CENTCOM: News Releases
OPERATION STEEL CURTAIN UPDATE
SEARCH NETS TERRORIST SUSPECTS
IRAQI, U.S. FORCES MAKE CLEAN SWEEP OF SOUTH BAGHDAD
EXTRADITION REQUEST SUBMITTED TO BRING SADDAM HUSSEIN NEPHEW AND TERRORIST LEADE
CHARGES AGAINST DETAINEE ASSAULT DEFENDANTS REFERRED TO GENERAL COURT-MARTIAL

Department of Defense
Troops Make Gains Against Insurgents -- Story
Forces Detain Suspects with Munitions -- Story
IED Kills Marine; 3 Insurgents Detained
Abuse Charges Referred to Court-Martial -- Story
Progress Drives Terrorists Out, Allows Iraqis In -- Commentary

ON THE GROUND
U.S.-Georgian Effort Improves School Yard -- Story
Ordnance Disposal Airmen Share Expertise -- Story

IN IRAQ
Airmen Give Iraqi Children Cheer, Supplies

IN AFGHANISTAN
Communications Airmen Lay Foundation for Future
New Technology Connects Afghan Army

FACE OF DEFENSE
Iraqi War Veteran Receives Purple Heart -- Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Sept. 11 Survivor Helps Injured -- Story
Exchange, AT&T Offer Phone Cards
Country Music Star Meets Sailors

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Iraq Transition of Power

IRAQ
5 Marines Killed in Firefight
Marine Killed; Iraqis Nab Suspects
USAF F-15s, F-16s Hit Insurgents
School Renovations Benefit Iraqis
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq (pdf)
Multinational Force Iraq
Eye on Iraq Update (pdf)
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (pdf)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Bomb Detonates Near U.S. Convoy
New Radios Aid Border Police Ops
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Rumsfeld: U.S.-Australia Ties Firm
Strike Group Conducts Maritime Ops
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Employers View Simulator
Transportation Supports Guard
Agreement Helps Disabled Athletes
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
1307 - William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1421 - The Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in the Netherlands.
1497 - Bartolomeu Dias discovers the Cape of Good Hope.
1755 - The worst quake the Massachusetts Bay area has seen strikes Boston; no deaths are reported.
1776 - Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ.
1803 - At the Battle of Vertieres, the Haitians defeat the French.
1820 - U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer discovers Antarctica.
1883 - Standard time zones are established by railroads in the U.S. and Canada.
1889 - The Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
1903 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives the U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama.
1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
1909 - The U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrowing President Zelaya.
1911 - Britain flies its first seaplane.
1912 - Albania declares independence from Turkey.
1913 - In San Diego, Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop.
1918 - Latvia declares independence from Russia.
1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in "Steamboat Willie."
1929 - A large quake in the Atlantic breaks the Transatlantic cable in 28 places.
1936 - Germany and Italy recognize the Spanish government of Francisco Franco; the main span of the Golden Gate Bridge is joined.
1940 - George Matesky - the Mad Bomber - makes his first time-bomb.
1943 - Ray Atherton is appointed as the first U.S. ambassador to Canada.
1955 - The Bell X-2 rocket plane is taken up for its first powered flight.
1960 - The U.S. Copyright Office issues its 10 millionth registration.
1961 - The U.S. Ranger-2 is launched to the Moon; it fails.
1964 - J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King, Jr. as a "most notorious liar."
1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops do away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1970 - Russia lands a self-propelled rover on the Moon.
1976 - Spain's parliament establishes a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
1985 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport Washington, DC, where it is turned over to the Smithsonian Institution.
1990 - Saddam Hussein offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait.
1991 - Muslim Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.

Birthdays
1923 - Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Rear Admiral USN / astronaut (Mercury-3, Apollo-14); Ted Stevens (Sen-AK)
1928 - Mickey Mouse
1929 - William (Pete) Knight, X-15 pilot
1951 - Mark N. Brown, Major USAF / astronaut (STS-28, STS-48)

Passings
1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st U.S. President
1962 - Niels Bohr, physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1922)
1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, politician, Kennedy patriarch
1978 - Leo J. Ryan (Rep-CA) and four others killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Jim Jones'
Peoples Temple, followed by the ritual mass suicide of over 900 members, including Jones.

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Arnold, William T., USN (WI); A4C crashed at sea

1967
Burdett, Edward B., USAF (GA); F105D shot down, DIC November, 1967 - remains returned by DRV March, 1974

Dardeau, Oscar M., Jr., USAF (LA); F105D shot down, remains returned November, 1987

Hauer, Leslie J., USAF (MI); F105D shot down, remains returned June, 1977

Lehnhoff, Edward W., USAF (KS); F105D shot down, remains returned November, 1987