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"Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles,
but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal
to all men who are struggling to breathe free."
-- Adlai Stevenson
News of NoteOperation Iraqi FreedomTalabani: U.S. Troops Will Stay in Iraq as Long as NeededUK, US to withdraw Iraq forces by early '07: papersIraq PM on ropes as US presses for unity govtArab League Plans to Open Office in IraqTalabani: Iraqi Prime Minister DivisiveAbizaid: Iraq Can Expect More BombingsA Top U.S. General Praises Iraqi TroopsHomeland Security / War on TerrorNew Tape From Al Qaeda No. 2 Blasts CartoonsIslamic Militants ReleasedAl Qaeda's Zawahri calls for strikes against WestGitmo Inmate: Osama Called Himself ProphetPolice Clash With Basque Separatists49 Dead in Pakistan ClashesOther Military NewsArmy to Probe Tillman's DeathHamas RisingHamas rejects recognition of Israel despite pressureDubai Port ProposalDemocrats insist Congress must decide on portsWorldwide WackosEU rejected Iranian offer on atom crisis: diplomatsPoliticsReaffirming AlliancesBush hit by bouncer and fooled by googly in PakistanOdditiesInmates become amateur TV journalists in Italy jailWoman seizes police car for 2-hour rideOther News of NoteOn Your Mark, Get Set... (Iditarod)
British Documents Tell Tale of Gestapo SpyFox NewsFuneral Services Held for Student Slain in NYCU.N. Will Soon Run Out of Food for 3.5 Million KenyansUNC Suspect Charged With Attempted Murder Cops: Mom Allowed Lawyer to Pay for Sex With KidsRappers Make Oscar HistoryBishop Calls for Security After Israel Church AttackCongressman Calls for Better Data on Cruise Ship CrimeThe Week in PhotosFULL SPORTS COVERAGEReuters: Top NewsUS preparing for bird flu: agriculture secretaryNew Orleans mayor campaigns -- in HoustonUS nuclear plant leaks fuel health concernsTermites knocked down, but not out, in New OrleansForeigners live in fear of Russian skinheadsFinns to test mobile phone radiation on human skinTom Cruise named best "tiresome tabloid target"'Brokeback' wins honors at independent film awardsBerkshire agrees on Buffett successorSEC eyes stock pricing and trading reform delayAll eyes on MS drug Tysabri ahead of FDA panelEmergency crews called to JDS Uniphase facilityEx-Adelphia COO Rigas gets home confinementLights, cameras, stocks! SEC pitches to HollywoodNokia sees mass mobile TV takeup by '08Jobs and rates top stocks' agendaDana hits auto shares, Ford touches 3-year lowPalm outlook not as rosy after BlackBerry pact: analystsRIM shares jump 14 pctKenneth Cole shares up nearly 8 pct a day after earningsEnergy worries encourage utility mergersEurope carmakers target diesel in JapanAP World NewsThousands of Israeli Arabs Protest AttackChechen Parliament OKs Kadyrov As PremierChina Promises More Rural SpendingTamil Rebels: Ambush Violates Cease-FireOpposition Nixes Thai Leader's CompromiseChina's Leaders Pledge Help for Rural PoorGaza Workers Think Things Will Soon WorsenCENTCOM: News ReleasesIRAQI ARMY, MND-B CAPTURE SUSPECTED BOMB-MAKER RESPONSIBLE FOR DEATH OF U.S. SOLDIERDepartment of DefenseU.S., Pakistan Pledge Unity in Terror War -
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TranscriptTOP NEWSIRAQOps Net 62 Terrorism SuspectsFact Sheet: Progress and Work AheadReport: Strategy for Victory in Iraq Iraq Daily UpdateThis Week in Iraq (pdf)Multinational Force IraqEye on Iraq Update (pdf)State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (pdf)'Boots on the Ground' Audio ArchiveIraq ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTANBush Salutes Troops PhotosBush Visits Kabul PhotosAfghanistan UpdateMapsWAR ON TERRORISMFact Sheet: Budget RequestFact Sheet: War on TerrorFact Sheet: Terror Plots DisruptedWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseMILITARY NEWSNational Guard, Reserve UpdateWeatherIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al KutAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGitmoToday in History0254 - St. Lucius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1461 - Henry VI deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
1496 - English King Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore
1528 - Utrecht Governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague; Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
1616 - Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1623 - 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1651 - South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
1684 - Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
1746 - Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen
1766 - Don Antonio de Ulloa takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French
1770 - Blanche Kelso Bruce sworn in as a US Senator (Mississippi);
Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd; Crispus Attackus becomes 1st Black to die for American freedom1783 - King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
1795 - Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution; Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
1820 - Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1821 - Monroe is 1st President inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
1836 - Mexico attacks Alamo; Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
1845 - Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
1849 - Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th President
1856 - Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
1862 - Union troops under Brigadier-General Wright occupy Fernandina, FL
1868 - Stapler patented in England by C.H. Gould; US Senate organizes to decide charges against President Andrew Johnson
1872 - George Westinghouse, Jr., patents triple air brake for trains
1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes inaugurated as 19th US President
1894 - Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US
1896 - Italian Governor of Eritrea, General Baldissera, reaches Massawa; Italian premier Crispi resigns
1897 - American Negro Academy forms
1900 - American Hall of Fame is founded
1903 - Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn
1907 - 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
1908 - 1st ascent of Mount Erebus, Antarctica
1912 - Spanish steamer
Principe de Asturias sinks northeast of Spain, 500 die
1924 - King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalif
1927 - 1,000 US Marines land in China to protect American property
1931 - Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
1933 - FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday; Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
1934 - Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, TX)
1936 - Spitfire makes its 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
1942 - Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia; Japanese troop march into Batavia
1943 - Anti fascist strikes in Italy; RAF bombs Essen Germany
1945 - Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands; Generals Eisenhower, Patton & Patch meet in Luneville; US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1946 - Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech (Fulton, MO)
