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(Participating were Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy director of operations, Combined Joint Task Force 7, and Dan Senor, senior advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority.) Senor: Good evening. We apologize for the delay in getting started, the having to postpone. You know, we normally try to stick to 5:00, and we try to stick to it and start promptly. Tonight is an exception. I just have a couple words about Ambassador Bremer's schedule today, and then General Kimmitt will have an opening statement, and then we'll be happy to take your questions. Ambassador Bremer today began meeting with members...

A suspected al Qaeda operative's urging of starting a religious civil war in Iraq indicates that terrorists are increasingly uneasy over pro-coalition developments in that country, senior U.S. officials said in Baghdad today. Commenting on an article that appeared in today's New York Times, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director for Combined Joint Task Force 7, acknowledged to reporters that coalition forces had intercepted a courier and confiscated a letter written by Abu Musab al Zarquwi, a known terrorist with suspected links to al Qaeda. The author of the 17-page letter writes about conducting 25 anti-coalition operations since...

Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III expressed anger and dismay over today's suicide bombings in the northern Iraqi city of Irbil, in a statement the coalition administrator released from Baghdad today. The Irbil bombings killed 56 Iraqis and wounded about 200 more, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt, deputy operations director of Combined Joint Task Force 7, said at a Baghdad news conference. News reports said two suicide bombers separately attacked the offices of two American-supported Kurdish political parties. "Any of a number of foreign terrorist groups attempting to operate inside of Iraq" could have been responsible for the bombings, Kimmitt said,...