News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraq Roadside Blast Kills 4 GIs
U.S. Troops Use 'Dazzler'
Video: Roadside Bombing
Watching history go by on a Baghdad street

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghan Fighting Kills 105- Video: Fierce Fighting

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Judge dismisses Masri torture case

Troops on Trial
Marines Probed for Allegedly Firing on Unarmed Iraqis

NSA / CIA
Balancing Act
BellSouth: NSA Story Claims 'False'
Video: Gen. Hayden's Opening Statement
Hayden defends eavesdropping - Video

Immigration
Bush Pushes 'Fair and Effective' Immigration Law- Video: Bush Tours Border

Hamas Rising
Gunfight Between Hamas, Fatah Forces in Gaza

Worldwide Wackos
US looks to arm Iran's neighbors: general
Ahmadinejad mocks critics of Iran's nuclear drive - Video
N.Korea may be preparing missile launch: reports

Oddities
Court OKs Cops' Use of Laxative in Drug Search
Friend left as deposit at gas station
Karaoke trains to the roof of world

Other News of Note
The Hunt for Hoffa
FBI: Current search called 'best lead' yet
Video: Hunt for Hoffa - New Clues?

Fox News
Duke Rape Suspect in Court
Cervical Cancer Vaccine Recommended for FDA OK
Catholic University Probes Women's Initiation Party
Fed Chief: 'Pretty Clear' Housing Market Cooling
S.C. Student Stabbed in School Parking Lot
Alaska Testing for Bird Flu
'American Idol' Center

Reuters: Top News
Enron jury leaves for weekend without verdict
Second House panel says FEMA should be independent
Governments failed to stop overfishing: study
Rare woodpecker elusive as search season ends
Sony Ericsson launches five new mobile phones
Softbank, Vodafone in mobile handset, content deal
Southwest Louisiana struggles after forgotten storm
More Americans should get flu shot: experts
Vioxx stroke risk could last years: health expert
"Da Vinci Code" reviews frustrating, director says
Hicks, McPhee compete for "Idol" crown
Dell to use AMD chips, says profit slumps 18 pct
US advisers back Merck's cervical cancer vaccine
Fed sees inflation risks tilted up
SocGen's Q1 net profit rises 20 pct to record level
Sanyo Electric posts deep loss, sees recovery
Arbitron, CBS reach deal on "people meter"
Stocks drop on inflation fears; Dell up late - Video
Red Robin shares fall on soft forecast
Advanced Micro jumps, Intel falls
Dell rises 2.8 pct on Inet
Brocade, Supertex rise on Inet
Manufacturers wary of boosting prices
Eyes on Serono S.A.

AP World News
Bush Says Border Fencing Makes Sense
Envoy's Kidnappers Want Iraq Embassy Shut
Spokane Diocese Sex Abuse Deal Rejected
U.S. Proposes New Nuclear Weapons Treaty
Apes Shown to Be Able to Plan Ahead
William Hung Crowned 'Artichoke King'
Bonds Ready for a Weekend As DH Vs. A's
Tigers Win 7th Straight, 5-3 Over Twins
CBS Special Set to Honor Mike Wallace
Yamin Says There's Music After 'Idol'
Wilkerson Leads Rangers Past Yanks 6-2
Dow Ends Down 77, Nasdaq Closes Down 15
Typhoon Chanchu Kills 50 People in Asia
Mike Wallace Discusses Suicide Attempt
Jenkins Sparks Brewers' Sweep of Phillies

Military.com
Reorganizing Health Care
Pentagon Tries to Straighten Out Logistics
Four Soldiers, One Sailor Killed in Iraq
Army Looks to Reduce Deployment Tempo

