News of NoteOperation Iraqi Freedom
Bush Touts Iraqi Economy-
Dems Doubt Iraq Progress Saddam Hussein Skips Trial-
Hostage Deadline Extended-
Bodyguard's Son TakenTroops Held Back -
May be a sign of drawdownJapan OKs Iraq Troop ExtensionSuicide bomber kills 30 on Baghdad busOperation Enduring FreedomPoll: Most Afghans say life is better nowHomeland Security / War on Terror
'Unfortunate Incident'Neighbors ReactMarshals in SpotlightVideo:
Air Marshals Kill PassengerTop court bans 'torture evidence' from UK hearingsRice speech in Ukraine appears to signal major shift on detainee policyPoliticsGrand jury in CIA leak case meets for 3 hours US envoy said to be source in CIA caseU.N. ScandalsDraft report urges UN overhaul after oil-for-food scandalHurricane SeasonFEMA Unprepared a Year Before KatrinaOdditiesPushing the envelope on love lettersCall of nature saves man from garbage crusherWoman jailed when 'coke' turns to cheese Five deer leap to their death off parking garage Hibernating bear pulled from house Blogging in the NewsBlog gets 3 students in trouble Other News of NoteArmy Special Ops Pioneer DiesPearl Harbor RememberedSurvivors, sailors reflect on Pearl HarborFitting in: Artistry comes to aid of maimed soldierFox News
54 Dead in China Mine BlastMargaret Thatcher in HospitalAides: Menendez Tapped for New Jersey Senator PostN. Korea Sanctions StandRice: U.S. Doesn't Torture-
Military Knew of Abuse ReportsIsrael Kills Top Gaza TerroristTest Slated for Bird Flu PlanVanuatu Volcano EruptsCold Grips MidwestStocks to Watch: CostcoSPORTS NEWS AND SCORESReuters: Top NewsCitigroup wins $900 mln case in arbitration: WSJBattle for Time WarnerIsrael hits Gaza rocket sites after suicide bombJapan panel approves restart of US beef importsBush rating improves, but Iraq war concerns lingerSchwarzenegger to hear last appeal on gang leaderHouse votes to extend terrorism insuranceBush rating improves, but Iraq war concerns lingerHouse and Senate seek deal on torture amendmentInuit accuse Washington of violating human rightsUS states differ over emissions planMicrosoft's CEO will have to shop for his XboxRampant software piracy stifles growth: surveyTourists unfazed by bird flu in AsiaEurope seems far away in unstable southeast TurkeyMarijuana derivatives may provide MS treatmentMonkeypox often affects lymph nodesFloral, musical tributes for Lennon 25 years onAP World NewsLatest China Coal Mine Disaster Kills 74Blast in Pakistani Tribal Bazaar Kills 12Police: Bombing in Bangladesh Kills FiveJapan to Extend Military Mission to IraqBrotherhood Wins 12 Egypt Parliament SeatsReport: China Considering Building DamNew Red Cross Emblem Paves Way for IsraelArctic Natives Seek Global Warming RulingNew Tory Leader Needles Blair As Has-BeenSouth Africa Accepts Leader's WithdrawalChina Reforms Death Penalty Appeals ProcessAngry Iranians Mourn Plane Crash VictimsU.N. Says Ban on Torture Becoming CasualtyU.N. Rejects Eritrea's Expulsion OrderReport Uncovers Paris Hotels' CollusionThe Seattle TimesBush insists gains made in Iraq, cites challenges20 gunmen carried out raid on Kirkuk hospital, police sayThree tax cuts zip through HouseCanada faults U.S. on global warmingFarm issues threaten next WTO meetingCitizenship for U.S.-born babies faces testIndicted Virginia mayor denies wrongdoingCorzine to name Menendez to SenateSocial Security not off-limits for debt, Supreme Court rulesWriting test on SAT not a major factorTeens give "Hamlet" modern-day worriesResearch bolsters link of pesticides to Parkinson'sAll too human? Monkeys mimic children in toy picksDog genome may also offer insight into his pal, manFor Rome's aching lion, arthritis fix is pure goldFamily says journalist kidnapped in PakistanIsraeli airstrike kills Palestinian militantMidwest, Rockies in deep freezeChicago Sun-TimesCity Council snuffs out cigarettes Reputed hit man pleads for parole NBA star's dad 'angry' at murder of 2nd son Fountains in Texas where 4 Chicagoans drowned closing for overhaul 'MiPiramide' warns Spanish speakers of threat of obesity Wis. Senate OKs carrying concealed weapons Michael Schiavo