Quote of the Day
"We must never lose our precious Freedom as a country or as individuals, for once it is gone, it may never return."

-- former POW George A. Rose

News of Note
Iraq Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier
Deserter Sorry for Defection

Fox News
Beirut Assassination
Brits Make Arrest Linked to Iraq
Militant Roundup
Bolton Vote Blocked Again
Korean Pols Meet for Talks
TSA Saved Data on Fliers
U.N. Family Ties -- Video: Family Ties

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Israel arrests 52 Palestinian militants
U.S. said delaying Saddam interrogations
Vietnamese leader meeting with Bush
Anti-Syrian critic killed in Lebanon blast

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Two Iraqi policeman wounded in Baghdad
Israel arrests 52 Palestinian militants
U.S. said delaying Saddam interrogations
Anti-Syrian critic killed in Lebanon blast
Two Iraqi policeman wounded in Baghdad
Israel: No more restraint toward militants
U.S. seeks international help for Iraq
Saddam insists he's still Iraq president
Daily look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq
Iranian presidential run-off heats up
Rice makes case for democracy in Egypt
Lebanon's leader reaches out to opponents
Iraq says Saddam confidant losing influence
Syria under fire to better guard border
Sharon, Abbas to push agendas at summit
Sunni Arab role may snag Iraq constitution
Iraq insurgents claim to have killed 7
Female Kuwait Cabinet member takes oath
Official: Syria-Iraq border security basic
Suicide bomber kills 20 at Iraq police HQ

The US News: Iraq News
Former Iraqi leader says he talked about UN buffer zone with ...
U.S. House agrees to spend more for Iraq war
Former Hostage Describes Endless Wait During 157 Days in Baghdad Cellar
The thoughts of Saddam
29 die in wave of Iraqi car bomb attacks
Nonprofit Recording Studio Owner Heading To Iraq
Bevy of Iraqi ministers for Brussels meet

CENTCOM
Basrah International Airport Opens to Commercial Flights
Woman owned business involved construction
Iraq Women's Business Day
Commandos continue to press terrorists
Water Project on schedule in Southern Iraq
Iraqi Marines Prepare to Take Over Oil Platform Security

Department of Defense
Bush, EU Leaders Affirm Commitment — Story
Detainees Treated Humanely, President Says — Story
Coast Guard Ready to Meet Requirements — Story Remarks
Combat Realism Part of MP Training — Story

ON THE GROUND
CROWS Keeps Gunners Out of Harm's Way — Story
Basrah Airport Opens to Commercial Flights — Story

IN IRAQ
Deployed Dads Get ‘Live’ Visits From Families

IN AFGHANISTAN
EOD Airmen Work to Keep Kandahar Safe

FACE OF DEFENSE
‘BAT Man’ Keeps Terrorists Outside Fallujah — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Newman's Own Awards Presented — Story
Cardinals Spread Cheer in Al Asad

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Forces Kill, Capture Terrorists
U.S. Soldier, Marine Killed
Police Graduate Advanced Training
Progress Evident, Rice Says
Rice: American Patience Needed
Operation Spear Continues
Operations Result in Captures
Success in Iraq - DoD Fact Sheet
Year in Review 2004 Fact Sheets (pdf)
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)
'Eye on Iraq' (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Militants Die in U.S. Air Strikes
U.S. Soldiers Wounded by IED
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Bush Discusses Iraq in Radio Talk
DoD Supports Stabilization Office
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Influencers Can Affect Recruiting
Invention Eases Helmet Discomfort
Deployed Can Use Travel Specials
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

Gitmo

Today in History
1498 - Emperor Maximillian expells Jews Nurenberg, Bavaria.
1633 - Galileo Galilei is forced by the Inquisition to "abjure, curse, & detest" his Copernican views.
1684 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony's charter is revoked.
1788 - The U.S. Constitution goes into effect as NH becomes the 9th to ratify it.
1805 - Great Stoneface Mt is found in NH.
1893 - The first Ferris wheel premieres at Chicago's Columbian Exposition.

1919 - Germans scuttle their own fleet.
1943 - Federal troops put down a racial riot in Detroit that leaves 30 dead.
1962 - USAF Majpr Robert M. White takes the X-15 to 75,190 m.
1968 - Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren resigns.
1975 - Soyuz 19 returns to Earth.
1985 - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm that skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil are those of Nazi Dr. Josef Mengele.
1989 - The Supreme Court rules it legal to burn the U.S. flag as a political expression.
1990 - The U.S. House of Reps fails to pass a bill to stop U.S. flag burning.

Birthdays
1732 - Martha Washington, first U.S. First Lady
1774 - Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th U.S. Vice President
1851 - Daniel Carter Beard, organized the first Boy Scout troop
1905 - Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher/writer, declined Nobel Prize
1931 - Lawrence K. Grossman, NBC News president
1942 - William Bradford Reynolds, U.S. Assistant Attorney General
1953 - Benazir Bhutto, first female leader of a Muslim nation (Pakistan)
1982 - Prince William of Wales

Passings
1876 - Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Mexican general (Alamo)
1973 - Frank Leahy, Notre Dame football coach

Reported Missing in Action
1964
Johnson, Edward R., US Army (PA); Released in Cambodia November, 1976 - deceased

1966
Black, Cole, USN (MN); F8E shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998
Eastman, Leonard C., USN (MA); RF8A shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998
Sullivan, John B., USAF (PA); F105D shot down, remains returned September, 1990

1967
Spinler, Darrell J., USAF (MN); A1E shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1968
Wadleigh, Carl D., US Army; AWOL

1971
Metzler, Charles D., USN (CA); F8J shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1972
Callaghan, Peter A., USAF (NY); F4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive as of 1998
Rose, George A., USAF (MO); F4E shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998