1948 - US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height
1953 -
Josef Stalin's death announced 1956 - "King Kong" 1st televised
1957 - Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland; Sergeant Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvin Pelvin)
1958 - Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
1959 -
Iran & US sign economic & military treaty1960 - Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
1966 - 75 MPH air currents cause BOAC 707 crash above Mount Fuji - 124 die
1968 - US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
1969 - Gustav Heinemann elected President of West-Germany
1970 - 3 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in New York, NY; Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
1978 - Landsat 3 launched from Vandenberg AFB, California
1979 - Voyager I's closest approach to Jupiter (172,000 miles)
1980 - Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
1982 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
1983 - Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser (Conservative)
1984 - Supreme Court rules 5-4) that city may use public money for Nativity scene;
US accuses Iraq of using poison gas1991 -
Iraq repeals its annexation of Kuwait1993 - Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje, Macedonia - 81 die
1994 - Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)
1995 - Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election; Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg
Birthdays1324 - David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331..71)
1326 - Louis I [the Great], King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82)
1512 - Gerardus Mercator, geographer/mapmaker
1578 - Charles d'Albert duke of Luynes premier of France/Governor of Picardië
1585 - Johan Georg I elector of Saxon (1611-56) (Peace of Prague)
1658 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac French colonial governor of America
1746 - Jacob Wallenberg Swedish writer/naval chaplain
1825 - John Dunovant, Confederate Brigadier General; Joseph Albert, German photographer (albertotype)
1871 - Maria do Carmo Geronimo, Brazilian lives to be at least 126
1897 - Mei-ling Soong, Madame Chiang Kai-shek
1909 - Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
1918 - Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS/spy (MI6)/priest
1920 - Delbert L. Latta (Representative-OH)
1921 - Berkley Bedell (Representative-Democrat-IA, 1975- )
1935 - Philip K. Chapman, astronaut (Apollo 14 support)
1940 - Mary Rose Oakar (Representative)
1953 - Russel D. Feingold (Senator-WI); Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun Russian Colonel/cosmonaut (TM-24)
1957 - Tim Holden (Representative-PA)
1962 - Robert L. Curbeam, Jr., astronaut (STS 85, sk-99)
Passings0254 - St. Lucius I, Pope (253-54)
1291 - Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
1574 - Philip of Saint-Aldegonde, Flemish viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht
1576 - Don Luís de Requesens y Zuñiga, viceroy of Netherlands (1573-76), dies at 70
1605 - Clement VIII [Ippolito Aldofireini], Pope (1592-1605), dies at 69
1625 - James I (VI), King of England (1603-25)/poet/author, dies at 58
1644 - Louise Juliana, Countess of Nassau, dies at 73
1770 - Crispus Attuks slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre
1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery), dies at 82
1904 - Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff, dies at 71
1932 - Takuma Dan Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
1941 - Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927), dies at 82
1944 - Max Jacob, French writer, dies in Nazi concentration camp at 67
1953 - Josef V. Stalin, Soviet leader responsible for at least 11 million murders, dies at 73
1963 - Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy, I Fall To Pieces), dies in a plane crash at 30
1967 - Mohammed H. Mossadeq, Premier of Persia (1951-53)
1982 - John Belushi, comedian (Sat Night Live), dies of drug overdose at 33
1991 - August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP), dies at 92
1993 - Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in air crash
1994 - Abdullah Al-Sallal, President of Yemen (1962-67)
1995 - Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
1996 - Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed President of Bangladesh (1975); Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner Spanish courtier, dies at 90
Reported Missing in Action1966
Hessom, Robert C.,
USN (CA); A1H shot down - remains ID'd October, 1994
1970Rosenbach, Robert P.,
USAFR (MO); F100D shot down - remains listed as recovered on some lists
1971The following US Army personnel reported MIA when their UH1H was shot down:Hatley,Joel C. (NC); crew chief, remains returned January, 1990 - ID'd September, 1990
King, Michael E. (GA); door gunner, remains returned January, 1990 - ID'd September, 1990
Moreira, Ralph A., Jr. (PA); pilot, remains returned January, 1990 - ID'd September, 1990
Nelson, David L. (WA); aircraft commander, remains returned January, 1990 - ID'd September, 1990 - ID disputed
President Bush and first lady Laura Bush wave to an audience of U.S. and coalition troops upon their arrival at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 1, 2006. White House photo by Eric Draper
President Bush speaks to U.S. and coalition troops at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, during the president's surprise visit to Afghanistan, March 1, 2006. First lady Laura Bush (left) accompanied the president; U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry (right) serves as Combined Forces Command-Afghanistan commander. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Brian Schroeder
President Bush speaks to a crowd of troops during a surprise visit at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 1, 2006. Bush thanked the troops for their service and assured them they are making strides towards democracy in Afghanistan. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Brian Schroeder
President Bush meets and thanks a group of U.S. and coalition troops during a visit to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 1, 2006, where the president thanked the troops for their service in defense of freedom. White House photo by Eric Draper
President Bush shakes hands with U.S. Army Sgt. Derek Kessler, 10th Mountain Division Headquarters Company driver, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 1, 2006. Bush and first lady Laura Bush made a surprise visit to speak to troops fighting the global war on terrorism. U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Brian Schroeder
First lady Laura Bush appears before an audience of U.S. and coalition troops during a visit to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, March 1, 2006, where President Bush thanked the troops for their service. White House photo by Eric Draper
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