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Thursday, November 18, 2004 11:05 a.m. EST
Defense Department Operational Update Briefing
To view briefing slides: http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2004/g041118-D-6570C.html
(Note: General Sattler is in Fallujah, Iraq, and participates by video teleconference.)
MR. WHITMAN: Sir, thank you for joining us this morning. We know that you're very busy, and we know that you tried to do this yesterday and there were some weather problems and some technical problems. But we really appreciate you taking some time to give us an update on current operations there. And we know that you have some slides that we're printing out right now, and we'll get them to the press corps here. And we know that you have an opening overview that you want to give us, and then we'll get into the questions.
So with that, I'll turn it right over to you, sir.
GEN. SATTLER: Okay. Thank you very much and thank everyone for attending.
Bryan if you could kill the mike on that side -- I'm getting a feedback. (Technical adjustments.) Okay. That's good.
This is D plus 11 for Operation Al-Fajr. What I wanted to do is bring everybody up to speed, to give everyone an idea of the layout, where we stand right now within the city of Fallujah.
If the camera will turn over here to the map, obviously we commenced the attack -- we cordoned off the entire city with a combination of Iraqi security forces and coalition forces. We then commenced the attack by securing the peninsula and the hospital, which was being used for command and control at the tip of the peninsula. That was taken down by Iraqi commando forces.
The next day, after the sun had set, we commenced the attack, coming in from the north, both the northwest and the northeast. And we continued the attack till we seized what we call here -- this is MSR Michigan.
We continued the attack down towards the south, in the same direction, with a north-to-south axis, with two regiments, reinforced with two Army battalions. And then we completed the attack phase approximately two, three days ago.
What we've been doing for the past number of days is actual -- searching and clearing each individual house and each individual building. And that's being done by a combination of Iraqi security forces, in conjunction with soldiers, Marines and sailors, with close air support from both Marines, sailors, Army rotary wing close air support and airmen from the U.S. Air Force.
Where we stand today:
We are ubiquitous throughout the entire town. We have stood up our Civil/Military Operations Center. That's the center that will project humanitarian assistance and bring construction on into the town as we reinvigorate the town of Fallujah. The CMOC is stood up. We are working very closely with the Iraqi interim government as they continue to press ministries forward as we do the evaluations within the town concerning the water, the sewage, the electrical grid and basic essential services for the people of Fallujah.
The town is not quite secure at this point. Late this evening right before sunset, down in the southwestern sector of the town, Marines were clearing the building in conjunction with Iraqi security partners when they came under fire. They moved up; they responded proportionally; the enemy refused to surrender; they engaged that house with tank main gun fire. When the Marines and the Iraqi security forces moved forward towards the house, the insurgents continued to fire.
I'm sad to report that we had one Marine killed and one of our Iraqi security partners killed with him; one Marine and one Iraqi soldier wounded. We were able to reattack the house, and the insurgents inside that house have in fact been silenced at this point.
Tomorrow we will continue to work and evaluate the electrical grid. We'll continue to evaluate the water. We have uncovered the Fallujan water plant. It appears that we will be able to get that functioning sometime within the next 48 to 72 hours.
The plant itself is in very good condition, but the water distribution, the pipes that run throughout the town have sustained some damage. But we're doing work-arounds with that, a combination of Navy Seabees, Army engineers, Marine engineers, working, as I mentioned before, with the ministries, the Iraqi ministers.
As far as opening the town, that will be condition based. The town must be secure before we can let the Fallujan people start to move back in. Secure not only means searching each and every house to pick up and eliminate the caches of ordnance, of weapons, of improvised explosive devices that are rigged like booby-traps in many of the houses we've gone into; we also have to ensure before we turn the electric power on that downed lines that may be hot, that may cause harm to either our service members, the Iraqi security forces or the returning Fallujans, have in fact been -- that problem has in fact been corrected.
So it will take some time, but we've already commenced. We've commenced the cleanup operation utilizing mainly our own soldiers and the Iraqi soldiers. Once the environment is secure enough, we already have contracts that are in place that will be awarded. We have started to move humanitarian assistance into the town.
And what I'd like to do now is go to the slides I have. Please put the camera on the slides.
The first slide. This is one of the mosques that we uncovered while coming through Fallujah, one of the many that were stockpiled with caches of explosives, weapons and improvised explosive device- making material. You can see a suicide vest that is being modeled by one of the Iraqi warriors up here in the top left-hand corner, another suicide vest inside the mosque again down in the lower left-hand corner.
Iraqi security forces doing the outer cordon while Iraqi forces went inside to secure the actual mosque. A sniper rifle inside the mosque. One of their techniques has been to get into the minarets in proximity or right against the mosque and put effective long-range fire on our advancing forces. This is the type sniper rifle that they have been using, and an AK-47 here on the floor, also inside the mosque.
Could I have the next slide, please?
Some of the artillery rounds that they're utilizing, they'll daisy-chain a number of these together and make an improvised explosive device. We've uncovered literally hundreds of these inside the town, and our warriors have been able to find them prior to them going off, and we've been able to use our explosive ordnance disposal teams to in some cases disarm and in some cases blow those in place.
You can see black powder for bomb-making material up here in this corner, and over here blocks of explosives plus det cord. And you see a battery here to utilize to put the electoral charge in to go and set the improvised explosive device off. A lot of detonation cord here. That gives them a long stand-off distance, so from their perception that they can safely detonate the improvised explosive device when our forces are close and that we would not in fact be able to catch them in advance or after.
And again, down here, more detonation devices. Some of the detonation devices are remotely controlled for these improvised explosive devices.
Next slide, please.
Humanitarian assistance was a question that's been asked multiple times. This is one of the outlying towns on the outskirts of Fallujah -- I take that back; this is actually inside Fallujah where Regimental Combat Team 7, which is operating over on the eastern side of the city, they are in fact providing -- pushing forward, along with the Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi government, both food and water. There is a large shortage, obviously, of potable water inside the town, and we're ensuring that is covered right now -- till we get the water plant running -- with bottled water. But a combination of U.S., but led by the Iraqi security forces as we distribute the food and the water.
This is a slide of an outlying town called Habbaniya, which is out towards the west of Fallujah, about halfway between Fallujah and Ramadi. We came across approximately -- somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 dislocated civilians that had moved themselves, prior to the conflict starting, out to an old camp with hard stands and hard shelters inside of Habbaniya. The Iraqi government, again, pushed out humanitarian assistance in the form of food and water. We're also taking a look now -- we've already moved about 1,500 blankets, and we're looking at additional blankets as it does tend to get a little bit cold here in the evening. And you can see by the pictures the food -- Iraqi policemen, Iraqi National Guardman here, Iraqi National Guard, and the recipients of the humanitarian effort.
