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Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraq Chopper Crash
Freed hostage describes Iraq captivity

Operation Enduring Freedom
U.S. Retakes Taliban Base

Fox News
Gas Prices Near Record High
Rice Seeks End to Israeli Settlement Expansion
Transcript: Rumsfeld on 'FNS'
Jordan Rejects Saddam Novel
Rumsfeld Urges Patience on Iraq
Insurgents Attack Across Iraq

Video
Bush Meets Iraqi PM
Are Iraqi Airports Targets?
13 Wounded in Terror Attack

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iran new leader to restart nuke program
Baghdad's airport reopens amid dispute
Rafsanjani turned off the poor
Rumsfeld: Iraq insurgency could last years
Libyan opposition seeks to topple Gadhafi
Egypt police encircle anti-torture protest
Israeli troops flatten Gaza buildings
Turkey won't accept any new EU criteria
Iran president-elect vows to pursue nukes
Jordan bars publication of Saddam novel
Video shows questioning of Saddam brothers
Israel begins demolishing empty Gaza homes
Syrian human rights activist acquitted
Suicide bombs kill at least 31 in Iraq
Suicide bomber kills 5 in Mosul

Reuters: Top News
3 Kenyans acquitted of conspiracy in hotel blast
West views Iran's president-elect with concern
U.S. plans new move against weapons proliferation
CNOOC heads to U.S. with bid for Unocal
U.S. to resume plutonium 238 production-report
Deep Throat's former FBI boss breaks public silence
Settlers opposing pullout erect new Gaza outpost
S.Korea provides additional fertilizer aid to North
U.S. plans new move against weapons proliferation
Ahmadinejad 'no friend' of democracy -Rumsfeld

Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Iraqi PM in London for talks with Blair
U.S. Plans Expansion of Crowded Iraq Prisons
Suicide Car Bomb Kills 6 at Home of Iraqi Officer
Freed hostage tells of killings

Department of Defense
Rumsfeld: 'Solid Progress' Made in Iraq — Story
Iraq's Shiia Majority Earns Rumsfeld's Praise — Story
Rumsfeld Addresses Military Detainee Issues — Story
Defense Secretary Discusses Iraqi Forces — Story
Abizaid: Insurgents Have 'No Chance' — Story
Army Not Broken by Commitments, Challenges — Story
Bush Discusses Iraq Strategy for Victory — Story

ON THE GROUND
Abizaid Visits Afghan National Army Troops — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Washington Nationals Salute Troops — Story
Summer Camps Start Second Year
Vietnam Vet Walks for Families

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Bush: No Departure Timetable Set
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)
'Eye on Iraq' (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting

WAR ON TERRORISM
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Review Looks at Instructor Training
National Guard, Reserve Update





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Afghanistan
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Today in History
1847 - NYC and Boston are first linked by telegraph wires.
1862 - Day 3 of the 7 Days - Battle of Gaines' Mill.
1864 - Battle of Kennesaw Mountain
1929 - NYC sees the first demonstration of a color TV.
1934 - Federal Savings & Loan Association is created.
1942 - The FBI captures eight Nazi saboteurs from a sub off the coast of Long Island.
1944 - The Allies capture Cherbourg, France.
1950 - The UN Security Council calls on members to send troops to aid South Korea; President Truman orders the Air Force and Navy into Korea; the U.S. sends 35 military advisors to South Vietnam.
1954 - Near Moscow, the first atomic power station opens; CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow the government of Guatemala.
1962 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes the X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m.
1963 - USAF Major Robert A. Rushworth reaches 86,900 m in the X-15.
1973 - John W. Dean testifies in front of the Watergate Committee.
1977 - A 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise.
1978 - Soyuz 30 carries two cosmonauts to the Salyut 6 space station; the first oceanographic satellite, the U.S. Seasat 1, is launched into polar orbit.
1982 - The fourth Space Shuttle Mission (Columbia 4) launches.
1983 - NASA launches the space vehicle S-205; the Soyuz T-9 carries two cosmonauts to the Salyut 7 space station.
1984 - The Supreme Court ends the NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts.
1986 - The U.S. informs New Zealand it will not defend it against attack; the World Court rules U.S. aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal.
1987 - Supreme Court Justice Powell retires

Birthdays
1462 - King Louis XII (the Just) of France
1550 - King Charles IX of France
1682 - King Charles XII of Sweden
1880 - Helen Keller blind-deaf author/lecturer
1900 - Otto E. Passman (Rep-LA,)
1927 - Bob Keeshan (aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle the Clown)
1937 - Joseph P. Allen IV, Ph. D. /astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A)
1938 - Bruce E. Babbitt (Gov-AL)
1951 - Sidney M. Gutierrez, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 40)

Passings
1829 - James Smithson, whose will established the Smithsonian Institute

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Jackson, Carl E., USAF (LA); C123 shot down; KIA, body not recovered
Roth, Billie L., USAF (IL); C123 shot down; KIA, body not recovered

1966
Smith, Gene A., USN (UT); A4E shot down; remains returned March, 1989

1968
Giammerino, Vincent F., US Army (NY); disappeared while on patrol

1969
Jablonski, Michael J., US Army (IL); drowned in river while on patrol, body not recovered

1972
Baker, David E., USAF (NY); O2A shot down, released by PRG February, 1973, retired as a Brig. General - alive and well as of 1998 - *** Veteran of Desert Storm (F-15E)***
Cerak, John P., USAF (NJ); F4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998
Dingee, David B., USAF (CT); F4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973, retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
Francis, Richard L., USAF (OK); F4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973, retired as a Lt. Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
Hanton, Thomas J., USAF (CA); F4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998 - *** Veteran of Desert Storm (AWACS / EC-130H) ***
McDow, Richard H., USAF (AL); F4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973, retired as a Lt. Colonel - alive and well as of 1998 ***Veteran of Desert Storm (A-10) ***
Sullivan, Farrell J., USAF (TX); F4E shot down, remains returned June, 1983