U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David Pritchett (left) and Lance Cpl. Darin Wittnebel search for weapons caches in Baghdadi, Iraq, March 1, 2006. Pritchett and Wittnebel are assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael R. McMaugh


U.S. Marines patrol down an alleyway in search of insurgent activity and weapons caches in Baghdaddi, Iraq, March 1, 2006. The Marines are assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael R. McMaugh


U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jacob Duncan looks through the scope on his M16A4 rifle while Lance Cpl. Michael Sogs pulls security during a patrol in Baghdaddi, Iraq, March 1, 2006. Duncan and Sogs are assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael R. McMaugh


U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David Pritchett rushes upstairs to clear the upper portion of a house during a search for insurgent activity in Baghdaddi, Iraq, March 1, 2006. Pritchett is assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael R. McMaugh


An Iraqi army soldier attached to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, posts security on top of a hill during a search for insurgent activity in Baghdaddi, Iraq, March 1, 2006. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael R. McMaugh


U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Darin Wittnebel uses his entrenching tool to search for buried weapons caches in Baghdaddi, Iraq, March 1, 2006. Wittnebel is assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael R. McMaugh


U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. David Pritchett laughs after finding a plastic toy gun during a search for weapons caches in Baghdaddi, Iraq, March 1, 2006. Pritchett is assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael R. McMaugh


U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Mark Hurmencik shows fellow Marines that he found an egg while searching for weapons caches in Baghdaddi, Iraq, March 1, 2006. Hurmencik is assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael R. McMaugh


U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Terry Mcelwain discuses with an Iraqi family insurgent activity in Baghdaddi, Iraq, March 1, 2006. Mcelwain is assigned to India Company, 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Michael R. McMaugh

MOSUL PATROL — U.S. Army soldiers assigned to the 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, 172nd Infantry Brigade watch for suspicious activity during a neighborhood patrol in Mosul, Iraq, March 9, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. John M. Foster

News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
A Tortured End - Police: Aid worker tortured, murdered
Friends Gather to Remember Tom Fox
Video: Hostage Execution
Friends of murdered US hostage urge no retribution
Saddam Trial Resumes
Saddam trial resumes in Baghdad as blasts kill 10 - Video

Operation Enduring Freedom
Car Bomb Kills Four, Injures Head of Afghan Parliament
Pakistani Soldiers Kill 30Pro-Taliban Militants in Raid
Suicide Car Bombing Kills 4 in Kabul

Homeland Security / War on Terror
FBI Warns of Possible NCAA Tourney Terror Threat
Jordan Executes Two for American Diplomat's Murder
DHS Study: Terrorists Could Penetrate U.S. Ports
US says in talks to close Guantanamo Bay

Worldwide Wackos
Iran Rules Out Russian Uranium Enrichment Plan
Iran's foreign minister cools oil weapon fears

Politics
Frist wins Republican straw poll
Bush says saddened by arrest of former top adviser
Polls: Public Worried About Gov't Secrecy

Oddities
Human Waste Put in Food, Ex-Inmates Claim

Other News of Note
End of a Cruel Era
Mixed Reactions Over Death of Slobodan Milosevic
Video: Milosevic Found Dead
UN tribunal seeks answers on Milosevic death

Fox News
USDA Investigating Possible Mad Cow Case
Chile Swears in Bachelet as First Woman President- Rice Hails Democratic Triumph
FULL SPORTS COVERAGE

Reuters: Top News
New Bond: Less gadgets, more grit
Possible third case of mad cow probed
Cameroon reports first case of bird flu
NASA probe "dodges bullet" to achieve Mars orbit
Heavy-lift Ariane-5 rocket orbits two satellites
Cingular, T-Mobile halt Razr sales due to glitch
Old men rule in aging Italy
CRP may help predict lung cancer risk in smokers
Java running neck-and-neck with soft drinks in US--report
Macquarie said eyeing bid for airport operator BAA
Integration can make, or break, AT&T
GM Canada workers vote to accept job cuts: union
Nasdaq offers $4.2 bln for LSE, move rebuffed
Coca-Cola paid CEO $6 mln in 2005 salary, bonus
Washington Post to cut 80 newsroom positions
Toyota, Fuji to develop hybrid for Subaru cars: paper
Memory chip testers readying IPOs
Bond yields and rates keep stocks on edge
Google stock sinks lower as doubts linger
Stocks jump as job growth shows healthy economy
Quiksilver shares fall on shift in outlook
Univision stock jumps on potential takeover bid
Research conflicts still abound
Few independents benefit from pact