This is an idea of the improvised explosive devices that we're encountering -- artillery shells wired to a detonation system. As the Marines, the soldiers and the sailors move through the town, they have to be extremely careful. We have had some of our warriors killed as they've entered a building, humanely attempting to clear that building, only in some cases to have one of these improvised explosive devices go off. So we're very cautious, very careful. You can see the amount of ammunition found, ammunition and more ammunition, radio transmitters to detonate improvised explosive devices.
This is the National Islamic Resistance operations center located in Fallujah. In the basement, I believe this picture will speak for itself. You can see the bloodstained walls and surfaces down in the basement and the tools for what appears to be some type of a torture chamber. You can also see racks of improvised explosive device-making material. And you can also see computers up in this area, where we believe those computers are being exploited, that it appears that they would take films of their deeds and they would go up and mass-produce those discs to be distributed throughout the world. Down here, more black powder, and here improvised explosive device-making material in the form of detonation cord, et cetera.
Okay, and that's the last slide.
Before I take your questions, I would like to close my statement by saying -- by making a clear statement here concerning the alleged violation of the Law of Land Warfare. We have a procedure in place. It's time-tested and it's very precise on what can be discussed and what cannot be discussed when an investigation is under way. Based on my position as the commanding general, anything that I say, voice an opinion, or comment concerning the investigation could unintentionally influence the investigation or potential witnesses. Therefore, other than the statement that we've already made and to assure everyone that the investigation is moving forward, I will not comment on the investigation.
May I have your questions, please?
MR. WHITMAN: General, thank you very much for that informative update.
Let's go to Reuters here first.
Q General Sattler, this is Will Dunham with Reuters. Can you say what's the earliest possible you think the town could be reopened to residents who have been displaced? And could you also just give us an update of U.S., Iraqi security forces and enemy casualties?
GEN. SATTLER: Okay, Will, the actual opening of the time will be -- it will be event-driven. It won't be time-driven, obviously. The final decision -- Prime Minister Allawi is the one who imposed the curfew, the prime minister is the one who restricted all vehicular movement of civilian vehicles inside Fallujah, and the prime minister is the one who imposed the existing curfew. We will make a recommendation to the prime minister once we feel it is fairly safe and fairly secure. It's never going to be total, but once we hit those conditions for safety reasons and security reasons, we will make that recommendation.
The intent now by the Iraqi government is to phase the citizens of Fallujah back in. In other words, we will probably start up in the northern sector where we came in and commenced the fighting. As we clear each and every house of the materials which I just showed you up on these charts, once we've cleared each and every house in a sector, then the Iraqi government will make the notification for residents from that particular sector that they are, in fact, encouraged to return. We will also ensure that we have humanitarian assistance in place if, in fact, the electricity cannot come up fast enough, and we'll ensure that we have sufficient food and water.
So I don't want to speculate on that time, except to say that we're really leaning hard forward on it. We do have some contracts in place that once we get the contractors into town, it will expedite that. But it will take -- it will take some time.
And the second part of the question had to do with casualties. As we stand right now, we've had 51 coalition warriors who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in this fight. The Iraqis have had eight. As far as wounded in action, we've had a little bit over -- approximately 425 who have been wounded, but those numbers will continue to come in from the wounded because many Marines, soldiers and sailors have been treated at their local aid station and then went right back into the fight again, and those reports will catch up with us over time. And the Iraqi security forces now have 43 Iraqis wounded.
Q A follow-up, General. The 51 you mentioned, is that U.S. deaths? You said coalition. Is that U.S.?
GEN. SATTLER: Yes, the 51 is a combination of Marines, sailors and soldiers.
Q Julian Barnes with U.S. News. A fairly large number of houses were either destroyed or damaged in the attack on Fallujah. What's the plan in terms of helping people repair those houses or compensate them as citizens flow back into the city?
GEN. SATTLER: As in the case of Najaf, after the fighting in Najaf was completed, we put into place a claims process where each and every individual would have someone -- they would bring forward the fact that they had damage to their business or to their residence. We would go out and do an assessment, and then a claims officer would adjudicate that claim on the spot and that individual, Iraqi, would in fact be paid for the damage so that he or she could go ahead and commence fixing the damage immediately. So that process is in place. The Iraqi government has made the money available. And we will commence that process as soon as we let the Fallujan citizens back into the town.
Each and every house that was damaged was either targeted because there were troops in contact, meaning that we were taking fire from that particular house or particular business, or in fact it was being utilized -- and we had evidence that it was being utilized to store weapons, to store ammunition in advance.
And I'll be honest also, in some of the cases as we clear through the town house by house, some of these caches are very unstable. We have no intention of risking life or limb to go ahead and move them outside. In some cases, if you stored ordnance in your home or it was stored in your home, some of those will in fact be blown in place for safety reasons. But once again, we can always rebuild a house, but we can't bring a warrior back to life.
MR. WHITMAN: Let's go here to Pauline.
Q Pauline Jelinek of the Associated Press. General, there are reports that as you've done your clearing operations you've turned up more insurgent -- quite a number more of insurgent casualties than previously thought. Can you give us an update on insurgents killed? And has that in any way changed your thinking on what might have been there before the operation?
GEN. SATTLER: Well, obviously, the mission was to go ahead and alleviate (sic) Fallujah as either a perceived or an actual safe haven for the terrorists to operate from. Our intent when we went in was to ensure that we cleared the entire town, that there would be no no-go areas within the town, that we'd clear it from north to south, east to west. And in this particular case we're actually doing a secondary and a tertiary sweep through each and every house.
A number of fighters have been killed. I don't want to speculate on that number. Many of them have already been buried, some are still in the rubble. We're in the process of -- Mortuary Affairs is in the process now of picking those bodies up. We're obviously screening them for intelligence purposes. We're taking anything that might be able to be used for tactical reasons over tonight, the next day or as we continue our offensive operations. So I will not speculate. A number of 1,200 has been thrown out multiple times. I would say that that's probably a safe number.
We have now interned, I guess as detainees now we have just a little bit over a thousand, about 1,025. And as we screen the detainees, those who were military-age men, "wrong place, wrong time," and we can verify that, we are -- after we go through the question and answering of them, we've released a little bit over 150 of those already. So the process will take time. The numbers re fairly large. It's not easy to do because of -- for multiple reasons. But we're leaning forward on that.
MR. WHITMAN: Let's go here.
Q Yes. General, this is Vince Crawley with the Army and Marine Corps Times papers. As the battle began, there were estimates that as many as half the citizens of Fallujah had remained in the town. Do you have a better picture of how many civilians are there, where the refugees are staying; and is that a stable location for them; as well as what were the casualties among bystanders?
