HUMANITARIAN MISSION — A U.S. Army soldier tosses T- shirts to local residents during a humanitarian mission in Tal Afar, Iraq, Sept. 24, 2005, as part of Operation Restoring Rights. The soldier is assigned to Delta Company, 2nd Battalion, 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, N.C. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. James L. Harper Jr.

News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
U.S. Continues Iraq Offensive
U.S. Helicopters Fire on West Iraq Town
U.S. generals outline reasons to back Iraq war
U.S. offensive widens as 28 militants reported killed

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghan Forces Kill 31 Suspected Militants

Supreme Court
'An Outstanding Addition'
Bush picks Harriet Miers to replace Sandra O'Connor
Profile: Harriet Ellan Miers
Roberts Era Gets Under Way

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Bali Bombers' Severed Heads Displayed in Quest for IDs
Insurgent groups accused of war crimes
(finally SOMEONE turns their attention on the terrorists!)

Hurricane Season
Mass Held in New Orleans
Hurricane Otis Weakens Into Tropical Storm
New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward evokes volatile rebuilding debate

Fox News
Captain: Vessel's Wake Capsized Tour Boat; 20 Dead
S. Korea Stampede Kills 11
L.A.-Area Fires Still Burning
Dead Oklahoma Student ID'd
Millionaire Space Tourist Arrives at Space Station
Ariz. Standoff Ends Peacefully
Israel Suspends Gaza Strikes
Sharon, Abbas Agree to Summit

Reuters: Top News
Factories boom in Sept after storms-ISM
Bush to push Americans to cut energy use
Palestinian police, parliament demand end to chaos
Iraqi oil minister targeted, US pushes attack
Clooney takes on Joe McCarthy in new movie
Getty Museum to return disputed art works to Italy
Clooney takes on Joe McCarthy in new movie
Israel urges ultra-Orthodox Jews to work

AP World News
Australians Win Nobel Prize in Medicine
Austrians Don't Want Turkey in EU
Palestinian Police Break Into Parliament
India, Pakistan Sign Missile Tests Deal
Iraq's President Calls for PM to Step Down
Students, Unions Mark '68 Mexico Massacre
Calderon Appears Headed Win in Mexico
U.S.: Colombia Should Fumigate Coca
Corsica Strife Challenges Young Gov't.
Austria Upholds Objection to Turkey in EU
Germany's Conservatives Gain in Election
Report: Former East Germans Spied on Pope
Newspaper Stands by Iran Oil-Threat Story

The Seattle Times
Call to oust Iraq leader shows crack in key alliance
White House urged to escalate meth fight
Bali fears more attacks; suspected bomber on tape

Chicago Sun-Times
Bean with delegation in Iraq to assess situation
Brass insists Iraqi forces doing better

Boston Globe: World
Burdens of oil weigh on Nigerians
Three killed in Gaza infighting
Economic despair breeds new divide in Germany
Crisis talks resuming on Turkey's EU entry
Opposition parties in Belarus unite in effort to oust president
A monument to red tape will leave Cairo's landscape

CENTCOM: News Release
REPORTS OF KIDNAPPED MARINES FALSE
TASK FORCE BAGHDAD NABS TERROR SUSPECTS, WEAPONS
MARINES DOUBT AL QAEDA CLAIMS; FULL ACCOUNTABILITY CHECK IN PROGRESS
IRAQI, U.S. FORCES SEIZE TERRORIST WEAPONS, BOMBS
IRAQI CONTRACTORS TAKE HOME $22 MILLION IN CASH
OPERATION IRON FIST UPDATE
DETAINEE DIES AT ABU GHRAIB
OPERATION IRON FIST BEGINS

Department of Defense
Freedom Progresses in Iraq, Abizaid Says - Story
Casey: Iraqi Forces Becoming More Capable - Story
'Iron Fist' Offensive Smashes Terrorists - Story
U.S. Launches 'Iron Fist' Offensive in Iraq
Bush Describes Strategy for Victory in Iraq - Story

ON THE GROUND
Afghan, Coalition Doctors Treat 400 in Qalat — Story

IN IRAQ
U.S. Builds Water Treatment Plant in Dibis
'Black Three' Gun Truck Marines Ride Again
Marine Psych Class Offers Many Benefits

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Army Builds on Engineering Skills
Afghan Army Learns How to Counter IEDs
New Garrison Opens Doors to Afghan Troops

HOMECOMING
USS Kauffman, USS Normandy Return Home Photos
Maintenance Co. Return Home to Hawaii Photos

