-- Donald H. Rumsfeld, on insurgents in Iraq

News of Note
Homeland Security / War on Terror
Homicide Bombers Kill 26 in Bali
Al Qaeda connection suspected
Officials: Homicide Bombers Responsible for Bali Bombing
Fast Facts: Indonesia Bombings
Video: Bali Blasts
Photo Essay: Bali Terror Blasts

Operation Iraqi Freedom
U.S. Launches 'Iron Fist' Offensive in Iraq
U.S. Launches Iraq Offensive
Video: Operation Iron Fist
Marines, Insurgents Clash in Iraqi Village

Hurricane Season
L.A. Firefighters Gain Ground
New Orleans' Residents Return; Some Leave
New Orleans Nearly Dry
Dogs Shot Dead in Schools
Video: Shady Politics?
Otis Causes Mexico Floods
New Tropical Depression Forms in Caribbean

Fox News
Explosion Kills One at University of Oklahoma
Yanks Win AL East Title
Hamas Blasts Election Results
Prosecutor Mum in Valerie Plame CIA Leak Case
Bennett Slams Bias Charges
Video: Bennett Explains Remarks
Man Charged in Missing Mom, Wandering Girl Case

Reuters: Top News
Sharon, Abbas talk as Israel suspends offensive
Los Angeles fire seen fully contained by Monday
US warns citizens in Indonesia after Bali blasts
Iraq says Zarqawi sending some militants back home
Iran denies oil threat interview to UAE newspaper
Supreme court to open term with new chief justice
In a flash, hard-drive memory fading
El Salvador volcano kills two, thousands flee

AP World News
Newspaper Stands by Iran Oil-Threat Story
Famous Grandsons Debate 1945 Yalta Summit
Sharon, Abbas Agree to Hold Summit Soon
Sudanese Government Accused in Attacks
Attempt on Lebanese Judge's Life Fails
Rare Eclipse to Appear Over Europe, Africa
Israel Issues Sinai Travel Warning
Tropical Storm Stan Hits Yucatan Peninsula
Turkey Demands Full Membership in EU
Youths, Police Clash After Corsica Rally
Dominican Republic Takes on Gun Control
Moroccans Recall Making Escape to Spain

The Seattle Times
Divided on global warming
It'll soon be harder to erase your debt
Marine's second "family" destroyed in an instant
GOP tries to clear image
Couples unite in civil unions

Chicago Sun-Times
Civilians may be targets in Iraqi blasts

Boston Globe: World
Bishops to open 3-week synod
Missing Zimbabwe athletes posing a mystery in Britain
US car theft rings probed for ties to Iraq bombings
Twilight for Cambodia's tenacious king
In Vietnam, battle over freedom of speech still underway
Despair driving Iranians to opium
Desire to divorce leads Sudan wives to adultery, and jail
A Muslim rapper's French ghetto beat

CENTCOM: News Release
AFGHAN FORCES CAPTURE TALIBAN COMMANDER
RECONCILIATION PROGRAM SEES SUCCESS AFTER ELECTIONS

Department of Defense
Bush Describes Strategy for Victory in Iraq - Story
Afghan Reconciliation Program Continues - Story

ON THE GROUND
Iraqi Police Conduct Raid Without Oversight — Story

IN IRAQ
U.S. Builds Water Treatment Plant in Dibis

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Army Builds on Engineering Skills

IN GEORGIA
Marines Issue Equipment to Georgian Soldiers

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Marathoner Supports Troops – Story
'Voices' to Tour Military Bases

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Hurricane Coverage
Iraq Transition of Power

IRAQ
Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Sunni Mistake Was Not Voting
Hearings Show Democracy in Action
Enemy Won't Disrupt Iraq Elections
Forces Detain Suspected Recruiter
5 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Ramadi
Security Forces Nab 44 Terrorists
FOB Lima Transfers to Iraqis
Task Force Aids Residents
Iraqi Determination Will Prevail
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Eye on Iraq Update (pdf)
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Abizaid Details al Qaeda's Goals
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Rice: U.S. Must Advance Democracy
Marines Complete Relief Mission
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Defense Officials Identify 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