GEN. SATTLER: I'll start with the first part. We weren't sure the estimates as to who was in the town when we commenced the operation, because obviously we didn't have anyone in town before we made our forcible entry. We have not seen many families at all, throughout the operation or even now as we go through the search and clear phase. Those who have come forward are in fact being escorted. There's a number of locations at mosques and up at the train station where we take some of the dislocated civilians.
We also have found, as I already mentioned, out in Habbaniyah a place where approximately 1,500 to 2,000 moved before the conflict actually started. We dropped a lot of pamphlets, a lot of informational-type pamphlets, prior to the attack. Everyone in the town knew that the fight -- that the Iraqi government continued and continued to try to come up with some negotiated settlement. The folks with-inside Fallujah realized that was not going to happen.
Our assessment is that many -- many of the residents moved out to go with friends and relatives at other parts around the country. Whether that was up to Mosul and to Baghdad, up to Ramadi or out to the west or down to the south and southeast, we're not sure. But we have been searching the local towns in proximity to Fallujah to ensure that there is not a humanitarian crisis, and up to this point we have not found pockets of dislocated civilians who have taken refuge in large groups where they need that type of assistance. But we will continue to look. So our assessment is that they went out and they moved out on their own in advance to stay with friends and relatives.
And I'm sorry. I know that was a three-part question, but I can't remember the second part.
Q Casualties among the civilians.
GEN. SATTLER: Casualties among the civilians. We have treated probably somewhere in the area of 25 to 30 who have been injured. I don't have -- we did not have any that have gotten up to me -- that we have actually any civilians that have been killed during the fighting. But once again, we're still moving through the town and there's a number of buildings that are in fact rubbled. But I can honestly say at this point, I know of none that were killed and only a handful that have been treated. We treat those right at our medical facility, and then the Iraqi interim government made ambulances available and doctors available, so there is a procedure for the civilians to be moved into the Iraqi medical system.
MR. WHITMAN: Nick over here.
Q General, Nick Simeone with Voice of America Radio. Are you concerned that insurgents are going to slip back into Fallujah once you move on to other areas of the country and the Iraqis are in control there? And if so, how will you prevent that?
GEN. SATTLER: Well, obviously we were concerned before we conducted or commenced the operation that we knew that we had to not only do the kinetic phase, which we're still in at this point, but once the kinetic phase was completed, the civil affairs, humanitarian assistance and reconstruction phase was critical. Also what is critical is the reestablishment of the Iraqi security forces in the town of Fallujah. This not only means the brave warriors who have fought side by side with us, but a follow-on echelon of Iraqi security forces in the form of Iraqi police so that we can turn civil law over to those who do civil law for a business.
We will not move out too early. We will stay in proximity, as close as necessary, to ensure that the rule of law is in fact maintained after we've reestablished it. We will move out as the Iraqi security structure takes hold. And we will move as far as we possibly can away, but until they are completely prepared and they ask us to leave in total, we will stay at arm's length so that if, in fact, we have to come back into town with a quick reaction force or to shore up any force anywhere in the town, we'll be prepared to do that.
MR. WHITMAN: Let's go over to Craig, and then I think Gregg had one, too.
Q General, Craig Gordon from Newsday. Kind of a follow-up to that question. Again, do you envision any particular timeline for when you think that the Iraqi security forces will be able to take over security inside Fallujah and Marines can effectively move to this arm's length position? And if I can, a second question. You said the town is not quite secure, I believe was your words. I think we were told on Monday that we -- that you folks thought it was 100 percent secure. I don't know if that's just a wording thing or if there actually has been a change in the security posture in the town.
GEN. SATTLER: It's been a long day. Probably the word I should have used is the town is secure. Any time you have ubiquitous presence from north to south, east to west, I would say you'd have to call that town secure, and that's what we have right now. But as far as safe goes, until we get through every house, as I indicated today, down in the south -- we have to ensure that all the weapons -- that those who return unarmed with the hopes of finding weapons, finding IED-making materials, finding the ability or the capability inside the town to go ahead and wreak havoc, to continue to intimidate, we have to ensure that all that's gone, all that's removed.
At the same time we're doing this, we're also purging the town of those who may have stayed behind and those who want to fight to the death, who want to just hide out, lay low, so that they can in fact disrupt the reconstruction and the reestablishment of essential services.
So the town is -- of Fallujah is secure. But we're in that search-and-clear phase, which will make it safe. And as I mentioned, "relatively safe" is the best word. We will then turn that relatively safe town over, over a period of time, to the Iraqi security forces.
There will also be an Iraqi government. We're not going to govern the town. The Iraqi interim government is already leaning forward to ensure that Iraqi leadership in the form of governance will in facts move into Fallujah to assist -- they will be the ones that will direct. They will make the calls as to what sections of the town open. And they will be the ones who will tell us when they feel a sector is relatively secure, so that we can in fact move back to that local security at hands length.
Q General --
MR. WHITMAN: We'll take about two more from here, and then I think you have some reporters there, General, that we want to have some questions.
Greg and then Martha will finish on this --
Q Yeah. I'm Greg Kelly from Fox News. When you start making the solatia payments, I think by the end of this week, how concerned are you that some of that money could wind its way back to insurgents? What safeguards do you have in that regard?
And do you have any information about Margaret Hassan's body actually being found inside Fallujah? Prime Minister Howard said she was found in Fallujah. Is that the case?
GEN. SATTLER: I'll go ahead and answer the solatia payment portion and the reconstruction payments and the remuneration for damages that were incurred. It'll be a very thorough process. It has to be very thorough. You'll have to go to the building, show where the damage was. An assessment will be made so we don't inflate the money to pay for vehicles that have been destroyed or houses that have in fact been destroyed.
For restitution for injury or for death to innocent civilians, that'll follow the exact same criteria. It'll be heavily vetted, and it will be controlled.
There's always the chance that if you pay out payments that either, A, the individual is disingenuous and will take that money and go off and attempt to procure additional materials of war to bring back into the town. But I believe that we have a solid procedure in place that'll be methodical. It'll be thorough, and it'll be done in conjunction or in support, in our case, of the Iraqi government. So that's point one.
I am not aware of any particular bodies that we have found from the enemy side. There are some that we would certainly like to find, some who said they would fight us to the death, and we would -- and if that's their decision, that we would be more justified in accommodating that.
I do not know of any bodies. Therefore, I don't want to speculate on that. But if in fact we find that's true, I'll provide that later.
Q General, Martha Raddatz from ABC. There are reports that a Zarqawi headquarters was located in Fallujah. Can you tell us any detail about what was found in there and also if there was any evidence that he was actually there?
GEN. SATTLER: We have found a number of headquarters, command and control cells. We found a number of ledgers, which we're in the process of exploiting right now, that list individuals, that list fighters from other countries, other parts of the globe, not just immediately surrounding the country of Iraq. I can't go into that because we're in the process of exploiting those.
