Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• Task Force Lightning Soldiers attacked
• Task Force Lightning Soldiers attacked
• MND-B patrol struck by roadside bomb
• Patrol hit by small arms fire
• Task Force Lightning Soldiers attacked
• TF Marine Soldier attacked by suicide bomber
• MND-B patrol struck by roadside bomb
• Roadside bomb strikes MND-B patrol
• MND-B patrol targeted by roadside bomb
• Search Continues for Missing Soldiers; Iraq Operations Updated AFPS 03 Jun 2007 -- Coalition and Iraqi troops continue to search for two missing U.S. soldiers abducted by terrorists after a complex attack in Iraq on May 12.

Deployments

• BMU 1 Returns Home from Deployment Navy NewsStand 03 May 2007 -- Beach Master Unit (BMU) 1 Det. Foxtrot returned to Naval Amphibious Base Coronado after their nine-month deployment with Boxer Expeditionary Strike Group in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom on May 30.

US Policy

• US Ambassador Urges Patience in Iraq as Bloodshed Continues VOA 03 May 2007 -- Iraqi authorities say a suicide car bomber killed 10 people and wounded more than two dozen others in an attack on a police convoy north of Baghdad
• US Defense Secretary Cautions Turkey Not to Conduct Raids in Iraq VOA 03 May 2007 -- U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has cautioned Turkey against sending troops into northern Iraq to hunt down Kurdish rebels accused of carrying out terrorist attacks in Turkey

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Local tribes in south set up schools IRIN 03 May 2007 -- Shia Muslim tribes in Iraq's southern provinces have begun setting up their own schools in an effort to prevent their children losing another academic year due to insecurity.

Foreign Reactions

• Iraqi President Apologizes for American Deaths, Vows Progress AFPS 03 May 2007 -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani apologized for the deaths of American troops in his country and vowed that his government would make sufficient progress by September to convince America that U.S. troops should stay in the region.

News Reports