News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraqi Police Find 40 Tortured Bodies
Quarter million Iraqis flee sectarian violence
Poll: Iraqis back attacks on U.S. troops
Heralded Iraq Police Academy a Disaster

Operation Enduring Freedom
NATO takeover - Video
Germany urges Afghanistan strategy shift
NATO must speed up deployment: UK
Militant attacks up in Afghan border area

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Musharraf, Karzai Avoid Hand Shake
Bush urges key allies to cooperate
Senate Likely to OK Detainee Interrogation Bill

Troops on Trial
Oregon woman faces Army AWOL charges

Other Military News
GOP Blocks Defense, Homeland Bills
Overhauled Eisenhower Prepares for Deployment

Mid-East Ceasefire / Israel at War
Olmert hopes to meet Abbas in coming day

Worldwide Wackos
Iran and EU Resume Nuclear Talks in Germany
Diplomacy on Iran
US to Wait a Few Weeks on Iran Move
Iran, EU fail to reach a deal in Berlin

Homegrown Moonbats
Carter: US in More Danger of Terrorism

Politics / Government
FOX News Chief: Clinton Had 'Wild Overreaction'
Giuliani defends Clinton on anti-terror
Bush approval rating rises
HP scandal takes center stage at House hearing
Twin Cities to host 2008 GOP convention

In the Courts
New U.S. top court term has abortion, race cases

U.N. News
U.N. front-runner denies he's too weak

Media in the Media
Photographer's Detention Cited in Debate

Mother Nature
6.7 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Near Samoa
Sprawling Calif. Wildfires Draw Closer to Homes
Ninth Tropical Depression of 2006 forms
Firefighters in Calif. brace for winds

Oddities
Cops: Teen Got 3-Year-Old Sister Drunk
New York trans fat ban: Life-saver or Orwellian?
Law student thief caught in getaway cab
Here comes the bride ... and her new baby
Chinese miffed by lewd Japanese computer game
Finger length linked to female sporting potential
Maggie the sea lion paints for fish

Other News of Note
Colorado School Closes After Deadly Standoff
Police investigate possible sex abuse by shooter
Students, Parents Spend Anxious Hours During Siege
Student details Colo. school shooting
Colorado school a scene of fear
Mars rover reaches rim of deep crater

Fox News
Third Bag of Tainted Spinach Linked to Calif. Plant
Chicago Girl in Coma After Dental Visit Dies
Stocks to Watch: Hewlett-Packard and Accenture
Most of No Child Left Behind Lawsuit Dismissed

Reuters: Top News
Zambia challenger praises Mugabe as polls open
Hungary govt set to survive local election losses
Two-thirds of Japanese support new PM Abe: polls - Video
Nepal rebels slam government as peace talks delayed
Microsoft unveils Xbox HD-DVD price, games partner
Hospital emergency rooms overcrowded: report
Supermodel Campbell threatened with arrest in NY
Sheen set to become highest-paid sitcom star
NVIDIA shares fall after downgrade
UK's Royal & Sun offloads U.S. unit, shares up
Oil steadies near $63 after surge - Video
Gold regains $600 on firm oil prices
Stock futures rise; Dow record eyed - Video
Reuters Summits: Venture Capital
Private equity hungry for tech
Video: Firms looking to Eastern Europe
Comment: Oil bears and bulls
Ideas & Screening: Rush Enterprises
Ford Europe on track for 2006 profit: exec
MySpace may be worth $15 billion
Renault, GM seek to bridge differences: Ghosn
Fed sees inflation easing, Lacker unconvinced
GM says may boost exports from Europe

AP World News
HP general counsel Ann Baskins resigns
Pathologist: Drug combo killed Smith son
Pujols' homer stops St. Louis skid
Owens says he didn't attempt suicide
Ancient pet cemeteries found in Peru
FCC to study ads, kids' weight for link
Maglev trains offer high speed, big cost
Lawyers seek to dismiss Karr porn case
Obituaries in the news
3rd Gotti Jr. trial ends in mistrial
Writer behind JT LeRoy comes clean
Inmate in landmark case charged again

Military.com
Marine Corps Searches for Fastest Units
In Tribal Pakistan, an Uneasy Quiet

CENTCOM: News Releases
IED BOMB MAKER DETAINED FOLLOWING KONAR PROVINCE OPERATION

EIGHT KILLED AND THREE WOUNDED DURING RAID IN BAQUBAH

IA, MND-B SOLDIERS DETAIN 25 TERRORIST SUSPECTS NEAR YUSUFIYAH

IRAQI SECURITY FORCES TARGET IED CELL

USJFCOM
Newsmaker Profile: Col. Eugene V. "Gene" Bonventre - podcast
Command working to meet the warfighter's needs with focused efforts - podcast
Command seeking information from industry on access management

Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
National Intelligence Estimate on Terrorism Threat Released - Story
For Top News Visit DefenseLink

ON THE GROUND
Weapons Cache Found Near Kathamayan Mosque - Story
Deployed 'Doc' Mends Bodies and Minds in Iraq - Story
MP Brigade Takes Charge of Detainee Operations - Story

IN IRAQ
Troopers Have New Mission in Southern Iraq
Caldwell: Iraq's Transformation is Subtle
Soldiers, Marines Help Upgrade Iraqi Police Station
Giambastiani Focuses on IEDs in Afghanistan

IN AFGHANISTAN
Harriers Complete Combat Runs in Afghanistan
Coalition Routs Taliban, Extremists in Ghazni
10th Mountain Division Soldiers Thwart Extremists

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 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

Gitmo

National Hurricane Center

Today in History
1066 - William the Conqueror lands in England.
1542 - Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo discovers California.
1781 - The Siege of Yorktown, the last battle of the Revolutionary War, begins.
1787 - Congress sends the Constitution to state legislatures for their approval.
1850 - Flogging is abolished in the U.S. Navy and on merchant vessels.
1906 - U.S. troops reoccupy Cuba, staying until 1909.
1912 - The Kiche Maru sinks off Japan, killing 1,000.
1914 - German forces move into Antwerp, Belgium.
1922 - Mussolini marches on Rome.
1924 - Two U.S. Army planes end their around-the-world flight where they began - in Seattle - after 57 stops.
1928 - Juan de la Cierva makes the first helicopter flight over the English Channel.
1937 - In Oregon, FDR dedicates the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River.
1939 - A Soviet-German treaty settles on the 4th partition of Poland, and gives Lithuania to the U.S.S.R.
1944 - At the Battle of Arnhem, in the Netherlands, the Germans defeat the British airborne.
1958 - Guinea votes for independence from France.
1959 - The Explorer VI reveals an intense radiation belt around the Earth.
1961 - Syria withdraws from the United Arab Republic; USN Commander Forrest S. Petersen takes the X-15 to 30,720 m.
1965 - Jack McKay in reaches 90 km in the X-15; Lava flows kill at least 350 in the Phillipines.
1967 - Walter Washington is elected as the first mayor of Washington, DC.
1972 - Japan & and Communist China agree to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1978 - The Israeli Knesset endorses the Camp David accord.
1982 - The first reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules; NASA launches Intelsat-V.
1985 - NASA launches Intelsat-VA.
1990 - Marvin Gaye gets a star on Hollywood's walk of fame.

Birthdays
551 BC - Confucius (as celebrated in Taiwan)
106 BC - Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), Roman warrior
1852 - Henri Moissan, French chemist, isolated fluorine, Nobel Prize winner (1906)
1856 - Edward Thompson, U.S. archeologist who explored Mayan ruins
1880 - Ralph Edward Flanders, (Sen-VT)
1901 - William S. Paley, CBS founder / chairman
1902 - Ed Sullivan, TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show)
1933 - Madeleine M. Kunin (Gov-VT), first Jewish governor of Vermont
1934 - Brigitte Bardot, French-born starlet (And God Created Women)
1940 - Alexander S. Ivanchenkov, cosmonaut (Soyuz 29, T-6)
1948 - Phil Hartman, comedian (SNL)

Passings
1833 - Lemuel Haynes, Revolutionary War veteran
1953 - Edwin P. Hubble, astronomer / designer of telescopes
1957 - Albert Ascoli, Italian developer of anti-tuberculosis vaccine
1964 - Harpo Marx, comedian (Marx Bros)
1970 - Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (replaced by Anwar Sadat)
1978 - Pope John Paul I, found dead after only 33 days as Pope
1989 - Ferdinand Marcos, deposed president of the Phillipines
1991 - Miles Davis, jazz musician

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Garwood, Robert R., USMC (IN); released March, 1979 - subsequent court-martial for collaboration and assault of a fellow POW

1966
Brasher, Jimmy M., US Army (TX); OV1B shot down (pilot, w/Pittman); KIA, body not recovered

Pittman, Robert E., US Army (FL); OV1B shot down (observer, w/Brasher); KIA, body not recovered

Taylor, Danny G., US Army SF (MO); KIA, body not recovered

1967
Graham, Gilbert J., USNR (CA); PBR 100 hit by rocket fire (forward gunner), KIA, body not recovered

Musetti, Joseph T., Jr., USN (ME); PBR 100 hit by rocket fire (boat captain), KIA, body not recovered

1968
Dixon, David L., USN (OR); Killed in fire on LCM 006, body not recovered

Halpin, David P., USN (NY); Killed in fire on LCM 006, body not recovered