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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 02 Jul 2007 [PDF]
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• Non-hostile related accident
• DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Brig. Gen. Wiggins at the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, Va. 03 Jul 2007 -- Presenter: Deputy Director for Operations, Joint Staff Brig. Gen. Perry Wiggins
• July 2 airpower summary: C-17s provide needed supplies AFPN 03 Jul 2007 -- Coalition airpower supported coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations July 2, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
• Operation Phantom Thunder Proceeds in Iraq; Afghan Progress Continues AFPS 03 Jul 2007 -- Operation Phantom Thunder enters its third week with coalition forces operating in and around Baghdad, Diyala province and Anbar province, in Iraq, a Joint Staff spokesman said here today.
• U.S. Forces Rescue Downed Helicopter Crew; Ops Continue Throughout Iraq AFPS 03 Jul 2007 -- An AH-64 Apache helicopter crew rescued two U.S. pilots after enemy fire brought down their OH-58D Kiowa helicopter south of Baghdad yesterday.
• Operation Eagle Venture IV detains nine terror suspects MNF-I 03 Jul 2007 -- Coalition Forces detained nine suspected insurgents while constructing a battle position between Mahmudiyah and Yusifiyah, Iraq, June 29-30.
• 'Desert Heat' No Sweat for NMCB 1 Navy NewsStand 03 Jul 2007 -- Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 1 completed its inter-deployment field exercise (FEX), Operation Desert Heat, June 29.

Deployments

US Policy

• Iran Training Iraqi Insurgent Groups, General Says Washington File 03 Jul 2007 -- An elite unit of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard with ties to Hezbollah is training, funding and arming insurgents in Iraq to attack coalition and Iraqi forces and conduct other missions, says a senior U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad, Iraq.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Cabinet Unanimously Approves Revised Oil Revenue Law VOA 03 Jul 2007 -- Iraq's Cabinet has approved a new draft of a law that would distribute potentially huge oil revenues among the country's Kurdish, Shi'ite and Sunni groups.
• IRAQ: Baghdad suburb residents flee after US raids IRIN 03 Jul 2007 -- Some residents of the mainly Shia Baghdad suburb of Sadr City are fleeing their homes - apparently scared of reprisals by US troops searching the area for militants.
• IRAQ: Health Ministry issues warning on waterborne diseases IRIN 03 Jul 2007 -- Iraqi Health Ministry officials warned on 3 July of a possible increase in waterborne diseases among children and the elderly during the summer's hottest month of July.

Foreign Reactions

• JORDAN: New clinic for Iraqis in Amman IRIN 03 Jul 2007 -- The Jordan Red Crescent (JRC) has signed an agreement with the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) to open a clinic for cash-strapped Iraqis in Amman, according to JRC officials.

News Reports

• Iraqi Security Chief Warns of Rising Terror in Europe VOA 03 Jul 2007 -- Iraq's National Security Adviser Muaffak al-Rubaie expressed concern about a migration of terrorists from Iraq into Arab countries and Europe