Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Nov 2006 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• Two Task Force Lightning Soldiers killed, two others wounded
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• Two MND-B Soldiers killed, two wounded
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Nov. 13 AFPN 13 Nov 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Nov. 13.
• Predators keep insurgents in view AFPN 13 Nov 2006 -- Moving silently high in the sky, Balad AB's MQ-1 Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicles patrol the landscape below scaning for any signs of insurgent activity around Iraq.
• Soldiers Detain Suspected Terrorists, Seize Weapons AFPS 13 Nov 2006 -- Multinational Division Baghdad and Iraqi army soldiers detained seven suspected terrorists and seized two weapons caches in separate operations in and around Baghdad Nov. 11, military officials in Iraq reported.
• Witnesses Say US Forces Kill 5 in Air Raid on Shi'ite Neighborhood in Baghdad VOA 13 Nov 2006 -- Witnesses and security officials in Baghdad say U.S. forces have staged air raids on a Shi'ite neighbrohood of the city, killing at least five people.
• USS Mason Assists CTF 152 with Maritime Security Operations Navy NewsStand 13 Nov 2006 -- Guided-missile destroyer USS Mason (DDG 87) entered the Persian Gulf and joined with Combined Task Force (CTF) 152 in support of maritime security operations (MSO), Nov. 7.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bush Says He Looks Forward to Iraq Study Group Report VOA 13 Nov 2006 -- President Bush has met with members of a special independent panel created by Congress to assess U.S. policy on Iraq and draft recommendations

United Nations

• Iraqi Government and UN officials discuss human rights protections UN News Centre 13 Nov 2006 -- The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) announced today that it has helped convene a meeting with the Iraqi Ministry of Human Rights on protecting people in the violence-wracked country against a range of rights abuses.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Karbala says it will not host additional displaced families IRIN 13 Nov 2006 -- Iraq's Karbala province, 80 km south of the capital Baghdad, is overwhelmed with displaced families and can no longer host and provide services for an additional influx, a local official said on Monday.

Foreign Reactions

• Spokesman: Saddam's death sentence, not to end Iran's complaint IRNA 13 Nov 2006 -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini said on Sunday that Saddam Hussein's death sentence does not mean an end to the investigation of Iran's complaints.

News Reports