Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 29 Jun 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Press Briefing, June 29, 2006 MNF-I 29 Jun 2006 -- IRAQ OPERATIONAL UPDATE BRIEFING BRIEFER: MAJOR GENERAL WILLIAM CALDWELL, USA, SPOKESMAN, MULTINATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ
• CENTAF releases airpower summary AFPN 29 Jun 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials announced the airpower summary for June 29.

Deployments

US Policy

• Lawmakers, Experts Debate Iraq Weapons of Mass Destruction VOA 29 Jun 2006 -- The ongoing controversy over weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has again been in the spotlight on Capitol Hill
• Munitions Found in Iraq Meet WMD Criteria, Official Says AFPS 29 Jun 2006 -- The 500 munitions discovered throughout Iraq since 2003 and discussed in a National Ground Intelligence Center report meet the criteria of weapons of mass destruction, the center's commander said here today.
• Iraq Marks Two Years of Sovereignty, Progress Washington File 29 Jun 2006 -- Iraq, which is marking two years of sovereignty, has achieved a great deal in that time, a top coalition forces spokesman said June 29.
• U.S., Australian Defense Ministers Affirm Continued Cooperation Washington File 29 Jun 2006 -- The United States and Australia have fought side by side in many areas since World War I and will continue to do so, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Australian Minister of Defense Brendan Nelson said in a joint press conference on June 28.
• Mosque Bombing Co-Conspirator Nabbed in May, Officials Reveal AFPS 29 Jun 2006 -- A key al Qaeda operative implicated in the February bombing of a prominent Iraqi mosque was captured last month, a senior U.S. military officer said in Baghdad today.
• Iraq's US Ambassador Calls for Regional Help at US-Arab Economic Forum VOA 29 Jun 2006 -- Iraq's ambassador to the United States, Samir Sumaida'ie, spoke at the final luncheon of the US-Arab Economic Forum in Houston Wednesday, calling on neighboring nations to give more assistance to his country's recovery.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Analysis: A Tale of Two Iraqi Cities cfr.org 29 Jun 2006 -- To date, most of the ink spilled on Iraq has been devoted to the country's escalating violence, its substandard reconstruction, the Sunni Triangle, or the political goings-on in the Green Zone
• Kurds Seek Justice in Next Saddam Trial VOA 29 Jun 2006 -- Iraq's High Tribunal announced this week that former dictator Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants will go on trial August 21 for the mass killing of tens of thousands of Iraqi Kurds during the 1980s in what was called the Anfal Campaign

Foreign Reactions

• G8 foreign ministers condemn murder of Russian diplomats in Iraq RIA Novosti 29 Jun 2006 -- Foreign ministers of the Group of Eight industrialized nations condemned Thursday the murder of Russian diplomats in Iraq earlier in the month and called for the killers to be punished.

News Reports