Quote of the Day
"Eternal Vigilance is the price of freedom."
-- Author Unknown

News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
U.S. Jets Strike Militants as Iraq Tribal Clashes Kill 45
Suspected Terrorists Detained in Mosul
Iraqi Soldiers Demonstrate Quick Responses
Draft Iraqi Constitution Can Change, Adapt

Operation Enduring Freedom
Marines, Afghans Secure Areas for Elections
Afghan Army Leads Demining Operation

Hurricane Katrina
KATRINA SLAMS SOUTH
Facts: Katrina
Facts: Deadliest Hurricanes
Superdome Lockdown Eased
Photos: Katrina's Wake
Photos: South Submerged
Insurance Cost May Hit $25B
Tornadoes in Georgia
Oil Touches $70, Falls Back
Airlines Hit Hard
Bush May Tap Oil Reserve
FEMA, Others Respond

BRAC News
Base-Closing Panel Wraps Up Work
Final Decisions and Deliberations
Base Closing List
Rumsfeld Critical of Some BRAC Decisions

Other News of Note
Rumsfeld: Military-Ecology Balance Needed

Fox News
Chavez Meets Jesse Jackson
Roberts Faces Torture Quiz
Three Nabbed in Hariri Probe
Report: Brazil Sought A-Bomb

Reuters: Top News
Netanyahu to seek Sharon's ouster after Gaza exit
Iran says has made new atomic breakthrough
Iraq Sunni leader says to work against draft charter
China wants to buy U.S. goods, eyes energy cooperation
Defense wraps up in Hong Kong milkshake murder trial
Protesters on both sides of Iraq war follow Bush
Gaza militants renew truce pledge to Egypt envoy
Venezuela softens stance on U.S. ties, drugs
U.S. Treasury's Adams sees more flexible yuan

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
More changes said likely to Iraq charter
Netanyahu unveils candidacy to lead party
Security personnel held in Hariri slaying
Egypt envoy seeks state for Palestinians
Heavy fighting erupts in western Iraq
3 ex-pro-Syrian security chiefs detained
How Iraq's constitution vote will be done
Chief of Iran's nuclear program reinstated
U.S. copter under fire in Iraq; GI killed
Iraq leaders spar over attending summit
Fear keeps Sudan refugees from going home
Some objections to Iraq draft constitution
Newsview: New Mideast violence may wane
Lebanese brace for U.N. Hariri results
Jordan to improve security at Iraq border
Egypt police ordered to show restraint
Cemetery moves Gaza graves to Jerusalem
Gaza villagers move to area outside Israel
Iraq commission extends voter registration
Shiite forces blamed for Sunnis' deaths

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
More changes said likely to Iraq charter
Indonesia tries again to wipe out polio
Britain wants to ban violent Internet porn
Swaziland princess' bash upstages father

Washington Post: World News
Rumsfeld: U.S. Won't Loose
Sunnis Won't Defeat Charter
Egypt Vote: System Is Alleged To Favor Mubarak
U.S. to Aid Ukraine in Countering Bioweapons: Pact Focuses on Security at Labs; Russia Apologizes for Delay of Senate Delegation
Sharon: Not All Settlements in Final Deal
North Korea Delays Return to Nuke Talks

Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Iraq Sunnis, Shi'ites unite to mortify the flesh
In Iraq, Varied Views on New Draft
Senator Will Ask Rumsfeld to Testify to Panel on Iraq
Kosovo Drive-By Shooting Kills Two Serbs
Concerns of al-Qaida Balkan Link Renewed
Kosovo Serbs reject plan for self-rule

CENTCOM: News Release
U.S. MARINES AID VICTIMS OF ROCKET ATTACK
THREE NORTH AFRICAN TERRORISTS KILLED IN MOSUL
RAMADI-BASED TERRORISTS CAPTURED

Department of Defense
Rice Congratulates Iraqis on Constitution
Efforts in Iraq Require Time, Sacrifice

ON THE GROUND
Iraqi, U.S. Army Units Partner for Success
Soldiers Celebrate Women's Equality Day — Story

IN IRAQ
Combat Engineers Keep U.N. Compound Safe

FACE OF DEFENSE
Air Force Father and Son Stationed Together — Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Surged Ships Get Welcomed Home — Story

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Detainee Escapes from Abu Ghraib
Officials Outline Successes in Iraq
Election Security Plans in Place
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Eye on Iraq Update (pdf)
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
IED Strike Kills American
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Troops' Morale Remains High
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
DoD Takes Conservation Seriously
BRAC Commission Wraps Up
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
1850 - Honolulu, HI becomes a city.
1862 - CSA General Robert E. Lee defeats Union General John Pope at the 2nd Battle of Bull Run (Manassas).
1862 - In Tennessee, Confederates defeat Union forces at the Battle of Altamont.
1885 - 13,000 meteors are seen in one hour near Andromeda.
1905 - Ty Cobb's has his first major league at bat.
1916 - In Germany Paul Von Hindenburg becomes Chief-of-General-Staff.
1941 - Nazi forces begin their Siege of Leningrad.
1944 - Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania.
1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan.
1963 - The Hot Line communications link between Washigton, DC & Moscow begins.
1967 - The U.S. Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first African-American Justice.
1976 - Tom Brokaw becomes news anchor of the Today Show.
1979 - While on a canoe trip in Plains, GA, President Carter is attacked by a rabbit.
1983 - The 8th Space Shuttle Mission (Challenger-3) is launched.
1984 - The 12th Space Shuttle Mission (41-D, Discovery-1) is launched.
1986 - Soviet authorities arrest Nicholas Daniloff (U.S. News & World Report)

Birthdays
1797 - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, author ("Frankenstein")
1837 - Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, wife of President Chester A. Arthur.
1852 - Jacobus Henricus van't Hoff Neth, physical chemist, Nobel Prize winner (1901)
1871 - Ernest Lord Rutherford, physicist; discovered atomic nucleus
1884 - Theodor Svedberg, chemist (worked with colloids), Nobel Prize winner (1926)
1893 - Huey P. Long, (Gov/Sen- LA)
1901 - Roy Wilkins, civil rights director (NAACP)
1931 - John L. Swigert, Jr., astronaut (Apollo 13)

Passings
30 BC - Cleopatra, seventh and most famous Queen of Egypt, suicide
1483 - King Louis XI of France (1461-83)
1879 - CSA General John B. Hood (lost Atlanta)
1930 - William H. Taft, 27th US President
1981 - Mohammad Ali Rajai, president of Iran, and Mohammad Javad Bahonar, prime minister of Iran, both assassinated by a bomb

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Hoff, Sammie D., USAF (TX); F4C shot down (B/N, w/Robinson), remains returned December, 1988

Robinson, Kenneth D., USAF (IN); F4C shot down (pilot, w/Hoff), remains returned December, 1988

1967
Allard, Michael John, USN (WI); A4E shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1970
Peralta, Benjamin R., US Army; AWOL