News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Search Continues for U.S. Soldier - Video
U.S. cites talks to secure GI's release
November off to bloody start in Iraq
Meet the Iraqi 10th Division
Violence in Iraq Claims 4 U.S. Service Members

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghan success vs. Taliban seen hanging on reform

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Remains identified of September 11 flight victims
NYC to Hire Experts in 9/11 Search

Other Military News
Stretched UK military faces staffing shortage: report

Mid-East Ceasefire / Hamas Rising / Israel at War
Israeli Troops Kill 8 in Gaza Raids



Religion of Peace??
Malaysia probes Muslim raid on retired American couple

Worldwide Wackos
Iran Test Launches Missiles During War Games
U.S. diplomats to prepare for N.Korea talks - Video

Politics / Government
GOP: Base Energized by Kerry Flub - VIDEO
YOU DECIDE 2006: Complete coverage from FOXNews.com
Farm issues take back seat to war in elections
Kerry slip-up not seen hurting Democrats at polls
Bush making final election push - Video
Bush chides Democrats as soft on terror
Rep. paying ex-mistress about $500K
Page Scandal Report to Be Released After Midterm

U.N. News
Scores killed in new attacks on Darfur camps: U.N.

Media in the Media
Reporting from Baghdad

Mother Nature
Calif. Wildfire Arson Suspect Faces Death Penalty

Oddities
Man Dug Up 12-Year-Old Girl's Corpse to 'Have Fun'
Sheriff Indicted for Reselling Criminals' Drugs
New weapon in battle of the bulge...
Noodle-bar robber pays bill before getaway
Letters to God end up in ocean, unread

Other News of Note
Smart Cars Coming to U.S. in Early 2008
Marshals Nab Nearly 11,000 Fugitives in 24 States
France declassifies secret Rwanda reports for probe
New Jersey schools receive "Amish" threat

Fox News
Suspect Nabbed in Murders of 3 Found in Drain Pipe
U.S. Track Coach May Face Doping Case Charges
Schools Told to Have Cheerleaders for Girls' Sports
Study: Male Birth Control Pill Might Be Possible
Top Evangelical Leader Resigns Amid Allegations of Gay Affair
Police Nab 10 Ill. Hotel Workers in Identity Theft Ring
Mexican Feds Pullout From Oaxaca College Protests
Stocks to Watch: Whole Foods, Washington Post

Reuters: Top News
Ocean fish, seafood could collapse by 2048: study
Reducing body temperature extends life span of mice
Over half of U.S. phone users want music, Cingular says
Hollywood writers, studios spar over digital works
Study shows why the young may shun condoms
U.S. needs "sexual literacy", ex-surgeon generals say
Tom Cruise, MGM to revive United Artists studio
Shakira shines in 7th Latin Grammy Awards
Dow dips on Wal-Mart, economy - Video
Oil steadies below $58 as Nigeria restarts weigh
Lincare, Apria, up after Medicare trims cutbacks
Gap October same-store sales down 7 percent
Whole Foods sees slower sales growth in '07
"Top" is a 4-letter word
On the radar: Coldwater Creek
Microsoft, Novell reach agreement on Linux
CA's ex-CEO sentenced to 12 years in prison
Amazon.com sees new Web utility business
Citi still hopeful of buying into Guangdong bank
Microsoft says "Gears" demand running high
Michaels posts rise in third-quarter sales

AP World News
Conservators X-ray Roman statue of Venus
Shakira wins four Latin Grammy awards
Microsoft backs Novell's Linux platform
'SNL' star sues over bedbugs in her loft
Kenny Rogers wins 5th overall Gold Glove
Flavor Flav expecting his seventh child
Dow down 12 on flat productivity report
Cruise puts 'artist' back in UA
Clemens undecided on pitching in 2007
Productivity growth skids to standstill
Wal-Mart outlook may prompt price wars
Virginia sheriff, 12 employees indicted
Businesses may move health care overseas
Kumar sentenced, fined in fraud scandal

Military.com
DoD Makes 'Red-Teaming' a High Priority
Opinion: Surprise Killer Cancer
Blog: Roggio Back to Iraq
Podcast: Pentagon Pressures Bloggers
The Veterans' Bill of Rights and You?
Sgt. Shaft on TRICARE
Vote and Vote Smart

CENTCOM: News Releases
AIR STRIKE KILLS TERRORISTS EAST OF RAMADI

LAND MINES TRANSITING NEAR IRAQ-IRAN BORDER

COALITION FORCES KILL ASSASSINATION TEAM

AFGHAN LINGUISTS KEY TO SUCCESS

AFGHAN, COALITION FORCES KILL 3 TERRORISTS, CAPTURE 1 DURING OPERATION

AFGHAN LEADER VISITS KABUL MILITARY TRAINING CENTER

COALITION FORCES DESTROY TERRORIST IED FACTORY

ONE TERRORIST KILLED, ONE DETAINED IN BALAD

USJFCOM
USJFCOM to participate in Orlando military conference - podcast
U.S., international partners gain knowledge from conference - podcast
Cooperation key for partnerships
International conference discusses current operations
USJFCOM, ACT host 6th CD&E Conference in Greece
USJFCOM takes over Individual Augmentee Program - podcast

Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
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ON THE GROUND
Marines Ensure Iraqi Police Get Supplies - Story
Action Film Stars Kick Up Morale in Iraq - Story
Suspected Insurgents Captured in Operation - Story

