News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Al Qaeda claim Iraq helicopter crash
U.S. Circulates Draft Resolution on Iraq
GOP: Dems also saw Saddam as a threat

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Pakistan Kills One Al Qaeda Suspect, Arrests Another
Belgium opens trial linked to Madrid bombings
al-Qaida to Execute Two Moroccan Hostages
No Reduction for Cleric Tied to Bombings

Troops on Trial
Philippines Holds Five Marines in Rape Case
Charges Dropped Against British Soldiers
Staffer at Fort Lewis accused of extortion in handling funerals

Politics
Libby's Day in Court
White House debate: Is it time for Rove to go?

Supreme Court
To Filibuster or Not?
Key Senate Democrat questions Alito's independence
In college writings, Alito defended privacy, gay rights

Hurricane Season
Engineers Fear N.O. Levee Repairs May Not Be Enough
New Orleans businesses face mounting uncertainty
Storm-related job losses climb on Wilma

Pakistan Earthquake
U.N. May Scale Back Quake-Zone Deliveries

Blogging in the News
House rejects political-blog bill

Oddities
The place that has no secrets..
Boys get gunshots, not treats, for Halloween
Fur doesn't fly with man in bear suit stalking royals
Man kills deer in home with his bare hands

Other News of Note
Iraq vets stung by $20 gift cap aimed at bribes
Peace group kicked out of Milwaukee Veterans Day parade (Bravo! A good move here.)

Fox News
EU Probing Reports of Secret CIA Prisons
Weary Iraqis Cautiously Begin Holiday Celebrations
Miami Police Chief's Son Arrested on Drug Charges
Business Productivity Higher
Jobless Claims Down
Funeral Speakers Urge Public to Continue Parks' Legacy
Bush Hosts Charles, Camilla
Bird Flu May Impede Travel
Prison Break in S.C.
No Respite in Paris-Area Riots

Reuters: Top News
Shots fired as French riots escalate
Indonesia says has suspected flu cases in children
Berlusconi says threatened by bomber in stadium
Abductions take center stage at NKorea-Japan talks
Hamas sets conditions for renewing truce
GMO chickens may help to lessen bird flu threat
China plans to put three men in space by 2007
US leads way in medical errors: study
Scientists explain why viruses thrive during winter
New films ask why suicide bombers kill
China winemakers get better with age
Calif. winemakers see banner 2005 harvest

AP World News
Asian Report Warns of Bird-Flu Catastrophe
Free-Trade Battle Looms at Americas Summit
Two More Protesters Killed in Ethiopia
Italian Officials Questioned on Iraq Claim
Holiday Brings Rare Celebrations to Iraq
U.S. Praises Japan for Opening Markets
China: Korean Nuke Talks Will Start Nov. 9
Iraq Invites Ex-Officers to Join New Army
Chavez Accuses Colombia of Coup Conspiracy
Cuban Minister Expects U.S. Embargo Win

The Seattle Times
Texans gear up to decide on gay marriage
Bush to visit Latin American nations
Gov. Schwarzenegger boards campaign bus
AP: DeLay's staff tried to help Abramoff
Clinton invokes Parks at Corzine event
Summit security rattles residents
4,000 honor Rosa Parks at Detroit service
A possible "necktie revolution" in Azerbaijan
Iran's hard-line regime fires ambassadors and diplomats
U.S. offer to send disaster team to Cuba withdrawn amid arguing
Israeli, Palestinian killed in West Bank

Chicago Sun-Times
Feds hit gov's office for 4th time
Bears defensive tackle gets fine, probation for loaded gun in truck
Court may allow U.S. to collect debts from Social Security checks
Libertarian group gives up on N.H. goal
List of prohibited Jewish names contains surprises
Denver voters OK legalizing possession of 1 ounce of pot
First hints of earliest stars found, study says
Polygamy no reason to oust Utah judge, his lawyer argues
Traveler who grabbed screener's breasts gets probation

