News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Talabani: Unity Needed
President speaks amid violence
Iraq Chief Confident of Continued U.S. Aid
At least 9 killed in attack near Baghdad

Operation Enduring Freedom
Bomb Kills 4 Afghan Intelligence Agents

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Pentagon Reveals Identities of Gitmo Detainees
U.S., Pakistan Recommit to War on Terror

Dubai Port Proposal
Dubai Firm Submits to U.S. Security Review

Other Military News
Navy To Ground All Aircraft For Safety Review
Navy Jet Crashes in Ore.

Hamas Rising
Hamas: Israel Must Withdraw for Peace
Hamas rejects recognition of Israel despite pressure
Hamas Praises Russian Mediation Efforts

Worldwide Wackos
Sanctions unlikely first step on Iran: Rice
Iran, EU Inch Toward Possible Compromise

Politics
Uneasy Alliance - Bush continues Asian tour
'Top Gun' Sentenced
Video: Judgment Day
Timeline: Congressional Scandals
CIA Official Faces Probe Over Cunningham Links
U.S., Mexican Lawmakers Meet on Immigration
N.J. High Schoolers Try Bush for 'War Crimes'
Bush takes a swing at cricket in Pakistan
Bush visits two hot spots in South Asia

Supreme Court
States appeal to Supreme court on CO2 car emissions

U.N. News
U.N. Food Agency Facing Shortages in Kenya

Oddities
Playboy says won't pull Jessica Alba issue
Woman seizes police car for 2-hour ride
Peanut Butter Kiss Didn't Cause Death

Other News of Note
Battle brews as S. Dakota abortion law nears
Saudi Shi'ites enjoy new freedoms laced with fears
Chinese Police Detain Activist Lawyer
Alleged Gang Leader Extradited to France
China to Increase Military Budget to $35B
Nazareth Church Attack Heightens Tensions

Fox News
FULL OSCARS COVERAGE
BlackBerry Maker Settles Patent Dispute
Harmful Pesticides Found in Most U.S. Rivers, Streams
Nazareth Church Targeted in Firecracker Attack
SUV Plows Into Crowd at University of North Carolina
Wisc. Boy Pleads Not Guilty to Helping Uncle Rape, Kill
FULL SPORTS COVERAGE

Reuters: Top News
Watch Video Full Oscars Coverage
Take your treadmill to work day
How to ride that aging baby-boomer wave
Jobs and rates top stocks' agenda
US truck engine makers near end of road?
RBC profit rises; ups dividend, splits shares
Deal averts U.S. BlackBerry service shutdown
Ex-Adelphia COO Rigas gets home confinement
Lights, cameras, stocks! SEC pitches to Hollywood
Nokia sees mass mobile TV takeup by '08
Jobs and rates top stocks' agenda
Stocks dip as Intel warns; RIM shares soar late - Video
Dana hits auto shares, Ford touches 3-year low
Palm outlook not as rosy after BlackBerry pact: analysts
RIM shares jump 14 pct
Tax filing finesse
Energy worries encourage utility mergers
Europe carmakers target diesel in Japan
Biologist discovers new shark species
BlackBerry deal averts service shutdown
Music phones to slice into iPod growth
Floodwater gone but fear remains in Haiti's Gonaives
Finns to test mobile phone radiation on human skin

AP World News
Sri Lankans to Be Tried for Tsunami Death
Havana Cigar Festival Draws Aficionados
Smithsonian Shows Artwork by Hokusai
Kenya Official Defends Raid on Media Group
Millions Recovered From British Robbery
Belarus Vows to Bar Rally During Vote
Thai PM Reaches Out to Political Opponents
Ecuador's Ousted President Freed From Jail

Military.com
Iraqi Police Force Questionable
Violence Interferes With U.S. Goals
Lawmakers Slam B-52 Retirement Plan

CENTCOM: News Releases
IRAQI ARMY, MND-B CAPTURE SUSPECTED BOMB-MAKER RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH OF U.S. SOLDIER

MND-B TRANSFERS BATTLE SPACE TO IRAQI ARMY

KEY AL QAEDA MEMBERS AMONG 61 DETAINED

FIVE COALITION SERVICE MEMBERS INJURED IN SUSPECTED IED ATTACK

TERRORIST ATTACKS KILL SEVEN IRAQIS, WOUND SIX

Department of Defense
DoD Releases Some Gitmo Records - Story
Crisis Caused by Bombing Has Passed - Story
Authors Rewrite Counterinsurgency Manual - Story
Iraq Operations Net 62 Terrorism Suspects - Story

ON THE GROUND
Iraqis Assume Control In Western Baghdad - Story
Transfer Ceremony Marks Accomplishments
Iraqi Air Force Spreads Wings, Secures Future - Story
Coalition Troops Injured in IED Attack - Story

IN IRAQ
Arizona Guard MPs Reflect on Iraq Deployment
U.S. Army’s Cav Troops Help Train Iraqi Soldiers
U.S. Soldier Starts Tikrit Chapter of Hobby Club
Iraqi, U.S. Soldiers Conduct Health Outreach
Special Ops School Moves from Jordan to Iraq

