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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 08 Feb 2007 [PDF]
• MNF-W personnel attacked
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• Feb. 8 airpower: F-16s provide key airpower support AFPN 08 Feb 2007 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Feb. 8.
• Senior Official at Iraq Ministry of Health Detained; 13 Terrorists Killed AFPS 08 Feb 2007 -- Coalition forces captured a Ministry of Health senior official, killed 20 terrorists and detained five others in operations around Iraq over the past two days.
• American, Iraqi Soldiers Reestablish Presence in Az-Zaidon Area Army News 08 Feb 2007 -- The "Golden Dragons" of 2nd Battalion, 14th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division (Light Infantry) joined by troops from 3rd Battalion, 4th Brigade, 6th Iraqi Army Division, surrounded the village of Ibrahim Sallal, southwest of Az-Zaidon, Iraq, in the pre-dawn darkness of Feb. 3.
• Soldiers Work to Make Baghdad's Adhamiyah District Safer for Residents Army News 08 Feb 2007 -- Troops from the 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment were a part of an operation aimed at disrupting insurgent activity in the Shaab and Ur areas of Baghdad's Adhamiyah district Feb. 6
• U.S. Military Says Baghdad Security Operation Begins RFE/RL 08 Feb 2007 -- The U.S. military says the much-awaited security "surge" operation in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, has begun.
• U.S. Military Says Iraqi Troops Seize Health Ministry Official RFE/RL 08 Feb 2007 -- The U.S. military says Iraqi forces have detained a senior Health Ministry official over allegations he is assisting Shi'ite militiamen to infiltrate the ministry.

Deployments

US Policy

• Civil-Affairs Specialists Urgently Needed in Iraq Washington File 08 Feb 2007 -- In a move to speed up Iraqi self-reliance, the State Department has asked the Pentagon for a temporary loan of reservists to staff the growing number of provincial reconstruction teams (PRTs) dedicated to stabilization efforts throughout Iraq.
• Rice Authorizes Talks With Syria on Iraq Refugees VOA 08 Feb 2007 -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Senators Thursday she has instructed the chief of the U.S. diplomatic mission in Damascus to engage the Syrian government on the issue of Iraqi refugees
• Analysis: Plans for a Post-'Surge' Iraq cfr.org 08 Feb 2007 -- President Bush's "surge" plan has come under heavy fire in the halls of Congress, from independent policy experts, as well as from a large majority of the American public

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Official Arrested for Allegedly Funneling Millions to Shi'ites VOA 08 Feb 2007 -- The U.S. military says a senior official in Iraq's health ministry has been arrested and charged with funneling millions of dollars to a notorious Shi'ite militia
• Iraq: Committee Decision Increases Tensions In Kirkuk RFE/RL 08 Feb 2007 -- The status of Kirkuk remains one of the most controversial and explosive issues in Iraq.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• IRAQ-JORDAN: Iraqi asylum seekers in Jordan to increase threefold IRIN 08 Feb 2007 -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Antonio Guterres, said on Wednesday that the number of Iraqi asylum seekers in Jordan was expected to increase threefold as a result of operational changes within the agency.
• US Military: Iraqi Army Captures Corrupt Health Ministry Official VOA 08 Feb 2007 -- The U.S. military says special Iraqi Army troops have detained a senior Health Ministry official accused of being a central figure in infiltrating Shi'ite militiamen into the ministry.