Saddam Hussein Sentenced To Death by Hanging
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**President Bush to Make Statement on Saddam Sentence at 2:20 P.M. EDT**

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U.S. Navy Lt. A.J. Pajack, center, and Petty Officer 1st Class Travis J. Schellpeper, left, conduct a predeparture convoy brief with a Latvian army convoy commander prior to a mission into Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2006. Pajack is commander of the U.S. Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3, and Schellpeper is an explosive ordnance technician. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Travis J. Schellpeper, left, speaks with Iraqi police explosive ordnance disposal team officers about a cache of explosives Iraqi police officers found at a vehicle search checkpoint in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2006. Schellpeper is an explosive ordnance technician assigned to the U.S. Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3, operating from Camp Echo, Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Travis J. Schellpeper arrives at the Iraqi Police Headquarters in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, to meet with officials about the cache of explosives found during a vehicle search at an IP checkpoint on Oct. 30, 2006. Schellpeper is assigned to the U.S. Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3, which took possession of the explosives. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Travis J. Schellpeper, an explosive ordnance technician, takes photographs of a vehicle suspected to be transporting a large cache of explosives in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2006. Schellpeper is assigned to the Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3, operating from Camp Echo, Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

Iraqi police recovered these mortars during a vehicle search at an Iraqi police checkpoint in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

A U.S. Navy sailor of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3, left, and a Polish army soldier, provide security for other team members as they conduct official business at the Iraqi police headquarters in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

Polish army soldiers and U.S. Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3 team members operating from Camp Echo, Iraq, provide security for other team members as they conduct official business at the Iraqi police headquarters in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Derek Brundage carries one of several Katiush Rockets out of the Iraqi police headquarters in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2006, for transport to Camp Echo, Iraq. Brundage is an explosive ordnance disposal tecnician assigned to the U.S. Navy EOD Mobile Unit 3, which responded to the Iraqi police headquarters to recover a cache of explosives found by policemen during a checkpoint vehicle search. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Travis J. Schellpeper carries an rocket-propelled grenade tube out of the Iraqi police headquarters in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2006, for transport to Camp Echo, Iraq. Schellpeper is assigned to the U.S. Navy's Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3, which responded to a request from Iraqi police headquarters to recover a cache of explosives found by policemen during a checkpoint vehicle search. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Donnie Walkey carries a 107 mm rocket out of the Iraqi police headquarters in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2006, for transport to Camp Echo, Iraq. Walkey is assigned to the U.S. Navy's EOD Mobile Unit 3, which responded to a request from the local Iraqi police headquarters to recover a cache of explosives found by policemen during a checkpoint vehicle search. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Donnie Walkey loads 107 mm rockets into the team vehicle at the Iraqi police headquarters in Ad Diwaniyah, Iraq, Oct. 30, 2006, for transport to Camp Echo, Iraq. Walkey is assigned to the U.S. Navy's EOD Mobile Unit 3, which responded to a request from the local Iraqi police headquarters to recover a cache of explosives found by policemen during a checkpoint vehicle search. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

Four F/A-18A Hornets assigned to the U.S. Navy flight demonstration team, the Blue Angels, fly in formation. US Navy photo.


Associated Press
November 04, 2006

PENSACOLA, Fla. - Touring with the Blue Angels was supposed to give Ernie Christensen a respite between deployments as a combat pilot in Vietnam. But Christensen, a retired rear admiral who went on to command the Navy's Top Gun fighter school, said flying with the Blue Angels was sometimes more demanding than combat.

"In your last 30 seconds coming aboard a carrier, you have levels of concentration, and in combat there are those few moments of stark terror when you have intense concentration, but with the Blues you have intense concentration the entire time," he said.

Christensen and dozens of other former Blue Angels will gather for a Nov. 10-11 reunion and air show to mark the 60th anniversary of the Navy's elite aerial-demonstration team at its home base of Pensacola Naval Air Station...

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by Spc. Christa Martin
November 3, 2006
Iraqi soldiers practice urban warfare tactics at an advanced training course in Mosul, led by Soldiers from 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment. US Army photo.