We would not -- I cannot stand here and tell you that we found the command and control house or building where Zarqawi went ahead and orchestrated and dealt this VBIEDs, his suicide VBIEDs, and the other death and destruction that he has spread throughout the country of Iraq. We will continue to look for that. If in fact we do find it, our intent would be to exploit that information and hopefully turn that into actual intelligence to go ahead and continue to breathe down his neck and bring him to justice.
Those who may have gotten away -- those who left early, the cowards that they are that fired this town up and left those behind to die and moved on -- those individuals will be pursued. We will continue to pursue them. We will continue to follow all leads, and we will stay hot after them until they are, in fact, captured, or possibly that they die in violent military action.
Q There was a report from -- a major made some comments, saying that in one of these houses there were actual letters from Zarqawi to his lieutenants and -- to lieutenants. Can you comment on that since -- and I'm sorry, I don't have his name with me -- a major has already commented on that?
GEN. SATTLER: I think we had two folks speaking at the same time, so we didn't -- this will be the last question. If you could please repeat it, and then we'll turn the attention to the media that are here within the room, please.
Q Okay. Sorry, General Sattler. I was just following up.
A major from the MEF has already commented on some letters that were apparently found, apparently from Zarqawi to his lieutenants. Can you comment on that? Do you know anything about that, as long as he has already gone on the record saying that?
GEN. SATTLER: I'm looking around the room, and the intelligence officer is not here. I get briefed two or three times a day on anything that we pick up or any leads that we might have, and I can honestly say I am not familiar with that. But I can also say that I'm going to check on it as soon as I get back to my office.
Thank you.
MR. WHITMAN: Now we should be able to listen in on questions coming from Baghdad.
Q (Off mike.)
GEN. SATTLER: You know, I know for a fact, at least the briefing that I had -- and I was, of course, out there yesterday, down in that sector -- that there was heavy fighting down there, very heavy fighting. Very well-armed, flak jackets, helmets, not the same type of insurgents we fought further up into the north. The thought was that they had fallen back and that they were continuing to fall back, but that the defenses were oriented towards the south and they were oriented towards the southeast because after our prepatory operations that we did for time, they were convinced that's the way we would come. The fighting I mentioned, where we had the Marine killed and the Iraqi warrior killed and one each wounded, was down in that area.
I do not have -- and I don't want to speculate. I will get that information and bring it up to the next press conference, but I am not aware of that second -- or the second report, keeping in mind they come in at the battalion up to the division before they get up to the MEF. So I do not have that intel report right now.
Q Babak Dehghanpisheh from Newsweek. With the fighting spreading in recent days to other cities, like Mosul in the north and Baqubah, what overall effect do you think this operation has had on the insurgency? I mean, do you think this was sort of a last stand, a major blow to them, or was it really just a matter of, you know, clearing the space out for them?
GEN. SATTLER: Based on some of the records that we've been able -- and ledgers we've been able to uncover, we feel right now that we have, as I mentioned, broken the back of the insurgency and we have taken away this safe haven.
If you're running an organization and you lose your method -- your location and your means for command and control, you lose your lieutenants, which we have taken out of the Zarqawi network over the course of the last almost three months on a very precise basis. But now -- and you also lose the turf where you're operating, the town that you feel comfortable moving about in, where you know your way about, now you're scattered; you're scattered, you've been flushed from your hideout, you have no friends in the area you move into; you must make new contacts. Each and every time we can force these individuals to go to new locations, expand their circle of friends -- if you want to call it that -- to include some that they don't know and they don't trust, they'll bring in rookies, more junior people that will in fact make mistakes. And that's why I mentioned that this has disrupted them, I believe, I personally believe, across the country. This is going to make it very hard for them to operate. And I'm hoping that we'll continue to breathe down their neck, quick turn this tactical intelligence, find them in areas that they're not familiar with where they will in fact be easier to capture or bring to justice.
Q Jackie Spinner with The Washington Post. I was in the eastern part of the city yesterday where there was still some pretty serious fighting going on. How are you keeping the insurgents that are still left in the south from going to other parts of the city that you've already cleared and, you know, taking up position again in those areas of the city?
GEN. SATTLER: Obviously, the curfew is still in place. The only people who are out moving around -- we'll see them walk out with a white flag -- and I'm sure you've seen those -- who will come in to pick up water and food, and then we follow them back to where they're going to make sure they're not taking that water and food back to a number of insurgents who are destitute and running out of both luck and food and water. If they take it back to a family, then we ensure that we provide proper assistance to that family.
The way we have the cordon set and the way we're moving through the town shoulder to shoulder, and with the number of forces -- a combination of U.S. soldiers, U.S. Marines, sailors with the Marines, and the Iraqi security battalions -- that we have a fairly tight -- very tight -- it's never going to be perfect -- but a tight cordon as we move north to south, and we move into these individual blocks where we cordon it off and clear through. So as they move into the house, as the individual breaks, they go into these security sectors where they either are captured or they're taken under fire.
So it is very, very methodical. There are sectors which are blocked down, and as they clear the building, we cover all those potential escape routes so that those who would intend to get up, hook in behind us possibly, or go into areas that have already been cleared, that we ensure as best we possibly can that we've got those shut down. And having the curfew in place obviously helps that. If you're out there and you're running from building to building and you're not one of us, you're probably up to something nefarious.
MR. WHITMAN: We have time for one more question.
Q Robert Worth, The New York Times. Was there still -- we heard some artillery today. Are there airstrikes and artillery still firing on positions in the southern part of the city where insurgents remain?
GEN. SATTLER: Yeah. Approximately four days ago we were averaging somewhere along 50 precision -- and I stress the word "precision" -- about 50 precision airstrikes a day, and we were firing somewhere along the lines of 15 to 20 artillery missions a day. Some of those are outlying, outside the town, where there are mortar positions set up and rocket positions who were taking fire either on this camp or on positions with -- inside the city. Today we had three air strikes -- three precision-guided munition air strikes today -- and we did not fire -- the artillery fired today did not fire into the town for troops in contact; it fired at what we call points of origin for indirect fire that -- either mortars or rockets that the enemy might use. So that has really gone way down.
And we have one more question in the back there, please.
Q (In Arabic.)
INTERPRETER: Sir, we were heard about -- there's a battle happening tonight, and where would be the position of these battles, and would it be there are more battles going on tonight?
GEN. SATTLER: If I understand the question is, are there battles going on tonight, and if there are, where are these battles taking place?
INTERPRETER: (Off mike.)
GEN. SATTLER: Okay. I apologize if I butchered it.
