Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• SOLDIERS ASSIGNED TO MARINE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE KILLED
• MARINE DIES FROM IED

• Operation Steel Curtain update MNF-I 11 Nov 2005 -- Approximately 1,000 Iraqi Army Soldiers and 2,500 Marines, Soldiers and Sailors with Regimental Combat Team - 2 continue clearing the town of Karabilah of terrorists and weapons in Operation al Hajip Elfulathi (Steel Curtain).
• Suspected triggerman caught after bomb attack MNF-I 11 Nov 2005 -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers detained a suspected triggerman after a bomb attack north of Baghdad Nov. 10.
• Mortar cache destroyed MNF-I 11 Nov 2005 -- Coalition air forces acting on multiple intelligence sources and tips from local citizens, raided a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist mortar cache in the village of Qazwan, near Ramadi, Iraq Nov. 10 at approximately 3:43 a.m.
• Baghdad suicide bombing cell blown MNF-I 11 Nov 2005 -- Coalition Forces, acting on multiple intelligence sources and tips from local citizens, raided three suspected terrorist safe houses Nov. 10 to capture or kill members of a suspected Al Qaeda in Iraq suicide bomber cell operating in the Baghdad area.

Deployments

US Policy

• Rice Urges Iraqis to Put Sectarian Differences Aside VOA 11 Nov 2005 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a surprise visit to Iraq Friday, with stops in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul.
• U.S. Secretary Of State Tells Troops To Help Iraqis RFE/RL 11 Nov 2005 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice made an unannounced trip to Iraq today, visiting the northern city of Mosul and the capital Baghdad to meet with Iraqi officials and U.S. troops.
• Rice Makes Surprise Visit To Iraq RFE/RL 11 Nov 2005 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul today on a previously unannounced visit.
• US Secretary of State Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq VOA 11 Nov 2005 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condolezza Rice paid a surprise visit to Iraq Friday, five weeks before that country holds critical parliamentary elections.
• Rice Visits Baghdad, Mosul, in Surprise Iraq Mission VOA 11 Nov 2005 -- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice paid a surprise visit to Iraq Friday, with stops in Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul
• Key US Senate Supporter of Iraq War Calls for Policy Changes VOA 11 Nov 2005 -- A Republican Senator who supports the war in Iraq is calling on the Bush administration to make broad changes in its strategy to fight the insurgency and increase troop deployments there.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq's Prime Minister Welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Washington File 10 Nov 2005 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Jaafari welcomed the November 11 visit of U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to Iraq as a demonstration of "the support of the United States for Iraq [and] . the political process, democracy and elections."
• Iraqi Vice President Reports Security Progress, Warns of Shift in Terrorism VOA 11 Nov 2005 -- Iraqi Vice President Adil Abdul Mahdi said Thursday security progress has been made in his country but warned of possibility of more violence elsewhere.

News Reports

• Top Aide To Saddam Hussein Reportedly Dies RFE/RL 11 Nov 2005 -- Izzat Ibrahim al-Duri, a former deputy of Saddam Hussein, reportedly died today.

• Iraq: RFI Interviews Presiding Judge In Saddam Trial RFE/RL 11 Nov 2005 -- RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) spoke with Iraqi Special Tribunal presiding Judge Rizgar Muhammad Amin in Al-Sulaymaniyah about the trial of ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and seven of his associates.
• Brother Of Iraqi Parliament Speaker Reportedly Detained RFE/RL 11 Nov 2005 -- Reuters news agency has cited Iraqi officials as saying that a brother of Iraq's parliamentary speaker has been detained on suspicion of running an insurgent cell.