Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• CENTAF releases airpower summary for Dec. 10 AFPN 10 Dec 2006 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Dec. 10.
• U.S., Iraqi Forces Capture 50 Insurgents, Seize Numerous Weapons AFPS 10 Dec 2006 -- U.S. and Iraqi forces captured 50 insurgents and found numerous enemy weapons caches during operations conducted over the past three days, U.S. military officials reported.

Deployments

US Policy

• Bush: Iraq Study Group Endorses Key U.S. Strategic Goal AFPS 10 Dec 2006 -- The Iraq Study Group report agrees with the main U.S. government goal of what should occur in that Middle Eastern country, President Bush said yesterday.
• Transcript: Town Hall Meeting with Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld at Mosul, Iraq 10 Dec 2006 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld
• Transcript: Town Hall Meeting with Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at Al Asad Air Base, Iraq 10 Dec 2006 -- Presenter: Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Talabani Rejects Iraq Study Group Report VOA 10 Dec 2006 -- The leaders of the Iraq Study Group are defending their report, following new criticism from Baghdad. At the same time, the Bush administration is stepping up its own review of its Iraq strategy

Foreign Reactions

• Blair: Addressing Mideast Conflict Will Help in Iraq VOA 10 Dec 2006 -- British Prime Minister Tony Blair says he welcomes the renewed focus on resolving the Israel - Palestinian dispute.
• Iran urges occupiers to withdraw from Iraq, region IRNA 10 Dec 2006 -- Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad-Ali Hosseini here Sunday urged the occupying forces to withdraw from Iraq and the entire region.

News Reports

• IRAQ: Respect for human rights still a dream IRIN 10 Dec 2006 -- Sectarian violence causing displacement and targeted attacks are continuing to further deepen the situation of human rights in Iraq today, local and international NGOs say.
• Iraq Violence Includes Targeting Of Two Shi'ite Families RFE/RL 10 Dec 2006 -- Police in Baghdad say unidentified gunmen today attacked the homes of two Shi'ite families in a mainly Sunni district of the Iraqi capital, killing at least nine people.