq.

US Policy

• Rumsfeld: Iraqi Constitution Could Be Powerful Weapon AFPS 09 Aug 2005 -- The new Iraqi constitution "will be a critical step in persuading the majority of Iraqis that the new Iraq is worth fighting for, that they have a stake in it," Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld said here today.

United Nations

• Iraq: Envoy, Council discuss UN support as constitution-drafting deadline nears UN News Centre 09 Aug 2005 -- With the 15 August deadline to complete Iraq's draft constitution fast-approaching, the senior United Nations envoy in Baghdad and the Security Council in New York today held discussions on ways the world body can support the country's ongoing political transition, including planned elections.
• Acting on new oil-for-food report, Annan lifts official's immunity, pledges further steps IRNA 09 Aug 2005 -- Voicing deep concern at the latest report by the independent commission probing the United Nations Oil-for-Food Program for Iraq, Secretary-General Kofi Annan Monday waived the immunity of a former procurement officer accused of soliciting kickbacks.
• UN Official Pleads Guilty RFE/RL 09 Aug 2005 -- A former United Nations procurement officer has pleaded guilty to accepting hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes from UN contractors.
• IRAQ: Annan waives official’s immunity after Oil for Food inquiry report IRIN 09 Aug 2005 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Monday waived the immunity of a former UN procurement officer accused of looking for kickbacks under the former Oil-for-Food Programme for Iraq, and said he would do the same for another high-ranking official implicated.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Constitution Talks Proceed Despite Bad Weather RFE/RL 09 Aug 2005 -- Iraqi political leaders are today pressing ahead with plans for talks on a new constitution, despite disruption in Baghdad caused by a severe sandstorm.
• Iraq: Islamist Women Speak Out On Constitution RFE/RL 09 Aug 2005 -- RFE/RL Radio Free Iraq (RFI) correspondent Asma al-Sarraj interviewed female Islamist activists on the constitution for the weekly program "Her Issues," which aired on 1 August.
• Iraq: Committee Struggles To Make Constitutional Draft Deadline RFE/RL 09 Aug 2005 -- Efforts to draft a new Iraqi constitution are in trouble. The committee drafting the document is supposed to have it ready for Iraq's provisional parliament -- the National Assembly -- to approve by Monday (15 August).

Foreign Reactions

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