LOOKING OUT — Squadron personnel watch as the sun sets during flight operations aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt, Oct. 26, 2005. Roosevelt and embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 are underway on a regularly scheduled deployment conducting maritime security operations in the Persian Gulf. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Nathan Laird

TOMCAT LAUNCH — A catapult shooter signals the launch of an F-14D Tomcat, assigned to the “Tomcatters” of Fighter Squadron 31, from the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Persian Gulf, Oct. 26, 2005. The Roosevelt and embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 are under way on a regularly scheduled deployment conducting maritime security operations in the Persian Gulf. U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Michael D. Cole

News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Six US soldiers killed by roadside bombs in Iraq
U.S. SOLDIERS STOP TERRORIST PLANTING BOMB
U.S., IRAQI FORCES SWEEP UP 49 TERROR SUSPECTS

Troops on Trial
GIs Charged With Abuse
US soldier charged with murder faces investigation

Supreme Court
Bush Nominates Alito
Conservative judge to be next pick for Supreme Court
Alito Known as Thoughtful, Fair-Minded

Hurricane Season
FEMA plan to put evacuees in trailers called too costly

Pakistan Earthquake
POINTS OF CLARIFICATIONS - MEDIA REPORTING THAT HELICOPTERS WILL STOP FLYING

Oddities
Rebels seek catchy new anthem..
Pastor electrocuted while performing baptism

Other News of Note
Marines recruit Raging Granny

Fox News
Transit Strike Cripples Philly
Rosa Parks Lies in Honor at U.S. Capitol
Group Claims India Bombings
Rescuers Seek Wreck Survivors
Over 400 Arrested at Wisconsin Halloween Bash
Pope Appeals for Quake Aid
Mideast Peace Pact OK'd
Video: Important Arrest

Reuters: Top News
Wilson says leak destroyed wife's CIA career
Sharon faces test of strength after Gaza pullout
UN Council puts pressure on Syria over Hariri death
India readies for festivals, police hunt bombers
Delhi blasts cast pall over peace process
Sharon faces test of strength after Gaza pullout
The bigger flu threat -- wild birds or chickens?
Stricter environment laws hit China lead smelters

AP World News
Syria Supporters Silent Ahead of U.N. Vote
Shaken New Delhi Residents Seek Work
West Bank Raid Endangers Mideast Accord
Troop Pullout Tops Bush-Berlusconi Agenda
Pakistani Army Sets Up Quake Relief Camps
U.S. General Sees Evolving Japan Alliance
Japanese Leader Names New Cabinet
Princess Leonor Born in Spain
Prince Charles: Climate Change Terrifying
AP: UNICEF Delivers Pakistan Aid Warning
Ahmadinejad's Israel Remarks Split Iran
Regional Vote Turns Violent in Zanzibar
Colombia Nabs Alleged Drug Cartel Leader
Search Off for India Train Crash Survivors
Thousands Mark Germany Cathedral Reopening
Violence Drives Iraq's Brightest Abroad

The Seattle Times
CIA officer is tough, professional
Government misses security deadlines
Philadelphia transit workers strike
New Orleans revives its Halloween mojo
Iraq's best and brightest driven abroad by violence
Protests greet plan to realign U.S. military forces in Japan

Chicago Sun-Times
Wire worn in gov hiring probe
At 91, shoemaker has outlasted Nazis, communists

Boston Globe: World
Greenhouse project endangered in Gaza
Gates Foundation boosts malaria aid
Indonesia steps up police presence after beheadings
Rejecting demands, Ivory Coast president vows to stay in office

Military.com
Pentagon Wants State Department Powers
U.S. Investigates Sale of MREs on Ebay

CENTCOM: News Releases
AL QAEDA FOREIGN FIGHTER FACILITATOR KILLED
FLIGHT CREWS AIR DROP HUMANITARIAN AID INTO PAKISTAN
CHARGES FILED AGAINST TWO U.S. SOLDIERS FOR ALLEGED ASSAULT
PAKISTAN AID RELIEF SUMMARY
COALITION FORCES DISRUPT TERRORIST AMBUSH
U.S. SOLDIERS EVACUATE VICTIMS OF MORTAR ATTACK
SECURITY FORCE IN THE NORTH CONTINUE TO PUT DOWN TERRORIST ACTIVITIES

Department of Defense

Coalition Forces Disrupt Terrorist Ambush — Story

TOP NEWS
SPECIAL REPORTS
Hurricane Coverage
Iraq Transition of Power

IRAQ
North-Central Iraq Makes Progress
Security Forces Improve
Three U.S. Soldiers Killed
Iraqi Police Officers Graduate
4 Troops Killed in Operations
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps
Iraq Daily Update
Multinational Force Iraq
Eye on Iraq Update (pdf)
Iraq Progress Fact Sheet (pdf)
Weekly Progress Report (pdf)

AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Soldier Dies in Afghanistan
U.S. Forces Stop Potential Attacks
Afghanistan Daily Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Cheney Thanks Troops
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
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
1793- Girondins are executed in Paris, during the Reign of Terror.
1815 - Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents the miner's safety lamp.
1864 - Nevada becomes the 36th U.S. state.
1922 - Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy.
1940 - Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into the Warsaw Ghetto.
1950 - Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill President Truman in Washington, DC.
1952 - The first thermonuclear bomb is detonated at the Marshall Islands.
1954 - The Algerian Revolution against the French begins.
1956 - Rear Admiral G.J. Dufek becomes the first American to land an airplane at the South Pole; Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen the Suez Canal.
1959 - In Moscow, Lee Harvey Oswald announces he will never return to the U.S.
1963 - In Indiana, leaking propane gas explodes, killing 64 at the "Holiday on Ice."
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu takes the oath of office as the first president of South Vietnam's second Republic.
1968 - President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam.
1982 - Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit Spain.
1984 - The Puerto Rican tanker San Francisco explodes, spilling two million gallons of oil as she ship catches fire.
1988 - In Yugoslavia, journalists demand greater freedom of the press.

Birthdays
1860 - Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout founder
1887 - Chiang Kai-shek, president of Nationalist China
1912 - Dale Evans, cowgirl (Roy Rogers Show)
1930 - Michael Collins, Major General USAF / astronaut (Gemini 10, Apollo 11)
1931 - Dan Rather, news anchor (CBS Evening News, 60 Minutes)
1937 - Michael Landon, actor (Bonanza, Highway to Heaven)
1942 - David Ogden Stiers , actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H)

Passings
1865 - William Parson, 3rd Earl of Rosse / maker of large telescopes
1918 - Count Stephen Tisza, Hungarian PM, assassinated
1926 - Erich Weiss (Harry Houdini), magician
1964 - Theodore C. Freeman, astronaut, T-38 jet air crash
1984 - Indira Gandhi, PM of India, assassinated by bodyguards

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Adams, Samuel, USAF (FL); DIC December, 1965

Dusing, Charles G., USAF (SC); DIC December, 1965

Moore, Thomas, USAF (LA); DIC December, 1965

Powers, Trent R., USN (MN); ejected safely, remains returned September, 1987

1967
Fanning, Hugh M., USMC (TX); A6A shot down (pilot, w/Kott)

Kott, Stephen J., USMC (SC); A6A shot down (bombardier / navigator, w/Fanning), remains recovered July, 1984 - family does not accept ID

1968
Swanson, Roger W., US Army (MN); disappeared after being wounded on reconnaissance patrol

1969
Gauthier, Dennis L., US Army (MI); disappeared after his platoon was ambushed