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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 08 Feb 2006 [PDF]
• MARINE DIES FROM IED ATTACK NEAR BAGHDAD
• MARINE DIES IN NON-HOSTILE VEHICLE ACCIDENT
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• CENTAF releases daily airpower summary AFPN 08 Feb 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's airpower summary.
• Iraqi Troops Impose Tight Security Ahead of Shi'ite Ceremony VOA 08 Feb 2006 -- Iraqi authorities have imposed tight security in and around Baghdad and the holy city of Karbala where Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims are converging for a major religious ceremony.

Deployments

US Policy

• US Congressional Investigator Details Problems with Iraq Reconstruction VOA 08 Feb 2006 -- U.S. lawmakers are looking into problems that have plagued U.S.-led reconstruction programs in Iraq and seeking ways to improve the effort.
• Rumsfeld, General Point to Progress on Iraqi Forces Training Washington File 08 Feb 2006 -- Questions about Iran and Iraq figured prominently in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's appearance before the House Armed Services Committee February 8.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Army Takes Control of Some Bases VOA 08 Feb 2006 -- The U.S. military says 100 Iraqi army battalions, totaling about 104,000 Iraqi soldiers, are now fighting alongside U.S. troops in Iraq.
• Iraq Weekly Status Report State Dept. 08 Feb 2006 [PDF]

Foreign Reactions

• UK to start Iraq withdrawal without ending insurgency IRNA 08 Feb 2006 -- The British government has altered its terms for withdrawing UK troops from Iraq by signally that the process could start even if the insurgency continues.

News Reports

• Iraq: Judge Describes Corruption Case Against Lawmaker RFE/RL 08 Feb 2006 -- Radi al-Radi, head of the Commission on Public Integrity, on 7 February spoke with RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) about the corruption charges against parliamentarian Mish'an al-Juburi.