Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 23 Sep 2005 [PDF]
• ONE SOLDIER KILLED AND ONE WOUNDED BY IED
• SOLDIER IN AR RAMADI KILLED BY SMALL ARMS FIRE
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• Transcript: Special Defense Department Operational Update Briefing 23 Sep 2005 -- Presenter: Deputy Commander, Multinational Force-Northwest, Brig. Gen. Kevin Bergner
• Soldiers go from combat to cleanup in Tal Afar Army News 23 Sep 2005 -- About 700 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division, working with Soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, are attempting to place the troubled city of Tal Afar under control before the constitutional referendum in October and the national elections in December.
• US General Says al-Qaida Crippled in Northwestern Iraq VOA 23 Sep 2005 -- A senior U.S. military officer said Friday that coalition forces in northwestern Iraq have disrupted "about 80 percent" of the al-Qaida terrorist network's capabilities in the region.
• Terrorism Waning, Citizens Registering To Vote in Northwest Iraq Washington File 23 Sep 2005 -- Al-Qaida operations have been degraded severely, the city of Tall Afar is now under Iraqi government control and 100,000 new voters have registered for the constitutional referendum in Iraq's Nineveh Province, a U.S. general says.
• Baghdad Car Bomb Kills 5 VOA 23 Sep 2005 -- Insurgents pressing a campaign of violence in Iraq ahead of next month's constitutional referendum have killed five more people Friday in a suicide bombing at a Baghdad bus terminal.
• Coalition operation captures 15 terror suspects MNF-I 23 Sep 2005 -- Elements of the 3rd Brigade, 1st Armored Division captured 15 members of a suspected terrorist cell thought to be operating north of Baghdad during the late evening hours of Sept. 18.
• Iraqi detainee dies MNF-I 23 Sep 2005 -- A male Iraqi detainee died Sept. 20 after attacking a Marine at an Entry Control Point in Fallujah.
• Coalition forces capture foreign fighter and facilitator MNF-I 23 Sep 2005 -- Coalition forces captured two terrorists during a raid on a safe house in Mosul Sept. 17.
• Failure to yield leads to capture of 8 terror suspects MNF-I 23 Sep 2005 -- An Iraqi driver failing to yield the right-of-way to a U.S patrol led to the capture of eight terror suspects on the afternoon of Sept. 21.
• Task Force Liberty Soldiers detain one in Ad Duluyiah MNF-I 23 Sep 2005 -- Task Force Liberty Soldiers, acting on a tip from an Iraqi citizen, conducted a raid around 10:30 p.m. Sept. 22 south of Ad Duluyiah and detained one individual.
• U.S. Soldiers nab suspect, seize bomb making materials MNF-I 23 Sep 2005 -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers captured a terror suspect and seized bomb making materials from his home during a cordon and search operation conducted in a Taji neighborhood on the evening of Sept. 20.
• Citizen's tip leads Combat Engineers to weapons cache MNF-I 23 Sep 2005 -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers found a weapons cache while conducting offensive operations to disrupt anti-Iraqi forces activity north of Baghdad.

Deployments

• Rumsfeld Extends Three Units' Tours in Iraq AFPS 23 Sep 2005 -- Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld approved "a modest extension" of three units in Iraq for up to 10 days, Pentagon officials said today.

US Policy

• Iraqis Clear in Desire for Freedom, General Says AFPS 23 Sep 2005 -- Iraqis are very clear in their desire for freedom and are taking steps to ensure that freedom is secure, a senior military commander said during a briefing from Mosul, Iraq, today.
• Bush Again Asserts U.S. Commitment To Iraq RFE/RL 23 Sep 2005 -- U.S. President George W. Bush has reiterated his commitment to keeping U.S. troops in Iraq until stability comes to the war-torn country.

United Nations

• No diversion of nuclear material in Iraq, says UN Agency UN News Centre 23 Sep 2005 -- The United Nations atomic watchdog agency has completed its annual inspection of remaining nuclear materials in Iraq to ensure that they conform to the country's safeguard obligations against the spread of weapons under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and has found no diversion of material.

Reconstruction Issues

• Shi'ia Power Struggle Poses Threat to Security in Iraq VOA 23 Sep 2005 -- U.S. military commanders in Iraq say they believe the surge of violence this week in the southern, mostly-Shi'ite city of Basra is related to the growing hostility between two Shi'ite entities, whose militias are fighting for dominance in parts of Iraq.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Minister Says Syria Wants Democracy to Fail in Iraq VOA 23 Sep 2005 -- Iraq's foreign minister says Syria is refusing to stop insurgents and foreign fighters from entering Iraq.