Quote of the Day
"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."

-- George S. Patton

News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
British helicopter down in Iraq - Video
Video: Suicide bomber kills 3 in Tikrit

Operation Enduring Freedom
US helicopter crashes in Afghanistan

Homeland Security / War on Terror
WTC Memorial Threatened by Controversies
5 Freed After Questioning at N.J. Airport

Other Military News
US Army unit staying in Germany, no Iraq move now

Hamas Rising
Book: Palestinian Killed With Chocolate

Worldwide Wackos
Hugo Chavez Proposes to Stay in Office Until 2031
UN eyes vote next week on Iran nuclear demand

Politics
White House: Bush Didn't Lose Faith in Goss- Goss to Grads: Help Gov't
CIA chief Goss quiet on abrupt departure - Video
Ex-CIA Operative Valerie Plame Inks Book Deal
Bush Speaks to Graduates at Oklahoma State University
Cheney in Croatia; 3-Nation Tour to Promote Reform- Russia Rejects Criticism
Rice, Russian official discuss Mideast, Iran
Bush says US job market best in years
Democrats push to end tax breaks for oil companies
Clinton's Prospects Fuel Round of Books
DeLay Office Knew Abramoff Arranged Trip
Military Officer Likely to Get CIA Nod

Oddities
Drug Bill Veto Sparks Mexico City Marijuana Smoke-In
Bogus Noble Is Missing American, Kin Say
Most Chimps Return After Africa Attack
Strange Tales Found in Paris' Louvre

Other News of Note
Barbaro Takes Derby
Fast Facts: 2006 Kentucky Derby Odds
Construction Reveals Roman Ruins Beneath Paris

Fox News
3 High-Rise Workers Die After Falling Into Wet Concrete
Rescuers Within 5 Feet of Trapped Australian Miners
Identity Theft Page
Cybersecurity Center

Reuters: Top News
Video: Ceasefire under strain (Sri Lanka)
Avoiding delays at a high-tech airport
Video games a key battlefield in DVD war
Africa's "Van Gogh" escapes poverty to wow art world
Beatles engineer tells inside story with new book
USDA says 156,235 pounds beef recalled for e-coli
Nevada launching Web site for Canada drug imports
Bon Jovi finds a country "Home," makes chart history
Activist battles for New Orleans musicians' health
Photos: Anti-US Protest
Photos: Swiss Guard Veterans Return After Trek
Buffett eyes acquisition, keen to cut cash
Lifting the Lid: Planes, clubs, other exec perks draw fire
Power Integrations may restate earnings, shares fall
Nevada launching Web site for Canada drug imports
Warner Music posts narrower-than-expected loss
Fed in focus as Dow flirts with record - Video
Stocks jump as mild jobs growth calms rate fears - Video
Circuit City shares jump after upbeat analyst note
Frontier Airlines shares surge on April traffic
Terex shares rise after earnings beat
Copper bubble trouble?
On the Radar: Goldcorp hits the screen
CATastic year

AP World News
Polygamy Sect Leader on FBI Wanted List
Hostage Released in Calif. Prison Standoff
Prototype Mars Space Suit Unveiled in N.D.
Buffett Tries to Reassure the Faithful
Poll: More Drivers Feel Pinch at the Pump
9 Injured in San Francisco Ferry Crash

Military.com
Missile Defense Radar Leaves Hawaii
US Won't Allow Private Guards in Iraq
West Point Off Limits to Anti-War Alums
Int'l JSF Deal Nears Completion

CENTCOM: News Releases
CH-47 CRASHES IN KUNAR PROVINCE

AFGHAN BOY TO RECEIVE LIVE-SAVING SURGERY IN THE U.S.

ISF, COALITION FORCES LAUNCH OPERATION UNITED

TWO CACHES DISCOVERED EAST OF BALAD RUZ

THREE SUSPECTED INSURGENTS ARRESTED AFTER FLEEING CACHE SITE, TESTED POSITIVE FOR EXPLOSIVE RESIDUE

COALITION COMMANDER CONDEMNS SCHOOL BURNING

TF TIGER UNIT FINDS WEAPONS CACHE IN PARWAN PROVINCE

IEDS FOUND IN PAKTIKA, ZABUL AND KANDAHAR PROVINCES

TERRORISTS KILLED AFTER FIRING AT COALITION FORCES

Department of Defense
10 Soldiers Killed in Helicopter Crash - Story
Bush Honors Grad During Commencement - Story
Coalition Forces Kill Terrorists in Iraq - Story
Terrorists Use Internet for Propaganda - Story
Northern Iraqi Units Engaged in the Fight - Story - Video - Transcript

