News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Insurgents Bomb Oil Pipeline
Car bomb near Baghdad courthouse kills 5, wounds 10

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Michael Hayden to Be Named CIA Director
Opposition Mounts to Military Leadership at CIA
Transcript: Rep. Hoekstra on 'FNS'
Video: New CIA Chief?
Video: Goss' Resignation Statement
Republican sees problems with likely Bush CIA pick
Likely Nominee for CIA Director Draws Fire
In terror war, American 'outreach' has US Muslims wary

Other Military News
Duty and tuition draw US military recruits
Congress Seeks to Change Civil War Law

Hamas Rising
Hamas, Fatah rival factions battle in Gaza, 3 dead - Video

Worldwide Wackos
Iranian President Proposes Solutions in Letter to Bush
Bush says plenty of US diplomacy ahead on Iran
Blair: Nuking Iran Would Be Absurd
First N.Korean refugees reach US under asylum law

Politics
Bush: My Best Moment as President Was Catching Bass
Democrats pledge probes of Bush, not impeachment

Oddities
Coach says he drank too much to celebrate
Mexicans mark "cinco de mayo" with flying veggies
Spanish Town Hosts Big Blind Date Party

Other News of Note
Last U.S. Titanic Survivor Dies

Fox News
Wachovia to Merge With Golden West Financial
Apple Wins Lawsuit
Fuel Bank Offers Gas in Bulk
Barry Bonds One Home Run Short of Tying Babe Ruth
Stocks to Watch: Edison
Survey: Gas Prices Up 4 Cents
Fla. Brush Fire Evacuations
'M:I:3' Tops Box Office
Identity Theft Page
Cybersecurity Center

Reuters: Top News
South Africa braces for Zuma verdict
UK says UFOs caused by natural forces
Japan, US to develop supersonic aircraft: paper
Apple Computer wins trademark dispute vs Beatles
Yahoo reinvigorates Web advertising search battle
Controversial dig sparks pyramid mania in Bosnia
USDA says 156,235 pounds beef recalled for e-coli
Nevada launching Web site for Canada drug imports
Keith Richards undergoes brain surgery: media
Wachovia aims big with $25 bln Golden West buy
Apple Computer wins trademark dispute vs Beatles
Economy to slow, rate hikes end in 2006: survey
Wachovia aims big with $25 bln Golden West buy
Cosmote,Germanos deal news expected after mkt close
Cable firm NTL set to axe up to 6,000 jobs -papers
Stock futures flat; Wachovia, Apple in focus
SkyePharma signs US partner for key asthma drug
Adidas up on "fantastic" soccer business
Fed in focus as Dow flirts with record - Video
Circuit City shares jump after upbeat analyst note
Copper bubble trouble?
On the Radar: Goldcorp hits the screen
CATastic year

AP World News
Gene Marker May Show Prostate Cancer Risk
Wachovia Buying Golden West in $25B Deal
Click Fraud Concerns Hound Google
Poll: 4 in 10 Americans Play Video Games
Thai Court Nullifies April Elections
Cheney Promotes Democratic Reform Overseas
New Orleans Jazz Fest Ends on High Note

Military.com
Controversy Over Hayden
Bush Wants to Close Guantanamo
Academy to Use Rare Court-Martial
Bodies of 10 U.S. Troops Retrieved
Car Bombs Kill 16
DoD Takes Recruiting to new Heights