IN IRAQ
U.S. Army Husband, Wife Re-enlist at Camp Taji
Critical Care Teams Work to Save Marine's Sight
Iraqi, U.S. Soldiers Work to Save Saab al Bour
Realistic Simulations Prepare Marines for Patrols
Iraqi Army Continues to Grow into Modern Force

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Interpreters Save Lives, Impart Knowledge
Afghan Leader Visits Kabul Military Training Center
Command and General Staff College Opens
Specialist Delivers Supplies, Hope to Students

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
1394 - Charles VI has Jews expelled from France.
1679 - The close approach of a comet causes panic in Europe.
1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana.
1783 - Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded.
1820 - Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence.
1839 - Two British frigates engage several Chinese junks, starting the First Opium War.
1868 - John W. Menard of Louisiana becomes the first Black elected to Congress; Ulysses S. Grant is elected President.
1885 - Tacoma vigilantes drive out the Chinese, burning their homes and businesses.
1888 - Jack the Ripper kills lhis last known victim.
1896 - William McKinley is elected President.
1903 - Colombia grants independence to Panama.
1908 - William Howard Taft is elected President.
1916 - A treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar.
1918 - The Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves; Poland proclaims independence from Russia.
1927 - Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (VT).
1928 - Turkey switches from the Arabic to the Roman alphabet.
1930 - The first vehicular tunnel to a foreign country opens (Detroit-Windsor).
1931 - The first commercially produced synthetic rubber is manufactured.
1935 - George II returns to Greece, regaining the monarchy.
1936 - FDR wins reelection in a landslide.
1952 - Clarence Birdseye first markets frozen peas.
1954 - Linus Pauling wins the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
1955 - The announcement is made of the first crystallization of a virus; an Alabama woman is bruised by a meteor; Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands.
1956 - The "Wizard of Oz" is televised for the first time on CBS-TV.
1957 - The U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik-2 with a dog (Laika) aboard - the first animal in orbit.
1964 - LBJ is re-elected President (assumed the position after the Kennedy assassination).
1970 - Salvador Allende is inaugurated as President of Chile.
1973 - Mariner-10 launched; it takes the first pictures of Venus, and undertakes the first mission to Mercury.
1978 - The U.K. grants grants Dominica independence.
1979 - Five people are mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC.
1983 - Jesse Jackson launches his first campaign for the Presidency.
1984 - 3,000 die in a three-day anti-Sikh riot in India; the body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi is cremated.
1986 - The Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret U.S. arms sales to Iran; in Mozambique, President Machel is killed in an air crash.
1988 - Pakistan claims it has downed an Afghan warplane; President Reagan signs the credit card disclosure bill; the Soviet Union allows the teaching of Hebrew; Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at a TV taping.
1992 - Bill Clinton is elected President.

Birthdays
1718 - John Montague, 4th Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich)
1793 - Stephen Fuller Austin, colonized Texas
1903 - Walker Evans, photographer (Fortune Magazine)
1908 - Bronko Nagurski, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
1909 - James Reston, columnist (NY Times)
1918 - Russell B. Long (Sen-LA)
1922 - Charles Bronson, actor (Death Wish, Dirty Dozen)
1930 - William H. Dana, pilot (X-15)
1933 - Ken Berry actor/dancer/TV personality (F Troop, Mayberry RFD); Louis W. Sullivan, US Secretary of Health and Human Services (1989-1993); Michael S. Dukakis (Gov-MA, 1988 Presidentidential Candidate)
1953 - Dennis Miller, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show)
1954 - Kevin P. Chilton, Major USAF/astronaut (sk: STS-49)
1955 - Phil Simms, NFL quarterback (NY Giants, Superbowl 1986)

Passings
1926 - Annie Oakley
1962 - Harlow H. Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-8)
1990 - Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan)

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Bowles, Dwight Pollard, USAF (VA); F105D shot down (pilot), KIA, body not recovered

Egger, John C., Jr., USAF (OK); O2A crashed (aircrew), remains ID'd August, 1994

Grauert, Hans H., USN (NY); KA3B crashed on takeoff (co-pilot, w/Krusi), Killed, body not recovered

Krusi, Peter H., USN (UT); KA3B crashed on takeoff (pilot, w/Grauert), Killed, body not recovered

1969
Brown, William T., US Army SF (CA); disappeared when reconnaissance/interdiction patrol was ambushed

Norton, Michael R., US Army (WV); disappeared while his unit was withdrawing from a fire base

Shue, Donald M., US Army SF (NC); disappeared when reconnaissance/interdiction patrol was ambushed

Wald, Gunther H., US Army SF (NJ); disappeared when reconnaissance/interdiction patrol was ambushed

1970
Carver, Robert C., Australian Air Force (Australia); B57 likely shot down

Day, Dennis I., US Army (OK); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Dority, Richard C., US Army (ME); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Ginn, David L., US Army (SC); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Herbert, Michael P., Australian Air Force (Australia); B57 likely shot down

Kitchens, Perry C., US Army (GA); LCU sank - remains recovered March, 1974, ID'd March, 1977

Mangus, Arlie R., US Army (PA); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Martin, Jerry D., US Army (IN); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Norris, Calvin A., US Army (TN); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Pantall, James R., US Army (PA); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Shewmake, John D., Sr., US Army (AR); LCU sank, no survivors observed

Woods, David W., US Army (OH); LCU sank, no survivors observed

1971
DeCaire, Jack L., US Army (FL); fell overboard from the ship his transportation unit was stationed on