-- former POW Paul A. Kari

News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Tribunal airs 'Chemical Ali' testimony
Iraq announces arrest of terror suspect
U.S. Marines rescue tortured Iraqis
RAF joins US forces in Iraq assault
Casper and Sheridan army reservists leave for Iraq
Released Australian Hostage Apologizes for His Plea to Withdraw Troops in Iraq

Operation Enduring Freedom
CIA Chief: 'Excellent Idea' Where Bin Laden Hiding
Eighteen Taliban Terrorists Killed in Afghan Clashes

Gitmo
Hunter: Gitmo Release Policy 'Too Liberal'
Durbin Clarifies Gitmo Remarks
Administration Appalled by Durbin Remarks
Inside Gitmo - Fox News Photo Essay

Who Didn't See This Coming?
Withdrawal Chorus Rises - Some politicians begin using Iraq exit strategy as a political pitch to voters
Vote-Rigging Feared in Iran

Oh, the Irony
Terrorist Slams Democratic Reforms

Fox News
Homicide Bomber Kills 20, Wounds 100 in Iraq
Baghdad Blast Rips Through Eatery
GIs Kill About 50 Terrorists in Iraq
'Operation Spear' Launched in Iraq
Rice Calls for Democratic Reforms in Muslim World
Bush May Temporarily Bypass Senate on Bolton
Testimony Shows FBI Did Not Seek Mideast Experts

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press

Suicide bomber kills 20 at Iraq police HQ
Rice promotes democracy in Muslim world

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq

Rice makes case for democracy in Egypt
Iran run-off front-runner chides clerics
Suicide bomber kills 20 at Iraq police HQ
Anti-Syrians headed for victory in Lebanon
Israel, Palestinians work on Gaza pullout
Barzani wants Kurdish recognition
3 Israelis wounded by Palestinian gunmen

Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Car bombs hit Baghdad and north Iraq, 17 dead
Iraqi government makes international debut in Brussels
Iraq Leaders Seek Europe, Mideast Backing
Iraqis Found in Torture House Tell of Brutality of Insurgents
U.S. pursues militants; 21 more deaths reported

The US News: Iraq News
Iraq the central front in war on terror, says Bush
Some Iraqi legislators seek U.S. pullout
Politics, military defeat insurgency
Foreign fighters increase in Iraq
Hamdan bin Zayed receives Iraqi Minister of Defence
Sheikh thanks Iraqis for Wood
4 Iraqis found alive in torture center
Iraqis, Coalition Combine to Snare Terror Leaders
Iraq Resumes N Oil Export Flow; S Exports Normal -Source
Robots save lives in Iraq
Americans bombard Iraq border town
Kiwi training for Iraqis
Briefing About Iraqi Kurdistan
Iraqi army and Coalition Forces secure hospital for inspection
No infiltration into Iraq: Saudi
At least three Iraqis killed in Tikrit attack on US base
McCain Expects U.S. in Iraq 2 More Years
23 slain in Baghdad bombing as US, Iraqi forces hit rebels near Syrian border
Iraq's al Qaeda slams Al Jazeera as pro-US
Iraqi Pipelines Getting Protection

Department of Defense
Rice: Progress in Iraq Can't be Ignored — Story
Patience Needed as Democracy Emerges
U.S., Iraqis Continue Operation Spear in Iraq — Story
Operations Result in Captures, Arms-Cache Discovery
Baghdad Attacks Kill, Wound Iraqi Civilians — Story
Iraqis, Coalition Forces Combine to Snare Terror Leaders
Militants Die in U.S. Air Strikes in Afghanistan — Story
Bush Asks Americans to Unite Against Terror — Story

ON THE GROUND
U.S., Iraqi Soldiers Reverse Effects of War — Story
Kitchen Builders Serve Up Safer Humvees — Story
Mississippi Guard Troops Patrol for Insurgents — Story

IN IRAQ
Woman Soldier Receives Silver Star for Valor
Iraqis Prepare for Oil Platform Security Duties
U.S. Army Doctors Offer Hope, Health to Iraqis

IN AFGHANISTAN
Bagram Groundbreaking Marks Hospital Start
Infantry Course Provides Realistic Training

FACE OF DEFENSE
First Female Pilot Joins 2006 Thunderbirds Team — Story

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Insurgency Unpopular in Iraq
Two Soldiers, Two Marines Killed
Soldier Charged in Deaths
Leader Talks of Progress in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Soldiers Wounded by IED
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting

WAR ON TERRORISM
DoD Supports Stabilization Office
Officials Detail Detainee Efforts
Progress in WMD Countermeasure
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Influencers Can Affect Recruiting
National Guard, Reserve Update

Weather
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Iraq
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Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
1567 - Jews are expelled from Brazil.
1756 - 146 British soldiers are imprisoned in the 'Black Hole of Calcutta'; most will die there.
1779 - Battle of Stone Ferry
1782 - Congress approves the Great Seal of the U.S., and the eagle as its symbol.
1791 - King Louis XVI is caught trying to escape the French Revolution.
1793 - Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin.
1837 - Queen Victoria ascends British throne at 18.
1863 - The National Bank of Davenport, IA, becomes the first bank chartered in the U.S.
1863 - West Virginia becomes the 35th U.S. state.
1867 - President Andrew Johnson announces the purchase of Alaska.
1893 - Lizzie Borden is acquitted of murder in New Bedford, MA.
1900 - In China, the Boxer Rebellion begins.
1911 - In New York, the NAACP is incorporated.
1943 - British troops launch Operation Bellicose, the first 'shuttle bombing' raid of WWII.
1944 - Congress charters the Central Intelligence Agency.
1947 - President Truman vetoes the Taft-Hartley Act.
1963 - The U.S. and U.S.S.R. agree to set up a 'Hot Line.'
1964 - General William Westmoreland succeeds General Paul Harkins as head of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV).

Birthdays
1899 - Jean Moulin hero of the French Resistance during WW II
1945 - James F Buchli New Rockford ND, USMC/astr (STS 51C, 61A, 29, 48)
1953 - Brian Duffy Boston Mass, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 45)

Passings
1837 - King William IV of England
1947 - Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel, gangster, shot
1966 - Georges Lemaître, originator of "Big Bang" Theory

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Kari, Paul A., USAF (OH); According to him, this is the first F4C shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - alive as of 1998

1966
McDonough, John R., USNR (NJ); bridle connecting cable from launch catapault to EA1F broke; insufficient launch speed, plane sank - Killed, body not recovered
Tunnell, John W., USN (CA); A1H lost over water - KIA, body not recovered

1968
McCain, Marvin Raymond, Jr., US Army (AL); KIA, remains recovered August, 1973