News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Annan: 'Grave Danger That the Iraqi State Will Break Down'

Operation Enduring Freedom
Four Canadians among 19 killed in Afghan blasts - Video

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Fish used to detect terror attacks
Somalian president escapes bomb, gunfire that kills 11 - Video

Religion of Peace??
Al Qaeda in Iraq Threatens Pope Over Remarks About Islam
Iranian leader urges more papal protests
Bush says pope sincere in apology on Islam - Video
Turkey trip seen as chance for Pope to make amends - Video

Mid-East Ceasefire / Israel at War
Striking workers mob Palestinian PM in Gaza - Video

NSA / CIA
White House offers revised CIA interrogation plan

Worldwide Wackos
Iran negotiator's absence raises doubts about talks - Video
U.S. wants to see 'verifiable suspension' by Iran
France: more Iran talks needed, sanctions flawed - Video

Politics / Government
Service Held for Former Texas Gov. Ann Richards
Man Crashes Through Barricade at U.S. Capitol

U.N. News
Bush to Address U.N. Assembly on Middle East
Bush faces doubts at U.N. over Iran, Iraq policy
UN envoy urges beefing up African Union in Sudan - Video

Mother Nature
Tree rings can reveal hurricane record: study

Oddities
Village elders order trial by boiling oil
Student finds brief fame as Terracotta Warrior

Other News of Note
Holocaust survivor siblings reunite 65 years later

Fox News
FDA Warned Farmers About Spinach Safety
Sketch of Baby-Snatch Suspect Released
Riots Rock Budapest
Princeton Joins Harvard in Ending Early Admissions
Anna Nicole's Son Was Taking Antidepressants
Ex-Buckeye Maurice Clarett Pleads Guilty
S.C. Bunker Kidnap Suspect Charged With Rape
Report: Milan Building Collapse Kills at Least 3
Parents Kidnap Daughter for Alleged Abortion
Even Cowboys Get the High Gas-Price Blues

Reuters: Top News
Parents kidnap daughter to have abortion
Toxic liquids spill in space station
Microsoft to launch video service to rival YouTube
Toshiba says to replace 340,000 Sony-made batteries
Investors bet on rising costs for scarce water
Restaurant chains pull spinach from menus
AIDS no longer killing all patients, study finds
Willie Nelson hit with drug charges
Bounty hunter turns legal bind into TV special

AP World News
Johansson likes her hourglass figure
U.S. uploads anti-drug videos to YouTube
Mets win first NL East title since 1988
Clarett pleads guilty, gets 3 1/2 years
Dow closes down 6, Nasdaq finishes flat
Saints provide antidote to Katrina
Astronauts inspect shuttle one last time
Experts: GM-Ford talks sign of the times
Shark that walks on fins is discovered
Roethlisberger is expected to return
Warner to issue music through YouTube
Archdiocese wants abuse case dismissed
3rd teen arrested in Wis. school plot
Ex-Black Panther asks for new trial
Accused cartel member pleads not guilty

Military.com
From ASW to Counter-IED
Defense Firm's Ethics Under Fire

CENTCOM: News Releases
SUPPLIES DELIVERED AS OPERATION MOUNTAIN FURY KICKS OFF

10th MOUNTAIN SOLDIERS VISIT ANDAR DISTRICT

AFGHAN, COALITION FORCES LAUNCH OPERATION MOUNTAIN FURY

USJFCOM
Empire Challenge 06 focuses on joint, coalition warfighting operations - podcast
Liveblogging: Urban Resolve 2015 - Read Chris' liveblog

Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
Baghdad Bomb Kills U.S. Soldier - Story
For Top News Visit DefenseLink

ON THE GROUND
Soldier Hit by Anti-Tank Mine Praises Up-Armor - Story
Operation Improves Ameriyah, Deters Terrorists - Story
82nd Airborne Takes Over Operations in Bayji - Story

IN IRAQ
Iraqi Police, U.S. Soldiers Seize Weapons, Suspects
25th Infantry Division Continues Transition Role
Iraqi Police Department Recruits 67 Men-in-Blue

