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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 31 Aug 2006 [PDF]
• 1/34 BCT SOLDIER WAS KILLED BY AN IED
• TWO SERVICEMEMBERS DIE IN AL ANBAR AUG. 30
• Coalition Forces in Iraq Free Kidnap Victim AFPS 31 Aug 2006 -- Bastogne soldiers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division, freed a kidnap victim and captured three of the terrorists who had taken him hostage just outside Kirkuk, Iraq, yesterday, military officials reported.
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Aug. 31 AFPN 31 Aug 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Aug. 31.
• Series of Attacks Kill 43 in Baghdad VOA 31 Aug 2006 -- A series of near simultaneous rocket and bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital have killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 100.

Deployments

US Policy

• Iraqi Security Forces Gaining Strength, Says Coalition Commander Washington File 31 Aug 2006 -- Because Iraqi army and national police units are proving increasingly effective against terrorism and sectarian violence, Multi-National Force - Iraq's top commanding general predicts that they soon will lead security operations nationwide.
• Bush Launches New Campaign to Gain Support For Iraq War VOA 31 Aug 2006 -- President Bush is making a new push to boost public support for the war in Iraq, casting it as a crucial component of a broader battle against terror
• President Bush Addresses American Legion National Convention The White House 31 Aug 2006
• Bush Says Iraq Withdrawal Would Create Terrorist State RFE/RL 31 Aug 2006 -- U.S. President George W. Bush says that withdrawing U.S. troops too quickly from Iraq would lead to the emergence of a terrorist state.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Prosecutor Confident of Genocide Case Against Saddam VOA 31 Aug 2006 -- One of the prosecutors in the genocide case against Saddam Hussein and six co-defendants is confident of being able to prove Saddam ordered the so-called Anfal military campaign against Iraqi Kurds in the 1980s.
• Iraq: Government Struggles To Revive Oil Infrastructure RFE/RL 31 Aug 2006 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki announced to reporters in Baghdad on August 29 that the four-month-long oil crisis has ended

Foreign Reactions

• Backgrounder: Iraq's Meddlesome Neighbors cfr.org 31 Aug 2006

News Reports

• Analysis: Bordering on Chaos cfr.org 31 Aug 2006
• Sectarian Violence in Iraq Prompts Calls for Change in US Strategy VOA 31 Aug 2006 -- There are calls in the United States for a change in strategy to head off what some fear may become a full-blown civil war in Iraq