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• Iraq Weekly Status Report
  
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  Keywords: Reconstruction US Security US Government

  A valuable, if slanted, compilation of quantitative data, produced weekly by the US State Department. Grouped into the categories of security, democratisation, service provision, economy, law, international engagement, and strategic communications.

• Quarterly reports fro the Pentagon on progress in Iraq
  
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  Reports to Congress are submitted pursuant to the section entitled “Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq” of House Conference Report 109-72 accompanying H.R. 1268, Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act for Defense, the Global War on Terror, and Tsunami Relief, 2005, Public Law 109-13

• Iraq Study Group report (06 Dec 2006)
  
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  Keywords: Security Military US US Government US Mandate

  The report of the commission, chaired by James Baker and Lee Hamilton, established to recommend changes to US policy in Iraq. Among its 79 recommendations were:

  • A "New Diplomatic Offensive", to build support for US policy in Iraq
  • An "International Support Group" involving Syria, Iran and other regional powers in the stabilisation of Iraq.
  • Renewed efforts for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process
  • Future support for the Iraqi government to be dependent on its performance, provinding an incentive for the government to succeed
  • Clarification that the US does not seek permanent bases in Iraq, or control of the country's oil
  • A constitutional review, considering oil-sharing and the federal structure of Iraq
  • More US soldiers attached to the Iraqi military as trainers and advisers
  • Transfer of the national and border police away from the Ministry of the Interior
• Iraq: The War of the Imagination (Dec 2006)
  
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  Excellent essay by Mark Danner, framed as a book review, interpreting the failures of US Iraq policy as an outcome of systematic misunderstandings within the American government.

• Desert Crossing: 1999 wargame on Iraq's invasion (04 Nov 2006)
  
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  • Pre-invasion plans and assessments
  
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  In 1999 the US Army's Central Command (CENTCOM) conducted a series of wargames to assess potential outcomes of invading Iraq to unseat Saddam Hussein. The exercise's reports - uncovered in November 2006 by George Washington University's National Security Archive - argued that even with the use of 400,000 troops, an invasion and occupation would likely cause bloodshed, ethnic fragmentation and regional instability. CENTCOM's then leader, General Zinni, argues that the findings of "Desert Crossing" were ignored prior to Iraq's invasion.

• October 2006 SIGIR report to Congress (30 Oct 2006)
  
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  Keywords: US Government Corruption

  The October 2006 report to congress is essentially a collation of the SIGIR reports published over the last sixth months. It gives an overview of current US reconstruction efforts in Iraq, and in particular problems with them including waste, corruption, bribery, and lack of security.

• The Future of Iraq Project (01 Sept 2006)
  
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  From October 2001, US State Department planners brought together over 200 engineers, lawyers, businesspeople, doctors and other experts to plan Iraq's future after Saddam. The New York Times has cited defense department officials as saying that the 'Future of Iraq' project was largely ignored after the 2003 invasion. The Project's 13-volume recommendations, as well as preliminary documents, have been made public by George Washington University's National Security Archive.

• CSIS Report: "Iraq's Evolving Insurgency and the Risk of Civil War" (26 Apr 2006)
  
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  Keywords: Security Strategy Insurgency US US Government

  An in-depth report from Anthony Cordesman at the CSIS.

  This report provides an overview of both how the Iraqi insurgency has moved towards civil conflict from its inception in the spring of 2003 through the first months of 2006, and of the ways in which insurgent tactics and methods have changed over time. It is divided into five general sections:

  • The first section examines Iraq under the rule of Saddam, the immediate post-war aftermath and the development of a violent insurgency in the spring and summer of 2003. It chronicles the insurgency’s inception and how it has evolved from 2003 until 2006 and examines Coalition operations to counter it.

  • The second evaluates insurgent patterns of attacks, and Coalition and Iraqi casualties. It also examines insurgent tactics, methods of attack, and the political, sychological and informational warfare lessons from 2003-2006.

  • The third section assesses the composition of the nsurgency including Iraqi Sunni Arabs (both “Islamists and “Nationalists”), foreign jihadists, and the uncertain status of the Shi’ites. It also addresses the degree to which these factions cooperate or conflict and the role of Iraqi’s neighbors in the insurgency.

  • The fourth considers Iraqi views of the threat.

  • The fifth and final section offers an assessment of probable outcomes of the conflict and lessons of the war.

• CSIS Report: Iraqi Economic Reconstruction and Development (21 Apr 2006)
  
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  Keywords: CPA US US Government Economic development Reconstruction

  A CSIS report by Onur Ozlu puts Iraq's economic reconstruction in broad historical perspective and then provides a sector-by-sector analysis of what is happening in Iraq and the successes and failures of the aid process.

  The US aid effort in Iraq has not accomplished most of its sectoral goals, and more importantly, has not effectively initiated the reconstruction of the country’s economy. After three years of struggle, the expenditure of more than $ 20 billion US aid funds, $ 37 billion Development Fund for Iraq (DFI) - UN accumulated from the oil for food program’s revenues and the seizure of bank accounts- and death of thousands of US and other coalition soldiers and tens of thousands of Iraqis, Iraq is producing less oil, has less electricity and less water than it did during the Saddam period. After studying the modern Iraqi economic history as a background, this work analyzes why.

  Insurgency has been a major obstacle to an effective econstruction. However, shortcomings of the US aid planning and execution indicate that even if there was not an endemic insurgency in Iraq, the reconstruction would still be ineffective.

