JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
3 charged in plot on U.S. finance centers
LexisNexis: Files may have been breached
Rumsfeld: Don't politicize Iraq military


Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Construction booms in West Bank settlement
Iran won't allow Canada to examine body


Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Developments in Iraq
U.S. Troops Fight Smugglers in Iraq
Senate Won't Boost VA Hospital Spending


Katu.com
Men indicted today won't stand trial soon in US
U-S troops kill unknown number of insurgents in western Iraq
Bush marks anniversary of Baghdad fall, meets with families of fallen troops


The US News: Iraq News
Bush thanks soldiers for serving in Iraq
Iraq insurgents fail to brew chemical arms


CENTCOM
SMUGGLING RING RAIDED NEAR SYRIAN BORDER


Fox News
Deadly New U.S. Raid in Iraq
Top Baathist, Insurgent Nabbed
GIs Accused of Smuggling
Immigration Amendment Ties Up Iraq Spending
Bolton Likely to Be Confirmed
Negroponte: I'll Reform Intel


Department of Defense
Iraq Visit: Rumsfeld Focuses on Progress — Story
Soldiers Cheer Rumsfeld in Surprise Visit Photos
Rumsfeld Visits U.S. Soldiers in Iraq Photos
Rumsfeld in Iraq to Meet Troops, Officials
Bush Thanks Fort Hood Troops, Families — Story Photos
Bolton to Focus on Terror, WMD If Confirmed — Story
Myers: Must Continue to Battle Narcoterrorism — Story
Cooperation Critical to Counter Narcoterrorist Threat

ON THE GROUND
Medical Teams Squash Mosquito Threat — Story
Afghan Toddler Treated at Bagram for Burns — Story
Joint Fuels Effort Keeps Airlift Airborne — Story

IN IRAQ
Balad’s Pharmacy Techs Help Save Lives
Recon Soldiers Scout Desert, Meet Locals
Marne, Rainbow Soldiers Get Combat Patch


IN AFGHANISTAN
Battalion Gets a New Look at Insurgents
Civil Affairs Sergeant Organizes Donations

IN KUWAIT
Expeditionary Medical Facility Dallas Cares for Troops

IN BAHRAIN
Squadron Supports Fleet, Maritime Security Ops in Gulf

IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
Inspection Lab Airmen Play Big Part in Mission

FACE OF DEFENSE
Crew Chief Intrigued by Blackhawk, Chinook Helicopters — Story

Charlie Daniels Band Visits Iraq — Story
Seattle Mariners Salute Troops
Denver Broncos Visit Wounded

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Medal of Honor
Two Years in Iraq
'Gitmo' Detainee Camp

IN IRAQ
U.N. Rep Committed to Iraqi Forces
New President Discusses Coalition
Rebuilding Continues in Diyala
Iraqi Woman-Owned Firm Wins Bid
Iraqi Corps of Engineers Forms
Baghdad Fall Marks New Beginning
Success in Iraq - DoD Fact Sheet
Iraq Daily Update
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Troops Battle Insurgents
Engineer Chief Updates Projects
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting

WAR ON TERRORISM
Troops Bust Smuggling Ring
Guard Medics Return From Exercise
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
BRAC Important for Many Reasons
Moroccan Frigates Guide Kearsarge
National Guard, Reserve Update

HONORING THE FALLEN
Task Force Thunder Honors Fallen — Story

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Marine Casualty — Story


Today in History
1204 - Crusaders occupy Constantinople
1640 - The British Short Parliament forms
1741 - The Dutch protest the bad quality of bread
1796 - Napoleon defeats the Austrians in Millesimo, Italy
1829 - In England, the Emancipation Act grants freedom of religion to Catholics
1860 - The 1st Pony Express arrives in Sacramento, CA
1861 - After 34 hours of bombardment, Fort Sumter surrenders to the Confederates
1863 - Battle of Irish Bend, LA (Fort Bisland)
1865 - Battle of Raleigh NC
1873 - 60 blacks are killed in the Colfax Massacre in Grant Parish, LA
1912 - The Royal Flying Corps, later to become the RAF, forms
1919 - The British Army fires on hundreds of Indian Nationalist rioters, in what will become known as the Amritsar Massacre in India
1920 - Helen Hamilton is appointed as the 1st woman US Civil Service Commissioner
1934 - 4.7 million US families report receiving welfare payments
Congress passes the Johnson Debt Default Act
1940 - In the 2nd battle of Narvik, 8 German destroyers are eliminated
1941 - The Germans assault Tobruk
The Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
1943 - FDR dedicates the Jefferson Memorial
Nazis discover a mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn
1945 - Allied forces occupy Vienna
The Canadian army liberates Teuge & Assen, in the Netherlands
US Marines conquer Minna Shima off Okinawa
1959 - A Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics from voting for communists
1960 - France becomes the 4th nuclear nation, exploding an A-Bomb in Sahara
1961 - The UN General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid
1965 - 16-year-old Lawrence Bradford, Jr. becomes the 1st black Congressional page
1970 - Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as a Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to the Moon
1980 - "TASS" denounces the US boycott of the Moscow Summer Olympics
1983 - Harold Washington is elected as the 1st black mayor of Chicago
The US performs a nuclear test at its Nevada Test Site
1984 - The Challenger returns to Earth from the 11th Space Shuttle
1987 - Portugal signs an agreement to return Macau to China in 1999
1994 - The President guard at Kigali, Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
The Target date for Israeli complete withdrawal passes; it has not occurred.

Birthdays
1519 -Catherine de Médici, Queen of Spain/daughter of Henry II
1545 - Elisabeth van Valois, French queen of Spain/daughter of Henri II
1732 - Frederick Lord North, British PM
1743 - Thomas Jefferson Shadwell VA, 3rd US President
1822 - Leroy Augustus Stafford Confederate Brigadier General
William Stephen Walker, Confederate Brigadier General
1892 - Arthur Harris Cheltenham, Marshal of the RAF
Robert A Watson-Watt England, physicist (radar)
1907 - Harold Stassen West (Governor, MN)
1921 - James Wilson, British Lieutenant-General
1922 - John George Vanderbile Henry Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough
1930 - Justice Harman
1933 - Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Senator-CO)
1935 - Kenneth Hayr, air marshal
Peter Heap, diplomat
1937 - Peter M Harris, Official Solicitor (Supreme Court)
1938 - John Weston, diplomat