forms PAC to defeat political opponents Space control: From music to spying, U.S. satellites outnumber rest of world Arizona court denies killer's bid to be lawyer Purdue Christmas tree gets name back Boston Globe: WorldChina probe of chemical spill intensifiesBank worker charged in heistN. Dakota man says hostage shown in Mideast video is his brotherFind work you love, Rice advisesUN official targets US detentionsMilitary.comNo More 'Army of One'Iraq Invasion Could Have Been Avoided (The headline is a bit misleading)Air Marshal Kills ManTRICARE Fee IncreaseCENTCOM: News ReleasesOPERATION RAMS CONCLUDESTERRORIST DETONATES BOMB IN COFFEE SHOPMAJOR CACHE UNCOVERED NEAR TUZDepartment of DefenseBush Cites Rebuilding, Accomplishments -
Story Remarks Fact Sheet: Rebuilding Iraq VideoAll-Iraqi Aircrew Shows Security Forces' Progress Center Works to Reduce IED Threat to Troops -
StoryForces Wrap Up Operation Rams in Ramadi -
StoryBomb Explodes at Coffee Shop; Blast Kills U.S. Soldier U.S. Marines Killed Dec. 1 at Ceremony, Not on PatrolON THE GROUNDMP Unit Tackles Variety of Duties at Salerno -
StoryDoctors Give Iraqi Baby New Lease on Life -
StoryIN IRAQCommunications Marines Transform into Combat TeamFACE OF DEFENSEWounded Marine Looks Toward Uncertain Future -
StoryTOP NEWSIRAQRumsfeld: Report Full Iraq StorySaddam Nephew Gets Prison TermAcademy Attackers Not WomenU.S. Soldier Killed; Weapons FoundCanal Projects Deliver WaterCasey Attends Election ConferenceUkrainians Provide Military Gear Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq Iraq Daily UpdateThis Week in Iraq (pdf)Multinational Force IraqEye on Iraq Update (pdf)State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (pdf)'Boots on the Ground' Audio ArchiveIraq ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTAN
Coalition Forces Kill, Nab MilitantsSEDM Approves Afghan DeploymentAfghanistan Daily UpdateMapsWAR ON TERRORISMCheney Praises Troops VideoFact Sheet: War on TerrorFact Sheet: Terror Plots DisruptedWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseMILITARY NEWSNavy Course Improves EOD TrainingNational Guard, Reserve UpdateWeatherIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGitmoNational Hurricane CenterToday in History
1710 - Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured
1776 - George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from New Jersey
1863 - Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
1874 - Jesse James gang robs train at Muncie, KS
1880 - 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa
1881 - Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1886 - American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions; Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1895 - Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian General Baratieri out
1902 - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., becomes Associate Justice on U.S. Supreme Court
1914 - British and German fleets battle at Falkland Islands
1921 - Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1923 - German-U.S. friendship treaty signed; Labour/Liberals win British parliament
1931 - Coaxial cable patented
1936 - N.A.A.C.P. files suit to equalize the salaries of Black and White teachers; Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua
1941 - U.S., Britain, Netherlands declare war on Japan; Russia's 16th Army recaptures Krijukovo
1946 - Army rocket plane XS-1 makes its first powered flight
1948 - Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 - Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1952 - French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die; Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel
1955 - Turkish government of Menderes forms
1959 - Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
1962 - 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York, NY
1963 - 3 fuel tanks explodes when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton, MD-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
1965 - Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as President of U.S.S.R.
