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Case Date Last Name First Name Organization Description Number Received Request all records that USCENTCOM is in possession from March 03 until the date when this date is request is FY06-0043 Herschaft Randy Associated Press 12/20/2005 processed of Iraqis killed including summaries, estimates and daily logs and any related material establishing cause of death time and circumstances. DOD FOIA forwarded Mr. Davis FOIA request. USCENTCOM is required to answer numbers 6, 7,8 and 9. Request pertain to a list of countries making up the Coalition of Allies, and number of personnel of record. FY06-0155 Davis Walter private citizen 6/9/2006 Total number of losses (accidental of due to insurgents) suffered by the Coalition. Names of countries that have left the Coalition and returned to their native countries, such as Spain. List of countries who may have given a time line for end of operations in Iraq. Request all documents and records from Jan 02 through The National Security Mar 02 concerning, a meeting between Central Command FY06-0197 Strother Roger 6/26/2006 Archive head General Tommy Franks and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfield at the Pentagon in early Feb 02. Request all documents between May 02 through Jul 02 concerning CENTCOM head General Tommy Franks 19 Jun The National Security FY06-0198 Byrne Malcolm 6/26/2006 02 meeting the President George Bush at the White House Archive in which Franks briefed the President on the final version of the Generated Start Iraqi operation Request all documents from Feb 02 through April 02 concerning Central Command head General Tommy Franks 2 Mar 02 White House meeting with President W. Bush The National Security FY06-0201 Hassen Farrah 6/26/2006 regarding Iraq. Request all documents and records from Archive Mar 02 through May 02 concerning Command head General Tommy Franks early Apr 02 White House meeting with President George Bush regarding Iraq All documents relating to CENTCOM head GEN Franks meeting 25 Feb 03 in London with British Defense staff The National Security FY06-0249 Hassen Farrah 8/17/2006 head Sir Michael Boyle. Described in the attached page of Archive Michael R. Gordon and General Bernard E. Trainers' book COBRA II (New York: Pantheon Books, 2006) page 114 All documents including but not limited to cables, briefing memos, presentations, and slides from January 1 through July 1, 2006 concerned with 1)Iraq's oil infrastructure and oil security; 2)tribal support, rapid repair elements, and a The National Security FY07-0176 Battle Joyce 5/30/2007 "Strategic Infrastructure Battalion" for pipeline security. Archive Among officials involved in discussions of these issues were MNF-Iraq head Gen. George Casey, U.S. Amb. Zalmay Khalizad, Stephen Hadley and Meghan O'Sullivan of the NSC, and Pres. Bush. Planning for oil security w Requests number and type of small arms and light International Peace weapons and associated material (including ammunition) FY07-0209 Danssaert Peter 7/6/2007 Information Service that the Iraqi and Afghan Security Forces received from CENTCOM. All records pertaining to the incident that happened in Kapisa province in Afghanistan on March 4-5th 2007. There was a CJTF-76 press release (press release # 0799- 063-013) filed on March 5 2007. Based on the information he requests: FY07-0251 Livelli Kevin 60 MINUTES 8/27/2007 1. Collateral Damage estimates 2. Battle Damage assessment 3. Gun camera imagery relating to collateral damage estimate(CDE) and bomb damage assessment (BDA) 4. Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), aircraft and/or other aerial platform intelligence, surveillance, and reconn DoD re-tasked USCENTCOM to review Docs 1, 3, and 4 to justify use of (b)(1) exemption and to re-evaluate info withheld under (b)(2)High. Bloche v. DoD, Court Case No. Georgetown University 07-2050 (D.D.C.). Initial FOIA requests were sent by Ms. FY08-0075L Read Emily 1/18/2008 Law Center Emily Read on behalf of Professors M. Gregg Bloche, M.D. and Jonathan H. Marks. DoD tracking #s for the initial requests were 06-F-2029, 06-F-2278, 06-F-2282, 06-F- 2150. Requesting documents regarding force structure National Security requirements in Iraq cited in the March 08 DoD report to FY08-0129 Byrne Malcolm 4/15/2008 Archive Congress titled "Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq" (NSA# 20080357CEN006). USSOCOM referred a request from Mr. Laughland CENTCOM to conduct a search and release recommendation. He requests all information relating to FY09-0087 Laughland Oliver Private Citizen 2/25/2009 the operation conducted by U.S Special Operations Forces in or around the Garmsir District of Helmand Province, Afghanistan, on or around the night of 17 or 18 Nov 07. SOCOM referred documents/video to USCENTCOM for a release determination regarding a request from Mr. Naylor, FY09-0117 Naylor Sean Reporter 4/2/2009 Reporter, who requests all footage on the 4 Mar 02 battle involving USSOCOM personnel on Takur Ghar Mountain. (SOCOM #2004-073) OGC has tasked CENTCOM to conduct a search for records FY09-0152C International Amnesty Amnesty International 