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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 23 Mar 2006 [PDF]

• IRAQ OPERATIONAL UPDATE BRIEFING MNF-I 23 Mar 2006
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Adm. Giambastiani 23 Mar 2006 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
• CENTAF releases daily airpower summary AFPN 23 Mar 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's airpower summary.
• Operation Swarmer Ends With All Objectives Met AFPS 23 Mar 2006 -- Operation Swarmer, a combined operation involving Iraqi soldiers and police commandos and coalition forces wrapped up yesterday without any casualties and all of the tactical objectives met, Multinational Force Iraq officials announced today.
• Coalition Operation Frees Hostages Held Since November AFPS 23 Mar 2006 -- Coalition forces rescued three hostages held by terrorists in Iraq since November in an early morning raid today, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman said.
• Coalition Forces Rescue Three Kidnapped Peace Activists in Iraq Washington File 23 Mar 2006 -- Coalition forces successfully freed three kidnapped Western aid workers who had been held by Iraqi insurgents for four months, U.S. Major General Rick Lynch announced March 23.
• 10th Mountain Division finds, destroys explosives Army News 23 Mar 2006 -- Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, discovered four caches in Abu Ghraib during a five-day period beginning March 11.
• Ten Enemies Killed, One Detained in Iraq, Afghanistan Operations AFPS 23 Mar 2006 -- Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan on March 21 left 10 enemy fighters dead, military officials reported.
• 3 Western Hostages Freed During British-Led Raid in Iraq VOA 23 Mar 2006 -- A British-led raid in Iraq has freed three Western Christian peace activists who had been held nearly four months by a Muslim militant group.

Deployments

US Policy

• Rumsfeld: Iraqi Government Delay Extends Violence VOA 23 Mar 2006 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says the delay in forming a new Iraqi government is contributing to the ongoing violence in the country.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

• Jaafari asks Iran, US to begin talks, meetings on Iraq IRNA 23 Mar 2006 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari on Thursday called on Iran and the US to launch meetings and talks on Iraq as soon as possible.
• Iraq: Mixed Reactions To Possible U.S.-Iran Talks RFE/RL 23 Mar 2006 -- Several Iraqi politicians have expressed concern over proposed talks between the United States and Iran on the issue of Iraq's security

News Reports

• Iraq: Antiwar Germany, France, Reportedly Helped U.S. Before Invasion RFE/RL 23 Mar 2006 -- Germany and France may have helped the United States before the Iraq war more than previously thought.