Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 01 Feb 2006 [PDF]

• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Adm. Giambastiani 01 Feb 2006 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Edmund P. Giambastiani, Jr.
• CENTAF releases daily airpower summary AFPN 01 Feb 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's airpower summary.
• Third country national escorts keep watchful eye AFPN 01 Feb 2006 -- They stand in the background, silently observing third country nationals, or TCNs, with a watchful eye.
• Iraqi Army assumes control of two areas Army News 01 Feb 2006 -- Coalition forces turned over an installation in Baghdad and a region south of Mosul to Iraqi Army units during the last days of January.
• Bombing in Baghdad Kills at Least 8 VOA 01 Feb 2006 -- A bomb in Baghdad has killed at least eight people and wounded at least 50 others.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bush Calls Victory America's Only Option in Iraq AFPS 01 Feb 2006 -- Reinforcing his State of the Union message, President Bush today defended his decision to go to war in Iraq and repeated his assertion that victory is America's only option.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Trial Of Saddam Hussein Adjourned RFE/RL 01 Feb 2006 -- The trial of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has been adjourned until 2 February after the court heard five witnesses.
• Iraq Weekly Status Report State Dept. 01 Feb 2006 [PDF]
• Iraqi High Tribunal Resumes Trial Without Saddam VOA 01 Feb 2006 -- The Iraqi High Tribunal convened in Baghdad for the ninth time.

Foreign Reactions

• Straw hints at UK troop withdrawal from Iraq this year IRNA 01 Feb 2006 -- Foreign Secretary Jack Straw Wednesday gave his clearest indication to date of plans to start withdrawing British troops from Iraq by suggesting that there would be some "good news" this year.

News Reports

• Iraq kidnappers issue 72-hour ultimatum for German hostages IRNA 01 Feb 2006 -- The kidnappers of two German engineers in Iraq have threatened to kill them within 72 hours unless Berlin closes its embassy in Baghdad and all German companies pull out of Iraq, the media reported Wednesday.