News of Note:
In Iraq:
50 Terrorists Killed in Iraq Offensive
Marines, Iraqi troops launch 2nd offensive

"Gitmo Dick"
Durbin Defends Gitmo Claims

Fox News
Al-Zawahiri Tape Slams U.S. (because the only way to bring change is armed jihad)
'Operation Spear' Launched in Iraq
GI Charged With Killing Officers
Top Zarqawi Aide Nabbed in Mosul
Iran to Hold Runoff Election
Security Breach May Put 40M Credit Card Holders at Risk
Taliban Rebels Take at Least 10 Afghan Cops Hostage
House OKs U.N. Reform Bill
Rice to Israel: No Settlements
Durbin Defends Gitmo Claims

JuneauEmpire.com: Associated Press
Rice urges cooperation in Gaza withdrawal
Slain civil rights worker's mom testifies
Iran to have 1st presidential runoff ever

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Candidates reflect Lebanon's past, future
Palestinians create mixed electoral system
Probe: Truck bomb killed Lebanon's Hariri
Taliban rebels kidnap 11 police officers
Roadside bomb kills 10-year-old girl
Israel to build undersea barrier off Gaza
Clashes in Egypt leave two dead
Mission along Israel-Syria border extended
Al-Qaida No. 2 disparages U.S. on reform
A look at U.S. military deaths in Iraq
Car bomb kills 4, injures 15 in Iraq
Army staff sergeant charged with murder
Pakistani nuke father to leave hospital
Ecumenical patriarch welcomes pope's call-
Summary: Iranians vote for president
U.S. launches combat operation in Iraq
Expatriates urge Iranians to boycott vote

Yahoo! News: War with Iraq
US ambassador to Iraq confirmed by Senate
Car bomber kills five Iraqis in Fallujah
U.S. launches 2nd big operation, 50 rebels killed

CENTCOM
Commandos continue to press terrorists
Water Project on schedule in Southern Iraq
Iraqi Marines Prepare to Take Over Oil Platform Security
New Ukraine Government Continues in the Global War on Terror
CJTF-HOA assists Djiboutian vaccination program
Coalition Forces locate weapons caches in Al Anbar update

Department of Defense
Patience Needed as Democracy Emerges— Story
DoD Strongly Supports Stabilization Office — Story
Exercise Trains Africans to Fight Terrorism — Story
Operation Spear Begins in Anbar Province — Story
Iraqis Increasingly Intolerant of Insurgents
Citizens Providing More Help to Iraqi, Coalition Forces
Iraq Deadline Would Encourage Terrorists
Americans Need to Recognize Progress in Iraq
Raid Nabs Mosul's Top al Qaeda Operative

ON THE GROUND
U.S., Iraqi Soldiers Reverse Effects of War — Story
Kitchen Builders Serve Up Safer Humvees — Story
Mississippi Guard Troops Patrol for Insurgents — Story

IN IRAQ
Woman Soldier Receives Silver Star for Valor
Iraqis Prepare for Oil Platform Security Duties
U.S. Army Doctors Offer Hope, Health to Iraqis

IN AFGHANISTAN
Bagram Groundbreaking Marks Hospital Start
Infantry Course Provides Realistic Training

FACE OF DEFENSE
First Female Pilot Joins 2006 Thunderbirds Team — Story

HOMECOMING
'Chalk 68' Soldiers Return from Afghanistan

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Band Rocks for Wounded Troops — Story

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Soldier Charged in Deaths
Leader Talks of Progress in Iraq
Employee Lauded for Iraqi Progress
Iraq Daily Update
Maps
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Soldiers Wounded by IED
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
DoD Guidance Deals with Detainees
Exercise Tests Attack Response
Officials Detail Detainee Efforts
Progress in WMD Countermeasure
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Influencers Can Affect Recruiting
Invention Eases Helmet Discomfort
Deployed Can Use Travel Specials
National Guard, Reserve Update