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Mid-East Ceasefire / Hamas Rising / Israel at War
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Worldwide Wackos
North Korea Calls U.S. Leaders 'Warmongers'
Iranians defiant at hostage anniversary
Huge march in Venezuela for Chavez opponent
Chavez threatens to halt oil to U.S.

Politics / Government
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For a change, farmers in mood for political change
Full coverage of midterm elections (Reuters)
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Democrats seek gains in GOP territory
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In the Courts
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Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News
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Oddities
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Fox News
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Today in History
1492 - Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Cuban natives.
1605 - In the Gunpowder Plot, Catholics try to blow up the English Parliament. The plot is uncovered, and its leader, Guy Fawkes, is hanged.
1781 - John Hanson is elected as the first "President of the U.S. in Congress assembled."
1811 - El Salvador wages its first battle against Spain for independence.
1838 - Honduras declares independence from the Central American Federation.
1872 - Susan B. Anthony is fined $100 for trying to vote for Ulysses S. Grant.
1875 - Susan B. Anthony is arrested for attempting to vote.
1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile.
1911 - Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa, taking Tripoli and Cyrenaica; Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena, completing the first transcontinental airplane flight.
1912 - Woodrow Wilson is elected President.
1913 - Ludwig III is crowned king of Bavaria.
1914 - Britain annexes Cyprus.
1917 - General Pershing and U.S. troops see action on the Western Front for the first time; the Buchanan v. Warley Supreme Court decision strikes down a Louisville, KY ordinance requiring Blacks and Whites to live in separate areas.
1935 - The Maryland Court of Appeals orders the University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray (an African-American); Parker Brothers launches its "Monopoly" game.
1940 - President FDR wins an unprecedented 3rd term.
1946 - John F. Kennedy (MA) is elected to the House of Representatives.
1956 - Britain and France land forces in Egypt.
1964 - The U.S. launches Mariner-3 towards Mars, but no data is returned.
1967 - ATS-3 is launched by to take the first pictures of the full Earth disk.
1968 - Richard Nixon is elected President.
1974 - Ella Grasso (CT) is elected as the first U.S. governor not related to a previous governor; Walter E. Washington becomes the first elected mayor of Washington, DC.
1978 - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi.
1981 - Former Miami Dolphin Mercury Morris is sentenced to 20 years for drug trafficking, conspiracy, and possession of cocaine.
1987 - An iceberg twice the size of Rhode Island is sighted in the Antarctic; Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits having used marijuana.
1988 - Cornell confirms that one of its grad students is the source of the worst case of computer sabotage.

Birthdays
1818 - Benjamin F. Butler, Union General/presidential candidate
1855 - Eugene V. Debs, labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1911 - Roy Rogers, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show)
1913 - Vivien Leigh, actress (Gone With Wind)
1915 - Moe Biller, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers)
1927 - Robert Abernethy, Newscaster (NBC News Encore)

Passings
1977 - Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne)
1979 - Al Capp, cartoonist (Lil' Abner)
1989 - Vladamir Horowitz, pianist
1991 - Fred MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons); Robert Maxwell, billionaire publisher (NY Daily News)

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Chapman, Harlan P., USMC (OH); F8E shot down, released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Lt. Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

McCleary, George C., USAF (LA); F105D shot down, remains returned, ID'd May, 1991

1967
Cobeil, Earl Glenn, USAF (MI); F105F shot down (w/Dutton), DIC, remains returned March, 1974 (want to know what REAL mistreatment is? Read his story)

Dutton, Richard A., USAF (IL); F105F shot down (w/Cobeil) released by DRV March, 1973 - deceased December, 1998

1968
Cornthwaite, Thomas G., Civilian (England); Decca Navigation Systems, Inc. employee, escaped, Killed in Binh Thuan

Simpson, James E., Civilian (US); Decca Navigation Systems, Inc. employee, escaped, Killed in Binh Thuan

1969
Echanis, Joseph, USAF (OR); F4D shot down (navigator, w/LeFever)

LeFever, Douglas P., USAF (OH); F4D shot down (pilot, w/Echanis)