Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• MNF-W forces attacked
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualties
• Operation Eagle Shiloh III results in detention of 17 suspected terrorists MNF-I 08 Oct 2007 -- Coalition and Iraqi forces detained 17 suspected terrorists during a combat operation in Mahmudiyah, Iraq, Oct. 6.

Deployments

• Turkish Cabinet to Consider Response to Rebel Attack That Killed 13 Troops VOA 08 Oct 2007 -- Turkey's Cabinet meets Monday to discuss its response to a Kurdish rebel attack that killed 13 soldiers in southeastern Turkey, near the border with Iraq.

US Policy

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

• Iraq, Iran Reopen Border In Kurdish Region RFE/RL 08 Oct 2007 -- Iraqi and Iranian authorities have reopened all border crossings in the Kurdish semi-autonomous north of Iraq that were closed following Iranian cross-border shelling.
• Britain Announces Further Troop Drawdown in Iraq VOA 08 Oct 2007 -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has announced a further drawdown of British troops from Iraq - leaving a total of 2,500 troops in southern Iraq by next spring
• Iraqi President Backs US Senate Proposal to Decentralize Iraq VOA 08 Oct 2007 -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani says he supports a U.S. Senate resolution that calls for the decentralization of Iraq into autonomous regions for Shi'ites, Sunnis and Kurds.
• Brown Says Troop Pullout From Iraq Does Not Mean Defeat RFE/RL 08 Oct 2007 -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown today gave further details of Britain's plans, announced during his visit to Baghdad last week, to withdraw 1,000 British troops from Iraq by the end of the year.

News Reports

• Terrorists Target Baghdad Market VOA 08 Oct 2007 -- Iraqi officials say at least four people died in bomb attacks across Baghdad. One blast hit a popular market, killing three people while another struck near the Polish Embassy
• IRAQ-SYRIA: Fire ravages border camp for Palestinian-Iraqi refugees IRIN 08 Oct 2007 -- A raging fire swept through the Al-Tanf refugee camp on the Syrian side of the Syrian-Iraqi border on 6 October injuring 25 Palestinian-Iraqi refugees and burning down 53 tents in the isolated camp, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) reported on 7 October.