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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 03 Mar 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Transcript: News Briefing with Gen. Casey 03 Mar 2006 -- Presenter: Commander, Multinational Forces Iraq, Gen. George W. Casey
• Gunmen Attack Small Town East of Baghdad, Killing at Least 18 VOA 03 Mar 2006 -- Unidentified gunmen in Iraq have killed at least 18 Shi'ite workers in an attack on a small town near Baghdad.
• CENTAF releases daily airpower summary AFPN 03 Mar 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's airpower summary.
• Iraqi Air Force takes giant step forward AFPN 03 Mar 2006 -- Since November 2005, the Air Force has taken on the mission of standing up the Iraqi Air Force, allowing Iraqis to gradually take over operations and help secure their nation's future.
• Separate Iraq Operations Net 62 Terrorism Suspects AFPS 03 Mar 2006 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces operations in Iraq northeast of Fallujah and in Anbar province recently resulted in the detention of 62 suspects, military officials reported.
• Multinational Division Baghdad Transfers Battle Space to Iraqi Army AFPS 03 Mar 2006 -- U.S. and coalition troops in the Baghdad area handed control of operations in western Baghdad and eastern Abu Ghraib to Iraqi soldiers in a ceremony yesterday.
• Bastogne Soldiers foil rocket attack Army News 03 Mar 2006 -- Soldiers from the Bastogne Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division foiled an attempted rocket attack March 1 on their forward operating base near the village of Hawijah, Iraq, after they spotted insurgents setting up rockets.

Deployments

US Policy

• Crisis Caused by Bombing Has Passed, General Says AFPS 03 Mar 2006 -- While the threat of violence remains in Iraq, the main crisis caused by the Feb. 22 bombing of a Shiite mosque in Samarra has passed and the people have proven their determination to defeat terror, the commander of coalition forces in Iraq said today.
• Violence Will Not Stop Iraq's Democratic Process, Rumsfeld Says Washington File 03 Mar 2006 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says individuals who are fomenting violence in Iraq are doing so "to stop the formation of a new government," but they will not succeed.
• Coalition Commander Says Iraq Crisis Has Passed VOA 03 Mar 2006 -- The American commander of coalition forces in Iraq says the crisis caused by the bombing of a Shi'ite mosque in Samara 10 days ago has passed, and that the violent reaction to the bombing was not as extensive as some reports indicated.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Humanitarian and Reconstruction Assistance Updates USAID 03 Mar 2006 [PDF]
• Iraq: Efforts To Form Government Crumble Amid Political Strife Over Sectarian Violence RFE/RL 03 Mar 2006 -- The sectarian violence that has broken out in Iraq in the wake of last week's bombing of a Shi'ite shrine continues to claim victims

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 9, Number 9 03 Mar 2006
• Iraq Traffic Ban Brings Temporary Peace, as Religious Leaders Call for Calm VOA 03 Mar 2006 -- A one-day ban on automobile traffic in the Baghdad region has imposed an eery quiet on the Iraqi capital.
• Iraq: Shi'ite Leaders Discuss Visit To Turkey RFE/RL 03 Mar 2006 -- RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq (RFI) interviewed Iraqi Transportation Minister Salam al-Maliki and Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Hamid al-Bayati in Baghdad about their participation in the February 28 meeting with Turkish officials in Ankara