HONORING THE FALLEN
Memorial Remembers Fallen — Story

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Marine Casualties — Story

This Day in History
1178 - Canterbury monks report an explosion on the moon; believed by some to be the time of the origin of the moon's Giordano Bruno crater.
1778 - British Redcoats evacuate Philadelphia.
1812 - War of 1812 begins - The U.S. declares war on Britain.
1815 - Napoleon is defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.
1822 - Part of the American-Canadian boundary is determined.
1863 - Confederates race to fortify Vicksburg.
1864 - General U.S. Grant ends four days of assaults at Petersburg.
1872 - Woman's Sufferage Convention held at Merchantile Liberty Hall
1873 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for attempting to vote for President.
1940 - Winston Churchill makes his Battle of Britain / "finest hour" speech.
would remember that "this was their finest hour"
1942 - Bernard W. Robinson becomes the first black U.S. Navy ensign.
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) is charged with treason.
1948 - The National Security Council authorizes covert operations for the first time; the UN Commission on Human Rights adopts the International Declaration of Human Rights.
1953 - Egypt is proclaimed a republic; a USAF C124 Globemaster crashes near Tokyo killing 129 servicemen
1956 - Last of foreign troops leaves Egypt
1959 -The first telecast is transmitted from (England to U.S.).
1968 - The Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in the sale or rental of housing.
1977 - The Space Shuttle test model "Enterprise" carries a crew aloft (fixed to a Boeing 747).
1981 - Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart retires.
1982 - The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is extended by the Senate.
1983 - The 7th Shuttle Mission, Challenger 2, is launched. Aboard is the first U.S. woman astronaut, Sally Ride.
1983 - The IRA's Joseph Doherty is arrested in NYC.
1991 - President Zachary Taylor's body is exhumed to assess cause of death.

Birthdays
1877 - James Montgomery Flagg illustrator "I want you" recruiting poster
1926 - Tom Wicker columnist (NY Times)
1937 - John D (Jay) Rockefeller IV (Sen-III) ; Vitali M Zholobov cosmonaut (Soyuz 21)

Passings
1974 - Georgi Zhukov, WWII Russian Marshal
1975 - Faisal Ibn Mussed Abdul Aziz, Saudi prince, beheaded (in a shopping center parking lot in Riyadh) for killing his uncle, the king

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Armond, Robert L., USAF (CA); killed in the collision of 2 B-52's, body not recovered.
Gehrig, James M., Jr., USAF (PA); killed in the collision of 2 B-52's, body not recovered.
Lowry, Tyrrell G., USAF (OR); killed in the collision of 2 B-52's, body not recovered.
Neville, William E., USAF (CA); killed in the collision of 2 B-52's, body not recovered.
Roberts, Harold J., Jr., USAF (OR); killed in the collision of 2 B-52's, body not recovered.
Watson, Frank P., USAF (OK); killed in the collision of 2 B-52's, body not recovered.

1967
Guillory, Edward J., US Army (LA); OH23 helicopter disappeared
Lemmons, William E., US Army (ID); OH23 helicopter disappeared
McKittrick, James C., US Army (SC); OH23 helicopter disappeared

1968
Ravencraft, James Alvin, US Army (OH); Remains recovered February, 1969

1970
Drake, Carl Wilson, USAF (OH); F4E shot down, KIA, body not recovered
Green, James A., US Army (OK); KIA, body not recovered
McLamb, Harry Lawrence, USAF (GA); F4E shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1971
The following Killed when their EKA3B developed mechanical problems and crashed into Tonkin Bay; bodies not recovered
Bidwell, Barry A., USN (PA)
DeBlasio, Raymond V., USN (NY)
Painter, John R., Jr. , USN (MA)

1972
The following KIA when their AC130A was shot down, remains ID'd October, 1994
Ayres, Gerald F., USAF (DE)
Cole, Richard M., Jr., USAF (NY)
Danielson, Mark G., USAF (CO)
Gilbert, Paul F., USAF (TX)
Harrison, Robert H., USAF (NY)
Hunt, Leon A., USAF (KY)
Klinke, Donald H., USAF (CA)
Lehrke, Stanley L. USAF (CA)
Mercer, Jacob E., USAF (FL)
NyHof, Richard E., USAF (CA)
Newman, Larry J., USAF (NE)
Wilson, Robert A., USAF (MI)

Also lost in 1972:
Kilpatrick, Larry Ronald, USN (GA); A7A crash, reportedly killed