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• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 25 Jun 2007 [PDF]
• Convoy hit by gunfire
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
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• MND-B patrol struck by improvised explosive device
• Press briefing with Brig. Gen. John Bednarek, deputy commanding general for operations, MND-NORTH, June 25, 2007 MNF-I 25 Jun 2007 -- TOPIC: UPDATE ON OPERATION ARROWHEAD RIPPER, PART OF OPERATION PHANTOM THUNDER
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Dana Pittard at the Pentagon 25 Jun 2007 -- Presenter: Commander of the Iraq Assistance Group, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Dana Pittard
• June 24 airpower summary: Surveillance supports operations AFPN 25 Jun 2007 -- Coalition airpower supported coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations June 24, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
• Operation Crazyhorse Thunder detains 7 suspects MNF-I 25 Jun 2007 -- Seven suspects were detained for allegedly planting improvised explosive devices along Route Tampa, the highway leading into Baghdad, June 23.
• Seabees Improve Ramadi Medical Facility Navy NewsStand 25 Jun 2007 -- Four members from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 4 Delta Company constructed and installed two access doors at the Charlie Medical Facility at Camp Ramadi on June 22.
• Seabee Road Project Gives Army Wider Path in Iraq Navy NewsStand 25 Jun 2007 -- Seabees from Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 28, Delta Company, completed a road widening project for the U.S. Army's 5-7 Calvary unit at Camp Baharia near Fallujah on June 21.
• Airmen train Iraqis on fuel delivery AFPN 25 Jun 2007 -- Airmen from the 447th Expeditionary Logistics Readiness Squadron Fuels Flight are training Iraqis here to fuel up their own C-130 Hercules aircraft without dependence on the Air Force.
• Officials in Iraq Detail Recent Phantom Thunder Operations AFPS 25 Jun 2007 -- Military officials in Iraq have detailed numerous operations in which Iraqi and coalition forces killed or capture al Qaeda operatives and other suspected terrorists and uncovered illegal weapons caches in Iraq.
• Suicide Bomber Kills Sunni Tribal Leaders, Others in Baghdad Hotel Attack VOA 25 Jun 2007 -- A suicide bomber has penetrated intense security around a major Baghdad hotel, detonating his explosives in the lobby and killing at least a dozen people
• IED emplacers detained during Operation Peregrine II MNF-I 25 Jun 2007 -- As the Paratroopers packed inside the helicopter, engines roared to life and lifted them into the black of night, June 23.
• ARROWHEAD RIPPER: Troops Find Execution House, Illegal Prison in Baqubah AFPS 25 Jun 2007 -- Iraqi security forces and Task Force Lightning soldiers discovered an execution house and an illegal prison in the Baqubah neighborhood of Khatoon yesterday during the sixth day of Operation Arrowhead Ripper.

Deployments

• USS John C. Stennis Now Operating in the Persian Gulf Navy NewsStand 25 Jun 2007 -- The aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and embarked Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 9 entered the Persian Gulf on June 22, escorted by the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54).

US Policy

• Iraqis Pulling Weight in Northern Iraq, General Says AFPS 25 Jun 2007 -- The Iraqi soldiers and units working with the Multinational Division North are "holding firm," the director of operations for the division said today from his headquarters in Tikrit.
• Time Needed to Build Iraqi Forces, Training Chief Says AFPS 25 Jun 2007 -- While Iraqi forces are progressing, it will take time before they are fully ready to shoulder the security burden, the man in charge of training Iraqi Army and police said today.
• Operation Phantom Thunder: Marne Troops Make Progress, General Says AFPS 25 Jun 2007 -- Ten days into offensive strikes under Operation Phantom Thunder, the commander of Task Force Marne said his troops are one-fifth of the way into their "decisive" and "deliberate" operation in the southern provinces of Iraq.
• US General Warns Against Early Withdrawal from Iraq VOA 25 Jun 2007 -- A senior American officer involved in training Iraq's new security forces is warning against putting too much responsibility on those forces too quickly, as pressure grows in the United States for the start of a withdrawal of U.S. troops

United Nations

• UN's top Iraq envoy condemns deadly Baghdad hotel bombing UN News Centre 25 Jun 2007 -- The top United Nations envoy to Iraq today condemned a suicide attack which killed a number of officials gathered at a central Baghdad hotel for a meeting seeking to chart a path to reconciliation in the strife-torn country.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Baghdad orphanage scandal raises concerns IRIN 25 Jun 2007 -- Parents who have had to leave their children at care institutions have expressed outrage at the discovery of over 20 severely malnourished boys who had been left without proper care in a Baghdad orphanage last week.
• Iraq: Critical Report On Al-Basrah Diagnoses Country's Ills RFE/RL 25 Jun 2007 -- The southern Iraqi port of Al-Basrah once appeared to be on the way to establishing peaceful coexistence among various religious and political groupings

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Backgrounder: What Model Should Iraq Follow after U.S. Forces Withdraw? cfr.org 25 Jun 2007