Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 04 Sep 2007 [PDF]
• Coalition Troops Kill Three Terrorists, Detain 17 AFPS 04 Sep 2007 -- Coalition forces killed three terrorists and detained 17 during operations around Iraq today.
• Al Asad Airmen load, help deliver new 'Buffaloes' AFPN 04 Sep 2007 -- Airmen from the 438th Air Expeditionary Group Aerial Port Flight from Al Asad Air Base helped deliver four new Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Category III Buffalo vehicles to ground troops in and throughout Iraq Aug. 28.
• Operation Hit and Run results in eight detained MNF-I 04 Sep 2007 -- Soldiers of the "Denali Squadron" detained eight suspected al-Qaeda members and confiscated four AK-47 assault rifles during Operation Hit and Run, an air assault mission Sept. 1.
• Operation Gecko: Concerned citizens lead Coalition Forces to cache, destroy militia safehouse MNF-I 04 Sep 2007 -- Tips from concerned citizens of Jurf as Sakhr led Iraqi Coalition Forces to identify and destroy an enemy safehouse and discover a weapons cache Aug. 28 as part of Operation Gecko.
• Provincial Reconstruction Teams Are Improving Lives in Iraq Washington File 04 Sep 2007 -- Driving through Ramadi in Iraq's Anbar province recently, the team leader of the newly formed Provincial Reconstruction Team noticed that on a Friday when people usually were not out on the streets, there were shop owners painting their shops.

Deployments

US Policy

• Transcript: DoD News Briefing with Secretary Gordon England, Paul Brinkley and Minister Fawzi Hariri at the Pentagon, Arlington, Va. 04 Sep 2007 -- Presenter: Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England, Deputy Undersecretary of Defense, Business Transformation and Director, Task Force to Improve Business and Stability Operations-Iraq Paul Brinkley, and Iraq's Minister of Industry and Minerals Fawzi Hariri
• GAO Report Says Iraq Fails to Meet Most Benchmarks for Success VOA 04 Sep 2007 -- A report released Tuesday by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), the investigative arm of Congress, says Iraq has failed to meet most of the benchmarks aimed at measuring political, economic and military progress
• On Iraq Visit, Bush Pushes Iraqis to Work Together VOA 04 Sep 2007 -- One of the main purposes of President Bush's surprise visit to Iraq Monday, along with his secretaries of State and Defense and senior military commanders, was to push Iraqi leaders along the difficult road toward political reconciliation

United Nations

• UN seeks to build on reconciliation efforts in Iraq UN News Centre 04 Sep 2007 -- The top UN official in Iraq is to explore with the Government and a full range of political leaders the activities that the United Nations can undertake to promote national dialogue and reconciliation following recent political developments.
• IRAQ-SYRIA: UNHCR urges "humanitarian component" in new Syrian visa regime IRIN 04 Sep 2007 -- The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has expressed hope that the Syrian government's decision to implement a visa regime to limit the number of Iraqi refugees pouring into the country at up to 2,000 per day, will not harm the plight of Iraqis fleeing danger.

Reconstruction Issues

• IRAQ: Some Basra residents, NGOs fearful of British troop withdrawal IRIN 04 Sep 2007 -- As British troops completed their pullout on 3 September from Saddan Hussein's former palace in Basra - their last remaining base in the southern city - to Basra airport, local aid agencies and residents have expressed concern that security could deteriorate.

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq: Baghdad Demands Iran Stop Shelling North RFE/RL 04 Sep 2007 -- Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, is demanding Iran stop shelling areas in the Kurdish administered area of northern Iraq.

News Reports

• Iraq Court Upholds Death Sentence For Top Saddam Officials VOA 04 Sep 2007 -- An appeals court in Iraq has upheld the death sentences of several former top officials of Saddam Hussein's government
• Chemical Ali's death sentence upheld by Iraqi court of appeal RIA Novosti 04 Sep 2007 -- An Iraqi appeals court upheld Tuesday the death sentence imposed on Ali Hassan al-Majid, better known as 'Chemical Ali,' said the Iraqi TV station Al-Iraqiya.