Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 26 Dec 2007 [PDF]
• MND-North Soldiers attacked by small-arms fire (Tikrit)
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• DoD Identifies Army Casualty
• Press Conference: Maj. Gen. Bergner, Mr. Phil Reeker, Dec. 26, 2007 MNF-I 26 Dec 2007 -- Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner, spokesman for Multi-National Force - Iraq, and Phil Reeker, Counselor for Public Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, provide an update from Iraq
• Dec. 25 airpower summary: A-10s support war effort AFPN 26 Dec 2007
• Dec. 24 airpower summary: B-1Bs deliver precision strikes AFPN 26 Dec 2007
• Maxwell trainers develop Iraqi air force officers AFPN 26 Dec 2007 -- Four Officer Training School instructors returned here recently after spending the past several months in Iraq building the country's air force officer training program from the ground up.
• Coalition Forces Kill Four Terrorists, Detain One in Central Iraq AFPS 26 Dec 2007 -- Coalition forces killed four terrorists and detained one suspect today during operations targeting al Qaeda in central Iraq.

Deployments

US Policy

• Iraqis Increasingly Side With Coalition, Colonel Says AFPS 26 Dec 2007 -- The Iraqi people increasingly are siding with the coalition against extremists in their country, a unit commander there said.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

• Iraqi Kurdish Lawmakers Approve 6-Month Delay to Kirkuk Referendum VOA 26 Dec 2007 -- Lawmakers in Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region have approved a six-month delay to a referendum on the future status of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk.
• Iraqi Cabinet Approves Draft Law Pardoning Detainees VOA 26 Dec 2007 -- The Iraqi Cabinet has taken a step aimed at promoting national reconciliation: a general pardon for thousands of prisoners held in Iraqi and American detention facilities.
• IRAQ: Newly displaced in north considering alternative livelihoods IRIN 26 Dec 2007 -- Nearly 4,000 people have fled their homes in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan over the past two weeks in the wake of Turkish bombardments of rebel hideouts, a local official said on 26 December.

Foreign Reactions

• Iran-Iraq Accord 1975 is of international validity: Mottaki IRNA 26 Dec 2007 -- The Accord signed by Iran and Iraq in Algiers in 1975 is of international validity and cannot be challenged, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Wednesday.
• Turkey Carries Out More Air Strikes in Northern Iraq VOA 26 Dec 2007 -- Turkish warplanes have bombed suspected Kurdish rebel hideouts in northern Iraq for the fourth time in five days

News Reports