News of Note
Hurricane Katrina
Katrina children seeking parents shown on Web site
New Orleans police break out of their 'Fort Apache'
KATRINA'S AFTERMATH
Major New Orleans levee breach repaired; weeks of pumping ahead
Hurricane Katrina: Day 8
Residents Fight Looters
Bush Back in Storm Region
Many Refuse to Leave
More Troops for Katrina
Video: Bush Visits Victims
Ex-Presidents Begin Aid Fund
Some Stuck In Miss. Mud
People Step Up to Help
Pets Are Katrina Victims Too
Victims Poorer Than Average
Reopening the Refineries
Katrina's Economic Impact
Video: Hurricane Relief Fund
200 evacuees arrive Thursday at McChord base

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Annan: Iraq Is Terror Center
Gunship Attack Kills Iraqi Terrorists
Hussein Trial in '82 Deaths Set to Begin Next Month
U.S. Hands Over Najaf Base to Iraqis

Operation Enduring Freedom
Coalition Forces, Taliban Clash in Afghanistan
Operations Stop Bomb Makers in Afghanistan

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Most-Wanted Terrorist Killed in Saudi Shootout

Supreme Court
Roberts Tapped for Top Spot
Rehnquist Burial Set for Wed.

U.N. Scandals
Probe: 'Corrupt Behavior' in Oil-for-Food Program

Moonbat Watch
Feingold Could Be First Anti-War Candidate

Fox News
Fire Kills 29 in Egyptian Theater
Teen Argument Led to Deadly French Fire
Jury Selection to Start in Massacre Trial
Typhoon Kills 95 in China; 30 Missing

Reuters: Top News
Indonesia probes air crash as neighborhood mourns
Israel should defy US on settlement blocs-minister
Democrats seek increased scrutiny of Roberts

The Seattle Times
National average gasoline price hits $3 a gallon

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Cause of Indonesia jet crash investigated
U.S. Marine jets bomb two bridges in Iraq
Holiday travel slows as gas prices level

Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
Saddam meets Iraqi lawyer ahead of trial
Insurgents Seize Key Town in Iraq

CENTCOM: News Release
ABU GHRAIB IED CELL, MEMBERS CAPTURED
TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIERS STOP AMBUSH, DETAIN EIGHT IN AD DULUIYAH
WEAPONS CACHE DESTROYED, TERROR SUSPECTS CAPTURED NEAR AL-AMIRIYAH
SECURITY FORCES CONTINUE TO TAKE CHARGE AGAINST TERROR

Department of Defense
Military Support to Katrina Relief Continues – Story
Distribution Sites Sprout from Devastation – Story
Engineers Clear Way in Gulf
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5, 2005 – Story
Rumsfeld, Myers Observe Relief Efforts – Story
Guard Chief Describes Katrina Operations – Story

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORT
Hurricane Katrina

IN IRAQ
Iraqis to Provide Election Security
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Eye on Iraq Update (pdf)
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Fact Sheet: Helping Women in Iraq

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
Guard Families Have Access to Free Legal Counsel
Troops Put Lives on Hold to Respond to Katrina
AAFES Waives Interest for Hurricane Victims
More Active, Guard Troops Deploy to Help
Alabama Guard Provides Disaster Response
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
1620 - Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth, England, headed for the New World.
1628 - Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony.
1862 - Confederate General Stonewall Jackson and his troops occupy Fredrick, Maryland.
1863 - Confederates evacuate Fort Wagner, SC, after a 59-day siege.
1869 - The first westbound train arrives in San Francisco; A mine fire kills 179 at Avondale, PA.
1876 - The Southern Pacific line (LA to SF) is completed.
1899 - Carnation processes its first can of evaporated milk.
1909 - Word is finally received that Admiral Peary discovered the North Pole 5 months earlier.
1914 - Germans prevented from occupying Paris in the Battle of the Marne.
1941 - All Jews over the age of 6 in German territories are ordered to wear a star; Jews are confined to a ghetto in Vilna, Poland.
1948 - Juliana becomes queen of the Netherlands
1966 - "Star Trek" premiers on NBC TV
1968 - Swaziland gains independence from Britain.
1976 - A Russian pilot defects to Japan in a Mig-25 jet.
1978 - Israel's Begin and Egypt's Sadat meet at Camp David to discuss peace.
1982 - Polish dissidents seize the Polish Embassy in Bern, Switzerland.
1983 - The U.S.S.R. admits to shooting down a KAL jetliner on 9/2.
1984 - The "Today" Show begins live remote telecasts from Moscow.
1986 - The U.S.S.R. charges news correspondent Nicholas Daniloff with spying.
1988 - The U.S.S.R.'s crippled Soyuz TM-5 lands safely with two cosmonauts aboard.
1991 - The U.S.S.R. recognizes the independence of the 3 Baltic republics.

Birthdays
1711 - Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, founder of U.S. Lutheran church
1757 - Marquis de Lafayette, American patriot, French revolutionary
1766 - John Dalton, chemist, developed atomic theory of matter
1811 - James Melville Gilliss, founder of Naval Observatory in Washington
1814 - Sir George Cartier, Canadian co-PM (1858-62)
1817 - Sir Alexander Tilloch Galt, Canadian founding father
1860 - Jane Addams, American pacifist/social worker/feminist, Nobel Prize winner (1931)
1883 - Lord Birkett, judge (Nuremburg Trials)
1888 - Joseph P. Kennedy financier/diplomat, father of JFK, RFK, Teddy
1915 - Franz Josef Strauss, German Minister of Defense (1956-62)
1946 - Bryan D O'Connor, Colonel USMC / astronaut (STS 61B, STS 40)
1947 - Jane Curtin, actress (SNL)
1961 - Peggy MacIntaggart, Playboy playmate (January, 1990)

Passings
1701 - King James II of England (1685-88)
1901 - President William McKinley, assassinated by Leon Czologosz
1966 - Dr. Verwoerd, South African PM, assassinated in assembly

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Bundy, Norman L., USN (FL); RF8G crashed, Killed, body not recovered

1968
Coskey, Kenneth L., USN (MI); A6A shot down (pilot), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive as of 1998

Deichelmann, Samuel M., USAF (AL); O1F disappeared en route from Vietnam to Laos.

1972
Lindland, Donald F., USAF (OR); A6A shot down (pilot, w/Lerseth), remains returned June, 1983

Lerseth, Roger G., USAF (WA); A6A shot down (B/N, w/Lindland), released by DRV February, 1973 (injured) - retired from USN as a Commander - alive and well as of 1998