IRAQIS TAKE THE LEAD
Police Recruiting Drive Draws 300 Applicants - Story
Iraqi Command, Control Center Opens Doors

REBUILDING IRAQ
'Measles Chart' Shows Construction Progress - Story - On Assignment

ON THE GROUND
Hillah SWAT, U.S. Special Forces Aid Iraqi Boy - Story
'Lion’s Pride' Brings Medical Care to Afghans - Story
Kunar Bridge Construction Moves Forward - Story
Task Force Knighthawk Gets New Commander - Story

IN IRAQ
Troops Revive Patrols to Re-establish Security - Photos
Space-Age Drinking Water System Tested
Photos: Raven Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

IN AFGHANISTAN
Afghan Comm Unit Reaches Milestone
Florida Guard Unit Helps Ailing Afghan Child

IN KUWAIT
U.S. Women’s Team Defeats Kuwaiti Team
Range Helps Troops Train for Iraq Duty - Photos

IN THE HORN OF AFRICA
Coast Guard Detachment Trains Djiboutians
USS Typhoon Operates in Horn of Africa

FACE OF DEFENSE
Airmen Make History in Iraq - Story

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Weather
Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al KazimiyahAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
1355 - 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1429 - English siege of Orléans broken by Joan of Arc
1579 - Congress of Cologne forms in Netherlands
1624 - Admiral Hermites conquering fleet reaches Callao the Lima, Peru
1638 - Cornelis S. Goyer takes possession of Mauritius (uninhabited)
1660 - Isaack B. Fubine of Savoy, in The Hague, patents macaroni
1700 - William Penn begins monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
1727 - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1748 - French troops conquer Maastricht
1765 - Admiral Nelson's sailboat HMS Victory runs aground
1775 - Turkish state of Bukovina secedes from Austria
1789 - 1st inaugural ball (for George Washington in New York, NY)
1792 - Captain Robert Gray discovers Grays Harbor (Washington)
1800 - Indiana Territory organized
1832 - Greece becomes independent republic; Otto of Bavaria is chosen King
1840 - Tornado strikes Natchez MS, kills 317
1847 - American Medical Association organizes (Philadelphia)
1848 - Prussians stop insurrection in Varsovia
1856 - Argentine & Brazilian sign a navigation pact
1861 - Riot occurs between prosecessionist & Union supporters in Knoxville, TN
1862 - Battle of West Point, VA (Eltham's Landing, Barnhamsville)
1862 - Much of Enschede Netherlands destroyed by fire
1864 - Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500); Skirmish at Port Walthall Junction, VA (Drewry's Bluff)
1866 - German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
1867 - Blacks stage ride-in to protest segregation in New Orleans
1873 - US Marines attack Panamá
1875 - German SS Schiller sinks near Scilly Islands, 312 killed
1885 - John E. W. Thompson, named minister to Haiti
1888 - George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1891 - Battle in Bunyoro: Captain F. Lugard stops Muslim rebellion, 300 killed
1902 - Soufriere volcano on St Vincent kills 2-5,000
1909 - Construction begins on first 100 houses in Ahuzat Bayit (Tel Aviv)
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1913 - British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
1914 - US Congress establishes Mother's Day
1915 - Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
1920 - USSR recognizes independence of Georgia
1924 - Peruvian Torre forms APRA, Alianza Popular Revolutionaria Americana
1928 - England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1934 - Netherlands Princess Juliana opens Juliana Canal; Part of Khabarovsk becomes a Jewish Autonomous Region
1938 - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of Nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1939 - Germany & Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1941 - British House of Commons votes for Churchill (477-3)
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion; Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
1943 - British 11th Huzaren occupies Tunis, Tunisia; Dutch men 18-35 obliged to report to labor camps; Liberty Ship George Washington Carver, named after scientist, launched; US 1st Armour division occupies Ferryville, Tunisia; US 9th Infantry division occupies Bizerta/Bensert, Tunisia
1944 - German assault on Tito's hideout in Drvar, Bosnia
1945 - Branch Rickey announces formation of the US Negro Baseball League; Formal undertaking of complete German surrender; German General Keitel repeats surrender signing in Berlin for the benefit of the Russians; WWII ends in Europe; Mauthausen Concentration Camp liberated; Nazi Generals Jodl & Von Friedenburg surrender; SS open fire on crowd in Amsterdam, killing 22
1946 - William H. Hastie inaugurated as 1st Black governor of Virgin Islands
1947 - General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution; Paraguayian Government unleashes contra revolt
1948 - Nazi collaborator V-Mann Antonius van de Waals sentenced to death
1951 - International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1954 - French surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu; US, Great-Britain & France reject Russian membership in NATO
1955 - USSR signs peace treaty with France & Great-Britain; West Europe Union established
1956 - Battle at Oran, Algeria, kills 300
1958 - Major Howard Johnson, USAF, sets aircraft altitude record in F-104 (Lockheed Starfighter), 27,810 meters
1960 - USSR announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
1969 - Lieutenant General Robert E. Cushman, Jr, USMC, becomes deputy director of CIA
1975 - President Ford declares an end to "Vietnam Era"; Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1979 - 5th UNCTAD-conference opens in Manila
1980 - Josip Tito, Yugoslav President, buried
1982 - Federal jury rules NFL violates antitrust laws in preventing Oakland Raiders from moving to Los Angeles; IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1984 - $180 million out-of-court settlement reached in Agent Orange suit
1986 - Phillies outfielder Garry Maddox, retires
1989 - Panamanian voters reject dictator Manuel Noriega's bid for presidency
1992 - Constitutional amendment barring mid-term congressional raises passes; Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
1992 - US space shuttle STS-49 launched (maiden voyage of Endeavour)
1993 - South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
1994 - Edvard Munchs painting "The Scream" recovered 3 months after stolen
1995 - Jacques Chirac wins French presidential election
1997 - Galileo, 4th Ganymede Flyby (Orbit 8)

