Quote of the Day
"War is fear cloaked in courage."

-- General William C. Westmoreland

News of Note
London Bombings
Britain says Egyptian had no role in bombs - paper
June report led Britain to lower terror alert- NYT
Pakistan detains 25 in London bomb probe raids
UK rejects Iraq link to London bombs, seeks new law
Blair to meet with UK Muslim leaders
Official: U.K. Blast Suspects Visited Pakistan

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraq gunmen strike U.S. base workers, kill 13

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghanistan Disputes Taliban Deputy Captured in Pakistan
Bomber Botches Attack

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Suspicious note sends airliner back to airport
Eric Rudolph Gets Life Term
Video: Rudolph a Fanatic?
Gitmo
Trials for Two Gitmo Suspects to Resume

Fallen Heroes
Street Renamed for Fallen Soldier
Fallen Navy SEALs Honored With Memorial
U.S. Soldier Found Dead in Kuwait

Other News of Note
New Tourniquet Issued to Deployed Soldiers
Where Recruiting Runs Strongest
Prison for Burglars of Marine's Widow

Fox News
Iraq Gunmen Kill 13 Workers
Israel to Block Gaza Protests
Bush: I'll Fire Staffer if Crime Was Committed in CIA Leak
More U.S. Military Bases May Be on Chopping Block
N. Korean Nuke Disarmament Talks to Resume July 26

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraqi gunmen ambush bus, killing 13
Police pledge to stop Gaza protesters
Iraq leader expects to finish constitution
Iraq's neighbors discuss border
Lebanese-Syrian relations sour
Israel settlers torn between duty, family
Egyptian presidential candidate withdraws
Lebanon approves motion to pardon warlord
Iran leaders support Iraq quest for peace
Iraq aims to stop insurgent recruits
Iraq criticizes lack of foreign donations
Lawyer: Saddam trial should be relocated
Abbas: Truce with Israel can be salvaged
Fire at Baghdad market damages 10 shops
Iraq locals, troops straddle uneasy calm
U.S. aims to speed up Iraq reconstruction
Jailed Iran journalist said hospitalized

Military.com
Panel Mulls Adding Bases to Closure List
Gunmen Kill at Least 24 in Iraq
Lawyer: Saddam Trial Should be Relocated
Iraqis Race to Finish Constitution
TSP to Roll out New Funds in 2 Weeks
House at Odds Over 2006 Pay Raise
N. Korea Defector Seeks Help From Bush
Oceana 'Best Option' for a few Years, Admiral Says

Reuters: Top News
U.S. Vietnam-era military chief Westmoreland dies
NASA holds out hope for July shuttle launch
Bush qualifies firing vow in CIA leak case
Bush to meet with some Supreme Court candidates

CENTCOM: News Release
ENGINEERS WORK TO COMPLETE REPAIRS AT POWER PLANT IN BAGHDAD

Department of Defense
Military Trials for Detainees to Resume — Story Release
U.S., Australia Remain Close Military Allies — Story
Myers Praises Germany for Help in Terror War — Story
Iraqi People Cannot Achieve Liberty Alone — Story

ON THE GROUND
Platoon Provides Maps for Coalition Forces — Story
Traffic Checks More Efficient with Canine Help — Story
'Wolves' Replace 'Saints' in Transfer Ceremony — Story

IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
Airborne Surveillance System Provides Eyes Forward

FACE OF DEFENSE
After Long Road to Freedom, Interpreter Returns Home — Story

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Saddam to Face Trial Soon
Coordinated Efforts Net Suspects
U.S. Soldier Killed by IED
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)
'Eye on Iraq' (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Detainee Releases Foster Peace
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Command Displays Homeland Role
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Guard, Reserve Supports Families
Officials Answer BRAC Questions
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Marine Casualties — Story

Weather
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
1510 - Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin, Prussia.
1553 - Lady Jane Grey (who is 15 at the time) is deposed as England's Queen after 9 days.
1816 - After more than two weeks, survivors of the French frigate Medusa are rescued off Senegal.
1848 - The first women's rights convention opens in NY.
1860 - The first railroad reaches Kansas
1862 - Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest conducts his first raid.
1870 - The Franco-Prussian war begins.
1918 - German armies retreat across the Marne River in France.
1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit.
1941 - The first US Army flying school for black cadets is dedicted in Tuskegee, AL ; British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign; President Roosevelt appoints the FEP Committee.
1943 - Allied air forces raid Rome.
1949 - Laos becomes and associated state within the French Union.
1957 - The first rocket with a nuclear warhead is fired (Yucca Flat, NV).
1963 - NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker takes the X-15 to an altitude of 105 km.
1967 - The U.S. launches Explorer 35 for a lunar orbit.
1969 - Apollo 11 goes into a Moon orbit.
1980 - The 22nd modern Olympic games open in Moscow; the U.S. and 59 others do not attend, boycotting in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1989 - United flight 232 crashes in Iowa.

Birthdays
1814 - Samuel Colt, inventor (Colt revolver)
1817 - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, Union army nurse
1860 - Lizzie Borden, alleged murderer
1922 - George McGovern (Sen-SD), presidential candidate (1972)
1943 - Roy D. Bridges, Jr. , Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS 51F, STS 61F)
1952 - Howard Donald Saunders, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)

Passings
1940 - Samuel H. Chang American newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai.
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car after it plunges off Dike Bridge in Chappaquiddick, MA.

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Diamond, Stephen Whitman USAF (NY); F105 shot down; SRV returned remains March, 1977