CENTCOM: News Releases
COALITION FORCES RESPOND TO HOSTILE ACTIVITY IN RAMADI

HILLAH SWAT CAPTURES LOCAL TERRORIST CELL LEADER

TALIBAN FIGHTERS KILLED DURING COMBINED OPERATION

JOINT TEAM CONDUCTS COMBAT OPERATIONS AGAINST EXTREMISTS

IRAQI POLICE AND COALITION SOLDIERS STOP TERRORISTS

MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE - IRAQ SPOKEMAN PROVIDES OPERATIONS

Department of Defense
Leaders Discuss Guard Border Security - Story
General Touts Growth in Iraqi-Run Ops - Story
Taliban Fighters Killed in Combined Operation - Story
Forces Stop Terrorists, Disarm Car Bomb - Story
Forces Respond to Hostile Activity in Ramadi

IRAQIS TAKE THE LEAD
Iraqi Army Humanitarian Mission Aids Villagers - Story

ON THE GROUND
Marines Help Rebuild Djiboutian Soccer Field - Story
84th Engineers Build Bridges for Anaconda - Story
Afghan Soldiers Get In-Depth Airdrop Training - Story

IN IRAQ
U.S. Marines, Iraqi Troops Hold Medical Clinic
Airmen Keep Fleet Rolling Through Dust, Mud
U.S. Coast Guard Trains Iraqi Marines in Maritime Ops
Georgians Arrive at Forward Operating Base Caldwell

IN AFGHANISTAN
Soldier Runs 5K Race to Honor Grandmother
Army Chief of Staff Visits U.S., Afghan Troops

IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Pakistani Admiral Visits Camp Lemonier
Task Force Troops Visit African Orphanages

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Navy Pilot Runs for Veterans - Story
Troops Receive Gourmet Coffee
Paralympians Visit Wounded

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
Sailor, Four Soldiers Killed
Command Procedures Change
Tank Unit Assumes Responsibility
Casey: Iraqis Hopeful About Future
Province Fire Station Renovated
Forces Kill, Detain Terrorists
Renewal 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
New Radio Station Opens
Enemy Rockets Injure Afghans
IED Injures Two Afghan Civilians
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Pentagon Tests Bio-Attack Response
U.S., Australia to Share More Info
Bush, Howard Focus: War on Terror
U.S., Libya Diplomacy Restored
More Detainee Names Released
Decatur Joins French-Led Force
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
Rumsfeld Urges Support of Budget
Pace: Encourage Military Service
Guard Border Role Has Limits
Film Examines Combat Hospital
Rumsfeld Addresses VMI Grads
Bulgarian Official Visits Enterprise
Guard Border Support Not New
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty - 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
1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Scottish queen Mary.
1585 - Spain confiscates English ships.
1588 - The Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound for England.
1635 - France declares war on Spain
1643 - The French destroy the Spanish army at the Battle of Rocroi / Allersheim; Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form the United Colonies of New England.
1848 - Mexico gives Texas to the U.S., ending the war.
1862 - The Homestead Act goes into effect, providing cheap land for settlement of the West.
1864 - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA; last engagement in the Spotsylvania series of battles.
1884 - The Ringling Brothers circus premieres.
1898 - The Post Office authorizes the use of postcards.
1913 - In California, the Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, prohibiting the Japanese from owning land.
1923 - Communists revolt in German Ruhr cities occupied by the Allies.
1926 - The French air force bombs Damascus, Syria.
1929 - China’s General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek’s government.
1930 - White women win voting rights in South Africa.
1931 - The Ironclad cruiser Germany is launched in Kiel.
1939 - Churchill signs the British-Russian anti-Nazi pact.
1941 - German occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis; the Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.
1943 - Berlin is declared free of Jews - "Judenrien"; Churchill pledges England's full support to the U.S. against Japan.
1944 - More than 200 gypsies are transported to Auschwitz from the Netherlands; the German defense line in Italy collapses.
1951 - The U.N. begins a counter-offensive in Korea.
1954 - Postmaster General Summerfield approves the CIA’s mail-opening project.
1958 - The U.S. and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1960 - USAF Major Robert M. White takes the X-15 to 33,222 mph.
1964 - U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy.
1965 - Patricia R. Harris is named the first American black female ambassador – to Luxembourg.
1967 - The U.S. bombs Hanoi; the U.S.S.R. ratifies a treaty with England and the U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space.
1971 - The U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, the first spacecraft to crash land on Mars.
1976 - The Senate establishes a permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
1983 - NASA launches Intelsat V.
1992 - The 27th Amendment is ratified, prohibiting Congress from raising its salary.

