News of Note
New video of Saddam's questioning released
Iraqi tribunal quizzes Saddam on 1982 killings
Iran candidates try Western-style tactics
Iranian women demand right to run
Troops' Contributions Outweigh Allegations

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Video of Saddam's questioning released
Court denounces race bias in picking jury
Jury selection begins in '64 Miss. deaths
9/11 commissioner criticizes Negroponte

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Israel elected a vice-president of U.N.
Palestinian militants step up threat
Russian ambassador meets anti-U.S. cleric
ElBaradei reappointed to U.N. nuclear post
Aoun sets back anti-Syrian opposition
Iran links spate of bombing to protests
Switching General hurts Lebanon opposition
Bush stresses Iraqi constitutional process
Key players in Lebanese elections
U.S. diplomat unscathed by suicide bomb
Ukraine troop leader accused of smuggling
S. Korea mulls extending troops' Iraq stay
Anti-Syrian Aoun making Lebanon comeback

Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
White House dismisses setting Iraq withdrawal time
Iraqi captors free French reporter held for 157 days
Suicide bomber in Tikrit kills at least 2 police officers, wounds 5

The US News: Iraq News
Suicide car bombers kill 10 in Iraq
Kurdish rights activist kidnapped in Iraq
Malaysia's Petronas in talks to develop Iraq oil
Twenty eight bodies of executed men found in Iraq
Lawyer wants Saddam tried in Europe
Britain postpones Iraq handover
Rep. Weldon says Iran key to insurgency
Syria denies involvement in Iraq attacks
Barzani president of Iraq's Kurdistan
French hostage released in Iraq

Fox News
Saddam Video Released
Video: Saddam Quizzed
Senate Apologizes for Not Passing Anti-Lynching Laws
Gitmo Detainee Treatment Subject to Debate
Task Force: U.S. Has Chance to Push U.N. Reform
Interview: Vice President Dick Cheney Talks With Sean Hannity

Department of Defense
U.S. Not Alone in Facing Terrorist Threats — Story
Patience Needed As Iraq Progress Continues — Story

ON THE GROUND
U.S. Soldiers, Iraqi Forces Uncover Weapons — Story
Airmen Provide Critical Elements of Support — Story
Female Marines Add to Cultural Sensitivities — Story
Airmen Keep Base Safe in Austere Conditions — Story

FACE OF DEFENSE
Marine Reenlists in Ramadi for Second Term — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Cyclists Raise Money for Troops — Story
Borders Offers Discount CouponTo Public Service Workers — Story

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Suicide Car Bomber Injures Four
Four Soldiers Die in IED Attacks
Command Investigates Deaths
Seven Marines Killed in Attacks
Iraq Daily Update
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Forces Nab Insurgents
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Guantanamo Provides Valuable Info
U.S. Special Operations Praised
Cheney: War Won't End With Treaty
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Senior Enlisted Warfighters Meet
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty — Story

Weather
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Iraq
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Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Today in History
1775 - The U.S. Army is founded.
1777 - Continental Congress adopts the Stars-and-Stripes, replacing the Grand Union flag.
1850 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco.
1863 - Battle of Second Winchester, VA.
1864 - Confederate General Leonidas Polk is killed in action at the Battle of Pine Mountain.
1900 - The Hawaiian Republic becomes the U.S. Territory of Hawaii.
1917 - General Pershing arrives in Paris.
1923 - President Harding is the first U.S. President to use radio, dedicating Baltimore's Francis Scott Key memorial.
1940 - German forces occupy Paris.
1941 - Ground is broken for the Boeing Plant II (ex-AFLC Plant 13) in Wichita, KS.
1942 - In Bridgeport, CT, the first bazooka rocket gun is produced.
1944 - The first B-29 raid against mainland Japan occurs.
1949 - The State of Vietnam is formed.
1951 - UNIVAC 1, the first commercial computer, enters service at the Census Bureau.
1952 - The keel laid for the Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine.
1954 - President Eisenhower signs the order adding the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance.
1963 - Valery Bykovsky, in Vostok 5, orbits the Earth 81 times in 5 days.
1967 - The Mariner V is launched for a Venus fly-by; the U.S.S.R. launches Kosmos 166 for the observation of the Sun from an Earth orbit.
1975 - The U.S.S.R. launches Venera 10 for a Venus landing.
1985 - Lebanese Shiite Muslim gunmen hijack TWA Flight 847 after takeoff from Athens.
1991 - The Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) lands.

Birthdays
1736 - Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)
1811 - Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1855 - Robert Marion La Follette, Progressive Presidental Candidate
1864 - Alois Alzheimer Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease)
1868 - Karl Landsteiner, immunologist/pathologist, Nobel Prize winner
1925 - Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1928 - Ernesto (Che) Guevara, Latin American revolutionary
1946 - Donald Trump; Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, newspaper publisher

Passings
1801 - Benedict Arnold Revolutionary War general
1965 - H.V. Kaltenborn newscaster (Who Said That?)
1986 - Marlin Perkins "Wild Kingdom" host, dies near St. Louis.

Reported Missing in Action
1954
** The first American POW's in Vietnam**
Appice, Giacomo, US Army; part of a US Maintenance crew assisting French supply units, released August, 1954
Morgan, Doyle, USAF; part of a US Maintenance crew assisting French supply units, released August, 1954
Salas, Ciro, USAF; part of US Maintenance crew assisting French supply units, released August, 1954
Schuller, Jerry, USAF; part of a US Maintenance crew assisting French supply units, released August, 1954
Sroveck, Leonard, US Army; part of a US Maintenance crew assisting French supply units, released August, 1954

1965
Guarino, Lawrence N., USAF (NJ); F105 shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - alive as of 1998

1967
McManus, Kevin J., USAF (NY); F4C shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - alive as of 1998
Mechenbier, Edward J., USAF (OH); F4C shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - alive as of 1998

1969
Grace, James W., USAF (LA); F4D shot down
Kahler, Harold, USAF (NE); F105D shot down

1971
Wilson, Richard, Jr., US Army (AR); vehicle accident, Killed, body not recovered

1972
Davis, Francis J., USN (IA); presumed Killed

1973
McLeod, David V., Jr., USAF (FL); HH53C shot down