GEN. SATTLER: I am not sure there's a battle out there tonight. The tactic that the enemy has been using is at nighttime the enemy tries to go to ground and hide. And we have found most of our contact, as the sun comes up, is we press them during the daytime. Now, we have no intention of letting the enemy sleep at night because our technology permits us to own the night. Therefore, we will continue to search and clear through the night, but there are no -- right before I came up, there are no troops in contact at this time. And there is no fighting. But that's not to say that the next house that we enter that we could not -- those Marines, soldiers or sailors would find themselves in a very short and violent act.
Okay, thank you very much, everyone. I appreciate your patience. And thank you for your professional questions out here.


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Naturally, you want any crash outcome with as little injury as possible. If your garment is destroyed in the process, fine. Like a spent car airbag or crumplable auto-body sacrifices itself. Many experienced riders feel it's better to have something lighter and more comfortably everyday-wearable, even if it means replacing or repairing the garment after experiencing a significant incident.
Aerostich lightweight gear is intended to provide 'just enough' for whatever kind of accident scenario can be reasonably foreseen. So there's a double-layer seat on all suits and pants, and two layers everywhere else one might apply higher abrasion pressure during a spill. Beneath the elbow/shoulder/knee areas there's also a curved plastic shell over the energy-absorbing impact material. All 'light' Aerostich gear also contain a hidden layer of tougher 500D Cordura, located just behind each armor section.
Still, 'Lights' are best for moderate speeds. Personally I am ok with them to about 65 mph, rationalizing I'd probably hit the pavement at less because of braking prior to crashing. For riders who spend a fair amount of time at 70 mph and above, which means a lot of freeway time, we still like 500D Cordura garments better. But also note we've received many reports about good outcomes after higher-speed crashes in 'Lights'…and zero reports they performed worse than expected. –Mr. Subjective, 2014
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AD1 pants fit me a little better than Darien pants. Their rise is less, so the waistband rides a little lower, and it's slightly curved, which I also like better. The AD1's included belt is a 1.5" Aerostich money belt, versus the stronger 1.5" side-release-buckled belt on the Darien pants. And compared to the Darien pant the AD1's knees are 'bent' a couple of degrees more, which is nice for bikes with a little more rear-positioned footrests. The radius of this bend is a little bigger, too, so there is a bit more space for knee pads. Darien pants fit and feel a lot like Khaki's or regular pants and AD1's fit and feel a little more like jeans.
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Food safety in Europe – status quo and future prospects: Asia Pacific Weeks meeting, Berlin
9 settembre 2011
Catherine Geslain-Lanéelle
Distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen,
It gives me great pleasure to address this meeting of the Asia Pacific Weeks business and science programme and I would like to thank the organisers for their kind invitation. Since 1997, this event has been instrumental in promoting dialogue and exchange between Europe and the Asia-Pacific region and has successfully stimulated cooperation between both parts of the world with a particular focus on food. The provision of a safe and nutritious food supply is central to public health goals and to meeting the goal of providing the highest level of health protection for our citizens in both the Asia-Pacific and Europe. In addition, the agri-food sector is an essential economic sector and a major contributor to economic wellbeing in terms of both employment and turnover in both regions.
EFSA overview
I would like to remind you briefly of EFSA's raison d'être. The European Food Safety Authority was established in 2002 as the EU's independent risk assessment body in direct response to the food crises of the previous decade. I refer in particular to the BSE and dioxin crises which provoked much public concern and damaged consumer confidence in the European food supply. EFSA's Founding Regulation is framed by the European Commission's White Paper on Food Safety 2000, a ground-breaking document that introduced a new food safety system for Europe and paved the way for the establishment of the Authority. It emphasised science-based policy and formally organised the separation of risk assessment from risk management. With a dual remit of risk assessment and risk communication, EFSA is mandated to provide the evidence base that enables appropriate measures to be taken to protect consumers or the environment and to communicate on risk to a wide range of target audiences. Our founding legislation emphasises the core values that underpin our work and that derived from the lessons learned from the food crises of the '90s: independence in the provision of scientific advice, transparency, responsiveness, and excellence in our science.
EFSA has a broad remit – covering the entire food chain – and to fulfil our mandate, dialogue with all stakeholders in the food chain is essential. With a workforce of over 450 in Parma – 60% of whom are scientists – EFSA forms a close network with the national food safety agencies and annually over 1000 experts from countries inside and outside the EU contribute to the work of our ten Scientific Panels and Scientific Committee. As the recent and tragic E. coli outbreaks in Europe so clearly demonstrated, there is never any room for complacency in relation to food safety, particularly in light of the globalised food supply chain that now exists. In our provision of urgent technical assistance to the European Commission and Member States, EFSA coordinated a taskforce which included the relevant Member State authorities, Commission representatives, and scientists from the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, the FAO and the WHO. I would like to pay tribute to our colleagues from the BVL (Bundesamt für Verbraucherschutz und Lebensmittelsicherheit) and the BfR (Bundesinstitut für Risikobewertung) for their commitment and cooperation during the German outbreak. Events such as these emphasise that close cooperation with both national and international counterparts is vital in ensuring that we can respond in a coordinated manner to food safety emergencies.
Scientific Cooperation
Under our current operating model, we rely heavily on the availability of expertise from the Member States to generate our scientific advice. For example, more than half of our Panel members come from the national food safety agencies. Recognising the importance of scientific cooperation to the future success of the European food safety system, EFSA's Management Board adopted a formal strategy in 2006 to provide a framework for the Authority's activities in this area. It emphasises the importance of making optimal use of European expertise and a subsequent review of the strategy in late 2008 highlighted the progress that we have made and continue to make. This includes: the creation of Focal Points in all Member States; the growth of contracts and grants awarded to scientific institutions in Europe to support our work (from 1 million Euros in 2007 to an anticipated €11 million in 2012); the creation of Member State networks on key topics such as BSE/TSE and nanotechnologies; and the establishment of an expert database now populated with almost 3000 experts from across Europe and beyond. We will continue to build our cooperation with Member States with the focus on building our medium-term planning activities to enable the national agencies identify where they can contribute to EFSA's work programme as early as possible and maximise synergies.
International Cooperation
Driven by a globalised food chain, climate change, and technological innovation in the food industry, it is increasingly important that EFSA actively participates in international risk assessment forums and can access the data we need for our risk assessments. Framed by our Strategic Approach to International Activities, EFSA has agreements in place with national counterparts in, for example, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and the USA and we have had a number of fruitful exchanges with other Asian countries and in particular China. EFSA is also an active participant in the key international food safety forums such as Codex Alimentarius where we support the European Commission.