AP World News
Tornadoes Kill 2 in Southern Mo., Ill.
Largest-Ever Alzheimer's Drug Trial Begins
Syracuse Wins Big East With Magical Ride
Met Conductor to Miss Rest of Season
Boy Called Reincarnated Buddha Missing
Tennessee House Fire Kills 9 in Family

Military.com
New Unit to Train Afghans, Iraqis
Army Creates Realistic Training
Bush: Ports Deal Collapse may Hurt US
American Hostage Was Bound, Shot
Friendly Fire Deaths Rare

CENTCOM: News Releases
DISTRICT OFFICIAL REPORTS CACHE SITE TO COALITION FORCES

Department of Defense
Ending IED Threat Remains Top Priority - Story - Remarks
Leaders Outline Force Structure Changes - Story
Commander: Northern Command Prepared - Story
8 Suspects Detained in Iraq; Weapons Found - Story

DefendAmerica Week in Review
Sunday - Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday - Thursday - Friday - Saturday

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
ASY Groups Meet President Bush - Story
Marine, JROTC Unit Push VFW Effort
Dallas Gives Heroes Warm Welcome

TOP NEWS
IRAQ
Bomb Kills Marine Near Fallujah
U.S., Iraq Goal: Prevent Civil War
U.S., Iraqi Operations Successful
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq (pdf)
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (pdf)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Jones Sees Demise of Terrorists
Bush Pleased with Afghan Progress
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Bush: Al Qaeda Still Biggest Threat
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

MILITARY NEWS
Report: Reserves Must Transform
National Guard, Reserve Update

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty - Story

Today in History
0417 - St Innocent I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0604 - St. Gregory I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1000 - Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 - Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 - Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 - Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1496 - Jews are expelled from Syria
1587 - English parliament leader Peter Wentworth confined in London Tower
1597 - England routes troops to Amiens
1609 - Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 - Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 - Ignatius of Loyola declared a saint
1642 - Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 - 1st naturalization act in American colonies; New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 - Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 - 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 - Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1789 - US Post Office established
1799 - Austria declares war on France
1848 - 2nd republic established in France
1849 - 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California
1850 - 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1860 - Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill; free land in West for colonists
1865 - Affair near Lone Jack, MO
1867 - Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 - Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax; Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
1877 - Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony
1884 - Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 - 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in northeast US (400 die)
1889 - Battle at Metema (Gallabad); Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1900 - President Steyn of Orange-Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1903 - New York Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of American League
1904 - 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1906 - Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1912 - Captain Albert Berry performs 1st parachute jump from an airplane
1916 - French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 - Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee; workers set up Soviets; Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrive in St Petersburg
1919 - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1925 - British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 - Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins 200 mile (321 km) march protesting British salt tax
1933 - FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"
1934 - Acting President Constantine Päts commits coup in Tallinn, Estonia; Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1938 - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 - Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 - Finland surrenders to Russia during WWII, giving up Karelische Isthmus
1941 - German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 - British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 - Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 - 30 Amsterdammers executed by Nazi occupiers; Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy; New York is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment; The British Empire celebrates its 1st British Empire Day; USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1946 - Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 - Belgian government of Huysmans resigns; President Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1950 - Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1951 - Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1957 - German Democratic Republic accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 - British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 - Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections; US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1962 - Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1964 - Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years; Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1966 - Pioneer Plaza dedicated [San Francisco]
1967 - Indonesian congress deprives President Sukarno of authority
1968 - Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1970 - US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 - Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected President; Turkish Government of Demirel forced to resign by Army
1975 - Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot, South Vietnam
1976 - South African troops leave Angola
1977 - Chile President Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party; Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1980 - Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1981 - Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station; Walter R.T. Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
1982 - PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1984 - British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1986 - Giotto encounters Comet Halley
1987 - Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1989 - 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia); Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1993 - 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay; Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1994 - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1995 - Congress party loses India national election