IN AFGHANISTAN
10th Mountain Division Soldiers Thwart Extremists
Legacy of Fallen Citadel Graduate Lives On

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

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
1544 - France and Austria sign a treaty, ending 20 years of war.
1676 - Bacon's rebellion results in the burning of Jamestown.
1777 - Americans, under General Horatio Gates, won the Battle of Saratoga; the Continental Congress fled Philadelphai for York ahead of approaching British forces.
1796 - George Washington issues his farewell address as President.
1827 - Jim Bowie stabs a Louisiana banker with his famous knife.
1862 - Battle of Iuka, Mississippi.
1881 - President James Garfield dies of a gunshot wound inflicted by a disappointed office seeker (July 2nd).
1900 - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid pull off their first robbery together.
1934 - Bruno Hauptmann is charged with the kidnap and murder of Charles Lindbergh's baby.
1941 - The Germans bombard Leningrad.
1948 - Moscow announces it will withdraw from Korea by the end of the year.
1955 - President Juan Peron of Argentina is deposed and exiled.
1957 - The U.S. conducts its first underground nuclear test in NV.
1959 - Khrushchev is barred from visiting Disneyland.
1984 - Great Britain and China announce an agreement to transfer Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997.
1985 - Mexico City is hit by the first of two earthquakes that will kill thousands (the second hits 36 hours later).
1994 - U.S. troops arrive in Haiti to enforce exiled president Jean-Bertrand Aristide's return.
1995 - The Washington Post publishes the "Unabomber's Manifesto," a sixty-five-page thesis on what the "Unabomber" thought were the problems with America's society.
2001 - U.S. combat aircraft are ordered to the Persian Gulf in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11th.
2002 - President George W. Bush asks Congress for authority to "use all means," including military force if necessary, to disarm and overthrow Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein if Iraq fails to meet United Nations demands to abandon all weapons of mass destruction.

Birthdays
0086 - Antonius Pius, 15th Roman Emperor (0138 - 0161)
0866 - Leo VI, Byzantine emperor
1655 - Jan Luyts - Dutch scholar/physicist/mathematician/astronomer
1800 - William Wister McKean, Commander, Union Navy
1822 - Joseph Rodman West, Brevet Major General, Union volunteers
1802 - Louis Kossuth, president of Hungary (1949)
1898 - Guiseppe Saragat, president of Italy (1964-71)
1905 - Leon Jaworski, lawyer, Special Prosecutor for Watergate
1907 - Lewis F. Powell, Jr., Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1972 - 1987)
1914 - Rogers Morton, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1968-75)
1926 - Lurieen Wallace (Gov-AL, 1966-68)
1929 - Margaret S. Roukema (Rep-NJ); Adam West, actor (Batman)
1932 - Mike Royko, journalist (Chicago Daily News), author
1935 - Thomas W. Ewing (Rep-IL); Robert Kruger (Sen-TX)
1941 - "Mamma" Cass Elliot (or 1943)
1947 - Steve Bartlet (Rep-TX)
1950 - Joan Lunden, news host (Good Morning America)
1960 - Julianna Young, Playboy Playmate (Nov., 1993)
1957 - Richard M. Linnehan, astronaut, (STS 78, sk: 90)
1974 - Victoria Silverstedt, Playboy Playmate (Dec., 1996)

Passings
1881 - James A. Garfield, 20th U.S. President, 80 days after being shot

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Brown, Frank Monroe, Jr., USN (PA); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Henry), KIA/BNR

Henry, David Alan, USN (CA); F4B shot down (w/Brown), KIA/BNR

Parsons, Don B., USNR (NY); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Pilkington)

Pilkington, Thomas H., USNR (IL); F4B shot down (RIO, w/Parsons)

Waltman, Donald G., USAF (ID); F105 shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel, deceased September, 1997

1968
Capling, Elwyn R., USAF (MI); F105F shot down - SRV returned remains to PCOM March, 1977

Holt, Robert Alan, USMC (PA); F4B shot down (w/LaVoo), remains ID'd June, 1999

LaVoo, John Allen, USMC (CO); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Holt), remains ID'd June, 1999