News of Note
If you read nothing else today, read this one:
Al Qaeda Manual Drives Detainee Behavior — If you're a Muslim extremist captured while fighting your holy war against "infidels," avoid revealing information at all costs, don't give your real name and claim that you were mistreated or tortured during your detention. Story

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraqis Nabbed Near Border- Video: Border Bust

Operation Enduring Freedom
SERVICE MEMBER MISSING (CENTCOM News Release)

Fallen Heroes
Military: 17 Believed Dead in Chopper Crash

War on Terror / Homeland Security
U.S. Capitol Briefly Evacuated
U.S. reiterates $5M reward for hijackers

Well, at least we know where all that U.S. funding is going...
U.N. Probes 'Secret Prisons'
3 more oil-for-food reports to be issued

Other News of Note
New Freedom Tower Design

Fox News
Bush Announces New FBI Unit
Blair 'Astonished' by Claims U.S. Rushed to War
Settlers Protest Gaza Plan

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraqi forms political front for insurgents
Lebanese lawmakers nominate prime minister
ICC lays out prosecution plans for Sudan
Hezbollah attack wounds 6 Israeli soldiers
Iran council OKs presidential vote results
Ex-Gitmo inmate acquitted of all charges
Iraq captors free Turkish businessman
Iran's new president now looks to economy
Saudi official warns of more terrorism
Jewish settlers clash with Palestinians
Syria and Iraq discuss restoring full ties

Reuters: Top News
White House endorses U.S. intelligence changes
Israeli army ejects rightist Jews from Gaza outpost
Judge gives extension to reporters in leak probe

CENTCOM: News Release
UPDATE: U.S. HELICOPTER CRASHES NEAR ASADABAD

Department of Defense
Pentagon Holds Global Town Hall Meeting — Story
Senate Holds Leader Confirmation Hearings — Story
Bush Discusses U.S. Troop Levels in Iraq — Story Photos Transcript
President: U.S. Will Remain Until Job is Done
Officials: Religious Practices Respected — Story
Detainees Treated Humanely

ON THE GROUND
Marines Give, Receive Key Insights in Georgia — Story
Training for Iraq Boosts Security in Caucasus
Iraqi Police Train for 'Hardest Job in the World' — Story
Operation Diablo Reach Back Targets Militia — Story

IN IRAQ
Airman Tests New Body Armor
Former Professor, Students to Deploy to Iraq
Engineers' Gulf Region Division Has New Commander
Soldiers Bring Fresh Drinking Water to Iraqis
Airborne Army Medics Work to Save Lives
Battalion Aid Station Finds Order in Chaos

IN AFGHANISTAN
Mountain Warfare Instructors Train Troops Photos
Deployed Marine Shares Combat Skills

FACE OF DEFENSE
Engineer Helps Iraqis Rebuild — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Leaders Call on American Support — Story
Couple Helps War-Wounded GIs
President Thanks Troops
Baseball Pitchers Show Support

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Task Force Liberty Find Caches
Rumsfeld Discusses Media Focus
Rice Topic: Progress, Insurgents
Focus on Progress, Leaders Say
Momentum Favors Democracy
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)
'Eye on Iraq' (pdf)
Fact Sheet: Helping Women in Iraq

IN AFGHANISTAN
NATO Unit Deploys to Afghanistan
Afghans Rescued from Floodwaters
Afghan Ready to Begin West Point
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Camp Paves Way for Future Ops
DoD Works to Improve Detainee Ops
Detainees Medical Policy Reaffirmed
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
17 Aboard Crashed Chinook
Families to Receive MIA Remains
Hearing Looks at Overseas Basing
Educators Seek Ways to Help Kids
Hill Hearing: Veterans' Health Care
Reserves, Guard Bring Vital Skills
FDIC Supports Guard, Reserves
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty — Story