CENTCOM: News Releases
CRRB RELEASES 299 DETAINEES

RELEASE UPDATE - BOMBMAKERS IN MOSQUE COMPOUND BLOW THEMSELVES UP

COALITION DOCTORS DELIVER AFGHAN BABY GIRL AT PRT

COALITION FINDS WEAPONS CACHE, DETAINS SUSPECTS IN KUNAR

OPERATION MOUNTAIN LION ROARS INTO KORENGAL VALLEY

TERRORIST CHEMICAL EXPERT KILLED IN BAGHDAD RAID

ENEMIES OF AFGHANISTAN DESTROY TWO BRIDGES

IED CELL CAPTURED

COALITION FORCES DELIVER PRECSION MUNITIONS ON INSURGENT AREA

FIVE SUSPECTS DETAINED IN SERIES OF RAIDS

COALITION FORCES RESPOND TO INSURGENT FIRE IN RAMADI

CAR BOMB IN KARBALA KILLS 2, WOUNDS 18

TERRORISTS KILL 11 CIVILIANS WITH MOTORCYCLE IED

RECOVERY OPERATIONS AT HELICOPTER CRASH SITE ON-GOING

BOMBMAKERS IN MOSQUE BLOW THEMSELVES UP

Department of Defense
Helicopter Recovery Operations Continue - Story
10 Soldiers Killed in Helicopter Crash
U.S., Iraqi Forces Launch New Operation - Story
Bush Honors Grad During Commencement - Story
Coalition Forces Kill Terrorists in Iraq - Story

IRAQIS TAKE THE LEAD
Iraqi Border Police Secure Iraq's Frontier - Story - On Assignment
Flight Shows Difficulties of Policing the Border

REBUILDING IRAQ
'Measles Chart' Shows Construction Progress - Story - On Assignment

ON THE GROUND
Hillah SWAT, U.S. Special Forces Aid Iraqi Boy - Story
'Lion’s Pride' Brings Medical Care to Afghans - Story
Kunar Bridge Construction Moves Forward - Story
Task Force Knighthawk Gets New Commander - Story

IN IRAQ
Troops Revive Patrols to Re-establish Security - Photos
Space-Age Drinking Water System Tested
Photos: Raven Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Comm Unit Reaches Milestone
Florida Guard Unit Helps Ailing Afghan Child

IN KUWAIT
U.S. Women’s Team Defeats Kuwaiti Team
Range Helps Troops Train for Iraq Duty - Photos

IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Coast Guard Detachment Trains Djiboutians
USS Typhoon Operates in Horn of Africa

FACE OF DEFENSE
Airmen Make History in Iraq - Story

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Sinise, Band Rock Pentagon - Story - Photos
Supporters, Lt. Dan Share Stage - Story
Casino Thanks Troops With Bash

