News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
'Happy to Be Free' - Jill Carroll released in Iraq
Fast Facts: Jill Carroll Timeline
Police Commando, Lawyer Killed
Fast Facts: Iraq's Hostages
Carroll's Family Elated at Release
Video: Carroll Comments on Her Release
Gunmen kill eight refinery workers: police
Bush Tells Iraqis to 'Get Governing'
As war grows longer, troops' patience is shorter
As U.S. deaths in Iraq decline, civilian violence is on upswing

Operation Enduring Freedom
Christian convert turns up in Italy, will seek asylum

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Bush Plotter Gets 30 Years
Jury to Decide Whether Moussaoui Should Die
September 11 plane drama to open NY film festival
Gunmen beat bin Laden ally in Pakistan
Britain set to introduce ID cards

Other Military News
Army relaxes tattoo rules to attract recruits

Immigration
States get tough on illegal immigrants
City takes stand against immigration bill
Senators Split on Immigration
Bush to earn Fox backing in immigration fight - Video
Trade, Immigration Top N. America Summit

Hamas Rising
Abbas Congratulates Olmert
Hamas takes power - Video
Hamas sworn in as U.S., Canada cut aid

Worldwide Wackos
Rice: We Are United Against Iran's Nuclear Program
Iran rejects UN demand for halt to enrichment
Oil above $66 on Iran's defiance
World powers say Iran must curb nuclear ambitions
Iran Gets 30 Days to Clear Nuke Suspicions
Security Council tells Iran to stop enriching uranium

Politics
Capitol Police Probe Rep. McKinney Incident
Bush in Cancun for Talks
Bolten wants Snow replaced: report
Rice says US not trying to slow Russia WTO entry
Abramoff Gets Nearly 6 Years in Prison
Panel drops health cuts in Bush's budget plan
Changes approved in Senate lobbying, ethics rules

Media in the Media
Journalists hail Woodruff, Jennings at D.C. event
Sun-Times reporters recognized for story on sex offenders in nursing homes

Oddities
Prostitutes retrain as nurses, tele-marketers
Winner Named for 'Home Office From Hell'
Indian doctor sentenced for testing sex of fetuses
Sophomore spends 41 hours in Wal-Mart
Pair's tech trick has town seeing UFOs
Dog carrying 'hand' causes stir
Kansas City to make like Brits, drive on the left

Other News of Note
Sago Miner Leaves Hospital
Sago Mine Survivor Thankful for Support

Fox News
MLB: New Steroids Probe
Lacrosse Lawyers: Players Are Innocent
North Carolina Lottery Debuts
FULL SPORTS COVERAGE

Reuters: Top News
Americans at "tipping point" about energy: poll
Brazilian and Russia-US crew blast off to space
Food survey finds GMO soy in 10th of samples
Microsoft, EU Commission spar over antitrust fines
Nokia raises 2006 cellphone market forecast
Iraqi, Kashmiri Shia Muslims linked by relief work
Growth spurts tied to peaks in teen cancers: study
Bird flu vaccine only works at highest dose: study
Profits strong though fourth-quarter GDP soft
Nasdaq drops offer for London Stock Exchange
Microsoft, EU Commission spar over antitrust fines
A.G. Edwards 4th-quarter earnings rise
Glaxo starts trials of H5N1 pandemic flu vaccine
Comcast reaches video-on-demand deal with NBC
Resources Connection slides after profit disappoints
SigmaTel falls, ViroPharma climbs
Bank of NY shares rise on Inet
ATI shares rise on Inet
Technology stocks advance Video
Equity firm: Brazil poised for realty boom
Equity International eyes Chile investment
Mexican copper strike to hit output soon
Copper closes at fresh record high

AP World News
Economy Grows at 1.7 Percent Pace
Jet May Be 10X Faster Than Other Planes
Microsoft Defends Itself at EU Hearing
LA OKs Payment to Slain Rapper's Family
Google Plans to Sell Another 5.3M Shares
New Orleans Officers Indicted in Beating