Cooperation on Data Collection
The availability of reliable data is central to EFSA's work and in particular to our exposure assessments. EFSA works closely with Member States, third countries and international organisations to collect, analyse and distribute data on zoonotic organisms, chemical contaminants and residues, animal health and welfare, food consumption and plant health. In this context, I would again like to pay tribute to the BVL for its important contribution to our work in this area.
EFSA issues a variety of reports, some of which are published annually, for example the Community Zoonoses Report (in collaboration with the European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention) or the Annual Report on Pesticide Residues in Food. Others are produced on an ad hoc basis, on microorganisms and chemical contaminants. This work is crucial in supporting the control measures put in place by Member States and the European Commission to reduce, for example, Salmonella, in which human cases in Europe have fallen for the fifth consecutive year.
With the support of Member States, EFSA has established a Concise European Food Consumption Database, operational since the end of February 2008 and a Comprehensive European Food Consumption Database which was released last year. The latter contains data from the most recent national dietary surveys in Member States at the level of consumption by the individual consumer and has already begun to enhance the accuracy of our exposure assessments. We are currently piloting a project to harmonise data collection on food consumption across Europe, known as EUMenu. Co-ordinated by EFSA, and in close co-operation with Member States, it will allow the collection of comparable food consumption data across the EU.
Although national dietary surveys are already conducted in many European countries, it is not currently possible to carry out EU-wide analysis or country-to-country comparisons on food consumption due to differences in how information is collected. By facilitating more accurate exposure assessment and enabling policy makers to set targets regarding healthy diets, EUMenu will contribute to safer food and healthier diets for European citizens.
Cooperation on Emerging Risks
Europe is the biggest global trader in food products and the openness of the European market leaves us particularly vulnerable to food safety threats. A single food product may contain ingredients from across the globe, many of which may be produced to standards that vary significantly from those used in Europe. We must therefore remain constantly vigilant to threats and if possible predict and intervene before they impact on our food supply. EFSA's Founding Regulation recognises the importance to public health and the environment of the early identification of risks in the food chain and provides the mandate for our data monitoring and analysis activities.
In keeping with our core values of transparency and openness, ongoing dialogue with stakeholder organisations with a legitimate interest in the area of food and feed safety is of primary importance to EFSA. Faced with new and emerging technologies – such as GMOs and nanoscience – legislative changes and increasingly complex risk assessments, there is a growing need to keep stakeholders informed of our activities and to exchange views with them. Our dialogue with stakeholders can provide access to valuable data in relation to, for example, emerging risks and to that end we have recently established a Stakeholder Consultative Group on Emerging Risks. EFSA's Stakeholder Consultative Platform is a key forum for engaging civil society in EFSA's activities; it includes European-level representation from primary producers, food manufacturers, processors, retailers, consumer groups and NGOs. We have other mechanisms for engaging stakeholders such as technical meetings, colloquia, briefings and symposia which are particularly useful when considering emerging technologies or new legislation such as the Health Claims Regulation. In addition, many of our scientific opinions are open to public consultation before adoption.
Evolving work programme
Since our inception in 2002, our work programme has evolved significantly in both scale and nature. Requests for scientific advice have grown steadily: in 2007 we received 220 questions from the Commission and by 2010 that had increased to 900. Regulatory developments have demanded a significant increase in the resources we allocate to the evaluation of regulated products, such as pesticides, food and feed additives, health claims, GMOs and food contact materials. As well as protecting public health and the consumer, this work is important in promoting sustainable innovation in Europe's indigenous agri-food sector in line with the EU's 2020 Strategy.
The progressive rise in chronic, nutrition-related disease has also impacted significantly on the evolution of our work programme. Through our work in evaluating health and nutrition claims on foods, setting dietary reference values for nutrients, and creating pan-European food consumption databases, EFSA makes an important contribution to the development of effective nutrition policies in Europe. Moreover, our risk communication activities, which we carry out in close cooperation with Member States, ensures that European consumers receive consistent, science-based information to help them make informed decisions on diet.
EFSA is increasingly called upon to assess risks to the environment – for example of GMOs – and to assess efficacy or benefit for either public health or the environment, such as our work on pesticides. This work is important from the perspective of the sustainability of the food chain and ensuring that innovation brings real benefits to society.
This evolution of our work programme has prompted us to review our efficiency, working processes and organisational structures. The review process is ongoing and we are confident that it will deliver a more efficient and re-focused organisation that will meet the future expectations of our partners and stakeholders.
In conclusion, EFSA is committed to ensuring that European food policy is underpinned by a robust evidence base and that our consumers are fully protected and informed. I would like to thank the organisers once again for this opportunity to present EFSA's work and I wish you every success in your deliberations.
Thank you for your kind attention.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Minnesota lawmakers are considering an incremental shift toward a system of early voting amid signs that a broader expansion would prove difficult.
Legislation to dump a requirement that people have a valid excuse to vote by absentee ballot got a favorable reception Thursday from the House Elections Committee. No committee vote was taken, but no objections were voiced either.
Rep. Steve Simon, the committee's chairman, says allowing no-excuse absentee voting would help make voting more convenient. Minnesota now requires people to attest to one of a handful of prescribed justifications to obtain an absentee ballot.
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Satellite imagery allows a look back in time at the world's oceans
A time capsule of satellite imagery of the earth will become available to scientists this month.
On June 28, digital imagery from more than three decades ago will be released by the Alaska Satellite Facility at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, NASA's processor and distributor for this type of data. The images reveal an unprecedented view of sea ice, waves, forests, glaciers and more.
"It was awesome because I was resurrecting data that nobody has seen in 35 years, pictures of the earth from when I was a child," said Tom Logan, the software engineer who processed the data.
The NASA Seasat satellite was launched in June 1978 as proof of concept for using satellites to monitor ocean features—like temperatures, wind and waves. Four months later, a major power failure killed the mission. For 35 years much of the imagery was stowed away in filing cabinets.
Now the data has been processed into several thousand unique gray-scale images of the earth's surface, each displaying 100-square-kilometer sections in high resolution.
Data was collected over all of North America and much of northern Europe, so there is imagery of the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, and other surrounding waters. You can detect whether lakes are frozen or thawed, the pattern of waves, and even boats.
"It's a little boat with a big V visible from the ship's wake," Logan said.
This mission was NASA's debut of synthetic aperture radar (or SAR) in space. SAR bounces a little pulse of energy off the surface of the earth and listens for the echo with an antenna. It's "synthetic" because it collects the echoes from many radar pulses and processes them into a single radar image.
"It's like combining 1,500 looks at the ground into one look," Logan said.
This information can be used by a wide range of scientists. A biologist studying the impact of climate change on the boreal forest can now rewind to see the land cover back in 1978. A geophysicist studying receding sea ice has even older baseline data to compare rates of melting and other qualities.
