Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• Safe house raided, four terrorists killed, four detained MNF-I 12 Nov 2005 -- Coalition Forces acting on multiple intelligence sources and tips from local citizens, raided a suspected al Qaeda in Iraq terrorist safe house Nov. 12 in the village of Qazwan, near Ramadi.
• Terrorist mortar team captured MNF-I 12 Nov 2005 -- A terrorist mortar team was captured and one terrorist was killed early Nov. 12 as they prepared to attack a checkpoint near Baqubah.
• U.S. Soldiers capture gunman after attack MNF-I 12 Nov 2005 -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers on patrol in the Abu Ghraib district captured a terrorist suspected of firing at them minutes on Nov. 9.
• Task Force Baghdad Soldiers capture IED cell members MNF-I 12 Nov 2005 -- Task Force Baghdad Soldiers detained five terror suspects during an early-morning raid in southern Baghdad Nov. 11.
• Operation Steel Curtain continues MNF-I 12 Nov 2005 -- Iraqi Army Soldiers and Marines, Soldiers and Sailors with Regimental Combat Team - 2 are in the final phases of clearing operations in the border town of Karabilah.
• Terrorist killed while placing IED MNF-I 12 Nov 2005 -- Task Force Band of Brothers Soldiers engaged and killed a terrorist in the process of emplacing an improvised explosive device in Samarra Nov. 11.

Deployments

US Policy

• Iraq Progressing Toward Democracy, Rice Affirms in Baghdad Washington File 12 Nov 2005 -- Sunni engagement in Iraq's political process is one important sign of the nation's strengthening democracy, which ultimately will spell defeat for violent extremists, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice declared in series of interviews in Baghdad with U.S. and Arab news media November 11.

United Nations

• UN Secretary-General travels to Baghdad to express solidarity with Iraq UN News Centre 14 Nov 2005 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan arrived in Iraq this morning for a one-day visit to the capital, Baghdad, where he met with a number of top Iraqi leaders and the staff of the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) while voicing support for an Arab League conference on the troubled country.
• UN's Annan Calls For Reconciliation In Iraq RFE/RL 12 Nov 2005 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is making a surprise visit to Iraq.
• Annan Arrives in Baghdad as Car Bomb Rocks Iraqi Capital VOA 12 Nov 2005 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan made a surprise visit to Iraq Saturday, arriving just as a bomb ripped through a market in the capital, killing at least five people.

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Saddam Hussein Trial Resumes at the End of November VOA 12 Nov 2005 -- The trial of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein is scheduled to resume in Baghdad November 28.