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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 11 Oct 2006 [PDF]
• Three Marines die in Al Anbar
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• MND-B Soldier dies of wounds following IED attack
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Secretary Rumsfeld and Gen. Casey 11 Oct 2006 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld and Commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq Gen. George Casey
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Oct. 11 AFPN 11 Oct 2006 -- CENTAF releases airpower summary for Oct. 11
• Officials Determine Mortar Caused Fire at Ammo Holding Area AFPS 11 Oct 2006 -- An 82mm mortar round fired by militia forces from a nearby residential area caused yesterday's fire at a Baghdad ammunition holding area around 10:40 p.m., officials with Multinational Division Baghdad announced today.
• Insurgents Captured, Iraqi Forces Shut Down Financial Operation AFPS 11 Oct 2006 -- Iraqi police and coalition forces captured two insurgents Oct. 9 in Samarra, Iraq, and Iraqi police shut down an insurgent financial operation Oct. 9 in Tikrit, military officials in Iraq reported.

Deployments

• Schoomaker Plan Looks at Possible Iraq Deployments AFPS 11 Oct 2006 -- Army officials have a plan to maintain the current number of troops in Iraq through 2010, but it is only a plan and has off-ramps for troop reductions along the way, Army officials said today.

US Policy

• Press Conference by the President The White House 11 Oct 2006
• Bush Says Defeat in Iraq Would Embolden Terrorists AFPS 11 Oct 2006 -- Defeat in Iraq would embolden the enemy and force Americans to confront the terror threat at home rather than overseas, President Bush said in a broad-ranging White House news conference today.
• Bush Vows US Will Remain in Iraq, Dismisses Report on War Deaths VOA 11 Oct 2006 -- President Bush has vowed that the United States will remain in Iraq, saying a premature withdrawal would embolden the terrorists.
• Bush Praises Iraqi Government for Efforts To Address Violence Washington File 11 Oct 2006 -- President Bush acknowledged during an October 11 press conference that the level of violence in Iraq is troubling, but said the Iraqi government is taking important steps to address the problem.
• U.S., Iraqi Officials Dispute Casualty Estimate AFPS 11 Oct 2006 -- U.S. and Iraqi officials today discounted an article in a British medical journal that estimates 650,000 Iraqis have died since the war began three years ago.
• Divisions Accomplishing Wonders During Iraq Tours, Casey Says AFPS 11 Oct 2006 -- American soldiers in Iraq accomplish wonders during their tours in Iraq, the commander of Multinational Force Iraq said here today.
• Casey Details Progress Amid Iraqi Violence AFPS 11 Oct 2006 -- The coalition military leader in Iraq disagrees with critics who say Iraq is in a civil war.

United Nations

• Escalating violence in Iraq prompts UN aid official to call for urgent help from leaders UN News Centre 11 Oct 2006 -- The violence inside Iraq has "spiralled totally out of control," the United Nations' top humanitarian official said today as he appealed to the country's religious, ethnic and other community leaders to do much more to try to stop the killings and massive displacement of people.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi parliament passes federalism bill IRNA 11 Oct 2006 -- Iraqi parliament on Wednesday passed a legislation on formation of federalism in Iraq.
• Saddam Hears Testimony in Genocide Trial VOA 11 Oct 2006 -- Saddam Hussein's genocide trial continued in Baghdad, one day after the ex-leader was expelled from the courtroom
• IRAQ: Compensation for wartime losses going slow IRIN 11 Oct 2006 -- The seventh in a series of IRIN stories examining the obstacles Iraq faces in implementing its government's plan to reconcile different sections of Iraqi society.
• Iraq Weekly Status Report US Dept. of State 11 Oct 2006 [PDF]

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Analysis: No Easy Solution on Iraq cfr.org 11 Oct 2006 -- Ongoing reports of sectarian violence in Iraq appear to be competing increasingly with domestic U.S. criticism of the Bush administration's management of the war
• Study Tallies 655,000 Iraqi War Deaths Since 2003 VOA 11 Oct 2006 -- U.S. and Iraqi doctors say the Iraq war has caused hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003
• Study: 655,000 Iraqi Civilians Killed Since US-Led Invasion VOA 11 Oct 2006 -- Researchers say an estimated 655,000 civilians have died in Iraq since U.S.-led coalition forces invaded the country in March 2003.