6/8/2009 on a detainee, Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul. DoD OFOI forwarded an Appeal request (Mr. Thomas S. Kim) to conduct a new review of information previously denied to the requester, and provide recommendations as to the release of the information. Provide bracketed and clean copy of document information FY07-0240A Kim Thomas Reuters 7/1/2009 to DoD. Cite FOIA exemption(s) invoked for any recommended withholding, and provide rationale for denial. Request another search for responsive records. If records are found, provide bracketed and clean copy, citing exemption(s) invoked. DoD OFOI, referred 134 documents to CENTCOM for review, release determination, and direct response to the requester. Mr. Palmer's original request was provided to OSD, who referred to DoD. Mr. Palmer's request is in Sipa Press FY09-0199 Palmer Brian 7/31/2009 regard to the International Police Liaison Officer program International and all other US DOS police and security training programs being conducted for Iraqi nationals in Babil province, Iraq. DoD: 09-F-0555, 09-F-0570, 09-F-0571 DOS: 200502839INL2, 200502839INL3, AND 200502839INL4 Request all documents from January 1, 2002 to the National Security present related in whole or in part to Baitullah Mehsud and FY09-0228 Elias Barbara 9/1/2009 Archive suicide bombings in Afghanistan and Iraq. Archive#20090902CEN028 (b)(6) DoD referral requesting records to the interactions that (b)(6) (b)(6) FY09-0240 (b)(6) 9/14/2009 had with the Joint Personal Recovery Agency in Baghdad, Iraq. Ms. Chin, request all documents including but not limited to intelligence reports, briefings, transcripts, talking points, meeting minutes, memoranda, cables, audio/visual The National Security recordings and emails concerning the use of loud music FY10-0014 Blanton Thomas 10/26/2009 Archives during detention and/or asa technique to interrogate detainees at U.S. operated prison facilities used in it's War on Terror at Guantanamo Iraq and Afghanistan during 2002 to present Requesting detail information of the investigation on the FY10-0021 Rackley Robert 10/28/2009 143rd Expeditionary Sustainment Cmd. Commander's Emergency Relief Program. DoD OFOI forward 32 documents which originated within FY10-0075 Herschaft Randy Associated Press 1/11/2010 CENTCOM pertaining to CENTCOM Update Cables. Ref: 09- F-0414 Request AR 15-6 report concerning the shooting deaths of three Iraqis by U.S. military personnel with the 10th Baghdad Bureau Chief FY10-0081 Kaplow Larry 1/12/2010 Mountain Division, under the Fourth Brigade Combat Newsweek Team, June 25, 2008, in the Baghadad International Airport complex DoD forward 100 documents for review and return back to their office. The documents pertain to Requests for Forces National Security FY10-0108C Byrne Malcolm 2/5/2010 (RFFs) from General David Petraeus, that were received Archive and produced by JCS between February 2007 and May 2007. Ms. Elias, National Security Archive, requests all documents from January 1, 1994 to the present related in whole or in part to foreign fighters (non-Afghans, including Arabs, National Security FY10-0124 Elias Barbara 3/1/2010 Saudis, Yemenis, Egyptians, Kuwaitis, Jordanians, Libyans, Archive Syrians, Iraqis, Africans, Uzbeks, Chinese nationals and Chechens) in Taliban military forces in Afghanistan. 20100078CEN006 DoD forward 46 documents (CD) pertaining to the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia on June 25, 1996. They were retrieved by the Executive Services Directorate (ESD) The National Security and the Records Declassification Division (RDD) and FY10-0159C Byrne Malcolm 4/7/2010 Archive contain equities with your office with a release recommendation bracketed on the document. This document is also referred to U.S. Air Force. NSA Ref #: 20090744DOD069 (b)(6) DoD forward 4 documents (#1,3,5&6) concerning (b)(6) The National Security ho was arrested FY10-0161 Byrne Malcolm 4/12/2010 Archive n Iraq. Archive # 20080159DOD010 (b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) DoD forward an Appeal from pertaining to her FY10-0163A 4/12/2010 request DoD case # 04-A-2866. Request information pertaining to a group of Turkish military personnel operating in Sulaymaniyah, Northern Iraq were captured and interrogated by the United States FY10-0164 Tolga Tanis Private Citizen 4/12/2010 military on July 4, 2003. The Turkish group consisted of 11 people were released after sixty hours. Mr. Tanis would like to get the interrogation records of this incident referred as "Hood Event" in press. Department of the DoA forward records concerning Abu Musab al Zarqawi for FY10-0187C Eichenlaub Mark 4/29/2010 Army USCENTCOM's equities and return them to their office. Requests documents, records, and reports of investigative(b)(6) (b)(6) (b)(6) Puckett & Faraj Law FY10-0189 5/5/2010 file as may be releasable associated with Firm (b)(6) (b)(6) The documents concerns Requests military personnel homicides in CENTCOM FY10-0195 Ferguson Cynthia 5/11/2010 documents, Suicide, Incdidents of Reported Aggravated assault, and worplace violence.
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