News of Note:
Why We Call them Heroes
Inshore Boat Unit 21 Sailors Rescue Child
Recruiter Rewarded for Bravery After Saving Toddler
Coalition Medics Treat Injured Afghan Girl

Operation New Market
U.S. Launches New Iraq Offensive
About 1,000 troops involved in Operation New Market

Other Operation Iraqi Freedom News
U.S. cautious on Zarqawi injury claim
Peace in Iraq 'will take at least five years to impose'
Saddam Created WMD 'Ambiguity'
Suspected Iraqi Insurgent Dons Dress In Attempt To Elude Troops
FSSG Dental treats Iraqis
Humanitarian drops winning hearts and minds, and stomachs, in Iraq

Operation Enduring Freedom
Karzai to Visit Nebraska
Afghan Boy Finds Help in America’s Battalion
Task Force Thunder Prepares to Redeploy

War on Terror
ETA suspected as car bomb explodes in Madrid


JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Car bomb explodes in Madrid
U.S. brochure drops arms-control deals
Embryonic stem cell debate moves to Senate
Senate ready to confirm Owens as judge


Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Europe expected to get tough with Iran


The US News: Iraq
Iraq seeks more international aid
14 U.S. Troops Killed In 3 Days Of Iraq Violence
Web Posting: Iraq al-Qaida Leader Injured
Blast rocks Baghdad following day of carnage
U.S.-Syria relations deteriorate over Iraq
Dozens killed in Iraq attacks
Al-Zarqawi injured in Iraq: website


Various Sources
About 1,000 U.S. troops launch new anti-insurgent offensive in western Iraq
Pfc. England's abuse case goes 'back to square one'
Reagan National Airport to be reopened to private planes
Pastor defends church sign that says Quran 'should be flushed'
Shiite leader says he's sure civil war can be avoided Iraq
Proposal to divide Iraq into semi-autonomous states gains ground
House bill would provide $45B more for war
Attacks, kidnappings claimed by al-Zarqawi
Iraq car bomb blast kills 3 U.S. troops
Six killed in Baghdad car bomb blast


Fox News
Web Site Claims Zarqawi Injured
Shiite Leader: Civil War Avoidable
Iraq Forms Constitutional Committee
Terrorists Fight Against Offensive
Judge Owen to Get Senate Up-or-Down Vote Today
House OKs Stem Cell Bills
Amnesty Int'l Slams U.S.
Sen. Voinovich: Reject Bolton
Madrid Car Bomb Hurts 18
Abbas Ready to Meet Bush
Analyst Faces Spying Charge


Department of Defense
ON THE GROUND
Project Pumps Fresh Water to Zafaraniya — Story
Iraqi Army Aid Missions Foster Goodwill — Story
Campaign Aims to Teach IED Awareness —Story
Afghan Army Launches First Vaccine Program — Story

IN IRAQ
Tenn. Reservists Bring Pride, Tradition to Fallujah
Border Fort Opens on Iran-Iraq Border
Mud School Replacement Projects Finished in Province
Airfield Ops Squadron Works Out of 'Tree House'
Maritime Security Detachment 22 Departs Oil Terminals
Multinational Forces Search Hor al Bash

IN THE PERSIAN GULF
USS Kearsarge Offloads Marines in Kuwait

IN BAHRAIN
Kearsarge Sailors, Marines Make a Difference

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Secretary’s Message to the Troops — Message
USO-BWI Supports Troops — Story
Foundation Helps 9-11 Families

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Base Realignment and Closure 2005
Medal of Honor
Two Years in Iraq

IN IRAQ
Attacks Kill Soldiers; Terrorists Held
Operation Aim: Terror Crackdown
Al-Hartha Police Station Opens
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Bush, Karzai Formalize Partnership
Photos: Karzai Visits Pentagon
Defense Leaders' Views on Afghanistan
Enduring Freedom Marks 3 Years
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

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

MILITARY NEWS
Wounded Return Home to Recover
Official Addresses EO Conference
Troops Prepare Bosnians to Deploy
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualties — Story


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
585 BC - In Greece, Thales makes the first known prediction of a solar eclipse.
1085 - Alfonso VI takes Toledo, Spain from the Muslims.
1706 - The British fleet captures the island of Majorca.
1787 - The Constitutional convention opens at Philadelphia with George Washington presiding.
1810 - Argentina declares independence from Napoleonic Spain.
1851 - Jose Justo de Urquiza of Argentina leads a rebellion against his former ally.
1911 - Porfirio Diaz, President of Mexico, resigns his office.
1914 - The British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule.
1925 - John Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwinian theory in school.
1940 - The German Second Panzer Division captures the French port of Boulogne.
1946 - Jordan gains independence from Britain.
1953 - The first atomic cannon is fired.
1969 - A military coup overthrows the Sudanese government.
1978 - "Star Wars" is released.
1979 - Israel begins to return Sinai to Egypt; American Airlines Flight #191, a DC-10, loses its left-side engine upon takeoff and crashes, killing 273 on board and 2 on the ground. It remains the worst air disaster in U.S. history.
1982 - Iran reconquers Khorramshar.
1983 - "Return of the Jedi" (Star Wars Episode VI) is released.
1989 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected Executive President of the Soviet Union.
1991 - Israel evacuates 14,000 Ethiopian Jews.


Birthdays
1889 - Igor Sikorsky, American aviation engineer; developed the first helicopter.
1927 - Robert Ludlum, spy novelist (The Bourne Identity)
1932 - Georgi Mikhailovich Grechko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 17, 26, T-14)
1933 - Roger Bowen, actor (M*A*S*H)
1944 - Frank Oz, puppeteer (Sesame St, Muppet Show)

Passings
0946 - Edmund the Older, king of Wessex/England
1125 - Hendrik V, last Salische German king
1926 - Symon Petlyura, leader of Ukraine (pogroms), assassinated
1946 - Patty Smith Hill, songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
1949 - Simon H Spoor, intelligence officer/general (WW II)
1968 - George KFW von Kochler, German marshal
1986 - Chester Bowles, U.S. senator/ambassador
1992 - Philip C. Habib, U.S. diplomat (Middle-East/Asia) ; Viktor Grishin, hardline soviet communist
1996 - David W. Howe, test pilot
1997 - Muhammad Fadhel, PM of Iraq 1953-54