Quote of the Day
"We ain't making no goddamn cornflakes here."
-- Colonel Charlie Beckwith (founder of Delta Force)

News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Marines defuse 9 roadside bombs in Iraq
U.S. Marines accused of killing Iraq man

Operation Enduring Freedom
Soldiers Vanish - Search on in Afghanistan
U.S. Recovers Fallen Copter's Crew (also see my post here)

War on Terror / Homeland Security
Iran fervor over embassy takeover fades

Gitmo
Documents: Gitmo Inmates Attacked Guards

Other News of Note
C-130J Conducts First-Ever Combat Airdrop

Fox News
Iranian Cabinet Member Among Hostage-Takers
U.S. Probing Iran Allegations
U.S., N. Korea Talking Again
Shiite Cleric Killed in Baghdad

Reuters: Top News
Supreme Court Justice O'Connor retires
G8 officials in last-ditch bid on Africa, climate
Bomb kills 10 soldiers in southern Russia
Lebanon PM begins tricky task of forming cabinet

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Al-Zarqawi group releases propaganda tape
U.S. Embassy in Iraq refuses to negotiate
Lebanon's Saniora begins work on Cabinet
Abbas invites rival Hamas to join gov't
Turkish police kill suspected bomber
Lebanese bomb apparent domestic dispute
White House looking at Ahmadinejad's past

Department of Defense
Iraqi Security Forces Make Progress — Story
Officials Announce Increase in Death Gratuity — Story
NATO Commander Meets With Karzai — Story
NATO Unit Jobs Critical to Afghan Security
Moseley Topic: Terror War, Stress on Families — Story

ON THE GROUND
Iraqi Civilian Tip Leads to Weapons Cache — Story

IN IRAQ
Airmen Defend Inside the Wire
Iraqi Police Train for 'Hardest Job in the World'

IN AFGHANISTAN
Airmen Donate Supplies to Afghans
Operation Diablo Reach Back Targets Militia
Mountain Warfare Instructors Train Troops Photos





AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
President Visits War Wounded — Story

PGA Tour, Players Clubs Team Up — Story
'We Thank Our Troops' Debuts
Singer Daniels Visits Miramar

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
U.S. Forces Nab Suspects
Insurgents Changed Tactics
Terror Suspects Captured
Iraqi Navy Charts Future Course
Photos: Iraqi Brigade Activates
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)
'Eye on Iraq' (pdf)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Fact Sheet: Helping Women in Iraq

IN AFGHANISTAN
NATO Unit Deploys to Afghanistan
Afghans Rescued from Floodwaters
Defense Leaders' Views on Afghanistan
Enduring Freedom Marks 3 Years
Afghanistan Daily Update Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting

WAR ON TERRORISM
Officials Release Strategy
Religious Practices Respected
Detainees Treated Humanely
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Veteran Biz Leaders Honor Troops
Citigroup Teams With ESGR
Guard Officer Talks Stress Issues
N.Y. Governor's Son Joins Marines
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty — 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
1776 - The Continental Congress resolves "these United Colonies are and of right ought to be Free & Independent States," as the British army and navy arrive in New York.
1777 - Vermont becomes the first American colony to abolish slavery.
1843 - An alligator falls from the sky during a thunderstorm in Charleston, SC.
1863 - The Battle of Gettysburg enters its second day, with the Union holding the high ground.
1864 - Confederat General Jubal Early's forces reach Winchester; The U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall is established.
1881 - In a Washington railway station, Charles J. Guiteau, a disappointed office-seeker, shoots President James A. Garfield, mortally wounding him. The President several weeks later, on September 19th.
1926 - The U.S. Army Air Corps is created; The Distinguish Flying Cross is authorized.
1937 - Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over the Pacific Ocean.
1943 - Lt. Charles Hall becomes the first African-American pilot to shoot down a Nazi plane.
1964 - President Lyndon Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act.
1976 - North and South Vietnam are formally reunified.
1976 - The Supreme Court rules that the death penalty is not inherently cruel or unusual.
1982 - Soyuz T-6 returns to Earth.
1990 - Imelda Marcos and Adnan Khashoggi are acquitted of racketeering.

Birthdays
419 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor
1903 - Lord Alex Douglas-Home, British PM; King Olav V of Norway
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, first African-American Supreme Court Justice
1939 - John Sununu, U.S. Secretary of State
1952 - Linda M. Godwin, PhD/astronaut

Passings
1566 - Nostradamus, astrologer/physician/prophet
1644 - William Gascoigne, introduced telescopic sights
1822 - Denmark Vesey and 5 aides, hanged at Blake's Landing, Charleston, SC.
1882 - James Garfield, assassinated by "job-seeker."
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, suicide
1987 - Karl Linnas, accused Nazi

Reported Missing in Action
1967
Kasch, Frederick M., USNR (CA); Killed when his A4B experienced engine failure and crashed remains returned February, 1989
Rayford, King D., Jr., US Army (MI); released by PRG March, 1973; one of several mentioned in a 1972 Viet Cong "Liberation Radio" broadcast; later accused of collaboration
Wilson, Wayne Vaster, USMC (NC)

1968
Tipping, Henry Albert, US Air Force (PA); A1H shot down

1969
Fransen, Albert M., USN (NV); KIA when his swift boat (PCF-87) was hit by mortar fire, body not recovered

1970
Harber, Stephen J., US Army (MN); unaccounted for after his position was hit by enemy fire