National Hurricane Center

Today in History
1187 - Sultan Saladin captures Jerusalem from the Crusaders.
1608 - Hans Lippershey offers the Dutch government a new invention - the telescope.
1836 - Charles Darwin returns to England aboard HMS Beagle.
1853 - Austrian law forbids Jews from owning land.
1870 - Italy annexes Rome and the Papal States; Rome becomes the Italian capital.
1919 - President Woodrow Wilson suffers a stroke.
1935 - Italy invades Abyssinia (Ethiopia); in New York, the Hayden Planetarium, the 4th in the U.S., opens.
1940 - The British liner Empress, loaded with refugees bound for Canada, is sunk by a German bomber.
1941 - Six Parisian synagogues are bombed.
1942 - The Queen Mary slices the cruiser Curacao in half, killing 338; in Chicago, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is demonstrated.
1950 - The comic strip "Peanuts" debuts in nine newspapers.
1955 - "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" premiers on TV.
1956 - In NYC, the first atomic power clock is exhibited.
1958 - Guinea gains independence from France.
1959 - Rod Serling's "Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS-TV.
1961 - "Ben Casey" premieres on TV.
1967 - Groundbreaking begins on Veteran Stadium in Philadelphia; Thurgood Marshall is sworn as the first African-American Supreme Court Justice.
1971 - A Homing pigeon averages 133 KPH (a record) in an 1100-km Australian race.
1972 - An Aeroflot Il-18 crashes near the Black Sea resort of Sochi, killing 105.
1980 - Michael Myers (D-PA), is the first Representative expelled in over 100 years (over ABSCAM).
1984 - Three Cosmonauts return after a record 237 days in orbit; Richard Miller becomes the first (former) FBI agent to be charged with espionage.
1986 - Sikhs attempt to assassinate Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.
1990 - The U.S. Senate votes 90-9 to confirm David Souter's appointment to the Supreme Court; Radio Berlin International's sends its final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany)- its final song is "The End" by the Doors.

Birthdays
1851 - Ferdinand Foch, credited for the Allied victory in WWI
1869 - Mohandas K. Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi), pacifist
1871 - Cordell Hull, U.S. Secretary of State (1933-44), lowered tariffs, Nobel Prize winner (1945)
1890 - Julius "Groucho" Marx, comedian (Marx Bros)
1891 - H.V. Porter, basketball pioneer, creater of the fan-shaped backboard
1895 - Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello)
1921 - Robert Runcie, archbishop of Canterbury
1928 - Clay Felker, journalist (NY Herald Tribune, Esquire)
1939 - Yuri N. Glazkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz-24)
1951 - Sting, AKA Gordon Sumner, rock musician (Police) / actor (Dune)
1964 - Sherry Arnett, Playboy playmate (Jan. 1986)

Passings
322 BC - Aristotle dies of indigestion
1264 - Pope Urban IV (1261-64)
1678 - Gen Wu San-kuei, invited Manchus in China - died trying to expell them
1780 - John Andre, British Major, hanged by Americans (spied with Benedict Arnold)
1985 - Rock Hudson, actor, of AIDS

Reported Missing in Action
1964
Walker, Kenneth E., USAF (MI); A1E shot down over water, KIA, body not recovered

1967
Ott, Patrick L., USMC (CA); F8J crashed when returning from mission, Killed, body not recovered

1968
Erwin, Donald E., USN (IN); A4E shot down over water, remains ID'd February, 1990

1969
The following all lost in the water crash of a C2A aircraft enroute from Cubi Point NAS to various aircraft carriers in the Gulf of Tonkin. All reported Killed, body not recovered:

Beck, Terry L, USN (PA)

Bell, Richard W., USN (PA)

Bowman, Michael L., USN (OH)

Bytheway, Frank L., Civilian

Dayao, Rolando C., USN (Phillipines)

Dean, Donald C., USN (MO)

Dilger, Herbert H., USN (NY); pilot

Ellerd, Carl J., USN (TX)

Fowler, James J., USN (MO)

Fowler, Roy G., USNR (VA)

Gan, Leonardo, USN, (Phillipines)

Gore, Paul Edwin, USN (NC); not on official DIA list

Gorsuch, William D., USN (WI)

Hill, Rayford J., USN (TX); loadmaster-trainee

Kohler, Delvin L., USN (CO)

Koslosky, Howard M., USN (AK)

Leonard, Robert B., USN (IA)

Livingston, Richard A., USN (WA)

Montgomery, Ronald W., USN (IN)

Moore, William R., USN (KS)

Moser, Paul K., USN (CT); air crewman

Prentice, Kenneth M., USN (WA)

Salazar, Fidel, USN (Phillipines)

Terrell, Keavin L., USN (LA)

Tye, Michael J., USN (MO)

Viado, Reynaldo R., USN (Phillipines)