Saddam: Trial a 'Comedy'
When Iraq death squads come calling: a family story
1st Declassified Iraq Documents Released
Saddam Urges Iraqis to Unite Against GIs
Iraqis controlling more territory
Blair was warned in '03 of Iraq "mess," book says
Rice: Iraq's overhaul will take a 'couple years'
Court Closed After Saddam's Rant
.S. Moves 700 More Soldiers Into Iraq

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghanistan to drug lords: Invest profits here at home

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Moussaoui Prosecutors File for Reversal in Ruling
House refuses to drop bar to ports deal
Lawmakers Satisfied by DP World Plans
Gitmo Transcripts Paint Shadowy Portraits
Court upholds death sentence in Tokyo terror attack
FBI monitored, may have infiltrated anti-war group, documents reveal

Cartooning Muhammad
Daily Illini editor fired over Muslim cartoon flap (Because Freedom of the Press is a Right...but only for the Left)

Troops on Trial
Soldiers Made Game of Scaring Prisoners

Hamas Rising
Palestinians vent anger over prison raid
Israelis storm West Bank prison
Foreigners flee amid Palestinian anger
Violence has roots in '02 siege of Arafat


Worldwide Wackos
Panel Backs Iran Sanctions
Russia, China urge diplomatic solution to Iran crisis
Iran leader: Nuke program is 'irreversible'

Homegrown Moonbats
Clooney, Huffington Clash Over Blog Posting
Chaplain keeps job after ripping 'Zionists'

Politics
White House Defends Team- Video: Staff Shakeup?
Senate panel backs small business health bill
Jessica Simpson snubs Bush (and I'm sure he's just devastated)
Bush rejects push to extend drug-benefit deadline
Proposed rules on gifts, trips supported
GOP fears paying at the polls
In Indonesia, Rice hails moderate Islam

Media in the Media
FCC: CBS Facing $3.6M Fine for Indecency

U.N. News
German named to head UN environment agency
Assad to meet with United Nations panel

Oddities
You got change for a Grover Cleveland, pal?
Don't these guys know how to really curse?

Other News of Note
RFK Killer Denied Parole Again
Hawaii Gov. Surveys Damage From Failed Dam
Child porn ring transmitted acts live on Web: US
Three dead, two hurt in Denny's shooting
Computer Researchers Warn of Net Attacks
Voters reject measure seeking seizure of Souter's N.H. home (Damn...)

Fox News
Car Rams, Kills Teacher, Injures Seven Students
Witness: Enron Considered Firing Me for Talking
Stocks to Watch: AIG
Harris to Stay in Florida Senate Race
Ambien Linked to 'Sleep Eating,' Other Behavior- Video: Sleep Eating?
Death Penalty - Carlie Brucia's killer sentenced
Video: Sentenced to Death
Global Child Porn Bust
'Worst-Case Scenario' - High winds frustrating Texas firefighters
Video: Texas Wildfires
FULL SPORTS COVERAGE

Reuters: Top News
Mexico's Fox predicts backlash in drug war
Warming could kill Indian Ocean coral
Northern ozone pollution hurts Arctic: NASA
US fights human trafficking
Global warming reaches 'tipping point': report
Bill Gates mocks MIT's $100 laptop project
Sony's PlayStation 3 to be delayed until November
Hot pepper kills prostate cancer cells in study
Vaccine reduces pneumonia deaths: US study
Enron whistle-blower Watkins says she warned Lay
Spitzer charges H&R Block with fraud
KKR makes nonbinding $12.5-13 bln GMAC bid: source
Medicis profit up on special items
Siemens says to help build D.Telekom broadband net
U.S. regulators seek to fine TV for indecency
MAN to spin off printing business for IPO
Stocks rise on Fed survey, profit news - Video
Video game stocks up on relief PS3 delay not worse
DuPont ups outlook, cuts European jobs
Gymboree shares rise on earnings
Office property shares rise on sale rumors
Sony ripple effect
Bank Summit: HSBC to boost branches

AP World News
NASA Reviews Canceled Asteroid Mission
Cuba Advances to Baseball Classic Semis
Gretzky's Wife Faces Gambling Subpoena
Study: Most Get Mediocre Health Care

The Seattle Times
New way of scoring credit unveiled
Security-clearance rules could be hurdle for gays
Trial starts for Aryan prison-gang members
Plan will help Louisiana rentals rebuild
Water-quality study earns scholarship
Milosevic received drugs, booze in cell
Fox reports major Mexico oil find
Meningitis vaccine clears initial hurdle
Jeff King wins his fourth Iditarod sled dog race

Chicago Sun-Times
City's voters at lowest level on record
Firm sued for selling phone records
Neighbors of nuclear plant sue over leaks
City rejects all bids for new O'Hare runway
Lawyer testifies on Israeli interrogations
Mad cow testing cut just as 3rd case found
Judge: Horses can be killed for meat
Huge lightning strike probably set off mine blast, owner says
Companies have government contracts despite owing millions in back taxes
Motorcyclist clocked at 155 mph says he 'was only doing 120'
Girl, 13, saves mom day after CPR lesson
Scientist: Keep old oil rigs in Pacific as fish havens

Boston Globe: World
China envisions 'socialist countryside'
Thousands seek Thai leader's departure
Lax rules on visitors may have let Milosevic obtain drug
Tough break, say students in Cancun

Military.com
JSF Engine a Sticking Point for U.K.

