Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• SOLDIER KILLED IN IED ATTACK
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Iraq Attacks Kill At Least 19 RFE/RL 20 Feb 2006 -- At least 19 people were killed in Iraq this morning in three separate attacks.
• Bombings Kill at Least 17 in Iraq VOA 20 Feb 2006 -- At least 17 Iraqis and a U.S. soldier were killed Monday in bombing attacks across Iraq.
• Soldier Killed in Attack; Troops Nab Suspects, Weapons AFPS 20 Feb 2006 -- A U.S. soldier was killed in Iraq today, and coalition and Iraqi forces detained 42 suspected terrorists and discovered weapons caches, officials in Iraq reported today.

Deployments

US Policy

• Controversy Deepens Over Iraq Prewar Intelligence VOA 20 Feb 2006 -- One of the puzzling questions hanging over the Iraq war is: how did the intelligence turn out to be so wrong?
• Top Pentagon Lawyer Reportedly Warned Of Detainee Abuse Before Abu Ghraib VOA 20 Feb 2006 -- A U.S. magazine says a former top Defense Department lawyer warned that the policy of circumventing international agreements on humane treatment of prisoners could lead to the kind of abuse that caused a scandal two years ago.
• Khalilzad: US Will Not Accept Sectarian Iraqi Government VOA 20 Feb 2006 -- The American ambassador to Iraq has warned that Washington will not accept sectarianism or militias in a new Iraqi government or its security forces.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq's Ja'fari Optimistic After Sistani Meeting RFE/RL 20 Feb 2006 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Al-Ja'fari said today that efforts to form a new government were running into difficulties.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• IRAQ: Local NGO documents prisoner abuse IRIN 20 Feb 2006 -- An NGO established this year to assist former prison detainees who have suffered abuses in prison has received an overwhelming initial response.