News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraq, US at odds over military handover - Video
Iraqi PM meets with influential cleric

Operation Enduring Freedom
14 British Troops Die in Afghanistan Aircraft Crash

Homeland Security / War on Terror
New Tape Features Zawahiri, American
Al Qaeda No. 2 invites Americans to convert to Islam
Cartoons Behind Germany Terror Plot
U.S rebuts 9/11 homegrown conspiracy theories

Troops on Trial
Army Recommends Death for GIs in Iraqi Murder Probe

Other Military News
Soldiers who lost limbs learn to surf

Mid-East Ceasefire
Lebanon PM Calls for Breaking of 'Illegal' Blockade
Egypt confirms talks on Israeli soldier .
Iran offers cooperation on Israel-Hizbollah truce - Video

Worldwide Wackos
North Korea may hold another missile test: media
US envoy to urge action on N. Korea
Annan questions Iran Holocaust exhibit
Annan pushes Iran to compromise on nukes
Iran insists on diplomacy with the West

Politics / Government
Nellie Connally, JFK Shooting Survivor, Dies at 87

U.N. News
Sen. Obama Told Darfur Needs U.N. Help

Mother Nature
Holiday Washout
Storm leaves East Coast soaked
More Than 400,000 Without Power
John Downgraded to Tropical Storm
Track Ernesto - Track John

Oddities
Victim chases thief, gives him money
New robot can identify wines, cheeses

Other News of Note
Police: Body of Missing Arkansas Teen Found
Three Killed in Shepherd University Shooting
Manhunt Widens for N.Y. Trooper Shootings Suspect

Fox News
Treasury: IRS Gave $318M Away in Fraud Refunds
Mother Gets Photos of Abducted Son After 24 Years
Rain Postpones Agassi Match
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Reuters: Top News
Japan awaits birth of possible imperial male heir
Shuttle crew returns to Florida for new liftoff
Low-risk H5N1 bird flu found in Pennsylvania ducks
Ronald Isley gets 3 years for tax evasion
Film suggests Queen was baffled by grief over Diana
Stocks may climb after Labor Day - Video
Take-Two shares fall on warning, regulatory issues
Bristol profit could suffer, despite Plavix win
Peerless Systems shares fall after Q2 loss
VeriFone shares rise on strong results, outlook
A decline, not a bust
Lenders' share decline broadens
August auto sales down as consumers feel pinch
Can't rule out China hard landing: Bernanke
Don't neglect your cash investments
Fed gets inflation target benefits informally: study

AP World News
5 dead in boat crash in Oklahoma
Aniston settles suit over topless photos
Tennessee makes No. 9 Cal look overrated
D.C. zoo shows off 3 Sumatran tiger cubs
Zoo plans glass enclosure for gorilla
U.S. Open play suspended because of rain
Many small mistakes may have doomed jet
Fox faces chaos in last months in office

CENTCOM: News Releases
DELTA COMPANY VISITS TIARRA SCHOOL

CHAIN OF IEDS DISCOVERED IN PAKTIKA

EXTREMISTS DAMAGE MALEKSHAY SCHOOL

USS ENTERPRISE RETURNS TO FIFTH FLEET

IRAQI GROUND FORCES COMMAND ASSUMES COMMAND AND CONTROL OF 8TH IRAQI ARMY DIVISION

USJFCOM
Northrop-Grumman will support command's joint training mission

Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
Iraqi Command Assumes Control - Story
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ON THE GROUND
Iraqi Army Battalions Take Security Lead - Story
Iraq to Assume Control of Security Forces - Story
Marines, Sailors Leave for Duty in Iraq - Story
New Brigade Takes Control of Air Operations - Story

IN IRAQ
Young Iraqi Girl Needs Life Saving Surgery
Iraqi, U.S. Forces Provide Medical Aid
Dustoff Crews Bring Mercy From Above
45th Sustainment Brigade Assumes Command
101st Airborne Soldiers Free Kidnap Victims
‘Gators’ Prowl Highways Surrounding Fallujah
Medics Provide Health Services to Villagers

DefendAmerica Week in Review
Sunday - Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday

BACKGROUND
IRAQ
Renewal In Iraq
Iraq: Security, Stability
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (PDF)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Weekly Reconstruction Report (PDF)
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
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

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army 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
1189 - England's King Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) is crowned in Westminster
1752 - England adopts the Gregorian calendar; people riot, thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives.
1783 - The Treaty of Paris ends the American Revolutionary War.
1826 - The U.S.S. Vincennes leaves NY, and becmes the first warship to circumnavigate the globe.
1833 - The NY Sun begins publishing - it is the first daily newspaper.
1861 - Confederate forces enter Kentucky, ending its neutrality.
1865 - The Army commander in SC orders the Freedmen's Bureau to stop seizing land; the first pro football game played in Latrobe, PA.
1900 - The British annex Natal (South Africa).
1912 - In England, the world's first cannery opens - to supply food to the navy.
1916 - At the Battle of Verdun, the Allies turned back the Germans.
1918 - Five soldiers hanged for their alleged participation in the Houston riot of 1917.
1925 - The dirigible "Shenandoah" crashes in OH killing 13.
1930 - In the Dominican Republic, a hurricane kills 2,000, and injures 4,000.
1935 - Sir Malcolm Campbell drives the first automobile to exceed 300 mph (301.337 mph).
1939 - Britain declares war on Germany; France, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Canada follow suit.
1940 - High definition color TV is shown for the first time; the U.S. gives Britain 50 destroyers in exchange for a Newfoundland base lease.
1943 - The Allies invade Italy
1945 - Japanese forces in the Phillipines surrender.
1954 - Pope Pius X is canonized.
1964 - President Lyndong B. Johnson signs the Wilderness Act into law.
1967 - Nguyen Van Thieu elected pres of S Vietnam under a new constitution; Sweden begins driving on the right-hand side of road.
1971 - Qatar regains complete independence from Britain; the Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office.
1976 - Viking-2 soft lands on Mars (Utopia), sending back photos.
1978 - The crew of Soyuz-31 returns to Earth, aboard Soyuz-29; Pope John Paul I is officially installed as the 264th supreme pontiff.
1979 - Hurricane David kills over 1,000.
1985 - The 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I-Discovery 6) returns to Earth.

Birthdays
1856 - Louis Henri Sullivan, father of modern American architecture
1860 - Edward Albert Filene, merchant, established U.S. credit union movement
1905 - Carl David Anderson , physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1936)
1944 - Sherwood C. "Woody" Spring, Colonel US Army / astronaut (STS 61B)
1965 - Charlie Sheen actor (Carlos Estevez), NYC, actor (Wall St, Platoon)
1971 - Tonja Christenson, Playboy playmate (November, 1991)

Passings
1189 - Rabbi Jacob of Orleans, killed in anti-Jewish riot in London, England
1658 - King James I of England (1603-25)
1658 - Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of England
1962 - e. e. cummings, poet
1969 - Ho Chi Minh, North Vietnamese president
1970 - Vince Lombardi, football coach
1991 - Frank Capra, movie director (It's a Wonderful Life)

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Trujillo, Joseph Felix, USMC (NM); remains returned Nobember, 1992

1967
Pirkle, Lowell Zinh; remains returned October, 1994 - ID'd January, 1996
Moore, Herbert W., Jr., USAF (PA); F105D shot down (pilot)

1968
Frazier, Paul R., US Army (WI); UH1H crashed (crewman), Killed, body not recovered