Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)

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

Current Operations

• OIF/OEF Casualty Update 16 Jan 2009 [PDF]
• DoD News: DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
• MND-B Soldier dies of wounds from IED attack
• Jan. 15 airpower summary: C-17s key to transport missions AFNS 16 Jan 2009 -- Coalition airpower integrated with coalition ground forces in Iraq and ISAF in Afghanistan during operations.
• EODMU1 Trains Iraqi Army's BDC Navy NewsStand 16 Jan 2009 -- Members of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 1 mentoring and training counterparts with the Iraqi Army Bomb Disposal Command.
• Soldiers Recover Downed Aircraft in Combat Zone AFPS 16 Jan 2009 -- Army aircraft maintainers with the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment's 4th Squadron can be called upon to find a downed aircraft in Iraq.
• Coalition Forces, Diplomats 'Engineer' Peace in Baghdad AFPS 16 Jan 2009 -- Coalition and Iraqi partnerships taking advantage of the improved security situation to further reconstruction efforts in Baghdad.

Deployments

• Defense Officials Switch Seabee Deployment from Kuwait to Afghanistan AFPS 16 Jan 2009 -- Instead of deploying to Kuwait, about 500 Navy Seabees will deploy to Afghanistan.

US Policy

• Defense Policy Nominee Pledges Work on Iraq, Afghanistan, National Security AFPS 16 Jan 2009 -- Pick to become undersecretary of defense for policy vowed to rebalance US efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan.

United Nations

Reconstruction Issues

Foreign Reactions

News Reports

• Thousands Of Candidates To Run In Iraqi Local Elections RFE/RL 16 Jan 2009 -- The Iraqi Election Commission has said that some 14,300 candidates will compete for 441 seats.