Birthdays
1808 - Confederate Brigadier General Samuel Jameson Gholson
1812 - Confederate Brigadier General Felix Kirk
1815 - Union Brevet Major General John Gross Barnard
1828 - Union Brevet Major General Adin Ballou
1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader
1915 - Pol Pot, dictator / mass murderer
1925 - Malcolm X (Little), black muslim leader
1935 - David Hartman, TV personality (Good Morning America)
1938 - James H. Bilbray (Representative-NV)
1939 - Francis R. Scobee, USAF / astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster)
1941 - Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., son of Jimmy Hoffa / Teamster union leader
1948 - Jean-Pierre Haignere, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17)

Passings
1536 - Anne Boleyn Queen of England / wife of Henry VIII, beheaded; Lord Rochford English, brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded
1795 - Josiah Bartlett, physician / judge, signer of Declaration of Independence
1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (Scarlet Letter)
1935 - Thomas E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), motorcycle crash
1966 - Tortoise reportedly given to Tonga's king by Captain Cook in 1773
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady
1997 - Millie, dog of President Bush

Reported Missing in Action:
1965
Donovan, Leroy M., US Army (CO); O1F overdue (observer, w/Harper) - presumed Killed / BNR

Harper, Richard K. , US Army (MA); OIF overdue (pilot, w/Donovan) - presumed Killed / BNR

1967
Anderson, Gareth L., US Navy (MA); F4B shot down (RIO, w/Plumb), released by DRV March, 1973, died in a military training flight in 1974

Griffin, James Lloyd, US Navy (TN); RA5C shot down (w/Walters), DIC - remains returned March 1974

Hellbach, Harold J., USMC (LA); F8E shot down - remains returned 1997, ID'd May, 1998

Knight, Roy A., Jr., USAF (TX); A1E shot down

McDaniel, Eugene B., USN (NC); A6A shot down (backseater, w/Patterson), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive and well 1998 - founder of the American Defense Institute

Metzger, William J., USN (WI); F8C shot down (Russell shot down a short distance away), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive and well as of 1998

Patterson, James K., USN (CA); A6A shot down (pilot, w/McDaniel), probably captured with broken leg

Plumb, Joseph C., USN (KS); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Anderson), released by DRV February, 1973 - alive and well 1998

Rich, Richard, USN (CT); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Stark)

Russell, Kay, USN (TX); F8E shot down (Metzger shot down a short distance away), released by DRV March, 1973 - deceased, 1995

Stark, William R., USN (CA); F4B shot down (w/Rich), released by DRV March, 1973 - received 2 Silver Stars, the Legion of Merit with Combat V, the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star with Combat V, DMSM, 2 Air Medals, Navy Commendation with Combat V (2nd Award) and 2 Purple Hearts - retired as a Captain - alive and well as of 1998

Walters, Jack, Jr., USN (NC); RA5C shot down (w/Griffin), DIC - remains returned March, 1974

1968
Davies, Joseph E., USAF (VA); F4D shot down (w/McCubbin)

McCubbin, Glenn D., USAF (KS); F4D shot down (w/Davies)

1972
Mott, David P. , USAF (ND); OV10A shot down (w/Thomas), released by PRG March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

Nichols, Aubrey A., USN (TX); A7B shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Commnander - alive and well as of 1998

Thomas, William E., USMC (PA); OVReleased by PRG March, 1973 - retired as a CWO-4 - alive and well as of 1998