Birthdays
1530 - Louis I Condé, French prince/leader of Hugenots
1574 - Innocent X [Giambattista Pamfili], 236th Roman Catholic pope (1644-55)
1763 - Josef Poniatovski, Polish general/marshal of France
1774 - Sir Francis Beaufort, naval officer; devised wind force scale
1826 - Varina Howell Davis, Confederate First Lady
1827 - Francis Engle Patterson, Union Brigadier General
1832 - Carl G. Neumann, German mathematician/physicist (Neumann-functions)
1847 - Archibald Primrose, Earl of Rosebery (Liberal), British PM (1894-95)
1892 - Josip Broz Tito, WWII partisan, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)
1901 - L. T. Coggeshall, medical scientist/ US Secretary of HEW (1956-58)
1903 - Basil Nield, judge/politician
1917 - William Geoffrey Biddle, bomb disposal expert
1919 - Eva (Evita) [Duarte] Perón, Argentinian actress / First Lady
1923 - Pete V. Domenici (Senator-NM)
1930 - Aviard Gavrilovich Fastovets, cosmonaut
1931 - Nel J. Ginjaar-Maas, Dutch under-secretary of Education (VVD)
1932 - Pete Domeneci (Senator-NM)
1939 - Rudolphus F.M. "Ruud" Lubbers, director Dutch/CDA-premier (1982-94)
1945 - Wim A. Mateman, Dutch MP (CDA)
1946 - Richard L. Brodsky, US lawyer/NY State Assemblyman
1959 - Tamara E. Jernigan, PhD/astronaut (STS 40, 52, 67, 80)
1960 - Arnon Ohad, co-pilot (El Al) plane that crashed on Bijlmer, Amsterdam

Reported Missing in Action
1970
The following civilians reported Missing in Cambodia:
Dudman, Richard; released June, 1970

Morrow, Michael; released June, 1970 (USG spells Morow)

Pond, Elizabeth; released June, 1970

1972
Consolvo, John W., Jr., USMC (VA); F4J shot down

Kernan, Joseph E., USN (DC); RA5C shot down (w/Polfer), released by DRV March, 1973 - served as Mayor of South Bend, IN, Lt. Governor of IN (1997 - 2003), and then Governor of IN (2003 - 2005) - alive as of 2006

Polfer, Clarence, USN (MO); RA5C shot down (w/Kernan), released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998

1973
Kay, Emmet J., Civilian (HI); released by Pathet Lao September, 1974 - deceased