Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 30 Jan 2006 [PDF]
• MND-B SOLDIER KILLED BY A ROADSIDE BOMB
• ROADSIDE BOMB KILLS U.S. SOLDIER
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty

• CENTAF releases combined airpower summary AFPN 30 Jan 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released the airpower summary for Jan. 28 to 30.
• Air Force evacutes injured ABC News team to Germany AFPN 30 Jan 2006 -- A C-17 Globemaster III from the 172nd Airlift Wing and medical personnel from the 791st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron evacuated a wounded ABC news team from Balad Air Base, Iraq, to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Jan. 30, for treatment at the nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.
• Air Force-led convoy hands reins back to Soldiers AFPN 30 Jan 2006 -- As the Air Force has taken on roles traditionally held by the Army, one of the most visible of those tasks has been convoy duty.
• Blast Kills 10 Civilians; Troops Nab Suspects, Find Weapons AFPS 30 Jan 2006 -- A bombing near a candy store in Iraq and the capture of suspected terrorists and weapons top news reported today by military officials in Baghdad.
• Soldiers arrest chief of Baghdad kidnapping cell Army News 30 Jan 2006 -- Acting on a tip, Multi-National Division Baghdad Soldiers were moving to the house of a suspected kidnapping cell leader Saturday night west of Baghdad when they came across the decapitated bodies of three Iraqis on a soccer field.
• Army hospital treating ABC News anchor injured in Iraq Army News 30 Jan 2006 -- ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff and his cameraman Doug Vogt are being treated at Landstuhl Army Medical Center in Germany after the armored personnel carrier in which they were riding Jan. 29 encountered an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq.

Deployments

US Policy

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Sectarian tensions on the rise IRIN 30 Jan 2006 -- Five simultaneous bomb attacks that appear to have targeted churches and the Vatican embassy have raised concerns among Iraqi Christians about rising sectarian tensions.
• IRAQ: Government announces plan to fight poverty, create jobs IRIN 30 Jan 2006 -- In response to a study released last week revealing an increase in poverty levels by 30 percent since the US-led invasion in April 2003, the government said it was developing plans to combat the problem.

Foreign Reactions

• Howard Claims No Knowledge of Kickbacks to Saddam VOA 30 Jan 2006 -- Australian Prime Minister John Howard says he did not know that a national wheat exporter was paying millions of dollars in alleged bribes to Saddam Hussein before the Iraqi leader was ousted.
• IRAQ: Rights watchdog questions Hussein trial proceedings IRIN 30 Jan 2006 -- As the trial of deposed president Saddam Hussein resumed on 29 January, the Iraqi government dismissed accusations that political interference and the rapid turnover of presiding judges threaten the outcome.

News Reports

• New Video of US Hostage Jill Carroll Released VOA 30 Jan 2006 -- Arabic language al-Jazeera television has broadcast what it says is a new videotape of kidnapped U.S. journalist Jill Carroll pleading for freedom for female Iraqi prisoners.

• Iraq Reports Bird Flu in Humans; Turkish Deaths Confirmed Washington File 30 Jan 2006 -- Iraq's Ministry of Health has confirmed its first human death from avian influenza, and is working to confirm a possible second death.