CENTCOM: News Releases
AFGHAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCES FOCUS ON POPPY ERADICATION

BASTOGNE SOLDIERS CATCH TERRORISTS RED-HANDED

CACHE DISCOVERED NEAR TIKRIT

IRAQI POLICE RAIDS LEAD TO CACHE DISCOVERIES

MNF-I ASSIGNS TROOPS TO SUPPORT "SCALES OF JUSTICE"

Department of Defense
Abizaid: Iraq Not on Verge of Civil War - Story
Review Will Help United States Meet Threats - Story
Insurgents Detained; Weapons Found - Story
Arabs Note Iraq's March to Democracy - Story

ON THE GROUND
Iraqi Solidiers on Track for Independent Ops - Story
Standby Troops Deploy from Kuwait - Story

IN IRAQ
Combat Engineers Sweep for IEDs, Weapons
Division Commander Visits Baghdad Residents
Ceremony Transfers Base Control to Iraqi Army

IN AFGHANISTAN
Spartans Take Reins in Eastern Afghanistan
'Muleskinners' Assume Joint Logistics Mission
Medical Assistance Visit Aids Bamian Residents

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Donation Keeps Marines Swinging

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
Leaders Assess Operations
Parliament to Meet
Iraqis Appear to Choose Unity
Soldiers Detain Terrorists
Iraqi Leaders Make Progress
Soldier, Marine Die in Iraq
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq (pdf)
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (pdf)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Accident Claims Troop's Life
IED Blast Kills 4 U.S. Troops
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Special Ops Transforms
War Requires More Than Might
Funding, Public: Challenges to War
Terrorists Use IEDs to Avoid Battle
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
QDR Provides More Options
'Jointness' Becomes Key Focus
Military Applies Katrina Lessons
U.S. Army Must Transform
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Marine 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
1079 - Iran adopts solar Hijrah calendar
1190 - Jews of York England commit mass sucide rather than submit to baptism
1345 - Holy spirit glides above fire; "the miracle of Amsterdam" (legend)
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches Philippines
1527 - Battle at Khanua: Mogol Emperor Babur beats Rajputen
1621 - Native American chief visits colony of Plymouth, MA
1641 - General court declares Rhode Island a democracy & adopts new constitution
1660 - English Long Parliament disbands
1690 - French king Louis XIV sends troops to Ireland
1730 - Willem Charles Henry Friso installed as viceroy of Drenthe
1731 - Treaty of Vienna: Emperor Charles VI of England & Netherlands
1792 - Murder attempt on King Gustavus III by count Ankarstrom at opera
1802 - Law signed to establish US Military Academy (West Point, NY); US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1815 - Willem I proclaimed king of the Netherlands, including Belgium
1830 - London's re-organised police force (Scotland Yard) forms
1834 - HMS Beagle anchors at Berkeley Sound, Falkland Islands
1836 - Texas approves a constitution
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union; Confederate government appoints commissioners to Britain
1862 - Battle at Pound Gap, KY: Confederates separate battles
1865 - Battle of Averasboro, NC (1,500 casualities)
1869 - Hiram R. Revels makes the 1st official speech by a Black in the Senate
1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1900 - Sir Arthur Evans finds old city of Knossus
1912 - Mrs. William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington, DC
1915 - British battle cruisers Inflexible & Irresistible hit mines in Dardanelle; Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 - US & Canada sign Migratory bird treaty
1922 - Sultan Fuad I crowned king of Egypt, England recognizes Egypt
1930 - USS Constitution (Old Ironsides) floated out to become a national shrine
1933 - Hitler names Hjalmar Shaft, president of Bank of Germany
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1935 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1939 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia; Hungary annexes republic of Karpato-Ukraine
1940 - German air raid on British fleet base Scapa Flow
1941 - Blizzard hits North Dakota & Minnesota, killing 60
1943 - Elin K (No) & Zaanland (Netherlands) torpedoed & sinks
1944 - Vichy Internal minister Pucheu sentenced to death
1945 - US defeats Japan at Iwo Jima
1947 - Convair Liner, 1st US twin-engine pressurized airplane, tested
1955 - President Eisenhower upholds the use of atomic weapons in case of war
1959 - Iraq & USSR sign economic/technical treaty
1962 - 1st launching of Titan 2-rocket; US Super-Constellation disappears above Pacific Ocean, kills 167
1966 - Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong & Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); Robert F. Kennedy announces Presidential campaign
1969 - Viasa DC-9 crashes at Maracaibo's Grano de Oro airport, killing 155
1972 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono are served with deportation papers
1975 - US Mariner 10 makes 3rd & final fly-by of Mercury
1976 - British premier Harold Wilson resigns
1977 - US President Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1978 - Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 68.7 million gallons of oil off French coast; Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo Moro in Italy, 5 killed; Soyuz 26 returns to Earth; US Senate accepts Panamá Canal treaty
1984 - Gunmen kidnap William Buckley, CIA station chief in Beirut; South-Africa & Mozambique sign non attack treaty
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1988 - Federal grand jury indicts Marine Lt. Col. Oliver L. North & Navy Vice Adm. John M. Poindexter in Iran-Contra affair; North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed; US sends 3000 soldiers to Nicaragua's neighbor Honduras
1994 - Moravcik forms Slovakia government; Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony attack on Nancy Kerrigan
1995 - Mississippi House of Representatives ratifies 13th Amendement-formally abolishes slavery

