Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• MND-B Soldier killed by small-arms fire
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Sept. 9 AFPN 10 Sep 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Sept. 9.

Deployments

US Policy

• Cheney Says U.S. Right to Overthrow Saddam AFPS 10 Sep 2006 -- Iraq is the major front in the war on terror, and even though no weapons of mass destruction have been found there, it was still the right call to overthrow Saddam Hussein, Vice President Dick Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press" today.
• Iraqi Freedom Vital to Defeating Terrorism, Rice Declares Washington File 10 Sep 2006 -- Saddam Hussein represented a nexus between terrorism and violence that would have made progress toward a better future for the Middle East and the world difficult to imagine if he had remained in power, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in a series of television news interviews on September 10, the eve of the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Delays Debate On Federalism RFE/RL 10 Sep 2006 -- Leaders of Iraq's parliamentary blocs today decided to delay until next week a debate on the proposed division of the country into autonomous regions.
• Iraqi Parliament Delays Debate on Shi'ite Federalism Proposals VOA 10 Sep 2006 -- Iraq's parliament has delayed a debate on Shi'ite proposals to create an autonomous region in the south of the country.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports