News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Scattered Attacks in Baghdad Kill 6
Explosions Rock U.S. Ammo Base
Video: Explosions, Fire at Ammo Supply Point
Three U.S. Marines killed in western Iraq - Video
In Iraq, contractor deaths near 650, legal fog thickens
Dozens of bodies found in Baghdad - Video
Bombing at Iraq bakery kills at least 11

Other Military News
Army tones down drill sergeants

Mid-East Ceasefire / Hamas Rising / Israel at War
Blast rocks Beirut, no damage reported

Immigration / Border Control
5 Freed After Trapped in Mexico-U.S. Tunnel

Here We Go Again
Denmark warns of new cartoon crisis with Muslims

Worldwide Wackos
Report: N. Korean Official Threatens More Nuke Tests
Video: Rice on Brit Hume
North Korea Nuke Test May Be Less Than Claimed
China: Punish, But Don't Crush North Korea
North Korea Blast a Bust?
Video: U.N. Sanctions
Earthquake Blamed for Second Nuke Test Report
Second N.Korean test feared as U.N. weighs sanctions - Video
McCain blames Clinton policies for N. Korea woes - Video
China: N.Korea must be punished for test
U.S. will accept Venezuelan oil charity: Bodman
Iran won't retreat from nuclear program
Malawian claims Madonna adopted his son

Politics / Government
War, sex scandal sinking GOP in polls - Video
Kolbe says he warned of Foley years ago
Bush says Democrats would raise taxes

Oddities
Four die in armed brawl over a pothole
Leopard on loose at embassy compound
Doctor touts vasectomies for elephants

Other News of Note
'Helpful Leads' in Vermont Search

Fox News
Detroit Tigers Top Oakland Athletics 5-1
911 Tapes Reveal Amish School Shooting Details
Boy Charged in Missouri Middle School Shooting
Stocks to Watch: California Pizza Kitchen, Alcoa
Joe Torre to Remain Manager of Yankees

Reuters: Top News
Egypt detects new human H5N1 bird flu case
Google seen inheriting YouTube's legal challenges
Three plead not guilty in California HP spy case
Multicolored Colombian bird hailed as new species
GameStop's stores sell out PlayStation 3 pre-orders
Sirius straps on Stiletto for portable use
U.S. food supply safer than before, regulators say
Cola consumption linked to weaker bones in women
Jolie, Pitt donate $100,000 to Pearl foundation
Dow ends at record high - Video
Oil drops below $59, awaiting OPEC deal - Video
Dollar hits 10-month high against yen
Anheuser-Busch stock rises on takeout talk
JED Oil suspends drilling at 2 areas
Not much steam
Private equity gunning for Boyd?
Alcoa quarterly profit up, but disappoints
Lucentis helps lift Genentech 3rd-qtr profit
Shareholders sue Harrah's in wake of buy-out offer
Japan's Hitachi to buy Clarion for $465 million
Sprint discloses payments to chairman's relative
New Airbus chief warns of "painful" job cuts

AP World News
Body exhumed in Nevada death probe
Scientists find more bones of big camels
Gibson: I haven't had a drink in 65 days
Alcoa 3Q profit jumps 86 pct. on demand
Inge, Tigers take 2-0 lead over A's
Diocese in Iowa files for bankruptcy
The Boss won't let Torre walk
Dow ends up 9 in its fourth record close
Severe psoriasis linked to heart attacks

Military.com
U.S. Air Power in East Asia has Grown
Study: 655,000 Iraqis Die Because of War
Vietnam Vets Open War Crime Defense Fund

CENTCOM: News Releases
SUSPECTED SUICIDE IED FACILITATORS DETAINED

SOLDIERS MAKE MISSION HAPPEN BY FUELING AROUND

11 TERRORISTS KILLED AFTER ATTACKING COMBINED ISF, CF PATROL

PARATROOPERS DISCOVER WEAPONS CACHE, DETAIN SEVERAL INSURGENTS

U.S. DELIVERS REBUILDING SUPPLIES TO PAKISTAN VILLAGES

16 DETAINED DURING RAID ON AL-QAEDA IN IRAQ MEETING

USJFCOM
Joint Systems Baseline Assessment 2006 comes to successful close - podcast
More about the Joint Systems Integration Command
USJFCOM commander discusses reserve force issues - podcast

Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
Iraqi Soldiers Capture Terrorists - Story
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ON THE GROUND
Task Force Grizzly Soldiers Eliminate Insurgents - Story
Iraqi Soldiers Visit Schools, Hand Out Supplies - Story
Coalition Conference Looks at the New Iraq - Story
Senior NCO Visits 10th Mountain Division Soldiers - Story

IN IRAQ
Iraqi Engineer Juggles Family's Safety with Job
'America's Battalion' Returns to Families in Hawaii
U.S. Soldiers Teach Iraqis About Fiber Optics
Local Doctors Treat Ghazaliyah Residents
Iraqi Army Medics Train to Save Lives
Teams Teach Contracting, Budgeting, Planning

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan NCOs Complete Drill Sergeant Course
Afghan Laborers Continue Work on Local Dam

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 Qandahar

Gitmo

National Hurricane Center

Today in History
1737 - An earthquake kills 300,000 in Calcutta, India.
1776 - Brigadier General Arnold's Lake Champlain fleet is defeated by the British.
1797 - British naval forces defeat the Dutch off Camperdown, the Netherlands.
1811 - The Juliana, the first steam-powered ferryboat, begins operation.
1864 - Slavery is abolished in Maryland.
1865 - President Johnson paroles CSA VP Alexander Stephens.
1890 - The Daughters of the American Revolution is founded.
1919 - The first transcontinental air race ends.
1922 - Alaska Davidson becomes the first female FBI "special investigator."
1945 - Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Tse-Tung are pitted against each other, as a civil war begins in China.
1958 - Pioneer-1, the second U.S. Moon probe, reaches 113,810 km before it falls back.
1961 - USAF Major Robert M. White takes the X-15 to 66,100 m.
1968 - Apollo-7 makes 163 orbits in 260 hours; revolt begins in Panama.
1969 - Soyuz-6 is launched; Soyuz-7 and 8 follow in the next two days.
1975 - "Saturday Night Live" premieres, with guest host George Carlin.
1977 - Soyuz-25 returns to Earth.
1979 - Allan McLeod Cormack and Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield win the Nobel Prize for medicine for developing the CAT scan.
1980 - Cosmonauts Popov and Ryumin set a space endurance record of 184 days.
1982 - The English ship Mary Rose, which sank during an engagement with France in 1545, is raised at Portsmouth, England.
1983 - The last hand-cranked telephones in the U.S. go out of service, as over 400 customers in Bryant Pond, ME, are switched over to direct-dial.
1984 - NASA launches the space vehicle S-208.
1985 - President Reagan bans the importation of South African Krugerrands.
1986 - Reagan and Gorbachev open talks at a summit in Reykjavik, Iceland.
1990 - Oil hits a then-record $40.42 per barrel.
1991 - Anita Hill testifies that Clarence Thomas sexually harrassed her.

Birthdays
1821 - Sir George Williams, founder of the YMCA
1844 - Henry John Heinz, founder of the prepared-foods company
1872 - Harlan Fiske Stone, Supreme Court Justice (1925-41); Chief Justice (41-46)
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady
1897 - General Nathan F. Twining, USAF (Neither Liberty nor Safety)
1914 - Edward J. Day, U.S. Postmaster General (1961)
1962 - Joan Cusack, comedienne (SNL)
1969 - Prince Constantijn of the Netherlands

Passings
1779 - General Casimir Pulaski
1809 - Meriwether Lewis, Captain of the Lewis & Clark Expedition
1961 - Leonard "Chico" Marx (Marx Brothers)
1985 - Orson Welles, of a heart attack
1988 - Waylon Flowers, puppeteer
1990 - Douglas Edwards, WW II correspondant, of cancer
1991 - Redd Foxx, comedian, from a heart attack

Reported Missing in Action
1968
Ferguson, Willie C., Jr., USMC (OK); KIA in the crash of a UH34D, remains recovered February, 1973

Heller, Ivan Louis, USN (IL); KIA in the crash of a UH34D, remains recovered March, 1973