Birthdays
1336 - Eduard Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
1479 - Giuliano de' Medici monarch of Florence
1755 - Georges Couthon French politician
1758 - Leopold, Earl of Limburg Stirum, Dutch General/politician [or March 22]
1806 - Jane Means Appleton Pierce 1st lady-Franklin Pierce (1853-57)
1816 - David Stuart Brigadier General
1818 - John Lorimar Worden, Union Navy Captain
1821 - Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern; Sir John Abbott Québec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian Prime Minister (1891-92)
1823 - William Flank Perry, Confederate Brigadier General
1824 - Gustav R. Kirchoff, Prussian physicist (spectral analysis)
1827 - John Robert Jones and William Richard Terry, Confederate Brigadier Generals
1830 - William Felix Brantley, Confederate Brigadier General
1831 - Clement Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1835 - Simon Newcomb, US scientist/mathematician/astronomer
1862 - Jane Delano, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1863 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer/military hero (The Intruder)
1877 - Wilhelm Frick German, protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1878 - Gemma Galgani, Italian saint
1881 - Daniel Webster Hoan, Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee; Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Republic of Turkey; Väinö A. Tanner premier of Finland (1926-27)
1900 - David Croll, QC senator
1907 - Margaret "Peggy" McCrorie, Herbison politician
1908 - David Saul Marshall, diplomat, lawyer/politician
1911 - Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, President of Mexico
1912 - James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
1917 - Tom Normanton, British MP
1922 - Lane Kirkland, union president (AFL-CIO)
1923 - Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Captain USN/astronaut (Mercury 8, Gemini 6, Apollo 7)
1925 - Leo Esaki [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1925 - William G. Whitehurst (Representative-VA)
1926 - David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE); George R. Ariyoshi (Governor-HI)
1927 - Raul Alfonsin President (Argentina)
1929 - Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
1930 - Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador to US
1932 - Andrew Young, US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-Atlanta)
1936 - Lloyd Dobbins, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1938 - Norman Hogg, British MP
1942 - Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti)
1948 - Kent Conrad (Senator-ND); Virginia Bottomley, British minister of state health/secretary (Heritage)
1949 - David Mellor, Secretary of the British treasury/MP; Mary Alice Williams news reporter (NBC-TV)

Passings
0417 - Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417)
0604 - Gregory I the Great Pope (590-604)
1507 - Cesare Borgia cardinal/soldier/politician, killed in battle at 31
1570 - Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies
1628 - John Bull, thought to have composed British national anthem (God Save The King)
1888 - Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA), dies at 76
1889 - Yohannes IV [Kasa], Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89)
1902 - John Peter Altgeld, German/US Governor of Illinois, dies at 54
1914 - George Westinghouse, US engineer (Westinghouse Electric), dies at 67
1924 - Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
1925 - Sun Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, dies at 58
1945 - Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp
1958 - Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, dies at 79
1974 - Billy Fox, Protestant member of Dublin parliament, assassinated
1992 - Hans G. Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking), dies at 70
1992 - Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (christian-democrat), murdered
1993 - Wang Zhen, Marxist/vice-premier of China (1988)
1996 - Gyula Kallai Prime Minister of Hungary (1965-67), dies at 85

Reported Missing in Action
1967
Adrian, Joseph D., USAF (NJ); F100 shot down

Clark, John W., USAF (MO); RF4C shot down (w/Goodrich), released February, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

Goodrich, Edwin, USAF (NY); KIA during capture - remains returned August, 1985

1968
Griffith, John Gary, USN (MO); A6A ditched right off the catapault (w/Kollman), Killed, body not recovered

Kollmann, Glenn E., USN (CA); A6A ditched right off the catapault (w/Griffith), Killed, body not recovered

Rogers, Edward F., USMC (MA); KIA, body not recovered

1969
Robinson, Floyd H., US Army (KS); disappeared after a heavy firefight

1970
Scull, Gary B., US Army (IA); disappeared after outpost came under heavy fire

1971
Jeffs, Clive G., USAF (UT); F100D shot down

1975
Mitchell, Betty J.; released from Hanoi October, 1975

Phillips, Lillian M.; released from Hanoi October, 1975

Phillips, Richard L., released from Hanoi October, 1975

Scarborough, Jay; released from Hanoi October, 1975

Dolan, Edward V., Civilian - Air America; DC4 crashed

Miller, George C., Civilian - Air America; DC4 crashed

Miller, Carolyn P., Civilian - Wycliff Bible Translators; captured by NVN, released from Hanoi October, 1975

Miller, John D., Civilian - Wycliff Bible Translators; released from Hanoi October, 1975

Miller, John D., Civilian - Wycliff Bible Translators; released from Hanoi October, 1975

Seidl, Robert, Civilian - Air America; DC4 crashed