News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
New Saddam Trial Judge- Iraq Attacks Kill Six Video
Two German engineers kidnapped in Iraq
Saddam trial postponed to Sunday
Sunnis in Iraq Urged to Defend Themselves
Zarqawi gives up council control

Homeland Security / War on Terror
US 'outsourced' torture to other countries: probe
Bush rejects charges that domestic spying illegal
Judge says release detainees' identities

Troops on Trial
GI Receives No Jail Time for Iraqi's Suffocation

Other Military News
Pentagon plan seeks increase in special forces: report

Supreme Court
Senate committee set to vote on Alito
Supreme Court moves toward partisan contests for judgeships

Oddities
This crook gets an "A" for originality
Whatever you do, don't call for the nurse..
It's almost official: Today's the "worst" day of the year
Escapee caught despite weight loss, 'hilarious' disguise

Other News of Note
Canadian Conservative Party election win ends 13-year Liberal Party run
Kuwait's Ailing Emir Agrees to Abdicate

Fox News
Roe Opponents Rally in D.C.
Call for Accountability - Senators want mine probe
Montenegro Train Wreck Kills at Least 39, Injures Over 135
Sudan Forgoes African Post
Rice: 'Time Has Come' to Refer Iranian Nukes Case
Stocks to Watch: McDonald's
Ford to Cut Up to 30,000 Jobs
Olympic Torch Swiped
Texas Instruments Profit Rises, Revenue Disappoints
Mad Cow Disease in Canada
BlackBerry Blackout Looms
Government Warned of Levee Breach Risk
SPORTS NEWS AND SCORES

Reuters: Top News
US says hopes to avoid confrontation with Iran
Russia delays launch of next space station crew
Wild birds: vectors or victims of avian flu?
Microsoft says gets more time to reply on fine proposal
T-Mobile seeks halt to cell phone record sales
Bird flu preys on poverty in ill-fated town
Senegal tourist haven tries to shake off rebellion
US experts: OTC weight loss drug offers benefits
Bush to anti-abortion activists: 'We will prevail'
Janette Carter of country music Carter Family dies
Dow, S&P 500 gain as oil slips
American Express meets expectations
Bank of America profit unexpectedly falls
Texas Instruments profit up, revenue disappoints
J&J mulls move in Guidant bidding war
Deutsche Bank handed partial victory in Kirch case
Japan's KDDI quarterly profit up, keeps forecast
Disney board okays takeover offer to Pixar-source
InfoNXX IPO could be worth around $1bln: source
Broadcom to acquire semiconductor company
Sports Authority agrees to $1.3 bln buyout
PetMed Express profit beats estimates
Lower taxes boost Eaton profit, shrs fall
Supervalu's gamble seen paying off

AP World News
Six Killed in Southwest Iran Bombings
Kenya Building Collapse Kills at Least 11
Report: Sharon's Doctors Concealed Info
Iran Threatens Full-Scale Enrichment
Freezing Cold Spreads to Much of Europe
Hamas, Fatah Signal Interest in Coalition
Cambodian Leader to Drop Defamation Suits
New U.N. Commander Promises Secure Haiti
Bolivia's Evo Morales Announces Cabinet
Venezuela Hosting World Social Forum
Kuwait Struggles With Leadership Crisis

The Seattle Times
Ameriquest to pay millions to mortgage customers
West Virginia lawmakers pass mine-safety legislation
Abortion foes mark anniversary of ruling
Cabbie's Web journal lets readers ride along
Bargain video camera holds priceless memories
Hacker, 20, admits renting network to attack Web sites
Political radicals join Bolivia's Cabinet

Chicago Sun-Times
Judge cuts priest no slack
Chief of facilities at O'Hare abruptly quits
Jury selection under way in trial of alleged serial killer
Florida man freed by DNA after 24 years behind bars
Put some pants on, cops tell subway riders
Parents of missing penguin are expecting again

Boston Globe: World
Hamas hardens campaign rhetoric
Pinochet's wife and children arrested on tax and fraud charges
Gunmen kill 3 and abduct 20 in a Baghdad raid
8 UN troops die in Congo attack

Military.com
Iraq Attacks Increased in 2005
Corporate Partners Offer Free Tax Filing
Two Soldiers Killed in Iraq Bombing
Reporter's Dad Seeks Dialogue With Captors
Pentagon Readying New Defense Blueprint