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

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Hurricane Coverage
Iraq Transition of Power

IRAQ
U.S. Doubts al Qaeda Kidnap Claim
Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq
Sunni Mistake Was Not Voting
Hearings Show Democracy in Action
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Eye on Iraq Update (pdf)
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

AFGHANISTAN
Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
Reconciliation Program Continues
JCC Ensured Secure Elections
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Detainee Transfer Announced
Abizaid Details al Qaeda's Goals
Will, Resolve Key to Fighting Terror
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Pace: Advice Impacts Troops
Chairman Bids Farewell
Myers: Will Succeed in Iraq
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army 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
2333BC - Tangun establishes the kingdom of Chosun (Korea).
1430 - Jews are expelled from Eger, Bohemia.
1789 - Washington proclaims the first national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26.
1862 - Battle of Corinth, Mississippi.
1863 - Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day.
1913 - The Federal Income Tax is signed into law (at 1%).
1920 - The NFL (then the American Pro Football Association) plays its first games.
1922 - The first facsimile photo is send over city telephone lines, in Washington, DC.
1928 - The French submarine Ondine sinks on its return trip to Toulon, drowning 42.
1929 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes its name to Yugoslavia.
1942 - The first A-4/V-2 rocket is launched to an altitude of 53 miles (85 km).
1945 - The World Federation of Trade Unions is formed, with the CIO as a member.
1954 - "Father Knows Best" premieres on TV.
1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" and the "Mickey Mouse Club" premiere on TV; the Soviet battleship Novorossiisk strikes a WWII mine in the Baltic Sea.
1961 - "The Dick Van Dyke Show" and "Mr. Ed" premiere TV.
1967 - William Knight sets an X-15 speed record of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72.
1968 - Military coup overthrows Pres Fernando Bela£nde Terry in Peru
1970 - Baseball umpires call their first strike.
1974 - The Watergate trial begins.
1981 - An Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast ends a 7-mo hunger strike.
1985 - The 21st Shuttle Mission (51J, Atlantis 1, an all-military flight) is launched.
1986 - A Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, killing 3.
1988 - The 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery-7, returns to Earth after 4 days; Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh, after holding him for 30 months.
1989 - The attempted Panamanian Defense Force coup against Manuel Noriega fails.
1990 - East and West Germany officially merge to become Germany.

Birthdays
1605 - Li Tzu-ch'eng, Chinese revolutionary, dethroned last Ming emperor
1804 - Townsend Harris, first Western consul to reside in Japan
1854 - William Crawford Gorgas, U.S. Surgeon-General, helped find cure for Yellow Fever
1888 - Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist, pacifist, Nobel Prize winner (1935)
1904 - Charles Pedersen, biochemist, Nobel Prize winner (1987)
1935 - Charles M. Duke, Jr., Brigadier General USAF/astronaut (Apollo 16)
1941 - Chubby Checker, singer (The Twist)
1946 - Bob Dotson, newscaster (Primetime Sunday)
1947 - Lindsey Buckingham, rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)
1951 - Kathryn D. Sullivan, Ph.D. / astronaut (STS 41-G, 28, 31, 45)
1963 - Patrick Flatley, right winger (NY Islanders, Oly-4 gold-1988)

Passings
1656 - Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader
1979 - Claudia Jennings, Playboy playmate (Nov, 1969)/actress, at age 29
1988 - Franz Josef Strauss, German FR Minister of Defense (1956-62); Generoso Pope, Jr,. National Enquirer owner
1990 - Stefano Casiraghi, husband of Princess Caroline of Monaco, at age 30

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Echevarria, Raymond L., US Army SF (NY); unit ambushed while on classified mission in Laos

Jones, James E., US Army SF (GA); unit ambushed while on classified mission in Laos

Williams, Eddie L., US Army SF (FL); unit ambushed while on classified mission in Laos

1967
Barnett, Robert W., USAF (CA); F105D shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

King, Ronald Runyan, USAF (CA); F105D shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1968
Smith, Roger L., US Army (OH); UH1H shot down (crew chief), KIA, remains returned, ID'd July, 1999

1969
Cunningham, Kenneth, US Army (IL); OV1C (observer, w/Graffe) disappeared while on surveillance mission; wreckage found

Graffe, Paul L., US Army (VA); OV1C (pilot, w/Cunningham) disappeared while on surveillance mission; wreckage found

1988
Copp, James Hamstead; held by LAO for 41 days (w/Long), released after admin. fees paid

Long, Donna; held by LAO for 41 days (w/Copp). released after admin. fees paid