Crude Prices Touch $65
Fugitive couple nabbed without incident in Columbus, Ohio
Trip Around the Moon: $100M
Bush Signs Highway Bill
Iran Revs Up Nuke Site
9/11 Panel Probes Atta Claim
Five Marines Killed in Iraq
Army Meets July Recruit Goal
Explosives Truck Blast in Utah

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Gunmen kidnap senior Iraqi official
Ex-rebel to replace fallen Sudan commander
U.S. gambles in handing security to Iraqis
Iran resumes full conversion operations
Israeli troops hold drill before pullout
3 U.S. missions in Saudi Arabia reopen
Newsview: Nuke diplomacy is delicate work
Gaza pullout critics hold prayer, protest
Gaza settlers differ in pullout response
Iraqi: Iran smuggling reports exaggerated
Turkish police detain al-Qaida suspects
Forces watch for 'mule trains' along Syria
Iran may draw rebuke over nuke activities (Glad to see the U.N.'s getting tough...)
Timeline for beginning of Israel pullout

Reuters: Top News
UN watchdog to urge Iran to resume nuclear freeze
Air Force officer charged for anti-Bush graffiti
Israeli rightists in last-gasp prayers over Gaza
Four US troops killed; Iraqis spar on constitution
UN watchdog to urge Iran to resume nuclear freeze
Democrats push White House for more on Roberts

Department of Defense
Aeromedical Staging Flight Sees Lull in Hectic Routine
IED, Small-Arms Fire Kill Five U.S. Soldiers

ON THE GROUND
U.S. Medics Treat Iraqi Injured by Car Bomb — Story
Najaf Road Work Benefits Agriculture, Schools — Story
Buffalo Joins Hunt for Explosive Devices — Story
Coalition, Iraqi Ministry Sign Health Charter — Story

IN IRAQ
Soldiers Help Iraqi Troops Get New Barracks
Task Force Not Deterred by Car Bomb Attack
Security Forces Airmen Keep Contraband Off Kirkuk

IN AFGHANISTAN
Bagram Runway Reopens After C-17 Incident
Marines, Sailors Endure Afghan Heat Wave
82nd Airborne Unit to Bolster Election Security

IN KUWAIT
Humvees Now Rolling From New Refurb Site

FACE OF DEFENSE
Clinical Instructor Honored for Work — Story

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Rumsfeld: Iraqi Constitution Critical
Police Detain Terror Suspects
Suicide Car Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier
Najaf Projects Supply Potable Water
43 More Schools to be Renovated
Army Assumes Authority in Diyala
Project Focus: Electricity System
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Clashes Leave Six Enemy Dead
U.S. Troop Killed in Firefight
Former Taliban Rejects Tactics
Army Opens Healthcare Facility
Forces Stymie Attacks
Villagers Turn in Weapons
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Program Recruits Native Speakers
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Troop Health Library Launched
Reserve Center Honors Sailors
Chem Weapons Disposal Continues
Center Supports Recovering Troops
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty — 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
1772 - In Java, an explosive eruption blows 4,000' off Mt. Papandayan Java, killing 3,000
1909 - The S.O.S. is first used by an American ship, the Arapahoe, off Cape Hatteras, NC.
1914 - Jews are expelled from Mitchenick, Poland.
1945 - The Allies refuse Japan's surrender offer (including retention of Emperor Hirohito).
1954 - More than seven years of fighting in Indochina between the French the Communist Vietminh end with a formal peace.
1960 - Chad declares independence.
1962 - Andrian G. Nikolayev, aboard Vostok-3, becomes the third Russian in space.
1975 - The U.S. vetoes the proposed U.N. admission of North and South Vietnam.
1984 - During a radio voice test, President Ronald Reagan jokes that he has "signed legislation that would outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in 5 minutes."
1988 - Meir Kahane renounces U.S. citizenship in order to remain in the Israeli Parliament.
1989 - Voyager 2 discovers two partial rings around Neptune.
1990 - Egyptian and Moroccan troops land in Saudi Arabia in order to help prevent an Iraqi invasion.
1991 - Shite Muslims release American hostage Edward Tracy; the Space Shuttle STS-43 (Atlantis 9) lands.

Birthdays
1833 - Robert Green Ingersoll NY, author/politician/agnostic (Attorney General, IL)
1837 - Sadi Carnot, engineer, French president (1887-94, assassinated)
1921 - Alex Haley, author (Roots)
1930 - William A O'Neal (Gov-CT)
1941 - Elizabeth Holtzman, Bkln DA, Rep-NY, Watergate Committee
1959 - Linda Rhys Vaughn, Playboy playmate (Apr, 1982)
1971 - Julie Anne Clark, Playboy playmate (Mar, 1991)

Passings
1956 - Jackson Pollock, abstract artist, auto accident

Reported Missing in Action
1967
Berube, Kenneth Allen, USMC (MA); A4E crashed, KIA, body not recovered