News of Note
Saudi Arabia's King Fahd Dies
Profile: King Fahd
Timeline: King Fahd
London Bombings
U.K. Cops Probe Saudi Terror Link
Britain Grills Terror Suspects
U.K.'s top cop blasts ABC over leaked bomb photos
UK seeks return of London bomb suspect from Italy

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraqi Constitution Committee Head: We Can Meet Deadline
Soldier in Iraq Records Country Music Hit
U.S. relies on local leaders in rural Iraq
Official: Saddam trial to start in Oct.

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Finger points to British intelligence as al-Qaeda websites are wiped out

Fox News
Spacewalk Under Way
Video: NASA TV
Atkins Files Chapter 11
Iran May Restart Nuke Plant
Dems: Bolton 'Not Believable'
Sudanese VP Dies in Crash
Cops Covered Up Priest Sex Abuse, Ohio Paper Says
Bush Prays for Scout Leaders
Pataki: No 'Morning-After' Bill
Israel Warns Against Terror Attacks During Pullout

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Israel to use sand bullets during riots
A look at Fahd's 1981 Mideast peace plan
Some facts about Saudi Arabia's King Fahd
Iran arrests human-rights lawyer
Lebanese premier holds talks in Syria
Analyst: Egypt takes hard line before vote
Report: Plane with Sudan VP lands safely
Official: Saddam trial to start in Oct.
Iraq citizens deem U.S. soldier as sheik
Settlers ask Israel to buy their houses
Five GIs killed by roadside bombs in Iraq
Israel threatens massive ground operation
Iraq constitution draft expected by 8/15
Reuters: Top News
Iran to resume nuclear work in defiance of EU
U.S. would oppose 'people power' against Arroyo
Bush gives pep talk to disaster-hit Scout jamboree
Riot in Khartoum after Garang death
UN nominee derided by Democrats as 'damaged goods'
Bush victories delay lame-duck status

CENTCOM: News Releases
TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIERS FOIL IED EMPLACEMENT
MARINES FIGHT TERRORISTS NEAR HADITHA

Department of Defense
Iraqi Security Adviser Describes Progress — Story

ON THE GROUND
Engineer Summit Focuses on Reconstruction — Story
Assessment Looks at Kharkh Water Treatment Plant

IN IRAQ
U.S. Army Strykers Return to Combat Zones
Georgia Military Cadets, Alumni Serve in Iraq
Soldiers Provide Food to Kindi Residents
Flightline Marines Keep Helicopters Ready
Training, Hydration Help Troops Cope With Heat

IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
Team Helps Overcome Platelet Shortage

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Teen Continues Beanie Baby Drive — Story

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Five Soldiers Killed, Search Goes On
Iraqi Army Shows More Progress
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps
Afghan Reconstruction Group Recruiting

WAR ON TERRORISM
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
U.S. to Return 11 Bases to Germany
National Guard, Reserve Update

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
1291 - The Everlasting League forms; it is the basis of Swiss Confederation (National Day).
1619 - The first Black Americans (twenty of them) arrive in Jamestown, VA.
1789 - U.S. Customs begins enforcing the Tariff Act.
1790 - The first U.S. census lists the population at 3,939,214.
1794 - The Whiskey Rebellion begins.
1798 - Battle of the Nile.
1831 - London Bridge opens.
1834 - Slavery is abolished in the British empire.
1838 - British slaves in the Bahamas are emancipated.
1861 - Brazil recognizes the Confederacy.
1863 - Cavalry units engage near Brandy Station at the end of the Gettysburg campaign.
1867 - Blacks vote for the first time in a state election in the South (Tennessee).
1873 - The first San Francisco cable car begins service.
1876 - Colorado becomes the 38th U.S. state.
1881 - A U.S. Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay.
1901 - Burial within the San Francisco city limits is prohibited.
1914 - Germany declares war on Russia.
1936 - Adolph Hitler opens the Olympic Games in Berlin.
1950 - Curt Simmons is the first Major League baseball player to fight in Korea; The Territory of Guam is created.
1953 - Northern Rhodesia becomes part of the Federation of Rhodesia/Nyasaland
1955 - Microgravity research begins.
1957 - In Albuquerque, NM, the first commercial solar-heated building opens; Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 445 feet, 10 inches.
1958 - First Class postage is raised to $0.04 (it had been $0.03 for the last 26 years).
1960 - Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France.
1961 - The new San Francisco Hall of Justice opens.
1972 - The first article exposing Watergate hits the press (Bernstein-Woodward).
1975 - The Helsinki Pact is signed by 35 nations.
1990 - Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait

Birthdays
10 BC - Claudius 4th Roman emperor (41-54 AD)
126 - Publius Helvius Pertinax Roman emperor (193 AD)
1744 - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, believed in inheritance of acquired traits
1770 - William Clark, 2nd Lt. of Lewis and Clark Expedition
1779 - Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled Banner)
1819 - Herman Melville, author (Moby Dick, Billy Budd)
1889 - Dr. John F. Mahoney, developed pencillin treatment of syphillis
1933 - Dom DeLuise, comedian, actor (Cannonball Run)
1936 - Yves Saint-Laurent, fashion designer (Opium, Obsession)
1937 - Alfonse D'Amato, (Sen-NY)
1944 - Yuri V. Romanenko, cosmonaut (Soyuz 26, Soyuz 38, Soyuz TM-2)
1946 - Richard O. Covey, USAF/astronaut (STS 51I, 26, 38)

Passings
1882 - Henry Kendall Australian poet, dies of tuberculosis at 43
1988 - John Cardinal Dearden US cardinal, dies at 80

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Finney, Arthur Thomas, USAF (FL); F104 shot down, remains returned August, 1985
Kwortnik, John Charles, USAF (PA); F104 shot down (pilot), remains returned August, 1985
North, Kenneth W., USAF (NY); F105D shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Brigadier General as of 1996, alive as of 1998

1967
Prewitt, William Roland, USMC (LA); KIA, body not recovered
Winston, Charles C. III, USAF (NY); RF101 shot down, remains returned by SRV September, 1977

1968
Kernan, William (WA); not on official DIA list - remains returned?
Broms, Edward J., USN (PA); A4C shot down, likely KIA
Fowler, Donald R., US Army (GA); UH1C shot down (gunner)
Fernan, William, US Army (WA); UH1C shot down (WO, aircraft commander); casualty file states body recovered, remains returned August, 1971
Hastings, Steven M., US Army (CA); UH1C shot down (crewchief)
Ross, Joseph S., USAF (KY); F4D shot down
Russel, Peter J., US Army (NY); UH1C shot down (pilot); Vietnamese doctor states died on or before Thanksgiving, 1968
Thompson, William J., USAF (TX); F4D shot down

1969
Burd, Douglas G., USAF (VA); F4E shot down (backseater); KIA, body not recovered
Callies, Tommy L, USAF (SD); F4E shot down (pilot); KIA, body not recovered