• CSIS Report: "American Strategic, Tactical, and Other Mistakes in Iraq: A Litany of Errors" (19 Apr 2006)
  
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  Keywords: Strategy US Government US

  A short article from Anthony Cordesman, reviewing American errors in Iraq.

  The US cannot go back and change its behavior in Iraq, and in many cases it cannot now compensate for past errors. Its best hope is to pursue the strategy it is already pursuing – in spite of risks that at best offer an even chance of limited success. The US can, however, learn two things from this litany

  The first is that the US cannot hope to succeed by understating problems and risks, and especially cannot succeed without providing the necessary commitment in terms of time and resources. National security challenges cannot be “spun” into victory. They must be honestly addressed, hard decisions must be taken, and the necessary resources must be provided.

  The second is that Iraq has exposed a wide range of faults and shortcomings in the US security apparatus that involve a wide range of departments and both civilians and the US military. If the US is ever to repeat an experience like Iraq, or successfully fight what it now calls the “long war” against terrorism and extremism, it needs ruthless self honesty and objectivity. A list of problems is not a list of solutions, but it is an essential first step in finding them.

• US State Department "Country Reports on Human Rights Practices" (Iraq) (08 March 2006)
  
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  Keywords: Human rights US Government Prisons Torture

  Report by the US State Department and part of a set of reports on human rights in countries receiving US aid.

  While the report contains details of pre-trial detention, prisoner abuse, and torture, there is no mention of abuse by US (or other foreign) troops in the report.

  "A climate of extreme violence in which people were killed for political and other reasons continued. Reports increased of killings by the government or its agents that may have been politically motivated. Additionally, common criminals, insurgents, and terrorists undermined public confidence in the security apparatus by sometimes masking their identity in police and army uniforms"

  "Members of sectarian militias dominated police units to varying degrees and in different parts of the country ... During the year there were a number of deaths either at police hands or at the hands of militia members and criminals wearing police uniforms."

  "Insurgents and terrorists killed thousands of citizens ... Using intimidation and violence, they kidnapped and killed government officials and workers, common citizens, party activists participating in the electoral process, civil society activists, members of security forces, and members of the armed forces, as well as foreigners. "

  "Criminal and politically motivated disappearances and kidnappings, including those related to the ongoing insurgency, remained a severe problem ... During the year hundreds, if not thousands, of individuals disappeared without a trace, sometimes at the hands of the police. "

  "On November 13, an overcrowded MOI detention center in Baghdad was discovered. This facility, the Jadiriyah Bunker, held 169 detainees, mostly Sunnis, many of whom showed signs of torture and abuse."

  "Police abuses included threats, intimidation, beatings, and suspension by the arms or legs, as well as the reported use of electric drills and cords, and the application of electric shocks. Reportedly, police threatened or, in fact, sexually abused detainees. "

  Iraqi officials were critical of the report.

• CRS report on cost of war, prepared for US Congress (Oct 2005)
  
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  Keywords: US Government Financial cost of war

  This report published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) concluded that $251 billion had been assigned to spending on the Iraq War. The research uses Congressional appropriations and Department of Defense (DOD) DFAS monthly obligations reports. The report claims that due to the anticipated nature of the war, the DOD transferred money from peacetime funds and also from funds appropriated for Afghanistan or general war. Transferral of monies from peacetime funds is permitted under certain circumstances as outlined in appropriations legislation.

  [As of Oct 2005] The US's National Priorities Project "Cost of War" information and counter is now based upon this latest estimate of congressional appropriations totalling $251billion by 31 March 2006.

• Cost Analyses of Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan
  
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  Keywords: Financial cost of war US Government

  "CBO's studies of the long-term implications of current defense plans also contain estimates of the costs of military operations and other activities associated with the global war on terrorism, as do alternative budget scenarios in Chapter 1 of CBO's The Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2007 to 2016."

• Department of the Treasury - old sanctions regime details
  
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  Keywords: Sanctions US Government

• Multi-National Force Iraq - "Operation Iraqi Freedom"
  
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  • Central Command (CENTCOM, Doha, Qatar)
  
  Keywords: Strategy Military UN US Government

  Website of US commanded, UN legitimated, counter-insurgency force in Iraq.

  "In partnership with the Iraqi Government, MNF-I conducts full-spectrum counter-insurgency operations to isolate and neutralize former regime extremists and foreign terrorists, and organizes, trains, and equips Iraqi security forces in order to create a security environment that permits the completion of the UNSCR 1546 process on schedule."

• Multi-National Security Transition Command
  
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  Keywords: US Government UN Military Strategy

  "The MNSTC-I mission is to assist the Iraqi Government in the development, organization, training, equipping, and sustainment of Iraqi Security Forces capable of defeating terrorism and providing a stable environment in which representative government, individual freedom, the rule of law, and free market economy can evolve and which, in time, will contribute to regional security in the Gulf Region."

• National Security Council Victory Plan for Iraq
  
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• Other releases from DOD- inc. list of contractors, Iraq reports on soldier health etc.
  
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• State Department Section 2207 Reports
  
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  State Department produced quarterly reports on the use of Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Funds.

• Statements on Iraq and archive
  
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• US Central Command Casualty Reports
  
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  Keywords: US Government Military deaths Military US

• US National Guard - Press releases, fact sheets and testimony
  
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