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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 06 Dec 2006 [PDF]
• 2nd Soldier killed in Baghdad Sunday
• Correction to Dec. 2 casualty information
• DoD Identifies Navy Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Dec. 6 AFPN 06 Dec 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Dec. 6.
• 10 US Service Personnel Killed in Iraq VOA 06 Dec 2006 -- The U.S. military says 10 U.S. service personnel were killed in four separate incidents in Iraq Wednesday.

Deployments

• Armenia extends term of military contingent in Iraq RIA Novosti 06 Dec 2006 -- Armenia's parliament voted Wednesday to extend its military presence in Iraq by 12 months.

US Policy

• Situation In Iraq 'Grave And Deteriorating,' Bush Is Told RFE/RL 06 Dec 2006 -- A top-level commission established by the U.S. Congress concluded today that President George W. Bush's current approach to the war in Iraq isn't working.
• Iraq Study Group Urges Major Policy Changes VOA 06 Dec 2006 -- A bi-partisan commission studying the war in Iraq says President Bush's policy is not working and major changes are needed in America's military and diplomatic strategy
• Report: Iraq Situation Serious, But Not Lost AFPS 06 Dec 2006 -- The Iraq Study Group released its findings today in a report made available this morning to President Bush and Congress, and later to the general public.
• Study Group Report Could Form Basis for US Bipartisan Approach on Iraq VOA 06 Dec 2006 -- The long-running political debate in Washington over the war in Iraq took a major turn Wednesday with the release of the report of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group
• STATEMENT BY SENATOR EDWARD M. KENNEDY ON IRAQ STUDY GROUP AND GATES NOMINATION Office of Sen. Kennedy 06 Dec 2006
• Bush: Administration Will Take Iraq Study Group Report Seriously, Act Quickly AFPS 06 Dec 2006 -- The report issued today by the Iraq Study Group offers an opportunity for government leaders to come together and work toward a solution in Iraq, and the administration will take the report's recommendations very seriously, President Bush said here today.
• Bush Says He Will Take Iraq Report Seriously in Deliberations Washington File 06 Dec 2006 -- President Bush welcomed the report of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (ISG) December 6, saying his administration would take seriously the group's recommendations for revising U.S. policies in Iraq.
• Report Points to Regional Approach for Iraq VOA 06 Dec 2006 -- The Iraq Study Group report paints a grim assessment of the situation in Iraq
• Iraq: U.S. Experts To Make Policy Recommendations To Bush Today RFE/RL 06 Dec 2006 -- A top-level committee established by the U.S. Congress has been studying options for how Washington should deal with the continuing crisis in Iraq
• Bush Gets Iraq Study Group Report VOA 06 Dec 2006 -- President Bush has received the report of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group - a panel of foreign policy experts set up by Congress to scrutinize the situation in Iraq and draft recommendations for change
• Analysis: Gates Offers Candor on Iraq cfr.org 06 Dec 2006 -- Robert M. Gates is the choice of a politically weakened administration to prosecute a war increasingly seen as militarily unwinnable

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq Weekly Status Report US Dept. of State 06 Dec 2006 [PDF]

Foreign Reactions

• US facing serious problems in Iraq: Larijani IRNA 06 Dec 2006 -- Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Secretary Ali Larijani here Tuesday night said the US was facing serious problems in Iraq, adding that it has not been able to defend its policies in Iraq at the international level.
• Britain Guardedly Welcomes Iraq Study Group Recommendations VOA 06 Dec 2006 -- Initial reaction from London has been positive to the 79 recommendations outlined by the bipartisan U.S. Iraq Study Group, which presented its report to U.S. President George Bush
• Frustrated Iraqis Indifferent to US Panel Recommendations VOA 06 Dec 2006 -- Iraqis greeted a highly anticipated U.S. study on Iraq policy with little enthusiasm Wednesday

News Reports

• Analysis: Seventy-Nine Ways to Fix Iraq cfr.org 06 Dec 2006 -- The Iraq Study Group report contains seventy-nine proposals on correcting U.S. policy in Iraq. Chief among them is a call for recasting the U.S. military's mission as one supporting Iraqi forces.