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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 29 Nov 2006 [PDF]
• One Task Force Lightning Soldier killed, one wounded
• Soldier killed in Al Anbar
• DoD Announces Air Force Airman as Duty Status Whereabouts Unknown
• Transcript: DoD Press Briefing with General Pace at the Pentagon 29 Nov 2006 -- Presenter: General Peter Pace, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
• US Military: About 2,000 Troops Being Moved Into Baghdad VOA 29 Nov 2006 -- The top U.S. military officer confirmed Wednesday that additional U.S. troops are being moved into Baghdad from other parts of Iraq to try to help get the security situation in the capital under control.
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Nov. 29 AFPN 29 Nov 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Nov. 29.
• Coalition, Iraqi Forces Detain Terrorists; Iraqis Killed in IED Attack AFPS 29 Nov 2006 -- Coalition forces killed six Iraqis in a firefight, and Iraqi forces detained two suspected terrorists in separate operations this week, military officials reported.

Deployments

US Policy

• Leaders Remain Focused on Developing Iraqi Security Capability Washington File 29 Nov 2006 -- Much of the discussion between President Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in Amman, Jordan, will focus on how best to improve the Iraqi government's capability to deal with sectarian violence through improved security measures, as well as economic incentives that would benefit all Iraqis.
• Bush Talks With Iraqi PM in Jordan Delayed VOA 29 Nov 2006 -- Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki canceled Wednesday's planned meeting with U.S. President George Bush in Jordan, where the two had been expected to discuss ways to halt the spiraling violence in Iraq.
• U.S. General Says Joint Chiefs' Iraq Study Is Normal Process Washington File 29 Nov 2006 -- The Joint Chiefs of Staff have been conducting deliberations on U.S. strategy in Iraq since September, calling on the opinions of recently returned mid-level commanders as part of the process, says Marine General Peter Pace.
• Pace Describes Process That Leads to 'Best Military Advice' AFPS 29 Nov 2006 -- The chairman and the rest of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are looking at fresh ways to provide the best advice to civilian leaders with respect to figuring out the way forward in Iraq, Marine Gen. Peter Pace said during a news conference here today.
• Pace: Military Chiefs Looking at Full-Spectrum of Iraq Options AFPS 29 Nov 2006 -- Members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff are looking at the whole spectrum of conflict and the various options open to them regarding troop deployments, Marine Gen. Peter Pace said here today.

United Nations

• PRESS CONFERENCE ON 'IRAQ AND THE SECURITY COUNCIL' BY FORMER PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL PEACE ACADEMY United Nations 29 Nov 2006
• Iraq: Security Council renews mandate of multinational force for another year UN News Centre 29 Nov 2006 -- At the request of the Iraqi Government, the United Nations Security Council has extended the mandate of the three-year-old United States-led multinational force (MNF) in the war-torn country by another year, until the end of 2007.

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: Is Baghdad Attack Beginning Of Civil War? RFE/RL 29 Nov 2006 -- On November 23, suspected Sunni insurgents detonated five car bombs and fired mortars into the Shi'ite Baghdad district of Al-Sadr City, killing more than 200 and wounding more than 250.
• Defense Lawyer Ejected from Saddam's Genocide Trial VOA 29 Nov 2006 -- The genocide trial of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein once again plunged in chaos Wednesday when the chief judge ejected a defense lawyer from the court and ordered him detained for 24 hours.
• Iraq Weekly Status Report US Dept. of State 29 Nov 2006 [PDF]

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq's Government in Crisis Over Maliki-Bush Meeting VOA 29 Nov 2006 -- The government of Iraq's embattled prime minister suffered another blow Wednesday when legislators and cabinet members loyal to an anti-American Shi'ite cleric suspended their participation to protest his meeting with President Bush

News Reports

• New Report Paints Bleak Picture of War in Iraq VOA 29 Nov 2006 -- A new report from the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based research and analysis organization, paints a bleak picture of the war in Iraq, and says Americans will have to accept what it calls a high-risk, high-cost strategy in order to reverse the country's slide into civil war
• Iraq: U.S. Media Starts Using 'Civil War' Label RFE/RL 29 Nov 2006 -- Several major U.S. news organizations have decided to oppose the White House by declaring that Iraq is now in a "civil war."