The Navy flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels, conduct survey flights over San Francisco Bay in preparation for Fleet Week 2006 air shows.

From CENTCOM:

Tuesday, 10 Oct. 2006
BAGHDAD , – Ground forces have verified the death of Mahmoud Ahmed Mohammed Al-Rashid, also known as Umar Faruq, through DNA testing.




During a raid, Sept 25 in Basrah, ground forces killed Mahmoud Ahmed Mohammed Al-Rashid Faruq. As forces maneuvered to the objective, they received small-arms fire from suspected terrorists. Forces killed an individual wielding a firearm as they reached the objective. After taking photographs and gathering DNA evidence from the individual, ground forces left the suspected terrorist remains at the site. It was later determined through DNA gathered the individual killed was Umar Faruq.

ANBAR DUTY — Three Marines and one Navy hospital corpsman assigned to Regimental Combat Team 5 in Anbar Province sit on top of a tank’s turret, Oct. 8, 2006. From left to right, Cpl. Travis Marcum, Cpl. Russell Pickard, Naval Petty Officer 3rd Class Giovanni Dattalo and Cpl. Adam Conners. The four servicemembers will soon return to Kentucky after a seven-month deployment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by 2nd Lt. Lawton King

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Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraqi Authorities Discover 60 Mutilated Bodies
Death squads strike - Video
Iraq contractor deaths near 650
Baker panel preparing Iraq alternatives
Saddam Hussein is thrown out of court
Iraqis press ahead with peace plan

Operation Enduring Freedom
Video: Bomb targets Kabul police

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Police: Nigerian Attackers Occupy Oil Facility
Man arrested after UK airport terminal evacuated
Germany arrests Iraqi suspected of aiding al Qaeda
Blast kills at least six in Philippines
Heathrow terminal evacuated

Other Military News
Louisiana National Guardsman Wounds Suspect While Patrolling New Orleans
Lower standards help Army recruit more

Mid-East Ceasefire / Hamas Rising / Israel at War
Abbas may call early elections
Israel: No Syria talks unless it shuns militants - Video

NSA / CIA
Report: CIA Warned of '76 Cuban Airline Bombing

Worldwide Wackos
Bolton: N. Korean Threats Won't Intimidate U.S.
Video: U.N. Sanctions
White House Rejects Direct Talks With North Korea
Poll: Who can best handle N.Korea?
Doubts over test - Video
China favors "punitive action"
Tremors detected, but test proof elusive
UN weighs sanctions against North Korea - Video
N. Korea nuclear test puts China in bind
Democrats assail Bush's N. Korea policy
Israelis divided on invoking Holocaust against Iran

Homegrown Moonbats
Angelina Jolie slams West for barring refugees
Streisand has outburst at NYC concert

Politics / Government
Hastert: I Will Fire Any Staff Member Who Covered Up Foley Page Matter
Spike in School Violence Prompts Bush Summit
Election 2006
Crises dog Bush
Democrats lead in polls after scandal
Ethics probe casts wide net
Allen, Webb spar in final TV debate

In the Courts
Supreme Court Turns Down Little Tobacco Suit

U.N. News
Obasanjo warns of Darfur genocide

Mother Nature
U.S. faces warmer-than-normal winter: government

Oddities
Mom: I Didn't Mean to Throw Baby at Boyfriend
'Runaway Bride' Sues Ex-Fiance for $500,000
Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie Reunite for 'Simple Life'
Gravely ill woman kills son, is freed, kills husband
A new threat: remote-controlled toys
Fertile women dress to impress, U.S. study finds
Time capsule to be beamed from Mexican pyramid

Other News of Note
Cops Search for 'Person of Interest'
Student fires gun in Mo. middle school
Gunman threatened Amish hostages in call

Fox News
NBA Owner Plans White-Collar 'Boot Camp'
DOE Expects Heating Bills to Be Lower
Slain Russian Reporter Mourned in Moscow