Boston Globe: World
Kohl book recalls 1980s Germany
British Cabinet member resigns again
Arab states press Syria on Hariri probe
Striving for unity, Damascus frees 190 political prisoners
In Ivory Coast, French seek to mend image while keeping peace
In Kabul, protesters are price of democracy

Military.com
Pentagon Has Plan of Attack for Avian Flu
Japan Votes Against Nuclear Powered Carrier
Air Force Repeats as 2005 Rugby Champion
Rumsfeld: Strength Could Increase Briefly in Iraq
Nassau ESG Set to Deploy
Seabees Affected by Katrina now Help Quake Victims
Kyrgyzstan Wants to Hike Price for Use of Base
212th MASH Unit Treats Stoic Pakistanis

CENTCOM: News Release
TWO TERRORISTS SELF-DESTRUCT WHILE BUILDING CAR BOMB
U.S. AIR FORCE PAKISTAN RELIEF SUMMARY
NINE TERRORISTS DETAINED AFTER ATTACKING IRAQI ARMY
THREE TERRORISTS DETAINED IN AD DULUIYAH
ELEVEN DETAINED IN MOSUL CORDON AND SEARCH
PRESS STATEMENT: RECENT REPORTS ON BARGRAM DETAINEE ESCAPE MISLEADING
ANA, COALITION SOLDIERS FIND CACHES IN EASTER AFGHANISTAN

Department of Defense
2 Troops Die; Air Forces Fend Off Attack — Story
Weapons Found; Escapee Reports Misleading — Story

ON THE GROUND
Soldiers Bring Medical Aid to Afghan Villages — Story Photos: Part I Part II
Troops' Repair Skills Critical to Mission, Lives — Story
Task Force Band of Brothers Takes Command — Story

IN IRAQ
Soldiers Clear Baghdad Junkyard of Ammo Photos

IN AFGHANISTAN
Troops Dispose of Three 5,000-Pound Rockets
'Hillclimbers' Join Task Force Quake

FACE OF DEFENSE
Sisters Make the Most of Afghanistan Deployment — Story

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Hurricane Coverage
Iraq Transition of Power

IRAQ
Chopper Crash, Attacks Kill 4 Troops
Two Soldiers Killed, Another Injured
Water, Sewers Benefit 4,200 Homes
Station Supports Police, Residents
Surge in Attacks, Progress Coincide
Bomb Kills Soldier; Prisoners Freed
Engineers Train, Bring Skills Home
Terrorists Fail to Stop Progress
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
EUCOM Exercise Tests Coordination
Italy 'Partner for Peace,' Bush Says
Bush: Iraq Part of War on Terror
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
TRICARE Reserve Benefit Extended
Marines Join Special Ops Command
Ohio Guard Special Forces Deploy
Guam Guard Heads to Iraq
Web Page: Plans Against Pandemic
Officials Confident in NSPS
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
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
1394 - Charles VI has Jews expelled from France.
1679 - The close approach of a comet causes panic in Europe.
1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana.
1783 - Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded.
1820 - Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence.
1839 - Two British frigates engage several Chinese junks, starting the First Opium War.
1868 - John W. Menard of Louisiana becomes the first Black elected to Congress; Ulysses S. Grant is elected President.
1885 - Tacoma vigilantes drive out the Chinese, burning their homes and businesses.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills lhis last known victim.
1896 - William McKinley is elected President.
1903 - Colombia grants independence to Panama.
1908 - William Howard Taft is elected President.
1916 - A treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar.
1918 - The Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves; Poland proclaims independence from Russia.
1927 - Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (VT).
1928 - Turkey switches from the Arabic to the Roman alphabet.
1930 - The first vehicular tunnel to a foreign country opens (Detroit-Windsor).
1931 - The first commercially produced synthetic rubber is manufactured.
1935 - George II returns to Greece, regaining the monarchy.
1936 - FDR wins reelection in a landslide.
1952 - Clarence Birdseye first markets frozen peas.
1954 - Linus Pauling wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1955 - The announcement is made of the first crystallization of a virus; an Alabama woman is bruised by a meteor; Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands.
1956 - The "Wizard of Oz" is televised for the first time on CBS-TV.
1957 - The U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik-2 with a dog (Laika) aboard - the first animal in orbit.
1964 - LBJ is re-elected President (assumed the position after the Kennedy assassination).
1970 - Salvador Allende is inaugurated as President of Chile.
1973 - Mariner-10 launched; it takes the first pictures of Venus, and undertakes the first mission to Mercury.
1978 - The U.K. grants grants Dominica independence.
1979 - Five people are mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC.
1983 - Jesse Jackson launches his first campaign for the Presidency.
1984 - 3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riot in India; the body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi is cremated.
1986 - The Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret U.S. arms sales to Iran; in Mozambique, President Machel is killed in an air crash.
1988 - Pakistan claims it has downed an Afghan warplane; President Reagan signs the credit card disclosure bill; the Soviet Union allows the teaching of Hebrew; Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at a TV taping.
1992 - Bill Clinton is elected President.