IN AFGHANISTAN
New Zealanders Deliver Roof Beams to Camp
Bagram Airfield Celebrates Black History Month

FACE OF DEFENSE
Four Brothers to Deploy Together - Story
Brothers Serve in Afghanistan

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Vail Hosts Wounded Troops - Story
Group Helps Soldier, Wife
NASCAR Honors Stennis Sailors

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
Forces Limit Damage
Iraqi Course: Convoy Security
Soldier Dies in Non-combat Incident
Terrorists Kill 17 Iraqis
Cheney: Strategy Working
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
Coalition Troop Dies
Crews Keep KC-135 Aloft
Bush Salutes Troops Photos
Bush Visits Kabul Photos
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Rumsfeld Cites Truman Leadership
U.S. Diplomat Killed in Bombing
U.S., Italy Partners, Bush Says
Fact Sheet: Budget Request
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

MILITARY NEWS
U.S., India Make World Safer
Rumsfeld Praises Future Military
Budget Proposal Matches 1995
NSPS Benefits All in DoD
Officials Defend Budget Request
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Soldier Killed; Casualties Identified - 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
1152 - Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1461 - Battle at Towton: Duke Edward of York beats English queen Margaretha Edward IV recognized as king of England
1570 - King Philip II bans foreign Dutch students
1590 - Mauritius of Nassau's ship reaches Breda
1621 - Jacarta, Java renamed Batavia
1665 - English King Charles II declares war on Netherlands
1681 - King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Pennsylvania
1699 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck, Germany
1741 - English fleet under Admiral Ogle reaches Cartagena
1774 - 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1789 - 1st Congress declares Constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 representatives)
1791 - 1st Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (Pennsylvania), takes office; President Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session; Vermont admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1792 - Oranges introduced to Hawaii
1793 - French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands; President Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd President of US
1801 - 1st President inaugurated in Washington, DC (Thomas Jefferson)
1809 - Madison becomes 1st President inaugurated in American-made clothes
1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugrated as 6th President
1826 - 1st US RR chartered, Granite Railway in Quincy, MA
1829 - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th President (my great-great-etc. uncle!)
1829 - Unruly crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball
1835 - HMS Beagle moves into Bay of Concepción
1837 - City of Chicago incorporates; Martin Van Buren inaugrated as 8th President
1841 - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1845 - James K. Polk inaugrated as 11th President
1848 - Sardinia-Piemonte gets new Constitution
1849 - US had no President, Polk's term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Senator David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended March 3rd
1853 - William Rufus de Vane King (D) sworn in as 13th US Vice President
1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag; Lincoln inaugurated as 16th President; 1st time US has 5 former Presidents living; President Lincoln opens Government Printing Office
1863 - Battle of Thompson's Station, Tennessee; Territory of Idaho established
1865 - Confederate congress approves final design of "official flag"; President Lincoln inaugurated for his 2nd term as President
1869 - Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th President
1873 - "New York Daily Graphic," 1st illustrated daily newspaper in US, published
1876 - US Congress decides to impeach Minister of War Belknap
1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation; James A. Garfield inaugurated as 20th President; South African President Kruger accepts ceasefire
1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugrated as 1st Democratic President since Civil War
1889 - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd President
1893 - Francis Dhanis' army attacksthe Lualaba, occupies Nyangwe; Grover Cleveland (D) inaugrated as 24th US President (2nd term)
1894 - Great fire in Shanghai; over 1,000 buildings destroyed
1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th President of US
1901 - 1st advanced copy of inaugural speech ("Jefferson-National Intelligencer"); President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as President; Term of George H. White, last of post-Reconstruction congressmen, ends
1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1908 - Collingwood, OH primary school catches fire; 180 die
1909 - President Taft inaugrated as 27th President during 10" snowstorm; US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1911 - Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
1913 - 1st US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed; Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments; New York Yankees are 1st to train outside US (Bermuda); Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th President
1917 - Jeannette Rankin (Representative-Republican-MT) becomes 1st female member of Congress
1918 - Terek Autonomous Republic established in RSFSR (until 1921)
1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1923 - Lenin's last article in "Pravda" (about Red bureaucracy)
1924 - "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1925 - President Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations; Swain's Island (near American Samoa) annexed by US
1926 - De Geer government in Netherlands takes office
1928 - "Bunion Run" race from Los Angeles CA to NYC begins; It is won by Andy Payne
1929 - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st Native American Vice President; Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st President
1930 - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1933 - Chancellor Dollfuss dissolves Austrian parliament; FDR inaugrated as 32nd President, pledges to pull US out of Depression & says "We have nothing to fear but fear itself"; Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor, 1st US woman cabinet member
1936 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1941 - 18 Geuzen resistance fighters sentenced to death in The Hague; Serbian Prince Paul visits Hitler
1943 - Transport NR 50 departs with French Jews to Maidanek/Sobibor
1944 - 1st US bombing of Berlin; Anti-Germany strikes in North Italy
1945 - Finland declares war on Nazi-Germany
1949 - Andrei Vishinsky succeeds Molotov as Soviet Foreign minister; Security Council of UN recommends membership for Israel
1954 - J.E. Wilkins, appointed 1st Black US sub-cabinet member
1955 - 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1959 - US Pioneer IV misses Moon & becomes 2nd (US 1st) artificial planet
1960 - French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana Cuba, killing 100
1961 - Paul-Henri Spaak resigns as Secretary-General of NATO
1962 - AEC announces 1st atomic power plant in Antarctica in operation
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1966 - Canadian Pacific airliner explodes on landing in Tokyo, 64 die
1968 - Martin Luther King, Jr., announces plans for Poor People's Campaign; Orbiting Geophysical Observatory 5 launched
1970 - French submarine Eurydice explodes
1971 - "City Command" kidnaps 4 US military men at Ankara, Turkey
1972 - Libya & USSR signs cooperation treaty
1974 - Harold Wilson replaces resigning Ed Heath as British premier
1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, New Mexico; Earthquake in Romania, kills 1,541
1978 - "Chicago Daily News," founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1979 - 200th episode of "All in the Family"; US Voyager I photo reveals Jupiter's rings
1982 - NASA launches Intelsat V
1984 - Pee Wee Reese & Rick Ferrell elected to Baseball's Hall of Fame
1985 - STS 51-E vehicle rolls back to Vandenberg AFB; mission cancelled; Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA; War veterans returnd to the "Bridge over the River Kwai"
1990 - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) returns from space
1991 - Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
1994 - 4 Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center; Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16), launches into orbit
1995 - Blind teenage boy receives a 'Bionic Eye' at a Washington Hospital
1997 - Brazil Senate allows women to wear slacks; Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU); President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research; Zeya Start-1 launched (Russia)