"You can determine the age of the sea ice, whether it's multi-year or new ice. And you can watch the ice move so you can see fracture patterns and see how the ice floes work," Logan said.
Radar can see through darkness and clouds, unlike other monitoring tools. This can be handy for researchers looking at glaciers or volcanoes in the middle of nowhere, far from GPS stations or cameras.
"That's really the niche that SAR data fills, the ability to provide data about some geographic feature that scientists can't get in any other fashion," said Gwen Bryson, a data quality engineer on the project.
If the satellite had circled the earth more times, you could even clock the movement of glaciers and watch the inflation and deflation of volcanoes.
The release was partly spurred by growing demand for the data by the science community. Plus there are no other SAR "birds" in space right now.
"There's nothing new coming in, so let's go back and mine what has previously been taken," Bryson said.
It's also more accessible than ever. Using 1980s technology, it would have taken a week to process five scenes, Logan said.
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Yet it didn't happen at the click of a mouse. First he had to clean some "bit rot" off of data that had been sitting on aging tapes for decades. Then he filtered the data six times to make sure the metadata (time, coordinates) for the imagery was correct. After developing software to decode telemetry and sort the data, he configured the files so they could be synthesized into single images.
"I don't think anybody has dealt with SAR data this old," Logan said. "It took a lot of creative problem solving to figure out the best way to get the raw data to be correct."
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Dr. Lynn Carlson is excellent with chronic symptoms and diseases and also how to get your body back in balance. The idea behind functional medicine is that we search for the "Why you are hurting or experiencing the symptom", not just the "What symptom are you experiencing". For example, many people have feelings of sadness, apathy, lack of appetite and other things and many doctors might say "Ah hah! I know what you have, it's depression!" and then they might give you a prescription for Prozac and other medications to help. We all know that the definition of depression isn't that we have a "Prozac deficiency". So what functional medicine does is say, yes, you have all these symptoms, but let's focus on why and see if we can't find the causes and imbalances that make you feel depressed, as people can all experience the same symptoms but have very different causes. Depression is just an easy example of the difference in practice of medicine, but the results are incredible!
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The 24-year-old Huebner was the cousin of Chadron State College football player Bryce Huebner.
Two others in the pickup…24-year-old Micah Koch and 28-year-old Jay Shotkoski…were taken to Great Plains Regional Medical Center in North Platte. Sheriff Kramer has not said whether Koch or Shotkoski was the driver, but does says alcohol is believed to be involved. The crash investigation is continuing.


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"Today Show" Brings Politics to UT Campus
Published: Sep 23, 2008
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Before the sun rose on The University of Tampa campus, gigantic studio lights illuminated a crowd of more than 1,200 people waiting among TV cameras in front of UT's Plant Hall.
With the Tampa skyline as a backdrop, NBC's Matt Lauer took a place in front of the Plant Hall fountain, amid the cheers of hundreds of onlookers, where he announced the live broadcast of the "Today Show."
The popular morning TV news show set up shop at UT on Tuesday to highlight Florida's impact on the upcoming presidential election. The Tampa visit was just one stop the show is making throughout the week as it examines the so-called "battleground" states in the election.
Among the several news segments devoted to the election-related coverage was a pre-taped interview with Scott Paine, UT associate professor of government and world affairs, and interviews conducted via satellite with presidential hopefuls John McCain and Barack Obama. Florida Gov. Charlie Crist also made an appearance on campus for an interview with Lauer.
For senior film students Kenisha Walsh and Allison Koslow, the task of escorting the Governor to his seat on Plant Hall's east verandah was just one of many duties as they spent the day assisting the anchors and on-site producers. Having worked on small film productions before, the "Today Show" was the first time both students had participated in the making of a live TV production.
"Live TV is very different because time is critical," Walsh said. "Every minute counts."
For the crowd of onlookers, the minute-by-minute action guided their attention and excitement from one side of the makeshift TV studio to the other as the TV cameras scanned over the many banners and homemade signs held up by the numerous political enthusiasts who were in attendance. Members of UT's College Democrats and College Republicans wielded their own signs and banners promoting Obama and McCain respectively.
Standing in front of the crowd, NBC anchor and weatherman Al Roker delivered the morning's weather report in between chats with onlookers and the filming of promotional segments for WFLA, the local NBC affiliate. Roker also interviewed Shehila Rae Stephens, a UT senior sociology student from Denver.
In between news segments, the cameras also took in performances by the UT Spartan Band and a step dance routine by members of UT's National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC).
Toward the conclusion of the three-hour show, Lauer conducted a brief interview with University president Ronald Vaughn.
"We get some very interesting and entertaining things every year," Vaughn said. "Certainly this is one of the most exciting."
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State law enforcement will be out in force over the Fourth of July holiday weekend, looking for drunk drivers.
The Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security and the Tennessee Highway Patrol said Monday their increased enforcement will begin at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, July 3 and ending at 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, July 7.
During the campaign, they will operate under a "No Refusal" policy in several counties, which means law enforcement can seek search warrants for blood samples in cases involving suspected impaired drivers. The counties include Knox, Sevier, Cocke, and Cumberland Counties.
The state says 21 people died in 17 crashes on Tennessee roadways during the 2012 Fourth of July holiday period. That's a fatality rate of one death every six hours. Of the twenty-one people killed last year, 10 (47.6%) were alcohol related. Seven of the 18 (38.9%) vehicle occupants killed were not wearing safety restraints. Three motorcyclists also died during last year's July 4th holiday period.
"We are proud to again partner with various local law enforcement officials, prosecutors and judges across the state in a "No Refusal" enforcement campaign during the Fourth of July holiday period. Drunk driving is a threat to public safety, and this specialized enforcement gives us another tool to combat impaired driving and reduce fatal crashes in Tennessee," Commissioner Bill Gibbons said.
AAA expects more than 40 million travelers will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Independence Day holiday.
"State Troopers will aggressively seek out impaired drivers to ensure the safety of every Tennessee citizen and traveler during this holiday period," THP Colonel Tracy Trott said. "In addition, we also urge motorists to wear their safety restraints and make sure all occupants are buckled up. When it comes to traffic safety, no one is above the law or invincible. The dangers of impaired or distracted driving and not wearing a seat belt are real, and often times, deadly," he added.
During the first six months of 2013, the state says preliminary statistics show 100 people died in traffic crashes that involved alcohol (22.9%) and 46.3 percent of vehicle occupant deaths were unrestrained motorists. As of July 1, 2013, preliminary statistics indicate 436 have died on Tennessee roadways, a decrease of 70 deaths (-13.8%) compared to this same time last year.
As part of the THP's high visibility enforcement effort, you will likely see sobriety, driver's license and seat belt checkpoints, bar and tavern checks, and saturation patrols across the state.