Birthdays
1718 - John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1793 - Stephen Fuller Austin, colonized Texas
1903 - Walker Evans, photographer (Fortune Magazine)
1908 - Bronko Nagurski, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
1909 - James Reston, columnist (NY Times)
1918 - Russell B. Long (Sen-LA)
1922 - Charles Bronson, actor (Death Wish, Dirty Dozen)
1930 - William H. Dana, pilot (X-15)
1933 - Ken Berry actor/dancer/TV personality (F Troop, Mayberry RFD); Louis W. Sullivan, US Secretary of Health and Human Services (1989-1993); Michael S. Dukakis (Gov-MA, 1988 Presidentidential Candidate)
1953 - Dennis Miller, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show)
1954 - Kevin P. Chilton, Major USAF/astronaut (sk: STS-49)
1955 - Phil Simms, NFL quarterback (NY Giants, Superbowl 1986)

Passings
1926 - Annie Oakley
1962 - Harlow H. Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8)
1990 - Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan)

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Bowles, Dwight Pollard, USAF (VA); F105D shot down (pilot), KIA, body not recovered

Egger, John C., Jr., USAF (OK); O2A crashed (aircrew), remains ID'd August, 1994

Grauert, Hans H., USN (NY); KA3B crashed on takeoff (co-pilot, w/Krusi), Killed, body not recovered

Krusi, Peter H., USN (UT); KA3B crashed on takeoff (pilot, w/Grauert), Killed, body not recovered

1969
Brown, William T., US Army SF (CA); disappeared when reconnaissance/interdiction patrol was ambushed

Norton, Michael R., US Army (WV); disappeared while his unit was withdrawing from a fire base

Shue, Donald M., US Army SF (NC); disappeared when reconnaissance/interdiction patrol was ambushed

Wald, Gunther H., US Army SF (NJ); disappeared when reconnaissance/interdiction patrol was ambushed

1970
Carver, Robert C., Australian Air Force (Australia); B57 likely shot down

Day, Dennis I., US Army (OK); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Dority, Richard C., US Army (ME); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Ginn, David L., US Army (SC); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Herbert, Michael P., Australian Air Force (Australia); B57 likely shot down

Kitchens, Perry C., US Army (GA); LCU sank - remains recovered March, 1974, ID'd March, 1977

Mangus, Arlie R., US Army (PA); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Martin, Jerry D., US Army (IN); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Norris, Calvin A., US Army (TN); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Pantall, James R., US Army (PA); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Shewmake, John D., Sr., US Army (AR); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Woods, David W., US Army (OH); LCU sank, no survivors observed

1971
DeCaire, Jack L., US Army (FL); fell overboard on the ship his transportation unit was stationed on