-- Benjamin Franklin

Guardsman Says Iraqi Shooting Self-Defense

Euclid soldier killed in Iraq

Car bomb strikes popular Baghdad restaurant
Iraq's handling of oil sales criticized
Iraq calls on neighbors to help stop terrorists crossing frontier
Iraq will not Allow PKK Terrorism, Says Iraqi PM

UAE paper warns against Iraq civil war
Iraqi Shiite cleric tires to mediate


Various Sources

Four car bombings kill dozens across Iraq
At least 20 killed in bombings near Mosul
Shiite likely to lead constitution panel
285 arrested in U.S.-Iraqi operation
Iraqi security official killed in Baghdad

Karzai, Bush sign US troop agreement
Palestinians announce election delay


Fox News
Baghdad Bomb Kills Six
Alleged Bomb Builder Busted
Super Laser Being Built
Iran OKs Reform Hopefuls
Gaza Security Deal Jammed
Sharon Calls for Coordination
China, Japan Spar Over Shrine
Tony the Tiger's Voice Dies
Senators Compromise on Filibusters, Judges


Department of Defense
Bush, Karzai Formalize Partnership — Story Remarks Photos
Operation Goal: Crack Down on Terrorists — Story

ON THE GROUND
Pallet, Net Recovery Effort Proves Successful — Story
Iraqi Army Ready to Take Reins in Sadr City — Story

IN IRAQ
Multinational Forces Search Hor al Bash
Soldiers Help Improve Baghdad Neighborhood
Seabees, Marines Start Runway Project
Operation Quick Sweep Targets Terrorists

IN AFGHANISTAN
Arctic Warriors Help Build Road, Pull Security

IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Civil Affairs Teams Assist Kenyan Community Project
Troops Build Range for Djiboutian Police, U.S. Troops

IN GEORGIA
U.S. Marines Help Equip Georgian Soldiers

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Indy Speedway Supports Troops — Story
Operation Links Troops, Families

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Base Realignment and Closure 2005

IN IRAQ
Four Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Officials Condemn Photo Release
Crew Safe in Helo Landing
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Warplanes Kill Insurgents
Former Chief Talks Afghanistan
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Bush Topics: Freedom, Terrorism
WMD Support Team Holds Exercise
Device Detects Biological Weapons
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Guard Soldiers Train to Deploy
Rumsfeld, Myers Praise Troops
Congressional Reps Visit Troops
National Guard, Reserve Update

Weather
from The Weather Channel

Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar


Today in History
1626 - Peter Minuit buys Manhattan for trinkets worth approximately $24.
1689 - English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants.
1818 - General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola, FL.
1830 - "Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written; The first passenger rail service in begins in the U.S.
1846 - General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey in Mexican War.
1854 - Anthony Burns, slave, is arrested in Boston by U.S. Deputy Marshals; the first Black college (Lincoln University, PA) forms.
1856 - In Kansas, the Pottawatomie Massacre occurs.
1861 - Federal troops occupy Alexandria, VA; Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves to be "contraband of war."
1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge opens.
1900 - Britain annexes the Orange Free State.
1916 - U.S. pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker.
1921 - Northern Ireland's first parliament is elected.
1922 - Russia and Italy sign a trade agreement.
1931 - Ironically, B&O Railroad installs the first air-conditioned train.
1936 - Dutch bishops forbid membership of the Nazi party.
1940 - The Dutch army demobilizes; German tanks reach Atrecht, France; Hitler affirms General von Rundsted's "Stopbevel."
1941 - The Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 are killed; 3 survive.
1943 - Admiral Dönitz stops a U-boat in in the Atlantic Ocean; U-441 shoots a Sunderland seaplane down over the Gulf of Biskaje.
1951 - Racial segregation in Washington, DC restaurants is ruled to be illegal.
1954 - The first rocket attains an altitude of 150 miles.
1957 - Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan.
1958 - UP and International News Service merge, becoming United Press International.
1959 - The first house with a built-in bomb shelter is exhibited in PA.
1961 - 27 Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, MS; Explorer-12 failes to reach Earth orbit.
1965 - The Supreme Court declares that a federal law allowing the post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional.
1975 - Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4.
1976 - The Concorde flies to Washington; the first commercial SST flight to North America. 1980 - Iran rejects a call by the World Court to release U.S. hostages.
1981 - Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona, Spain.
1983 - Supreme Court rules the government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students.
1989 - French war criminal Paul Touvier is arrested in a monastery in Nice.
1993 - Eritrea achieves independence from Ethiopia after 30 years of civil war.
1993 - A Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey.

Birthdays
15 - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant
1650 - John Churchill, first duke of Marlborough / English general strategist
1738 - King George III of Great-Britain
1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionist
1753 - Oliver Cromwell, African-American Revolutionary war hero, served with Washington
1811 - Confederate Brigadier General Charles Clark
1816 - Emanuel Leutze, painter - Washington Crossing the Delaware; Union Brevet Major General Robert Seaman Granger
1819 - Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain
1854 - Louis Mountbatten, WWI Admiral
1904 - Kenneth Buckley, British Rear-Admiral
1909 - Wilbur Mills (Representative-AR)
1918 - Coleman A. Young, civil rights leader, Mayor of Detroit
1933 - Tony Mullett, Director-General, National Criminal Intelligence Service
1943 - Gary Burghoff, actor (Radar-MASH)
1951 - Ronald A. Parise, Ph.D. /astronaut (STS 35, STS 67)

Passings
1153 - David I, King of Scotland
1543 - Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer
1861 - Elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot
1879 - William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist
1941 - Lancelot Holland, British Vice-Admiral, in battle
1959 - John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State
1981 - Jaime Roldós Aguilera President of Ecuador, in a plane crash
1986 - Stephen D. Thorne Lieutenant, Commander USN/astronaut, in a plane crash
1993 - Milton O. Thompson astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15)

Reported Missing in Action
1968
Rucker, Emmett, Jr., USAF (TX)
Shanks, James Lee, USAF (NY)

1969
Manske, Charles J., USAF (TX)
Montez, Anastacio, US Army SF (TX)

1972
Beeler, Carroll R., USN (TX) Released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well in 1998
Henn, John R., Jr., US Army (MA)