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
No. Iraqi Units Engaged in Fight
Officials Show Zarqawi Outtakes
U.S. Commander Meets with Iraqis
Iraqi Army More Capable
U.S. Marines, Iraqis Respond
Scientists Access Virtual Library
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
Terrorist Networks Use Internet
Official Condemns School Burning
Partnership Capability Grows
Forces Kill Enemy Fighters
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
5 Detainees Released from Gitmo
Rumsfeld: Relationships Key
Rumsfeld, Nukaga Talk Realignment
Joint Command Focuses on Ops
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
Florida Employers Honored
Installations Honored
U.S. Sailors Aid Future Homeowners
OIF Vet Honored as Action Figure
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Defense Officials Identify Casualties - 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
0535 - John II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0615 - St Boniface IV ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0685 - St Benedict II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1360 - Treaty of Brétigny signed by English & French
1429 - French troops under Joan of Arc rescue Orléans
1450 - Jack Cade's Rebellion-Kentishmen revolt against King Henry VI
1521 - Parliament of Worms installs edict against Marten Luther
1541 - Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
1624 - Hungarian king Bethlen Gábor & emperor Ferdinand II sign Treaty of Vienna
1639 - William Coddington founds Newport, RI
1660 - English parliament asks King Charles II resigns
1721 - Michelangiolo dei Conti replaces Pope Clement XI, as Innocent XIII
1741 - France & Bavaria sign Covenant of Nymphenburg
1784 - Only known deaths by hailstones in US (Winnsborough SC)
1792 - British Captain George Vancouver sights, names Mount Rainier, WA; US establishes military draft
1794 - US Post Office established
1823 - "Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
1834 - Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle; Prussia, Austria & Russia sign classified accord about Belgium
1840 - Alexander Wolcott patents Photographic Process
1842 - Versailles to Paris train catches fire; 50 die
1846 - 1st major battle of Mexican War fought at Palo Alto, TX
1847 - Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
1858 - John Brown holds antislavery convention
1861 - Richmond VA, is named the capital of the Confederacy
1862 - Valley Campaign: Federals repulsed at Battle of McDowell VA
1863 - Confederación Granadina becomes Estados Unidos de Colombia
1864 - Actions at Stony Creek/Nottoway Bridge VA (Drewry's Bluff); Atlanta Campaign: Severe fighting near Dalton; Battle of Antietam, VA (Spotslyvania Court House, Laurel Hill)
1871 - English-US treaty ends Alabama dispute
1877 - 1st Westminster Dog Show held
1878 - Paul Hines makes baseball's 1st unassisted triple play
1879 - George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congolian monarch
1886 - Atlanta pharmacist (Jacob's Pharmacy) Dr John Styth Pemberton invents Coca Cola (contained cocaine)
1895 - China cedes Taiwan to Japan under Treaty of Shimonoseki
1900 - 250 grave robbers shot to death
1902 - Mount Pelée erupts, wipes out St Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
1916 - German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes
1919 - 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a navy seaplane
1921 - Sweden abolishes capital punishment
1924 - Memel territories given to Lithuania
1925 - French colonial army beats Rifkabylen in Morocco
1926 - 1st flight over North Pole (Bennett & Byrd); Fire breaks out in Fenway Park
1929 - Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
1936 - Jockey Ralph Neves unexpectedly revived after being declared dead after a fall; His wife fainted when he returned to the track
1941 - German Q-ship Pinguin sinks in Indian Ocean
1942 - 1st twilight game in 24 years, the Dodgers top Giants 7-6 raising $60,000 for Navy Relief Fund; Battle of Coral Sea ends; Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1943 - Admiral Cunningham of British fleet: "Sink, burn & destroy; let nothing pass"
1944 - 1st eye bank opens (NYC); 33 communist resistance fighter sentenced to death;
U-575 sinks Asphodel
1945 - Canadian troops move into Amsterdam; Chinese counter attack at Tsjangte, supports by 14th air fleet; General Von Keitel surrenders to Marshal Zhukov near Berlin; V-E Day - Germany signs unconditional surrender, WWII ends in Europe
1949 - West German constitution approved
1950 - Chiang Kai-shek asks US for weapons
1952 - Mad Magazine debuts
1958 - President Eisenhower orders National Guard out of Central HS, Little Rock; Vice President Nixon is shoved, stoned, booed & spat upon by protesters in Peru
1959 - 3-deck Nile excursion steamer springs a leak panicking passengers who capsized ship; 200 drown just yards from shore
1960 - USSR & Cuba resume diplomatic relations
1961 - 1st practical sea water conversion plant-Freeport, TX; Alan Shepard receives NASA Distinguished Service Medal, Washington
1962 - 1st Atlas Centaur Launch; London trolley buses go out of service
1963 - JFK offers Israel assistance against aggression
1966 - Only homerun ever hit out of Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (Frank Robinson)
1969 - Cambodia recognizes German Democratic Republic
1970 - Construction workers break up an anti-war rally in NYC's Wall Street
1973 - Indians holding South Dakota hamlet of Wounded Knee for 10 weeks surrender
1974 - Canadian Government of Trudeau falls
1977 - David Berkowitz pleads guilty in "Son of Sam" 44-caliber shootings
1980 - World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
1984 - Thames Barrier to stop flooding in London officially completed; USSR announces it will not participate in Los Angeles Summer Olympics
1987 - Gary Hart quits democratic presidential race (Donna Rice affair)
1988 - François Mitterrand elected President of France
1989 - US space shuttle STS-30 lands
1991 - CIA director William H Webster resigns
1993 - 16 year old Keron Thomas disguises himself as a motorman & takes NYC subway train & 2,000 passengers on a 3 hour ride
1994 - 500th commentary by Andy Rooney on 60 Minutes; Ernesto Pérez Balladares elected President of Panamá; José Maria Figueres becomes President of Costa Rica; President Clinton announces US will no longer repatriate boat people
1996 - South Africa's Const Assembly adopts permanent post-apartheid constitution