Reuters: Top News
GameStop, EB Games take PlayStation 3 pre-orders
Google to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion
Researchers study liquid as tool to stop bleeding
Comedian Tim Allen weds actress in Colorado
Oil slips below $59, awaiting OPEC deal - Video
Dollar hits 10-month high vs yen - Video
Supervalu profit almost quadruples
AEP raises growth forecast, cuts spending
Parametric shares climb as earnings exceed targets
Private equity gunning for Boyd?
Government influence haunts Airbus
Sprint Nextel Chairman Tim Donahue to retire
New Airbus chief warns of "painful" job cuts
More gaming firms prepare to flee U.S. ahead of ban
OPEC credibility on line as delays oil deal
ING to pay $33 million to two U.S. states
Ex-Comverse executives in plea talks: court papers

AP World News
Ford to begin buyout offer next week
Torre says he is staying with Yankees
AL Championship Series begins tonight
Stocks mostly lower before earnings
E. coli exposes weakness in food chain
Broncos ice Ravens' McNair, win 13-3
Groups find colorful bird in Colombia
Evolution wins out in Mich. curriculum

Military.com
New Army Recruiting Slogan Unveiled

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

IA SOLDIERS DETAIN HIGH-VALUE TARGET 30 TERRORISTS KILLED DURING COMBINED OPERATION IN DIWANIYAH

MND-B SOLDIERS SEIZE WEAPONS, DETAIN 5 SUSPECTED TERRORISTS

SEVEN DETAINED, TWO LARGE CACHES CONFISCATED DURING COMBINED ISF, CF OPERATION

SENATORS MEET WITH SOLDIERS, WISH THEM LUCK ON MISSION

U.S. BEGINS DELIVERING REBUILDING SUPPLIES TO PAKISTAN

IA DISCOVERS WEAPONS CACHE IN TAMIN

IRAQI SOLDIERS ASSUME CONTROL OF FALLUJAH CIVIL-MILITARY OPERATIONS CENTER

MND-B SOLDIERS SEIZE 30 WEAPONS, MUNITIONS CACHES

AFGHAN, COALITIOIN FORCE CAPTURE CAR BOMB FACILITATOR

IA, 506th RCT CONDUCT MEDICAL OPERATIONS IN EAST BAGHDAD

AFGHAN BOTTLING PLANT WINS CONTRACT TO SUPPLY WATER TO COALITION TROOPS

U.S. COMMEMORATES PAKISTAN ANNIVERSARY WITH NEW SCHOOL

IRAQI ARMY CAPTURES BOMB-MAKER IN SADR CITY

ISF CONDUCTS RAID AGAINST KIDNAPPING AND MURDER CELL, CAPTURES ONE

IRAQI POLICE CHIEF SURVIVES INSURGENT ATTACK, TELLS FELLOW OFFICERS TO “CONTINUE THE FIGHT”

USJFCOM
Joint Systems Baseline Assessment 2006 comes to successful close - podcast
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Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
Coalition Forces Capture Terrorist - Story
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ON THE GROUND
Senior NCO Visits 10th Mountain Division Soldiers - Story
Iraqi Engineer Juggles Family's Safety with Job - Story
'America's Battalion' Returns to Families in Hawaii - Story
Exercise Teaches Marines How to Thwart Attacks - Story

IN IRAQ
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
Iraqi Army Gives Civilians Lease Payments
Iraqi Soldiers Graduate from Combat Training
Water Facility Will Deliver Millions of Gallons

