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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 29 Mar 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• CENTAF releases daily airpower summary AFPN 29 Mar 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials released today's airpower summary.
• Space mission supports Operation Iraqi Freedom AFPN 29 Mar 2006 -- An Army ground patrol in Iraq is ambushed. Pinned down by sniper fire, the commander calls for air support with his satellite phone.
• Unmanned Predator Kills Three Terrorists; Relative Turns in Suspect AFPS 29 Mar 2006 -- An MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle engaged three insurgents in the process of planting a homemade bomb along a road near Balad Air Base, Iraq, yesterday evening and launched an AGM-114 Hellfire missile against the group.
• Gunmen in Police Uniforms Kill 8 in Baghdad Store VOA 29 Mar 2006 -- Gunmen dressed in Iraqi police commando uniforms killed eight employees, including three women, in a raid on a Baghdad electronics store early Wednesday.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bush: United States Will Leave, 'But Not Retreat' From Iraq AFPS 29 Mar 2006 -- The United States will leave Iraq, "but we will not retreat from Iraq," President Bush said today during a speech at Freedom House here.
• Bush: US Making Progress in Iraq VOA 29 Mar 2006 -- President Bush says the U.S. mission in Iraq is making progress despite continuing violence.
• Pace: Building Support Capacity, Ministries Important in Iraq AFPS 29 Mar 2006 -- Though training Iraq's warfighters and front-line security forces will remain the top priority, training the cooks, clerks and medics who allow the forces to operate against the enemy is an important part of the equation, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said this week.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Status Report State Dept. 29 Mar 2006 [PDF]

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraq: U.S. Relations With Main Shi'ite Alliance Fraying RFE/RL 29 Mar 2006 -- Relations between Iraq's Shi'ite-led United Iraqi Alliance (UIA) and the U.S. government continued to sour this week following allegations that U.S.-backed Iraqi forces opened fire on a group of worshippers inside a Baghdad mosque on March 26.
• Modern Civil Wars Have Similarities And Differences With Iraq Situation VOA 29 Mar 2006 -- The continuing sectarian violence in Iraq has raised fears the country may descend into civil war -- like those that took place in the former Yugoslavia or Somalia.