CENTCOM: News Releases
Soldiers Detain Suspected Terrorists, Find Weapons Cache
SUSPECTED PIRATES CAPTURED OFF SOMALI COAST
MULTI-NATIONAL DIVISION-BAGHDAD SOLDIERS DISCOVER IED'S

Department of Defense
Bush: Threats Must Be Taken Seriously - Story
Cultural Shift Needed to Fight 'Long War' - Story
Iraqi Vote Will Not Be Undone by Violence - Commentary
Bond of Wounded Crosses Generations - Commentary

ON THE GROUND
Georgia Guard Provides Convoy Security - Story
Unmanned Shadow Watches From Above - Story

IN IRAQ
Dogs Join Battle Against Insurgency
Marine Unit Celebrates 55th Birthday in Iraq
Mess Night Gives Marines Chance to Unwind

IN AFGHANISTAN
Windmills Provide Water Source for Farmers
Vendor Day Educates Business Leaders

FACE OF DEFENSE
Soldier Survives Suicide Bomb Blast, Rejoins Unit - Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Group Supports Wounded Troops - Story
Actor Supports Iraqi Children

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
Operation Koa Canyon Continues
Mosque Attacked; Gunman Nabbed
Soldiers Detain Terrorists
Officials Reach Out to Uneasy Iraqis
General: Fewer Sunni Terror Ties
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq (pdf)
Multinational Force Iraq
Eye on Iraq Update (pdf)
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (pdf)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Humanitarian Efforts Underway
Police Discuss Internal Security
Security Members Demobilize
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Cheney: Terrorists Target U.S.
Charges Referred to Commission
Bush Meets Saddam's Victims
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
Troops, Families Get Tax Services
Survey to Aid Radio Programming
A-10 Pilots, Personnel Head to OEF
Vets Rate VA Health Care Highly
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

Today in History
0772 - Stephen III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0817 - St Paschal I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Stephen IV
1076 - Synod of Worms German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII
1118 - Giovanni Caetani elected Pope Gelasius II
1328 - King Edward III of England marries Philippa of Henegouwen
1458 - Matthias I Corvinus chosen king of Hungary
1534 - François I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
1568 - In the Netherlands, Duke of Alva declares William of Orange an outlaw
1616 - Jacques Le Maire discovers Street Lemaire/Cape Receiver
1634 - Emperor Ferdinand II declares Albrecht von Wallenstein a traitor
1639 - Connecticut colony organizes under Fundamental Orders
1644 - Battle at Nantwich Cheshire Parliamentary armies win
1652 - Duke of Orléans joins Fronde rebels
1656 - 1st Jewish doctor in US, Jacob Lumbrozo, arrives in Maryland
1679 - King Charles II disbands English parliament
1722 - Czar Peter the Great begins civil system
1742 - German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
1764 - Governor Winthrop Telescope, is destroyed in a Harvard fire
1839 - Charles Darwin elected member of Royal Society
1847 - 1,500 New Mexican Indians & Mexicans defeated by US Colonel Price
1848 - James Marshall finds gold in Sutter's Mill in Coloma CA
1861 - Arsenal at Augusta GA seized by Confederacy; Federal troops from Fort Monroe are sent to Fort Pikens
1862 - Romania principality arises under King Alexander Cuza
1874 - General J van Swieten conquers Kraton Atjeh, after 1000's die
1892 - Battle at Mengo, Uganda French missionaries attack British missionaries
1899 - Rubber heel patented by Humphrey O'Sullivan
1900 - Battle at Tugela-Spionkop, South Africa (Boers vs British army)
1901 - Emily Hobhouse views Lord Kitchener's concentration camp at Bloemfontein
1902 - Denmark sells Virgin Islands to USA
1908 - General Baden-Powell starts Boy-Scouts
1915 - German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
1922 - Lehman Caves National Monument established
1923 - Aztec Ruins National Monument, New Mexico established
1924 - Mussolini disallows non-fascists work union; Russian city of St Petersburg renamed Leningrad
1925 - Moving picture of a solar eclipse taken from dirigible over Long Island; Sandler follows Branting as premier of Sweden
1935 - 1st canned beer, "Krueger Cream Ale", is sold by Kruger Brewing Co in Richmond VA
1939 - 30,000 killed by earthquake in Concepcion Chile; Spanish government moves to Figueras
1941 - British troops march into Abyssinia
1943 - Hitler orders nazi troops at Stalingrad to fight to death; Jewish patients/nurses/doctors incinerated at Auschwitz-Birkenau
1944 - Allied troops occupy Nettuno Italy
1945 - Scottish 52nd Lowland division occupies Heinsberg
1948 - Dutch Liberal Party forms-People's party for Freedom & Democracy (VVD)
1951 - Dutch government Drees-van Schaik resigns
1952 - Fire in main building of French Port Martin Antarctic base
1958 - After warming to 100,000,000º, 2 light atoms are bashed together to create a heavier atom, resulting in 1st man-made nuclear fusion
1962 - 28 refugees escape from East to West Germany; Jackie Robinson is 1st Black elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1964 - Martin Kresses final comic strip of Eric the Viking
1969 - Spanish General Franco announces state of emergency
1977 - 5 lawyers murdered by fascist in Madrid
1978 - Carter Executive Order on Intelligence (#12036)
1985 - 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 is launched
1986 - Voyager 2 makes 1st fly-by of Uranus (81,593 km), finds new moons
1990 - Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
1993 - Polish ferry boat John Heweliusz sinks, 52 killed; Soyuz TM-16 launches