PHOTO ESSAY - JOINT MISSION, DELES, IRAQ
More Photos More Photo Essays

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

Gitmo

Today in History
1294 - Jews are expelled from Berne, Switzerland.
1794 - Battle of Fort Recovery, Ohio.
1834 - Congress creates the Indian Territory (Oklahoma).
1859 - Charles Blondin becomes the first to cross Niagara Falls - on a tightrope.
1862 - Day 6 of the 7 Days - Battle of White Oak Swamp.
1893 - The Excelsior diamond (a 995 carat blue-white diamond) is discovered.
1894 - Korea declares independence from China, requesting Japanese aid.
1914 - Mahatma Gandhi's is arrested for the first time.
1934 - In the "Night of the Long Knives," Hitler purges the Nazi Party.
1936 - The federal 40-hour work week law is approved.
1939 - The Heinkel He. 176 rocket plane takes its maiden flight.
1940 - The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is established.
1942 - The New Orleans U.S. Mint in New Orleans closes down.
1950 - President Truman orders American troops into Korea.
1956 - Over the Grand Canyon, a United Airlines DC-7 and a TWA Super Constellation collide, killing 128.
1960 - Zaire (then the Belgian Congo) gains independence from Belgium.
1961 - Explorer-12 fails to reach an Earth orbit.
1962 - Rwanda and Burundi become independent.
1964 - Centaur-3 fails to reach an Earth orbit.
1967 - Major Robert H. Lawrence, Jr., is named as the first African-American astronaut .
1971 - Ohio becomes the 38th state to approve lowering the voting age to
18, thereby ratifying the 26th Amendment.
1972 - The first leap second day
1977 - Jimmy Carter cans the B-1A bomber; he later "B-1's the B-52"; the U.S. Railway Post Office makes its final train run (NY to DC).
1981 - China's Communist Party condemns the Mao Tse-tung's policies during the Cultural Revolution
1982 - The Federal Equal Rights Amendment misses ratification by three states.
1985 - The 39 remaining hostages from Flight 847 are freed in Beirut. (for info, see here, here, here, and here)
1989 - Attorney General Thornburgh orders Joseph Doherty (IRA) deported to the UK; Congressman Lukins is convicted of having sex with a 16-year-old girl; NASA closes down its tracking stations in Santiago, Chile and Guam; the NY State Legislature passes the Staten Island seccession bill.

Birthdays
1470 - King Charles VIII of France
1768 - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, First Lady
1819 - William A. Wheeler, 19th Vice President
1837 - Stephen D. Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to become a Major General

Passings
1961 - Dr. Lee De Forest, radio pioneer
1971 - Three cosmonauts, as Soyuz XI depressurizes during reentry
1974 - Mrs. Albert King, Sr. (mother of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.), murdered in church

Reported Missing in Action
1967
Allen, Merlin R.; USMC (WI); CH46A shot down, KIA, body not recovered
Cole, Legrande O., Jr., USN (CT); A4C shot down, remains returned May, 1989
House, John A. II, USMC (NY); pilot of CH46A shot down, KIA, body not recovered
Howard, Luther H., US Army (NC); drowned, body not recovered
Judd, Michael B. , USMC (OH); CH46A shot down, body not recovered
Killen, John D. III, USMC (IA); CH46A shot down, KIA, body not recovered
McGrath, John Michael, USN (CO); A4C shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998
Runnels, Glyn L., Jr., USMC (AL); CH46A shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1970
Bell, Marvin E., USAF (AR); HH53C shot down while attempting to rescue a downed pilot, remains returned March, 1995**
Burgess, John L., US Army (MI); UH1H shot down, KIA, body not recovered
Dean, Michael F. USAF (CA); HH53C shot down while attempting to rescue a downed pilot, remains returned March, 1995**
Goeglein, John W., USAF (MO); HH53C shot down while attempting to rescue a downed pilot, remains returned March, 1995**
Hill, Gordon Clark, USAF (WA); F4E shot down, presumed KIA
Jenkins, Paul L., USAF (AR); HH53C shot down while attempting to rescue a downed pilot, remains returned March, 1995**
Sadler, Mitchell Olen, Jr., USAF (CA); F4E shot down
Sanders, Williams S., USAF (ME); HH53C shot down while attempting to rescue a downed pilot, remains returned March, 1995**
Schaneberg, Leroy C., USAF (IL); pilot of HH53C shot down while attempting to rescue a downed pilot, remains returned March, 1995

1971
Bridges, Philip W. , US Army (CA); presumed Killed when the explosives truck he was driving blew up, body not recovered.

** In March, 1995, remains were returned that could not conclusively be identified as any of the individuals in the Chinook. Personal items were included with the remains. It is felt that the remains may represent 1-2 people.