March 2006 - Iraq Special Weapons News

14 March 2006 - Iraq Special Weapons News

Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Pace 14 Mar 2006 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Peter Pace
CENTAF releases daily airpower summary AFPN 14 Mar 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's air power summary.
Soldiers Detain Terrorists, Find Weapons; Terrorists Target Mosque AFPS 14 Mar 2006 -- U.S. soldiers detained 16 terrorists and found two weapons caches in several operations throughout Iraq yesterday, and terrorists targeted a mosque in Baghdad in a rocket attack the same day, military officials in Iraq reported.
Command helping with Iraqi utility projects Army News 14 Mar 2006 -- Challenges facing quality maintenance of a water treatment plant and a primary electrical sub-station northeast of Baghdad were laid out by Iraqi engineers during a tour by Coalition leaders March 9.
1ID will train teams to help Iraqi, Afghan forces Army News 14 Mar 2006 -- A brigade of the 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley, Kan., will temporarily reorganize to train teams to serve alongside and mentor Iraqi Security Forces and the Afghan National Army.

Rumsfeld Says Rival Iraqi Politicians Starting to Work Together VOA 14 Mar 2006 -- Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the U.S. ambassador to Iraq has told him the country's rival political leaders are talking more directly to each other, and relying less on the ambassador to act as an intermediary
Top US General: Iraqi People Want Prosperity, Freedom VOA 14 Mar 2006 -- The top U.S. military officer says Iraq is at a crossroads, with one path leading to civil war and the other toward freedom and a representative government.
Iraqis at Crossroads But Seem to Be Choosing Unity, Pace Says AFPS 14 Mar 2006 -- Iraq is at a crossroads, and the Iraqi people have critical decisions to make in the near future, the top U.S. general said here yesterday.
State's Jeffrey Sees Little Likelihood of Civil War in Iraq Washington File 14 Mar 2006 -- A senior U.S. government official discounts the likelihood of Iraq slipping into a civil war and says the Iraqi people hold the solution to the sectarian violence that threatens the country's stability.
Dog Handler Accused of Abusing Iraqi Prisoners VOA 14 Mar 2006 -- U.S. Army dog handler Sergeant Michael Smith has admitted to using his canine to scare Iraqi detainees into soiling themselves, according to witness testimony Tuesday.

New Iraqi Parliament's First Meeting Slated for March 16 AFPS 14 Mar 2006 -- The new Iraqi parliament is scheduled to convene March 16 for the first time since its members were chosen in the Dec. 15 nationwide election, a senior Defense Department official said here today.
Iraqi Police Recover More Than 80 Bodies as Reprisal Attacks Mount VOA 14 Mar 2006 -- Iraqi police say they have recovered more than 80 bodies in and around Baghdad since Monday, including 29 corpses found in a mass grave in a Shi'ite suburb in eastern Baghdad.

RFE/RL Iraq Report, Volume 9, Number 10 14 Mar 2006
IRAQ: Hundreds demonstrate against sectarian violence in Baghdad, Mosul IRIN 14 Mar 2006 -- More than 2,500 demonstrators of different religious and ethnic backgrounds took to the streets of Mosul and the capital, Baghdad, to protest the sectarian violence that has caused hundreds of deaths in the past three weeks.
Iraq - Three Years After the Invasion VOA 14 Mar 2006 -- Three years ago, President Bush ordered coalition forces to invade Iraq to free its people and defend the world against weapons of mass destruction that its dictator supposedly had

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