Birthdays
0076 - Publius A. Hadrianus, 14th Roman Emperor (117-138)
1712 - Frederick II (the Great), King of Prussia (1740-86)
1800 - Sir Edwin Chadwick, British social reformer
1820 - John Milton Thayer, Union Brevet Major General
1828 - Adam Jacoby Slemmer, Union Brigadier General
1832 - John Pegram, Confederate Brigadier General
1888 - Ernst Heinrich Heinkel,German inventor (1st rocket-powered aircraft)
1891 - Walter Model,German field marshal
1895 - Hans Fischböck, Austrian Finance minister (Nazi-occupied Holland)
1907 - Maurice Couve de Murville, French Premier (1968-69)
1913 - Mark Goodson, TV game-show producer (Goodson-Toddman)
1921 - Bernard J. Dwyer (Representative-NJ)
1924 - Robert W. Kastenmeier (Representative-WI)
1927 - Paula Hawkins (Senator-FL, 1981-86)
1931 - Kees Zÿlstra, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 - Flip Buurmeijer, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1946 - John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC)
1948 - Elliott Abrams, Assistant Secretary of State/supplied arms to the Contras
1949 - John Belushi, comedian/actor (SNL, Blues Brothers); Bart Gordon (Representative-TN)
1952 - William F. Readdy, astronaut (STS 42, 51, 79)
1961 - Krasimir Mikhailov Stoyanov, cosmonaut

Passings
0041 - Caligula (G.C. Germanicus], Roman emperor (37-41), assassinated at 28
0661 - Ali ibn Abu Talib, Kalif of Islam (656-61), murdered
0772 - Stefanus III/IV, Pope (768-72)
0817 - Stefanus IV [V/Colonna], pope (816-17)
1336 - Alfonso IV the Benignant, King of Aragon (1327-36), dies at 36
1547 - Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, executed for treason
1678 - Joan Maetsuyker, Governor-General of Netherlands East-Indies, dies at 72
1862 - James McIntosh, Confederate Brigadier General, dies in battle at about 33
1864 - Stephen Gardner Champlin, Union Brigadier General, dies at about 36
1943 - John Burns, English minister of Local Government (1905-14), dies
1953 - (Karl R) Gerd von Rundstedt, General-field marshal (Normandy), dies at 77
1965 - Winston Churchill, PM of Britain (C) (1940-45, 51-55), dies at 90
1989 - Ted Bundy, serial killer of up to 100 women, executed in Florida at 42
1993 - Thurgood Marshall, 1st Black Supreme Court Justice (1967-91), dies 84
1995 - Wim H. Sinnige, Amsterdam PvdA alderman of Finance, dies at 60

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Booze, Delmar G., USMC (NE); F4B shot down (navigator/bombardier, w/Sprick, same incident as Pitt and Helber)

Helber, Lawrence N., USMC (OH); F4B shot down (navigator, w/ Pitt - different plane, but same incident as Booze)

Pitt, Albert, USMC (NY); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Helber, same incident as Booze and Sprick)

Sprick, Doyle R., USMC (NM); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Booze - same incident as Pitt and Helber)

1967
Simpson, Max C., US Army (NM); drowned while swimming, body not recovered