Birthdays
1521 - Peter Canisius [Pieter de Hondt/Kanijs], jesuit/saint
1753 - Miguel Hidalgo y Castilla, father of Mexican independence
1763 - John Goldberg, Dutch patriot/statesman
1786 - Thomas Hancock, founded British rubber industry
1810 - James Cooper, Union Brigadier General
1814 - Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, anarchist
1824 - William Walker, filibuster/President of Nicaragua (1856-57)
1828 - Jean Henri Dunant, Swiss writer/founder (Red Cross (Nobel Peace Prize 1901))
1833 - Frank Wheaton, Union Brevet Major General
1836 - Bryan Morel Thomas, Confederate Brigadier General
1871 - [Émile M] Louis Madelin, French historian (French revolutionary)
1882 - Philips C. Visser, Dutch explorer/diplomat
1884 - Harry S. Truman, 33rd US President (D) (1945-1953)
1899 - Friedrich August von Hayek, Austrian author (The Road to Serfdom)/co-recipient of Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences (1974)
1899 - Jan F. van Hall, Dutch sculptor/resistance fighter
1904 - John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, BBC news announcer/commentator
1914 - Lord Murton of Lindisfrarne, deputy chairman (Comm House of Lords)
1924 - Tristan Jones, sailor / author / adventurer
1925 - Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of Tanzania
1926 - Ronald Waterhouse, high court judge; Sir David [Frederick] Attenborough London England, environmentalist/zoologist/TV host (BBC)
1928 - Theodore Sorensen, presidential advisor (JFK)/author (1000 Days)
1929 - V. N. M. Korte-van Hemel, Dutch Secretary of Justice (CDA)
1934 - Leonard Hoffmann, high court judge
1935 - Viscount Falkland, British peer (Liberal-Democrat)
1936 - Neville Purvis, British Vice Admiral (Chief of Fleet Support)
1937 - Dennis DeConcini (Senator-AZ); Michael Simmons, Air Marshal (British Ministry of Defense)
1940 - Peter Benchley, novelist (Jaws, The Deep)
1941 - James A Traficant, Jr. (Representative-OH)
1942 - Norman Lamont, MP/Chancellor of Exchequer
1945 - Arthur Docters van Leeuwen, jurist (Holland's secret service)
1948 - John Reid, MP
1952 - Charles J. Camarda, PhD/astronaut
1963 - Clemens Lothaller, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-13 backup)

Passings
0535 - John [Mercurius], Italian Pope (533-35)
0685 - Benedict II, Italian Pope (683-85)
1319 - Haakon V, King of Norway (1299-1319)
1725 - John Lovewell, US Indian fighter, dies in battle
1773 - Ali Bey, Egyptian Mameluk head
1794 - Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier, chemist (identified oxygen), guillotined
1844 - Charles XIV Johan [Jean B Bernadotte], King of Sweden/Norway
1853 - Joannes P. Roothaan 1st Dutch Lieutenant Colonel-General of Jesuits, dies at 67
1861 - Láseló Teleki, Hungarian earl/revolutionary, commits suicide
1864 - James Samuel Wadsworth, Union Major-General, dies in battle at 56
1887 - Alexander Ulyanov, brother of Lenin/hanged for assassination of tsar
1909 - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat
1915 - Henry McNeal Turner, 1st Black US Army chaplain, dies at 82
1932 - Albert Thomas, French socialist politician
1943 - Mordicai Anielewicz, commander of Warsaw ghetto uprising, killed
1958 - Nasni Matni, Lebanese journalist, murdered
1973 - Ralph Miller, last 19th century baseball player
1976 - Ulrike Meinhof, led Germany Red Army Faction
1994 - Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, peace activist, dies at 88
1997 - Kai-Uwe Von Hassel, German President of Bundestag (CDU 1969-72)

Reported Missing in Action
1965
LaHaye, James D., USN (WI); F8D shot down, KIA/BNR

1966
Ray, James E., USAF (TX); F105 shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

1967
McCuistion, Michael K., USAF (NE); F105D shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Lt. Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

Steimer, Thomas Jack, USN (CA); F4B shot down, KIA/BNR

1968
The following US Army personnel reported MIA when their UH1C was shot down - all KIA/BNR:
Condrey, George T. III (GA); pilot

Dayton, James L. (IL); aircraft commander

Jenne, Robert E. (UT); crewman

Jurecko, Daniel E. (TX); crewchief

1969
Brashear, William J., USAF (CA); F4C shot down (w/Mundt)

Mundt, Henry G., USAF (TX); F4C shot down (w/Brashear)

1972
Leaver, John M., Jr., USN (MA); SH3G shot down (passenger, w/Taylor)

Taylor, Edmund B., Jr., USN (OH); SH3G shot down (passenger, w/Leaver)