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• DoD Identifies Army Casualties

• Apache Crash Kills Two; Operations Net Suspects, Weapons AFPS 16 Jan 2006 -- Two Task Force Ironhorse soldiers were killed today when their AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed, and various operations in Iraq netted terrorism suspects and weapons, military officials in Baghdad reported today.
• U.S. Helicopter Crashes In Iraq RFE/RL 16 Jan 2006 -- The U.S. military says one of its helicopters crashed north of Baghdad on 16 January.

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Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Annuls Few Ballots from Parliamentary Vote VOA 16 Jan 2006 -- Iraq's election commission says it has rejected a small number of ballots from last month's parliamentary vote, and plans to issue final results later this week.
• Iraq: Hussein Trial Chief Judge Answers Criticism RFE/RL 16 Jan 2006 -- Rizgar Muhammad Amin, the chief judge on the Iraqi Special Tribunal, which is hearing the case of deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and seven of his codefendants on charges of crimes against humanity, told RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) in an two interviews on 13 January that it is necessary to allow the defendants in the Al-Dujayl trial the opportunity to speak, even though their comments often disrupt the proceedings.

Foreign Reactions

• Australians Accused Over Iraq Oil-For-Food Scandal RFE/RL 16 Jan 2006 -- Top executives for the Australian Wheat Board (AWB), the country's wheat-export monopoly, were accused today of paying some $220 million in bribes to the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein.
• Australian Inquiry Probes Possible Bribes to Saddam Hussein Government VOA 16 Jan 2006 -- The Australian government has begun an official inquiry into whether the country's monopoly wheat exporter made illegal payments to the former Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq

News Reports

• IRAQ: Shortage of fuel resulting in prohibitive prices IRIN 16 Jan 2006 -- Ongoing shortages of fuel and constant attacks on oil refineries are causing abrupt increases in official fuel prices as well as price hikes on the black market in the capital, Baghdad.