Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 13 Feb 2007 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• MNF-W personnel attacked
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Feb. 13 airpower: B-1Bs support International Security Assistance Force troops AFPN 13 Feb 2007 -- U.S. Central Command Air Forces officials have released the airpower summary for Feb. 13.
• Baghdad Commander Says Borders With Iran and Syria To Close VOA 13 Feb 2007 -- The Iraqi commander of the U.S.-backed security crackdown in Baghdad says his country will close its borders with Iran and Syria for at least three days.
• Suicide Truck Bombing in Baghdad Kills 15 VOA 13 Feb 2007 -- Iraqi police say a suicide bomber drove near a college in a Shi'ite area of Baghdad Tuesday and set off a blast that killed 15 people and wounded 30 others

Deployments

US Policy

• US Lawmakers Begin Debate on President's Iraq Troop Buildup VOA 13 Feb 2007 -- The U.S. House of Representatives has begun the first major congressional debate on President Bush's Iraq strategy since Democrats won control of Congress in last November's mid-term election
• Bombing of Iraq's holy shrines was supported by occupiers: president IRNA 13 Feb 2007 -- President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said here Tuesday that the bombing of the holy shrines of Shi'ite Imams Ali al-Naqi (AS) and Hassan al-Askariya (AS) in the Iraqi city of Samarra last year was done with support of the occupying forces.
• U.S. Will Continue to Go After Bomb Makers in Iraq, Pace Says AFPS 13 Feb 2007 -- The United States will continue to pursue aggressively anyone trying to kill coalition forces in Iraq, Marine Gen. Peter Pace said here today.
• Joint Statement by United States Embassy Baghdad MNF-I 13 Feb 2007
• Bush: Leaving Iraq Would Be Disaster VOA 13 Feb 2007 -- U.S. President George Bush says pulling U.S. troops out of Baghdad would only lead to more violence.

United Nations

• Latest deadly attacks in Iraq draw condemnation from Secretary-General UN News Centre 14 Feb 2007 -- Urging Iraq and its people to resist any efforts to promote sectarian violence, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today condemned the latest deadly attacks in the continuing bloodshed that has engulfed the country.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Armed groups occupy hospitals and kidnap doctors IRIN 13 Feb 2007 -- Iraqi troops, US-led coalition forces and insurgents are all guilty of breaking Geneva conventions that govern the neutrality of hospitals, say health specialists.

Foreign Reactions

• New al-Qaida Tape Says Bush Iraq Policy Headed for 'Abyss' VOA 13 Feb 2007 -- A new audio message purportedly from Al-Qaida's second in command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, calls for Muslim unity and says U.S. policy in Iraq is headed for failure.

News Reports

• Iraq Refugees' Struggle in Syria VOA 13 Feb 2007 -- The United Nations warns that the violence in Iraq is leading to a disastrous refugee crisis in the Middle East