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Current Operations

• PRESS CONFERENCE: Operational Update: Rear Adm. Greg Smith, March 16, 2008 MNF-I 16 Mar 2008 -- Rear Adm. Greg Smith, director of Multi-National Force - Iraq's Communication Division, provides an operational update
• March 15 airpower summary: C-17s support, move warfighters AFPN 16 Mar 2008
• Forces Capture Terrorism Suspects, Seize Weapons Caches in Iraq AFPS 16 Mar 2008 -- Coalition forces captured suspected terrorists and seized weapons caches throughout Iraq over the past two days.
• Captured Foreign Fighters Provide Insight into Enemy Facing Iraq AFPS 16 Mar 2008 -- Information gleaned from 48 foreign fighters detained in Iraq offers insight into al Qaeda's methods, a Multinational Force Iraq spokesman told reporters during a briefing today in Baghdad.

Deployments

US Policy

• Senator John McCain Visits Baghdad VOA 16 Mar 2008 -- U.S. Senator and presidential candidate John McCain is making a visit to Baghdad to meet with Iraqi and U.S. officials.

United Nations

• UNAMI Issues its 12th report on the situation of human rights in Iraq IRNA 16 Mar 2008 -- The UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI) issued its twelfth report on the human rights situation in the country covering the period 1 July - 31 December 2007

Reconstruction Issues

• PRESS CONFERENCE: Training Update: Lt. Gen. Dohy, Brig. Gen. Torrens-Spence, March 16, 2008 MNF-I 16 Mar 2008 -- Staff Lt. Gen. Hussien Dohy, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Army for training and doctrine, and Brig. Gen. Johnny Torrens-Spence, Deputy Commanding General of MNSTC-I, discuss the readiness and training of the Iraqi Army
• IRAQ: Compounds for IDPs should not be a permanent solution, officials warn IRIN 16 Mar 2008 -- As Iraq's displacement problem continues to grow, representatives of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on 15 March warned that government plans to build residential compounds for internally displaced persons (IDPs) should neither be sectarian nor permanent.

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Iraqi Kurds Mark 20th Anniversary of Halabja Poison Gas Attack VOA 16 Mar 2008 -- Iraqi Kurds are marking the 20th anniversary of a chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein's forces that killed five-thousand Kurdish villagers.
• Iraq Remembers Chemical Attacks on Kurds in Halabja VOA 16 Mar 2008 -- Iraq has marked the 20th anniversary of Saddam Hussein's chemical bombing and gassing of Iraqi Kurds in the northeast city of Halabja