1966 - U.S. and U.S.S.R. sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1969 - Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed; Police launch a surprise attack on Black-Panthers in Los Angeles
1972 - United Airlines airplane crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1974 - Soyuz 16 returns to Earth; Greek monarchy rejected by referendum; Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1976 - U.N. General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1977 - Portugal's premier Soares resigns
1982 - Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, holds the Washington Monument hostage - After 10 hours, police kill him - he has no explosives; Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
1983 - 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
1984 - Europe and 64 developing countries sign Lomé III treaty
1986 - House Democrats select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
1987 - Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel; President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1990 - Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
1991 - Russia, Byelorussia and the Ukraine form Commonwealth of Independent States
1992 - Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
1993 - 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria; Storm hits western Europe, 11 killed in England
1994 - Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
Birthdays
65 BC- Horace Rome, lyric poet/satirist (Satire, Odes)
1626 - Christina, Queen of Swedenden who abdicated after becoming Catholic
1704 - Anton de Haen, medical expert (Ratio Medendi)
1708 - Francis I, Holy Roman emperor (1745-1765)
1765 - Eli Whitney, inventor (Cotton Gin)
1822 - Luther Prentice Bradley, Union Brigadier-General
1828 - Clinton Bowen Fisk, Union Brevet Major General; Robert Bullock, Confederate Brigadier-General
1861 - William Crapo Durant, founder of General Motors
1908 - John Volpe (Governor-MA) / U.S. Secretary of Treasury (1969-73)
1915 - Denis Harding, soldier
1916 - Dorothy Mae Ballard, labor union representative
1922 - John B. (Jack) McKay, U.S. test pilot (X-15)
1925 - Sammy Davis, Jr., singer/dancer/actor (Ocean's 11, Candy Man)
1927 - Vladimir Aleksandrovich Shatalov, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 4, 8, 10)
1937 - Jan van Houwelingen, Dutch UnderSecretary of Defense (CDA)
1941 - Albert J. Evenhuis, Dutch UnderSecretary of Economic (VVD)
1943 - Jim Morrison, singer (Doors)
1947 - Gregg Allman, guitarist/vocalist (Allman Brothers Band)
Passings 0644 - Omar I, second kalief of Islam, murdered
0899 - Arnulf of Carinthia, last emperor of Austria-France
1292 - John Peckham, English archbishop of Canterbury, dies at 62
1587 - Mary Queen of Scots (1560-1587), executed
1596 - Luis de Carabajal, first Jewish author in America, executed in México
1643 - John Pym, English House of Commons member, dies at about 59
1722 - Elisabeth C. "Liselotte" van Palts, German/French duchess, dies at 70
1751 - Jozef L.D. von Königsegg, minister of Austrian Netherlands, dies at 78
1831 - James Hoban, architect who designed the White House
1907 - Oscar II, Frederick King of Sweden (-1907)/Norway (-1905)
1967 - Robert H Lawrence USAF/astronaut, dies at 32
1972 - George Collins (Representative-IL), dies at 47, in airplane crash
1978 - Golda Meir, Israel's PM (1969-74), dies in Jerusalem at 80
1980 - John Lennon, assassinated at 40 in New York by Mark David Chapman
1982 - André Kamperveen, Suriname minister, murdered; Bram Behr, Suriname revolutionary, murdered; Cyrill Daal, Suriname worker's union leader, murdered; Frank Wijngaarde, Suriname journalist, murdered; Gerald Leckie Suriname, scholar, murdered; Harald Riedewald, Suriname attorney, murdered; John Baboeram, Suriname lawyer, murdered; Jozef Slagveer, Suriname journalist, murdered; Kenneth Goncalves, Deacon of Surinamese order of advocate, murdered; Leslie Rahman, Suriname journalist, murdered; Surendre Rambocus, Suriname army lieutenant, murdered
1992 - William Shawn, editor-in-chief (New Yorker, 1952-87), dies at 85
1994 - Jesús "Enrique" Líster, Spanish/Russian general (Civil War), dies at 87
Reported Missing in Action1965Corle, John T.,
USMC (PA); UH-34D shot down, KIA, body not recovered
Richtsteig, David John,
USMC (UT); remains recovered September, 1974
1966
Asire, Donald H.,
USAF (CA); F105D shot down, remains retrned June, 1989
Hyde, Michael Lewis,
USAF (CO); F100D shot down, remains returned, ID'd April, 1991
1968Rex, Robert Alan,
USAF (UT); F105D shot down, remains returned September, 1996
1969
Pirruccello, Joseph S.,
USAF (OH); A1E shot down, KIA, body not recovered
U.S. NAVY K-9 teams MA2 Schroeder / MWD Imo, MA1 Silvis / MWD Bajir and MA1 Stephenson / MWD Ben, in Mosul, Iraq
JALABAD, Afghanistan – A Marine fries a tube-launched, optically tracked, wire guided, missile against militia forces during Operation Sorkh Khar. The Marines were attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun fire, but quickly responded and gained fire superiority over the insurgents. The Island Warriors had set up a vehicle checkpoint in order to cordon an area of operations and were attacked on Nov. 18 in the Asadabad Province.Photo by: Sgt. Robert M. Storm
Army Staff Sgt. Juan Salas, the founder of the pen-pal program, "My Soldier." Courtesy photo
Participants in the My Soldier program write letters to their soldier pen pals. Courtesy photo 
SECURITY DUTY — U.S. Army Pfc. Janelle Zalkovsky, assigned to a civil affairs unit with the 1st Battalion, 320th Field Artillery Regiment, 101st Airborne, provides security while other soldiers survey a newly constructed road in Ibriam Jaffes, Iraq, Dec. 4, 2005. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Charles W. Gill
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