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Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 02 Aug 2007 [PDF]
• Two Task Force Marne Soldiers hit with indirect fire
• Soldiers attacked during combat logistics patrol
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• MND-B Soldier killed during combat operations
• Aug. 1 airpower summary: F-15Es provide close-air support AFPN 02 Aug 2007 -- Coalition airpower supported coalition ground forces in Iraq and International Security Assistance Force troops in Afghanistan during operations Aug. 1, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
• Coalition Forces Capture Two Alleged Senior al Qaeda Leaders AFPS 02 Aug 2007 -- Coalition forces captured two alleged al Qaeda emirs, killed four terrorists and detained 21 suspected terrorists during Iraq operations over the past two days.
• Individual Augmentee Sailors Returns to Naval Station Everett Navy NewsStand 02 Aug 2007 -- Four individual augmentee (IA) Sailors from USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) returned to Naval Station Everett July 24 after a year-long deployment in support of the Counter-Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) unit in Baghdad.

Deployments

US Policy

• Baqubah Transitions to 'Hold' Status, Commander Says AFPS 02 Aug 2007 -- Operations in Baqubah, Iraq, are transitioning to the "hold" phase of the "secure, hold, build" strategy, the commander of coalition forces in northern Iraq said today.
• Gates Optimistic on Iraqi Security Front AFPS 02 Aug 2007 -- Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said today he's hopeful about progress on the security front in Iraq, but acknowledged he is disappointed with political upheaval within the Iraqi government.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraq: Cabinet Shaken As Domestic Political Rifts Widen RFE/RL 02 Aug 2007 -- The main Sunni Arab bloc in the Iraqi cabinet followed through on its threat to quit the cabinet on August 1, in a move intended to destabilize the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
• Iraq: Sunni Bloc Quits Government In Snub To Al-Maliki RFE/RL 02 Aug 2007 -- Iraq's largest Sunni Arab political bloc, the Iraqi Accordance Front, has announced it is quitting the Iraqi cabinet, accusing the Shi'a-led government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of failure to address a list of its concerns.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Pollack: 'Surge' Producing Real Progress in Iraq cfr.org 02 Aug 2007
• Iraqi Court Sentences Snipers to Death for Terrorist Acts AFPS 02 Aug 2007 -- Three Iraqi snipers were convicted and sentenced to death last week after confessing to the deaths of at least two coalition soldiers and the shootings of nine others, a senior law official in the region said today.
• Suicide Car Bombing Targets Iraqi Police Post, 5 Killed VOA 02 Aug 2007 -- Iraqi police say a suicide car bombing at a police station north of Baghdad has killed at least 13 people and wounded 15 others.
• US Marine Convicted of Murdering Iraqi Civilian in 2006 VOA 02 Aug 2007 -- A U.S. court has convicted a Marine Corps squad leader of the murder of an Iraqi man last year.