The Seattle Times
Can you read the signs? Language issues resurface
Health insurer's policy translates into trouble
Brains develop differently in smartest kids
Expert panel on Caesareans discovers no clear answers
Light-truck mileage goals hit big SUVs hard
Rolling Stone hits rocky road in China
Summit lets Mexico show Cancún's back in business

Chicago Sun-Times
New Shedd exhibit has mouth to die for
800,000 gallons of sewage dumped into lake
American Girl recalls kids' jewelry
Panel would hike state leaders' pay by 9.3%
City offers $630K for cemetery in O'Hare path
2 stolen Payton rings recovered at pawnshop
State Senate OKs tougher rap for fake cops
PR firm's chief rips state audit as 'blatant lie'
Man wrongly released from federal jail vanishes
Ex-Daniels aide cooperates with feds, still gets prison
Zoning change OK could make spire soar
Daytime darkness leads to cheers, tears
Online dog lovers pitch in to patch up pug

Boston Globe: World
Unsolved killings terrorize women in Guatemala
Wood chips OK'd for wine flavoring
HIV cases reach plateau, study says
Kurds, Turkish riot police clash

Military.com
Nano-sensors to Fight Insurgents
Democrats Offer National Security Strategy
Soldiers Killed in Brazen Taliban Attack
Osprey Mishap Raises Questions

CENTCOM: News Releases
BASTOGNE SOLDIERS TRAIN IRAQI PLATOON

AFGHAN, COALITION DOCTORS PROVIDE CARE TO VILLAGERS

Department of Defense
Bush: U. S. Will Leave, 'But Not Retreat' - Story - Remarks
Building Support Capacity Important in Iraq - Story
Anti-Terror War Is Struggle of Ideas - Story

ON THE GROUND
Army’s Old Guard Honors Wounded Troops - Story
High School Reopens in Nangarhar Province - Story
New School Brings Hope to Dacodadad Villagers
Marines Stymie Taliban, Earn Villagers' Trust - Story - Photos
Civil Affairs Team Efforts Aid Karkh Residents - Story

IN IRAQ
Marines Not Deterred by IEDs in Iraqi Province
Iraqi Army, Coalition Medics Screen Citizens
Navy Reservist Proud to Have Served in Iraq

IN AFGHANISTAN
Citizen Tip Leads to IED in Afghan Mosque

FACE OF DEFENSE
Deployed Airman Defends 'Legs' Title - Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
'Cell Phones for Soldiers' Wins Grant - Story
Campaign to Benefit Troops - Story

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
UAV Kills 3 Bomb-Planting Terrorists
Forces Secure Safety of Pilgrims
Two U.S. Soldiers Killed
Suspects Nabbed, Hostages Rescued
More Operation Details Released
Isolated Facts Distort Achievements
Iraqi Unit Completes Mission
Rebuilding, Economy Progress
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
Insurgents Kill U.S., Coalition Troops
Afghan Agency Delivers Rations
Task Force Welcomes Aviators
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Court Hears Gitmo Arguments
Rumsfeld Topic: War of Ideology
Resolve Needed in Terror War
Cooperation Essential to Mission
Nations United on Iran Policy
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
Helo Anti-Sub Squadron Deploys
Former SecDef Weinberger Dies
Fort Riley Troops Deploy to Africa
Navy Cargo Handlers to Deploy
VA Fulfills Commitment
Lessons Learned Part of Exercise
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty - Story

