News of Note
Hurricane Katrina
Iraqi Soldiers Donate to Katrina Victims
Improving Outlook?
FEMA Chief Taken Off On-Site Efforts
FEMA Scraps Debit Card Program
Known for being a skillful manager
Evacuees praise Red Cross
Photo Essays
Hurricane Katrina: Day 12

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Baghdad Airport Reopens
Iraqi forces launch attack on Tal Afar
For a U.S. Platoon in Iraq, Merciless Missions (Really good read)

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghan Chopper Crashes

Homeland Security / War on Terror
U.S. indicts Iraqi-born Dutch citizen
Judge rules vs. U.S. in Patriot Act case

BRAC News
Base Report Blasts Pentagon
Supreme Court Denies Bush's Base-Closure Request
Admin. Asks Supreme Court to Step Into Base-Closure Fray
Conn. Judge Blocks Bradley Base Realignment

9/11
9/11 Slur Prof to Be Probed
Congress Probing 9/11 Loans
Court: Padilla Can Be Held
General Shares 9/11 Thoughts
Group Raises $8 Million for Pentagon Memorial
Attack Anniversary Poignant for Renovation Manager
Son Recalls Loss of Parents in 9/11 Attack

Fox News
Ophelia Weakens Again
Veterans Eye Seats in Congress
ID Theft Disclosure
Stars Gather for Katrina Telethon
Video
DHS: Brown to Return to D.C.
Debit Cards Cut

Reuters: Top News
EU ministers turn heat on US and firms over fuel prices
Israeli troops ready to roll out of Gaza
New Orleans recovers its dead
Koizumi clings to lead on eve of Japan's election
Klansman's bail revoked
US says confident in Annan, urges big UN reform
Black refugees ask if Utah will really accept them

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Guard stretched between Katrina, wars
Katrina death toll may not hit 10,000

The Seattle Times
"I just went from hell to Vegas"
NFL notebook: Saints still looking for a place to play
Vintage airplane damaged in forced landing

Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
More than 140 rebels killed in Tal Afar: Dulaimi
Jordan PM makes first post-Saddam visit to Iraq
APTN cameraman hurt in Iraq
Insurgents open 'southern front' with deadly car-bomb in Basra
Iraq not ready for relations with Israel
U.S. Forces Chase Ghost Fighters Amid Iraqis

CENTCOM: News Release
MOSUL DAM REPAIRS: SAFETY, ELECTRICITY, AND IRRIGATION FOR THE TIGRIS BASINS

Department of Defense
Bush: Victory Will Honor Terror Victims — Story Remarks
Talabani Thanks 'Heroes' Who Liberated Iraq — Story
Iraq, Afghanistan Make Progress in Education — Story

ON THE GROUND
Iraqi Army Closer to Working Independently — Story
Army Veterinary Program Aids Iraqi Livestock — Story
Headset Saves Soldier’s Hearing in IED Blast — Story
Marines Saved by Combat Protective Gear —Story

IN IRAQ
Army Mechanics Keep Copters Battle Ready
U.S.-Iraqi Teamwork Key to Reconstruction

IN AFGHANISTAN
Paratroopers Beat Back Taliban Ambush

FACE OF DEFENSE
Marine Sees Hope for Children — Story

REMEMBERING 9/11
The Pentagon Memorial site and the America’s Heroes Memorial located inside the building will be opened to the public for the first time since the events of Sept. 11, 2001, on Saturday, Sept.10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT. Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
San Diego Chargers Salute Troops — Story

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Hurricane Katrina

IN IRAQ
Police Graduate From Courses
Rescued American Heads Home
Dam Repairs Benefit Tigris Basins
Training Unit Changes Commands
Democratic Process Continues
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq

IN AFGHANISTAN
Meeting Focus: Food Crop Growth
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Officials Learned From 2001 Attack
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
La. Guard Ready to Aid Recovery
Team Aids Storm-Affected Troops
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army 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
1349 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death.
1608 - John Smith is elected president of the Jamestown colony council in VA.
1776 - George Washington asks for a spy volunteer; Nathan Hale volunteers.
1813 - Commodore Oliver H. Perry defeats the British in the Battle of Lake Erie.
1823 - Simon Bolivar is named president of Peru.
1846 - Elias Howe patents the sewing machine.
1869 - A Baptist minister invents the rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan.
1882 - The first international conference to promote anti-semitism meets in Germany (Congress for Safeguarding of Non-Jewish Interests).
1899 - In Alaska, the second earthquake in a week hits.
1910 - The Great Idaho Fire destroys 3 million acres of timber.
1939 - Canada declares war on Germany.
1945 - Vidkun Quisling is sentenced to death for collaborating with Nazis.
1953 - Swanson sells its first "TV dinner."
1963 - Twenty Black students entered public schools in Alabama.
1967 - Gibraltar votes to remain British (12,138 - 44)
1974 - Guinea-Bissau gains independence from Portugal.
1979 - Three Puerto Rican nationalists who attempted to kill Truman are released.
1990 - Iran agrees to resume diplomatic ties with Iraq.

Birthdays
1736 - Carter Braxton, signer of the Declaration of Independence
1836 - Joseph Wheeler, Confederate Major General / Cavalry Commander, Army of Tennesee
1839 - Isaac Kauffman Funk, publisher (Funk & Wagnalls)
1887 - Giovanni Gronchi, president of Italy
1907 - Fay Wray Alberta Canada, actress ("King Kong")
1933 - Yevgeny V. Khrunov, cosmonaut (Soyuz-5)
1934 - Charles Kuralt, newscaster (On the Road)
1935 - John Palmer, news anchor (NBC Weekend News)
1945 - Richard M. Mullane, USAF / astronaut (STS 41-D, STS-27, STS-36)

Passings
1419 - John the Fearless, French warrior, murdered
1842 - Letitia Tyler, First Lady to President Tyler
1977 - Hamida Djandoubi, convicted murderer, last to die in the guillotine
1990 - Samuel Kanyon Doe, president of Liberia, assassinated

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Rivers, Wendell B., USN (NE); A4E shot down (pilot), released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive and well as of 1998

1966
Peterson, Douglas B., USAF (IA); F4C shot down (pilot, w/Talley), released by DRV March, 1973 - served as U.S. ambassador to Vietnam (1997-2002)

Talley, Bernard L., USAF (MD); F4C shot down (co-pilot, w/Peterson), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

Tatum, Lawrence B., USAF (TN); A1E shot down, declared dead in 1976, official status still MIA

1971
Cornwell, Leroy J. III, USAF (AZ); F4D shot down, (RIO, w/Ivan), remains retutrned August, 1994 - ID'd March, 1996

Ivan, Andrew, Jr., USAF (NJ); F4D shot down, (pilot, w/Cornwell), remains returned August, 1994 - ID'd March, 1996

1972
Musselman, Stephen Owen, USN (TX); A7C shot down (pilot), remains returned July, 1981

1974
Dean, Charles, Civilian tourist; captured in Laos by the Pathet Lao