Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 02 Sep 2005 [PDF]
• Two Task Force Baghdad Soldiers killed
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• Transcript: Defense Department Special Briefing on Operations In Iraq 02 Sep 2005 -- Presenter: Army Lieutenant General John Vines, Commander of Multinational Corps-Iraq and Commander General of the 18th Airborne Corps
• Only Small US Troop Increase for Iraqi Referendum VOA 02 Sep 2005 -- The second ranking U.S. commander in Iraq says he expects only a small increase in the number of U.S. troops in the country for next month's constitutional referendum, because the new Iraqi security forces will take the lead in providing security.

Deployments

US Policy

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Police Graduate 175 From Advanced, Specialty Courses AFPS 02 Sep 2005 -- The Iraqi Police Service graduated 175 police officers Sept. 1 from advanced and specialty courses at the Adnan Training Facility as part of the Iraqi government's ongoing effort to train its security forces, Multinational Security Transition Command Iraq officials reported today.
• Iraqi Forces to Provide Bulk of Election Security AFPS 02 Sep 2005 -- Iraqi security forces will provide the primary security for the Oct. 15 constitutional referendum and the December elections, a U.S. commander in Baghdad, Iraq, said today.
• Iraqis Demonstrate For and Against Draft Constitution VOA 02 Sep 2005 -- Thousands of Shi'ite Muslims held a rally in the southern Iraqi city of Basra Friday to show support for the country's draft constitution
• Iraqi Shi'ites Demonstrate In Favor Of Constitution RFE/RL 02 Sep 2005 -- Several thousand Iraqi Shi'ites took to the streets of the main southern city of Al-Basrah today to demonstrate support for the draft constitution.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Officials: Saddam Trial to Begin in Mid-October VOA 02 Sep 2005 -- Iraqi officials say former dictator Saddam Hussein will go on trial in the second half of October, so as not to affect the outcome of a national referendum on the constitution to be held October 15.
• Funerals Held in Iraq for Muslim Pilgrims VOA 02 Sep 2005 -- In Iraq, funerals are being held in various parts of the country for Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims killed during a deadly stampede on a bridge in northwest Baghdad Wednesday.
• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 8, Number 30 2 September 2005 -- THE GROWING SUNNI-SHI'A DIVIDE / SUNNIS WEIGH IN ON DRAFT CONSTITUTION / RADIO FREE IRAQ POLLS MINORITIES ON DRAFT CONSTITUTION