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This is one in a series summarizing notable comments being filed to the FCC on its AM revitalization NPRM. Read other summaries at radioworld.com/amcomments.
Nonbroadcast interference to AM radio is not going away.
That's according to engineer Sam Brown, who believes the FCC is asking the right questions when it comes to helping those who own stations on the beleaguered AM band.
His is one of the now 200 or so filings to the FCC regarding the agency's rulemaking on AM revitalization. Brown, a radio and telecom professional in the Washington area is also a former AM station owner. Currently, he works for NPR's Public Radio Satellite System, however he filed his comments as an individual.
The common use of compact fluorescent lights, computers and appliances with microprocessors results in so many interference sources that it's impossible to track them all, he tells the commission. Reduced audience and multiple alternatives to AM have created less public demand for noninterfering equipment, he tells the agency. "Imagine if a new light bulb had been brought to market in 1966, but it interfered heavily with AM reception. This was [a] time when listeners routinely tuned into stations that were well below 2 mv/m. If people at the far end of Long Island couldn't get WABC, or folks on Cape Cod lost WRKO, or Washington no longer had cool top 40 from Baltimore's WCAO, it would have been unacceptable. Most purchasers would have returned their bulbs, complaining that 'my radios didn't work when I used your product.' Apartment buildings and condos would have banned them due to interference with neighbors' reception."
He continues: "Today, the remaining niche AM listeners know that "it works in some places and not others," or "some noise is normal," and most people listen to FM, MP3s or Internet radio."
Brown supports the concept favored by many previous filers to open a special application window for those AM owners who would like to apply for an FM translator. "Many AM stations, particularly those outside of urban areas, serve several distinct communities within their coverage area. Additionally, directional stations often have two or three lobes in their patterns. There are also situations where a suitable antenna site for a translator that would best serve the station's coverage may be unavailable, infeasible or prohibitively costly" he writes. In those cases, a single FM transmission may make that AM viable, according to the engineer.
Because some have filers have suggested to the FCC that no new AMs should be licensed, and others should stop operations, Brown suggests this argument be carried further and that those AMs "benefitting sufficiently" from an FM translator should be able to discontinue their AM operation. "There are already AM stations which mention only the FM translator frequency, and a listener would not even know they have an AM signal unless aware of the meaning of a quickly-uttered legal ID. AM power, towers, maintenance and land may be unnecessary expenses undertaken primarily to feed a 250 W FM 'station,' which just happens to be a translator."
The 87.7 MHz frequency should be available for translators of AM stations in areas where no TV station transmits on Channel 6, he suggests. Regarding so-called "Franken FMs," our words, not his, low-power TV stations on Channel 6 that transmit their analog audio on this signal have demonstrated an ability to garner "significant' audience, he tells the commission. "Channel 200, 87.9 MHz in the reserved band is only assigned to two stations nationwide, thus leaving 87.7 MHz available in many places that would otherwise be out of frequencies," according to Brown. He suggests a larger discussion needs to take place about expanding the FM band to accommodate AMs, but says this change could be implemented regardless of whether a larger expansion occurs or not.
Regarding HD Radio, all-digital operation should continue to be tested and encouraged if it works well, however he recommends eliminating hybrid IBOC AM altogether: "It is a 'clear failure,' as the coverage is very limited, the interference with adjacent and second-adjacent stations is substantial, and the switching back and forth between digital and analog audio bandwidth and fidelity makes it virtually unlistenable." He also recommends FM stations should be encouraged to lease HD multicast channels to AM broadcasters.
The deadline to file reply comments to Docket 13-249 is today, March 20.
Watch our page radioworld.com/amcomments for summaries of other comments to the FCC NPRM.
I am curious whether DRM will be better able to handle the interference?
I might be late to the party here. Most of the comments here seem to be from people working in the broadcasting industry or 'old timers'.
As a common man and a young listener, I don't care about AM revitalization for the simple reason that I can't even listen to AM radio. Except for 2 very strong local stations in the car, I can't listen to any AM station. There is so much interference that it is impossible to decipher what is being said. And, I do have a DSP receiver both at home and in the car which operate on digital IF and do try to clean up the signal. Still it is impossible to listen to any station other than the strongest one.
I don't have much hope for AM in its present form. In 30 years, both the stations and the listeners will be dead.
Last week, I got a call from the new RFI Guy at our local power company, telling me he was just given a Trouble Ticket for an interference problem that had my name on it.
After several minutes of "head-scratching", we were able to ascertain that it was from a call I made to their hot-line last fall, when a freak snow storm made the interference on my Sunday morning commute so bad that I thought a sub-station was about to shut down. I had called and identified myself, including the fact that I have chased RFI for them in the past, and that I was concerned for their equipment and a potential holiday outage (the radio noise was deafening, and sounded like recurring flash-overs on an insulator).
"The 87.7 MHz frequency should be available for translators of AM stations in areas where no TV station transmits on Channel 6"
Why not also include 87.5 MHz in the above ?
A sizeable proportion of existing radios will tune to 87.5 MHz.
87.5 would not be any more of an interference risk to distant Channel 6 digital TV than is the case with 87.7, and is less risk (than 87.7) of any interference to distant low-power analog TV (which can continue until September 2015) on channel 6.
87.5 would be in addition to (not a replacement) of a station's existing AM frequency, no existing listeners would loose out.
I'm a AM listener, mostly sports talk.
This past weekend I had to replace my Dell computer monitor.
When the monitor was on, I could not pick up anything above 800Khz. It was a constant hum.
I ended up spending $199.00 on a new AOC monitor. I would not purchase another noise making Dell. I actually walked into Best Buy with a transistor radio and found a monitor that wasn't emitting noise on the AM band.
Now, I can be on the PC and listen to the sports talk on the highend of the dial.
The way I see it, I was forced to spend the 199 bucks because there seems to be no type of AM noise regulation. Someone else in my situation might not have the 199 dollars, there goes another AM listener. FCC has got to crack down with this type of interference!
"If people at the far end of Long Island couldn't get WABC"
How can I on the east end of Long Island be able to get in crystal clear on the crappiest of radios CHML out of Southern Ontario yet I can't get in crystal clear WABC?
What Canada do that America no do?
Well, I have CFL's, and a computer that's always on. I live in a city, and I occasionally listen to AM with very little noise.
Seems to me, it's the type of CFL. And the type of computer.
I believe that the interference problem can be solved, but it will require the FCC to get tough on external devices.
And I hope they do so before a plane crashes. But that's another story.
The best and most honest comments yet. OBVIOUSLY, non-broadcast AM interference is NOT going away, and in fact, likely will get significantly worse. The FCC attampts to police that non-broadcast interference are not only absolutely futile, but also a tremendouse waste of their limited resources.
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