• Military

• WMD Menu                           

• Introduction
• Systems
• Facilities
• Agencies
• Operations
• Countries
• Hot Documents
• News
• Reports
• Policy
• Budget
• Congress
• Links

• Intelligence
• Homeland Security
• Space

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

Current Operations

• Explosive-formed penetrator strikes MND-B patrol
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Press Conference: Rear Adm. Mark Fox and Dr. Tahseen Sheikhl, Sept. 23, 2007 MNF-I 23 Sep 2007
• Sept. 22 airpower summary: Loadmasters supply forces AFPN 23 Sep 2007 -- Coalition airpower supported coalition ground forces in Iraq and the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan during operations Sept. 22, according to Combined Air and Space Operations Center officials here.
• 19 Terrorists Killed, 80 Detained During Four Days of Operations in Iraq AFPS 23 Sep 2007 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces killed 19 terrorists and detained some 80 others during operations in Iraq since Sept. 20.
• Gettysburg's Versatility Enhances Regional Maritime Security Operations Navy NewsStand 23 Sep 2007 -- Guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64), part of the Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, is operating in the Central Command area of responsibility providing air surveillance and conducting Maritime Security Operations (MSO) with coalition forces.

Deployments

US Policy

• Violent Incidents Down; Al Qaeda 'Off Balance' in Iraq, Spokesman Says AFPS 23 Sep 2007 -- Attacks and violent incidents in Iraq are down, but Iraqi and coalition forces still have a lot of work ahead, a top coalition spokesman in Iraq said today.

United Nations

• High-Level Meeting Aims To Expand UN's Iraq Presence RFE/RL 23 Sep 2007 -- At a United Nations-sponsored conference in New York, international leaders discussed how to increase international participation in Iraq.

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

• Iraqi Official Says Blackwater Exit Would Cause Security Vacuum VOA 23 Sep 2007 -- An Iraqi government official says throwing the Blackwater security company out of Iraq would leave a security "vacuum" and divert troops from battle to security duties
• IRAQ-BRAZIL: First group of Palestinians arrive in Brazil from desert camp IRIN 23 Sep 2007 -- The first batch of Palestinians previously living in a squalid refugee camp on the Iraqi-Jordanian border arrived in Brazil on 21 and 22 September and has been receiving medical assistance, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Justice.
• FM: UN resolution 1770 indicates defeat of unilateralism in Iraq IRNA 23 Sep 2007 -- The United Nations Security Council's recent resolution on Iraq indicated the defeat of US unilateralism and its autocratic policy in Iraq, Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.

News Reports

• IRAQ: Heath services struggle to prevent cholera spreading IRIN 23 Sep 2007 -- Heath organisations and local authorities launched an emergency plan on 20 September to tackle an outbreak of cholera that has killed more than 10 people countrywide.