Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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US Policy
United Nations
Reconstruction Issues
Foreign Reactions
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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 21 Oct 2005 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties

• Transcript: News Briefing with Maj. Gen. William G. Webster Jr 21 Oct 2005 -- Presenter: Commander of Multinational Division, Baghdad, Maj. Gen. William G. Webster Jr.
• Terrorist Safe House Destroyed; Police Station Attack Thwarted AFPS 21 Oct 2005 -- Coalition forces detained five terrorists and seized a large weapons cache today when they raided a suspected al Qaeda safe house northwest of Qaim, Iraq, military officials reported.
• Team Quickly Turns Old Fort Into Detention Facility AFPS 21 Oct 2005 -- The team got the order to proceed in August, but the challenge began months earlier, when the U.S. military sought to expand the capacity of Iraq's detention facilities
• Baghdad Raids Helped Preempt Referendum-Day Attacks AFPS 21 Oct 2005 -- Preemptive raids conducted by U.S., other coalition and Iraqi forces in and around the Iraqi capital before the Oct. 15 referendum helped limit insurgent attacks on voting day, the U.S. military commander for troops in Baghdad said today.
• Five U.S. Troops Killed in Three Iraq Operations AFPS 21 Oct 2005 -- Three Marines and a soldier assigned to a Marine expeditionary force were killed in Iraq on Oct. 20, military officials reported.
• Task Force Liberty Soldiers find cache, detain suspects in Bayji MNF-I 21 Oct 2005 -- Task Force Liberty Soldiers followed a civilian's tip and found a cache of explosives and weapons buried in several locations at a house in Bayji.
• Female detainee released MNF-I 21 Oct 2005 -- On Oct. 19, based on intelligence and credible reporting, Coalition Forces conducted a raid on suspected terrorist safe house in Fallujah.
• Coalition forces destroy terrorist safe house MNF-I 21 Oct 2005 -- Coalition forces raided a suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq terrorist safe house near the town of al bu Hardan, northwest of Al Qaim on Oct. 21.
• Correction to captured foreign national information MNF-I 21 Oct 2005 -- During the weekly Multi-National Force-Iraq press conference Oct. 20, a slide was shown that incorrectly identified a detainee as a Danish citizen

Deployments

US Policy

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Army Needs Logistics, Noncommissioned Officers AFPS 21 Oct 2005 -- The Iraqi army needs to develop a dependable logistics system and a professional cadre of noncommissioned officers, the top U.S. military commander in Baghdad said today.

Foreign Reactions

• IRAQ: SADDAM TRIAL MUST REJECT 'VICTOR'S JUSTICE' US Dept. of State IIP, Foreign Media Reaction 21 Oct 2005
• Iraq: EU-UN Showcase Partnership For Positive Change RFE/RL 21 Oct 2005 -- In a rare press briefing UN and EU officials today provided insight into their joint rehabilitation and reconstruction effort in Iraq.
• Iraq: Spanish Judge Issues Warrants For Arrest Of U.S. Soldiers RFE/RL 21 Oct 2005 -- A Spanish judge has issued an arrest warrant for three U.S. soldiers over the death of a Spanish journalist during the war in Iraq

News Reports

• Iraq: RFI Interviews Kurdish Human Rights Minister RFE/RL 21 Oct 2005 -- On 17 October 2005, 512 bodies of Barzani tribesmen deported and killed in 1982 were returned to Irbil from mass graves in southern Iraq to Kurdistan where they will receive a fitting burial
• Iraq Officials Condemn Killing of Saddam Trial Defense Lawyer VOA 21 Oct 2005 -- The Iraqi government has condemned the killing of a defense lawyer in the trial of deposed leader Saddam Hussein.
• Kidnapped Lawyer In Hussein Trial Found Dead RFE/RL 21 Oct 2005 -- The body of a lawyer for a co-defendant of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein was found today after the man was kidnapped late last night.
• Saddam Trial Defense Lawyer Found Dead in Baghdad VOA 21 Oct 2005 -- Iraqi police say a defense lawyer in the trial of deposed leader Saddam Hussein has been found shot dead, less than a day after he was kidnapped.

• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 8, Number 35 21 October 2005 -- HUSSEIN, CO-DEFENDANTS PLEAD NOT GUILTY IN CHAOTIC FIRST DAY OF TRIAL / AL-DUJAYL SURVIVOR SAYS 'WE WANT THE DESERVED PUNISHMENT FOR THE GUILTY' / SUNNI ARABS APPEAR TO LOSE BID TO VOTE DOWN CONSTITUTION