Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 27 Sep 2006 [PDF]
• MNF-W Soldier dies in Anbar
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• MND-B Soldier dies from wounds following small-arms fire attack
• MNF-W Marine dies in Anbar

• Press Briefing, Sept. 27, 2006 MNF-I 27 Sep 2006 -- TOPIC: UPDATE ON SECURITY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Sept. 27 AFPN 27 Sep 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Sept. 27.
• AMC commander: Global mobility aircraft saving lives in Iraq AFPN 27 Sep 2006 -- Mobility aircraft in Iraq and Afghanistan are helping keep Soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Sailors out of harm's way.

Deployments

• Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion 1 Returns Home Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- Sailors of Navy Provisional Detainee Battalion (NPDB) 1 returned home to Naval Station Norfolk Sept. 27.
• Navy Customs Battalion Quebec Returns to Norfolk Navy NewsStand 27 Sep 2006 -- More than 290 Sailors from the Navy Customs Battalion Quebec returned to Naval Station Norfolk Sept. 26, after a six month deployment in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

US Policy

• National Intelligence Estimate on Terrorism Released AFPS 27 Sep 2006 -- The number of people identifying themselves as jihadists is increasing and spreading, but the United States has still made significant progress against terrorists, according to a declassified National Intelligence Estimate.
• Bush Releases Intelligence Report Findings on Terrorism, Iraq Washington File 27 Sep 2006 -- President Bush on September 26 authorized U.S. Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte to declassify selected portions of a report on trends in global terrorism to illustrate the report's findings are far more complex and nuanced than the characterizations reported by the media.
• Terrorists Targeting Iraqis During Holy Month of Ramadan Washignton File 27 Sep 2006 -- As Iraqi families observe the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, they are being targeted by armed militants in an upsurge in terrorist and sectarian violence, reports a spokesman for U.S.-led coalition forces.
• Iraq Taking Significant Steps Forward, Spokesman Says AFPS 27 Sep 2006 -- As coalition and Iraqi forces continue security operations in Baghdad, the Iraqi government and security forces are making significant progress and moving closer to an independent future, a U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said today.
• U.S. Envoy Says He Will Not Meet with Kurdish Terrorist Group Washignton File 27 Sep 2006 -- The U.S. special envoy for countering the PKK (Kurdistan Workers Party) says he will not meet with the terrorist organization, active in Turkey and Iraq, and that he wants to make Americans more aware of the PKK's deadly acts.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Status Report US Dept. of State 27 Sep 2006 [PDF]

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• US Presses for Turkish, Iraqi Cooperation on PKK VOA 27 Sep 2006 -- The United States is intensifying its efforts to put an end to terrorist acts perpetrated by the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK