News of Note
9/11
President Visits Ground Zero
Lays wreaths honoring victims
Site Posts Pre-Sept. 11 Al Qaeda Video
FOXNews.com's Sept. 11 Center
Video: President Bush Visits Ground Zero
Video: New Bin Laden Tape Surfaces
ABC makes some changes to 9/11 series
Bush Plans Prime Time 9/11 Address
Pentagon 9/11 Victims Honored
Four Planes, Two Towers and 148 Minutes
President, First Lady Lay Wreaths
Enormous Damage Done to al Qaeda Since 9/11, Cheney Says
Solemn 9/11 Anniversary Observed
Continuing the Hunt Five Years Later
US Likely to be Hit Again
Bush to Tour 9/11 Sites
The Hole in the City's Heart
Walk Honors Pentagon Fallen
Cheney Hails 'Progress' Since 9/11

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraq Delays Debate Over Federalism Bill Again
U.N. and donors prepare road map for rebuilding Iraq
Iraqi leader details oil output strategy
Rice: Do not relent in fighting Iraq war

Operation Enduring Freedom
94 Taliban Die in Afghan Strike
Suicide bomber kills Afghan provincial governor
GIs hunt al-Qaida in Afghan mountains

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Two Kuwaitis to leave Guantanamo soon: group
Somalia station shut down for love songs

Mid-East Ceasefire
Blair Travels to West Bank

Worldwide Wackos
Diplomats: Iran Considering Suspending Enrichment
Moves mulled after upbeat Iran-EU talks
Abbas says ready to hold talks with Olmert - Video
EU, Asian Leaders to N. Korea: Don't Stir Up Nuke Tensions
Japan to launch spy satellite to watch North Korea
Castro May Miss Summit

Politics / Government
Cheney offers to bet on congressional Republicans
Cheney defends hardline White House role

U.N. News
U.S. global cop role to be denounced

Mother Nature
Florence Becomes Hurricane
Quake Hits Gulf of Mexico
6.0 Gulf quake felt from La. to Fla.

Oddities
No swastika mittens for NATO leaders

Fox News
Atlantis' Thermal Skin OK
Cop Killer Suspect 'Bucky' Feared Extended Sentence
Survey: Gas Down 22 Cents

Reuters: Top News
Mexico's left gives way to army
Grandpa marches on DC for clean air and safe schools
Astronauts check space shuttle for damage
Cleaner air possible in HK in 2 years - thinktank
Pitt humbled by non-actors in "Babel"
So many fall shows, so few chances of a hit
Lower oil may help; inflation data on tap - Video
Volt Information shares fall as Q3 earnings miss estimates - Video
Cascade shares rise on strong results
Luna Innovations shares tumble on lower 2006 outlook
Sony hits stumbling blocks
U.S. committed to reviving world trade talks: USTR
HP board to reconvene late Monday
OPEC, on steady course in 2006, looks beyond
Nasdaq says targets a broad range of China firms
FedEx pilots council approves tentative contract
Stanley to agree $1.1bln offer from Genting: report

AP World News
No word on HP chairwoman's fate
Peyton's Colts best Eli's Giants 26-21
Nation's crime rate hits 32-year low
Bears hand Favre 1st shutout of career
Emma Thompson gets inside Ferrell's head
Atlantis prepares to make giant delivery
Palmer sharp as Bengals down Chiefs
Pope warns of tuning out Christianity
OPEC signals quota change is unlikely
'Covenant' debuts on top of box office
Ohio State tightens its hold on No. 1
Popular Christian books spawn video game

Military.com
Atlantis Now Headed for Space Station - Video
Army Touts Recruiting Turnaround
Thirty Taliban Killed in Afghanistan

CENTCOM: News Releases
IRAQI CIVILIAN KILLED, CHILD INJURED IN CF CONVOY ACCIDENT

COALITION CONVOY TARGETED BY IED

COALITION CONVOY TARGETED IED

IRAQI ARMY TARGETS ANTI-IRAQI FORCES IN MULTIPLE RAIDS

USJFCOM
Wireless for the Warfighter capability fills communication gaps for warfighter - podcast Northrop-Grumman will support command's joint training mission

Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
U.S. Right to Overthrow Saddam - Story
For Top News Visit DefenseLink

ON THE GROUND
Technicians Ensure U-2 Airplanes Ready for Flight - Story
Officials Award Health-Care Clinic Contracts - Story
Marines Work to Enhance Communications - Story

IN IRAQ
U.S. Personnel Open Restored Water Well
Tameem Railway Station Receives Upgrades
Iraqis Disregard Threats to Repair Damaged Roads
New Iraqi Recruits Show Courage and Honor
Residents Find Relief, Security as Ops Expand
Iraqi Troops Learn to Detect Explosives

IN AFGHANISTAN
Legacy of Fallen Citadel Graduate Lives On
Coalition Forces Deliver Cement to Afghan Village
Reconstruction Team Donates Prayer Rugs

IN DJIBOUTI
20 Servicemembers Become U.S. Citizens in Africa

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

Gitmo

Today in History
1609 - Henry Hudson discovers Manhattan island
1709 - English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet
1773 - Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace."
1777 - Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British
1786 - Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce
1789 - Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury
1814 - Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British
1853 - 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos
1875 - 1st newspaper cartoon strip
1885 - Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia
1910 - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1919 - US marines invade Honduras
1922 - British mandate of Palestine begins
1923 - The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower
1926 - Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu
1929 - SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system
1930 - Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles
1936 - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1941 - Charles Lindbergh, charges "the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into WW II; FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight
1944 - FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference
1946 - 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation
1950 - 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited
1950 - Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence
1951 - Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1952 - West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews
1960 - The 17th Olympic games close in Rome
1967 - US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material
1973 - Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup
1985 - Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km
1986 - Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded
1989 - Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud
1991 - 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston
2001 - The worst terrorist attack on American soil - 2819+ die as a result of hijacked airplane attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and a field in Western Pennsylvania

Birthdays
1835 - Brigadier General William Wirt Allen, 1st Alabama Cavalry
1862 - O Henry (pen name of William Sidney Porter), short story writer
1877 - Sir James Jeans England, physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1909 - William Natcher (Rep-KY)
1917 - Ferdinand Marcos, Philippines Pres (1965-86)
1922 - Charles Evers, civil rights leader (Amazing Grace)
1924 - Daniel Kahikina Akaka (Rep-HI); Tom Landry NFL player (NY Giants), coach (Dallas Cowboys)
1928 - Reubin Askew (Gov-Fla)
1932 - Herbert "Sonny" Leon Callahan (Rep-AL); Robert Packwood (Sen-OR); Valentino, Italian fashion designer (Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis)
1935 - Gherman Titov (USSR), 1st man to spend a day in space (Vostok 2)
1937 - Robert Crippen, Capt USN/astronaut (STS 1, 7, 41C, 41G)

Passings
1712 - GD Cassini, French astronomer
1948 - Quaid-i-Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah
1971 - Nikita Khrushchev, of a heart attack at 77
1988 - Luis W. Alvarez, physicist (Nobel-1968), at 77

Reported Missing in Action
1967
Anspach, Robert A., US Army SF (GA); KIA / BNR

Overly, Norris M., USAF (WV); B57 crashed (w/Petersen) - released February, 1968

Petersen, Gaylord Dean, USAF (CA); B57 crashed (w/Overly) remains returned August, 1978

1968
Vandyke, Richard H., USAF (UT); F4D shot down, died of injuries - remains returned July, 1981

1969
Helwig, Roger D., USAF (CO); F4D shot down (w/Stearns)

Stearns, Roger H., USAF (CO); F4D shot down (w/Helwig) - remains returned May, 1990

1970
Plassmeyer, Bernard H., USMC (MO); A4E killed, presumed Killed

1972
Heeren, Jerome D., USAF (SD); F4E shot down (w/Ratzlaff), released March, 1973 - alive as of 1996

Ratzlaff, Brian M., USAF (CA); F4E shot down (pilot, w/Heeren), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive as of 1998