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
Three Soldiers Killed in Iraq - 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
1780 - The Great Hurricane of 1780 kills between 20 and 30 thousand in the Caribbean.
1845 - The Naval School (U.S. Naval Academy) opens in Annapolis, MD.
1846 - William Lassel discovers Neptune's moon Triton.
1854 - The U.S. Assay Office opens in New York City.
1865 - John Hyatts patents the billiard ball.
1868 - Cuba revolts against Spain.
1874 - Fiji becomes a British possession.
1886 - The first dinner jacket is worn to the autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY, leading to its more familiar name, the tuxedo.
1888 - In Mud Run, PA, a Teetotalers excursion train is crushed, killing 64.
1913 - Gamboa Dam in Panama is blown up; the Atlantic and Pacific waters mix.
1914 - German forces rout the Belgians in Antwerp.
1923 - The NY Giants and the NY Yankees become the first teams to play each other in three consecutive World Series (it is also the first played at Yankee Stadium - World Series #20)
1924 - The Washington Senators win their first World Series (they beat the Giants in 7 games - World Series #21)
1933 - The first synthetic detergent for home use is marketed.
1938 - Germany completes annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland.
1943 - Chiang Kai-shek takes the oath of office as president of China.
1957 - President Eisenhower apologizes to Ghana;s Finance Minister Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after Gbdemah is refused service in a Delaware restaurant.
1963 - The U.S., U.K., and U.S.S.R. sign a treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests.
1970 - Fiji gains independence from Britain.
1973 - VP Spiro T. Agnew resigns after pleading no contest to tax evasion.
1975 - Israel formally signs the Sinai accord with Egypt.
1976 - In NJ, Giants' Stadium (Meadowlands) opens; Greece's Dimitrion Yordanidis becomes the oldest man (at 98) to compete in a marathon, finishing in 7:33.
1978 - President Carter authorizes the Susan B. Anthony dollar.
1979 - Panama assumes sovereignty over the Canal Area (Zone).
1980 - 4,500 die when a two earthquakes strike northwest Algeria; the Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope network is dedicated.
1981 - Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo.
1982 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Reverend M. Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at the Auschwitz concentration camp.
1985 - U.S. fighter jets force the Egyptian plane carrying the hijackers of the Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy, the hijackers are placed in custody.
1986 - A magnitude 7.5 Earthquake strikes San Salvador, El Salvador; Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres resigns.
1990 - The 67th manned U.S. space mission (STS-41 / Discovery-11) returns to Earth.
1991 - Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy.

Birthdays
1731 Henry Cavendish, physicist / chemist (discovered hydrogen)
1738 - Benjamin West, painter (Death of General Wolfe)
1813 - Giuseppe Verdi Italy, opera composer (Rigoletto, Aida, Otello)
1825 - Paulus Kruger, President of South African Republic (1883), Boer leader
1830 - Queen Isabella II of Spain (1833-68)
1861 - Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer / humanitarian, Nobel Prize winner (1922)
1910 - Price Daniel (Gov/Sen-TX)
1918 - Thelonious Monk, jazz pianist (Monk's Dream)
1926 - Richard Jaeckel, actor (3:10 to Yuma, Sands of Iwo Jima)
1930 - Adlai Stevenson III (Sen-IL)
1946 - Ben Vereen, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster); Peter Mahvolich, NHL star (Mont Canadiens)
1955 - David Lee Roth, rock singer (Van Halen-Jump)
1958 - John M. Grunsfeld, Ph.D. / astronaut; Tanya Tucker, country singer/actress (Follow that Car)

Passings
1886 - David L. Yule, first Jewish U.S. Senator
1959 - Prince Friedrich of Liechtenstein
1964 - Eddie Cantor comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater), dies at 72
1978 - Ralph H. Metcalfe (Rep-IL)
1985 - Orson Welles, actor (Citizen Kane); Yul Brynner, actor (The King and I)
1990 - Dick Jorgensen, NFL referee

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Dodd, Joe L., Civilian; escaped October, 1965

1966
Confer, Michael Steele, USN (NE); A4E exploded, KIA, body not recovered

1968
Handrahan, Eugene A., US Army (MN); reported KIA when unit was ambushed, body not recovered

Herreid, Robert D., US Army SF (IL); reported KIA, body not recovered

1969
Maxwell, Calvin W., US Army (NM); O1G shot down (observer, w/Weisner)

Weisner, Franklin L., US Army (GA); O1G shot down (pilot, w/Maxwell)

1970
Graziosi, Francis G., US Army (NY); UH1C (or UH1H) shot down (door gunner)

1972
Cleary, Peter M., USAF (CT); F4E shot down (pilot, w/Leonor)

Leonor, Leonardo C., USAF (NY); F4E shot down (navigator, w/Cleary)