Birthdays
1394 - Prince Henry the Navigator, sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery
1651 - John Baron Somers (Whig), William III's chief minister (1696-1700)
1747 - Casimir Pulaski, Count/American Revolutionary War general
1754 - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
1789 - Pavel P. Gagarin, Russian monarch
1798 - John Joseph Abercrombie, Union Brigadier General
1826 - John Buford, Union Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 - Elisha Franklin "Bull" Paxton, Confederate Brigadier General
1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (discovered canals of Mars)
1862 - Robert Emden, Swiss geologist/astro-physicist (Emden-polytroop)
1875 - Enrique Larreta [E R Maza], Argentine diplomat (Gloria de Don Ramiro)
1875 - Suze Groeneweg, 1st Dutch female parliament member (SDAP, 1918-37)
1885 - Willem H. Winkel, Dutch physician/founder (Red Cross of Curaçao)
1888 - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame)
1909 - Harry B. Helmsley, billionaire builder (Empire State Building)
1915 - Petrus de Jong, Dutch premier (KVP, 1967-71)
1932 - Hessel Rienks economist/Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1937 - Yuri Aleksandrovich Senkevich, Russian cosmonaut
1953 - Christopher H. Smith (Representative-NJ)
1955 - Benny Alexander, Secretary-General (South African Pan-Africanist Movement)

Passings
1172 - Stephan III King of Hungary (1162-72)
1484 - Kazimierz the Saint, Polish ruler/saint, dies at 25
1794 - Henri D. Count de Larochejacquelin, French Royalist Army leader, dies at 21
1877 - Hendrik E. van Rijgersma Dutch Governor (St Maarten), dies at 42
1883 - Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President Confederate States, dies at 71
1943 - Nikolaos "Sokrates" Politis, Greek foreign minister, dies at 71
1962 - Cairine R. Wilson, 1st Canadian female senator (appointed), dies at 77
1992 - Christian K. Nelson, inventor (Eskimo Pie), dies at 98
1994 - John Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), dies from a heart attack at 43

Reported Missing in Action
1963
Jacobson, Ellwood L.; remains recovered
Makel, Janie A.; remains recovered March, 1963

1966
Andrews, Stuard M., USAF (CT); O1E shot down (w/Conlon)

Conlon, John F., USAF (PA) ; O1E shot down (w/Andrews)

1967
Carlock, Ralph L., USAF (IL) ; F105D shot down

1969
Guffey, Jerry, US Army ; escaped same day

1970
Parker, John J., USN (FL); crashed in water immediately after takeoff, Killed, body not recovered

1971
The following US Army personnel reported MIA when their JU21A disappeared while on mission, SAR Negative - status later changed to KIA, body not recovered:
Algaard, Harold L. (MN); co-pilot

Hentz, Richard J. (WI) ; crewman

Marker, Michael W. (TX) ; pilot

Osborne, Rodney D. (WA) ; technical observer

Strawn, John T. (OR); crewman

Also reported MIA this day in 1971:
Allwine, David R., US Army (AZ); released by PRG March, 1973 - retired as a Master Sergeant - alive and well as of 1998