Birthdays
1739 - George Clymer, US merchant (signed Declaration of Independence, Constitution)
1750 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, 1st modern woman astronomer
1751 - James Madison, 4th US President (1809-17)
1776 - Johan G. Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch minister of Foreign Affairs
1787 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1802 - George Archibald McCall, Union Brigadier General
1812 - Henry Dwight Terry, Union Brigadier General
1822 - John Pope, Union Major General
1832 - Charles Camp Doolittle, Union Brevet Major General
1836 - Andrew S. Hallidie, inventor (cable car)
1839 - René François Armand Sully, poet, 1st Nobel winner (1901)
1849 - Reverend James E. Smith, became father at 100 with woman 64 years younger
1856 - E Louis YY Napoleon Bonaparte, French/English prince
1878 - Clemens A. Graaf von Galen, cardinal/bishop of Munster/anti-Nazi; Reza Sjah Pahlawi [Reza Chan], Shah of Iran
1903 - Mike Mansfield (Senator-MT) majority whip
1910 - Martijn Lijnema, Boer/resistance fighter (WWII)
1912 - Patricia Nixon [Thelma Catherine], First Lady (1969-74)
1916 - Lloyd McBride, union president (United Steelworkers)
1926 - Jerry Lewis [Joseph Levitch], entertainer/fund raiser (MDA)
1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Senator-NY, 1977-2001); Vladimir M. Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I Soyuz 1)
1932 - Ronnie Walter Cunningham, Colonel USMC/astronaut (Apollo 7)
1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, US Supreme Court Justice
1940 - Jan P. Pronk, Dutch politician (PvdA); Jan Schaefer, Dutch Assistant Secretary of State (PvdA)
1942 - Chuck Woolery, TV game show host (Love Connection)
1959 - Michael J. Bloomfield, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 86)
1963 - Phung Vuong, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)

Passings
0037 - Tiberius Claudius Nero, Emperor of Rome (14-37), dies at 77
1536 - Ibrahim Pasha, Grand-Visier of Osmaanse Rich, murdered at about 45
1738 - Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72
1838 - Nathaniel Bowditch, astronomer & navigation expert, dies at 64
1841 - Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist, dies at 49
1843 - Anton R. Falck, Dutch minister of Education/Colonies, dies at 65
1914 - Sir John Murray, piloted HMS Challenger to Christmas Island
1930 - Miguel Primo de Riveray Orbaneja Sp dictator (1923-30), dies at 60
1935 - John J.R. Macleod, Scot/Canadian physiologist (Nobel 1923), dies at 58
1937 - J. Austen Chamberlain English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
1946 - Marius HLW "Max" Blokzijl, Dutch Nazi propagandist, executed at 61
1959 - John Sailling, last documented Civil War vet, dies at 111
1971 - Thomas E. Dewey, US Presidential candidate (R 1944, 48), dies at 68
1978 - Aldo Moro, 5 times Prime Minister of Italy, assassinated by terrorists
1985 - B.V.A. Röling Dutch lawyer (WWII Tokyo trials), dies at 78
1991 - 7 members of Reba McIntire's band killed in a plane crash; Jan H. van Roijen Dutch diplomat/Foreign Minister, dies at 85
1992 - Renzhong Weangn, China politician (1934-45), dies
1993 - Djilalli Lyabès, Algerian minister of Higher Education, murdered; Mohammed Hussein Nagdi Iran diplomat/resistance fighter, murdered

Reported Missing in Action
1962
Nau, George, Civilian - Flying Tigers Airline (CA); disappeared on a Lockheed Super Constellation with 93 US Army personnel and 3 ARVN Rangers beween Guam and the Philippines.

1966
Underwood, Paul Gerard, USAF (NY); F105D shot down - remains returned - ID'd February, 1998

1968
Erickson, David Wayne, USMC (MN); presumed Killed (w/Krausman)

Krausman, Edward L., USMC (CA); presumed Killed (w/Erickson)

1969
The following US Army personnel reported MIA when their U21A disappeared on approach to a landing in Hue / Phu Bai:
Barnes, Charles R. (PA); co-pilot

Batt, Michael L. (OH); passenger

Bobe, Raymond E. (AL); passenger

Foster, Marvin L. (TX); passenger

Smith, David R. (OH); pilot

1971
Scrivener, Stephen Russell, USAF (FL); O2A shot down (w/Seeley)

Seeley, Douglas Milton, USAF (OH); O2A shot down (w/Scrivener)