Weather
Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah
An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
239 BC - 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
0988 - Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 - Furious inhabitants of Palermo attack French occupation force
1474 - Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1492 - King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1533 - Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
1603 - Battle at Mellifont: English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1814 - Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1822 - Congress combines East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 - Ether used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr. Crawford Long (Jefferson, GA)
1856 - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1858 - Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
1863 - Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Sleeswÿk-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg chosen as King George of Greece
1864 - Skirmish at Mount Elba, AR
1865 -Battle at 5 Forks, Virginia
1867 - US purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2¢ an acre-Seward's Folly)
1870 - 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race; Texas becomes last Confederate state readmitted to Union
1889 - John T. Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers NY)
1893 - Thomas F. Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1900 - Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1909 - Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
1911 - Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 meter) completed
1912 - French protectorate in Morocco established
1919 - Belgian Army occupies Düsseldorf; Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1925 - Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1932 - Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1935 - Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hours W of Greenwich, repeats 44 seconds
1941 - German counter offensive in North-Africa
1942 - 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau; SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1943 - British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
1944 - 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
1945 - 289 anti-fascists murdered by Nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund; USSR invades Austria during WWII
1953 - Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1961 - NASA civilian pilot Joseph A. Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 meter)
1964 - Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1968 - General Ludvik Svoboda elected President of Czechoslovakia
1972 - North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1973 - Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1976 - Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1981 - President Reagan shot & wounded by John W. Hinckley, Jr.
1982 - 3rd space shuttle mission-Columbia 3 lands at White Sands, NM
1984 - US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1987 - 59th Academy Awards: "Platoon", Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1991 - William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman
1993 - French government of Balladur forms; Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election

Birthdays
1135 - Maimonides [Moses Ben Maimon], philosopher/physician
1432 - Mehmed II [Fâtih], Sultan of Turkey (1451-81)
1672 - Peter I "the Great" Romanov, great tsar of Russia (1682-1725)
1790 - Joseph Smith Rear Admiral (Union Navy)
1823 - Joseph Farmer Knipe, Union Brigadier General
1824 - Innis Newton Palmer, Union Brevet Major General
1825 - Samuel Bell Maxey, Confederate Brigadier General
1894 - Sergei Ilyushin, Russian airplane builder (Ilyushin)
1913 - Richard Helms, CIA head (1966-73)
1919 - McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser under JFK
1928 - Richard Trant, British General
1931 - Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut
1937 - Warren Beatty, actor (Bonnie & Clyde,Shampoo, Dick Tracy)
1938 - Martin Dunne, Lord-Lieutenant (Warwickshire)
1941 - Robert C. Smith (Representative-NH)
1945 - Eric Clapton [Eric Patrick Clapp], legendary guitarist/singer (Yardbirds, Cream, Tears in Heaven)
1948 - Nigel Jones, British MP
1950 - Dave McCurdy (Representative-OK)
1957 - Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM 20, STS 84)
1983 - California condor chick hatches, San Diego, CA - 1st born in captivity

Passings
0988 - Arnulf II, Count of Flanders (965-988)
1547 - François I of Valois-Angoulême, King of France (1515-47), dies at 52
1707 - Sébastien le Prestre Vauban, French fortress architect, dies at 73
1871 - W. F. A. A. Louisa/Lovisa, Queen of Sweden/Norway, dies at 42
1926 - Feliks E. Dzerzjinski, Lithuanian organizer (KGB), dies at 48
1946 - John S. S. P. V. Gort, viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley, dies at 59
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi, assassinated in New Delhi
1949 - Friedrich C. R. Bergiusm chemist (brown coal, Nobel 1931), dies at 64
1950 - Léon Blum, French premier (People's Front Govt), dies at 77
1972 - Gabriel Heather, US news anchor, dies at 81
1979 - Airey Neave, British MP (Conservatives), killed by terrorist bomb
2002 - HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, dies at Royal Lodge, Windsor, at 101

Reported Missing in Action
1968
Cichon, Walter A., US Army (NJ); possibly captured

1969
Latimer, Clarence A., US Army (SC)

1972
Crosby, Bruce A., Jr., US Army (NY); disappeared in artillery attack on base (w/Westcott)

Finch, Melvin W., US Army (VA); OH6A shot down, Died in Captivity - remains recovered August, 1985

Westcott, Gary P., US Army (CA); disappeared in artillery attack on base

1975
Hoskins, Thomas B.; left Saigon October, 1975

Judson, Lorenzo D.; left Saigon May, 1976

Kowles, Alexander G.; left Saigon October, 1975'

Tabor, John; left Saigon October, 1975