Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIER KILLED BY MINE
• TWO TASK FORCE BAGHDAD SOLDIERS KILLED

• Three Soldiers Killed; Iraqi Civilians Injured in Terrorist Attack AFPS 29 Oct 2005 -- Three U.S. soldiers died in two incidents in Iraq today.
• Husaybah terrorist strongholds destroyed MNF-I 29 Oct 2005 -- Acting on tips from concerned citizens, Coalition Forces conducted a series of raids on suspected terrorist and foreign fighter safe houses in the town of Husaybah Oct. 29, killing an estimated 10 terrorists.
• Foreign-fighter leader targeted MNF-I 29 Oct 2005 -- Coalition Forces, using precision air strike capabilities, targeted a senior al Qaeda in Iraq foreign fighter who was believed to be holding a meeting with other senior members of the terror organization in Husaybah Oct. 28.
• Security forces in the north continue to put down terrorist activities MNF-I 29 Oct 2005 -- Iraqi security forces and Multi-National Forces from Task Force Freedom killed two terrorists, wounded another, detained 78 suspected terrorists, and seized a number of weapons during operations in Iraq Oct. 24-28.
• U.S. Soldiers evacuate victims of mortar attack MNF-I 29 Oct 2005 -- Terrorist-launched mortar rounds fell short of the Abu Ghraib Prison walls at 1:30 p.m. Oct. 29.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bush Says More Sacrifice Ahead in Iraq VOA 29 Oct 2005 -- President Bush has used his weekly radio address to hail Iraq's passage of a new constitution while warning that more sacrifice will be required from U.S. and coalition troops.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Parliamentary Campaigning Kicks Off VOA 29 Oct 2005 -- Campaigning has begun in Iraq for December's parliamentary elections, which will put in place the country's first permanent government since the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime in 2003.

Foreign Reactions

• Russia: Oil-For-Food Corruption Report Leaves Russians Cold RFE/RL 29 Oct 2005 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has cast doubt on the results of a report documenting large-scale corruption in the UN's oil-for-food humanitarian program in Iraq, saying some of the documents it used were fakes.
• Iran felicitates Iraq on constitution's approval IRNA 29 Oct 2005 -- Majlis Speaker Gholam-Ali Haddad-Adel here Saturday expressed felicitations to Iraqi National Assembly Speaker Hajim al-Hassani ont he approval of a new constitution for the country.

News Reports