-- Thucydides

News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
U.S. Sees Gains in Mosul
Saddam Dissolves Legal Team
Sunni neighborhood becomes island of peace
OPERATION ABLE WARRIOR NETS MORE THAN 40 TERRORISTS

Operation Enduring Freedom
Forces Stymie Attacks in Afghanistan

Homeland Security / War on Terror ("GSAVE")
7/21 Bomb Suspects in Court
Cops: Man Plotted Jihad Camp
Security Threat Closes U.S. Embassy in Saudi Arabia
Clerics who back terror may face treason charges in UK

U.N. Follies
Former Oil-for-Food Chief Sevan Quits U.N.
(hours before he's officially accused of taking kickbacks)

Other News of Note
ABC Newsman Peter Jennings Dies
Quotes: Reactions to Jenning's Death
Iran restarts uranium conversion facility
Extra daylight saving time may stump gadgets

Fox News
Bush to Sign Energy Bill
ANWR Drilling Still on Table
Israel OKs First Stage of Pullout; Netanyahu Resigns
DEA Accused of Espionage
NASA Scraps Landing

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: War on Iraq
Iraqi politicians seek OK on constitution
Iraq leaders postpone constitution meeting
Egypt hopeful vows to end emergency laws
New Iran leader meets Syrian president
Israeli soldiers train for pullout

Reuters: Top News
Oil scales new peak
Japan PM seeks new reform after postal defeat
Gaza pullout on track despite Netanyahu resignation
Iraqi leaders race to draft constitution
Bush focuses on energy bill's economic impact
Roberts' Senate hearing to raise many questions
Terrorism is the hot topic at Edinburgh's Fringe

CENTCOM: News Releases
1/11TH ACR DESTROYS TERROR CELL, FINDS WEAPON CASHES
TWO TASK FORCE LIBERTY SOLDIERS KILLED, THREE WOUNDED BY IED
SUICIDE BOMBING STOPPED
MARINE KILLED BY SUICIDE ATTACK

Department of Defense
Coalition Forces Seize Terror Suspects in Iraq — Story
Combined Efforts Squelch Terrorist Attacks — Story

ON THE GROUND
Marine Aircraft Group Changes Command — Story

TOP NEWS
IN IRAQ
Soldiers Killed; Dozens Detained
Bomb Kills Marine; Terrorists Caught
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

IN AFGHANISTAN
Taliban Weakened by Rebuilding
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
DoD Identifies Army Casualty — Story

Weather

Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
1814 - Peace negotiations begin in Ghent, Belgium.
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile on St. Helena.
1918 - Six American Soldiers are surrounded by German troops in France. With Alvin York in command, they kill 20 and capture 132 more.
1919 - In the Treaty of Rawalpindi, the British recognize Afghanistan's independence.
1929 - The German airship Graf Zeppelin begins a round-the-world flight.
1940 - The Battle of Britain begins - Germany launches air attacks.
1942 - In Washington, D.C., six convicted Nazi saboteurs who landed in U.S. are executed.
1945 - Pres Harry S Truman signs the U.N. Charter; the U.S.S.R. declares war on Japan; it also establishes a communist government in North Korea.
1949 - Bhutan becomes an independent monarchy.
1953 - The U.S. and South Korea sign a mutual security pact.
1955 - In Geneva, a conference is held to discuss peaceful uses of atomic energy.
1960 - The Ivory Coast declares independence.
1973 - VP Spiro T. Agnew calls reports he took kickbacks "damned lies," vowing not to resign. 1974 - President Nixon announces he is resigning effective 12PM, August 9th.
1983 - Brigadier General Efrain Rios Montt is deposed as president of Guatemela.
1988 - Russian troops begin pulling out of Afghanistan after 9 years of war.
1988 - In Bolivia, Secretary of State Shultz narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.
1989 - The U.S. space shuttle STS-28 is launched.
1990 - Iraq annexes Kuwait.
1991 - Shite Muslims release British hostage John McCarthy.

Birthdays
1763 - Charles Bulfinch, first American professional architect (MA State House)
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary, peasant leader
1884 - Sara Teasdale, American poet, first Pulitzer Prize winner (1918-"Love Songs")
1901 - Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor of the Cyclotron, Nobel Prize winner (1939)
1902 - Paul A.M. Dirac, theoretical physicist, Nobel prize winner (1933)
1908 - Arthur J. Goldberg, UN ambassador / Supreme Court justice (1962-65)
1913 - Robert Stafford (Sen-VT)
1926 - Richard Anderson, actor (Oscar Goldman-6 Million Dollar Man)
1927 - Jim Weaver (Rep-OR)
1948 - Svetlana Y. Savitskaya, second woman in space (Soyuz T-7, T-12)
1988 - Princess Beatrice of England

Passings
1961 - Charlie Gemora, actor who portrayed King Kong
1976 - John Roselli, hired by CIA to kill Castro, murdered

Reported Missing in Action
1964
Grainger, Joseph W., Civilian (CT); USAID service worker, died in captivity January, 1965

1966
Flom, Fredric R., USAF (WI); F105D shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

Golberg, Lawrence, USAF (MN); F4C shot down (see Wynne), remains returned September, 1977

Kommendant, Aado, USAF (NJ);F4C shot down (backseater to Walling)

Kasler, James H., USAF (OH); released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
**endured "third-country interrogations" - read his story here
**Korean War "Ace" flying the F-86 (100 missions), also USA Air Corp B-29 tailgunner, Pacific Theater, WWII (7 missions)**

Walling, Charles M., USAF (AZ); F4C shot down (pilot)

Wynne, Patrick Edward, USAF (FL); F4C shot down (see Golberg), remains returned March, 1977