U.S. Army Spc. Zaani Branch, of 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment (Light), Guam Army National Guard, trains Ethiopian National Defense Force soldiers on vehicle search procedures in Bilate, Ethiopia, Oct. 31, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joseph McLean


U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Gogue, of 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment (Light), Guam Army National Guard, trains Ethiopian National Defense Force soldiers on vehicle search procedures in Bilate, Ethiopia, Oct. 31, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joseph McLean

U.S. Army Spc. Zaani Branch, of 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment (Light), Guam Army National Guard, trains Ethiopian National Defense Force soldiers on vehicle search procedures in Bilate, Ethiopia, Oct. 31, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joseph McLean


U.S. Army Sgt. Jason Gogue, of 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment (Light), Guam Army National Guard, trains Ethiopian National Defense Force soldiers on vehicle search procedures in Bilate, Ethiopia, Oct. 31, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joseph McLean

U.S. Army Spc. Zaani Branch, of 1st Battalion, 294th Infantry Regiment (Light), Guam Army National Guard, observes Ethiopian National Defense Force soldiers conduct a vehicle search during training in Bilate, Ethiopia, Oct. 31, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Joseph McLean

SECURITY ESCORT — An 8th Iraqi Army Division soldier, right, provides security for Beji Ahb Fmakh, center, the Sheik of Sheiks, and a Ghammas town leader during a project site visit by the Polish Army Civil Military Cooperation Group, Multi-National Division - Central South in Ghammas, Iraq, Nov. 10, 2006. U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Dawn M. Price

News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Confusion Over Iraq Hostages - VIDEO
U.S. Commander: 'Too Soon to Say We Have Failed'
Cheney says U.S. must not retreat from Iraq
Iraq police hunt foreign hostages still missing - Video
Approval of Bush policy on Iraq declines
Gang suspected in Iraqi kidnappings
Ga.-based Army unit to serve third tour
Dod Announces Troop Deployments to Iraq

Homeland Security / War on Terror
Moussaoui Prosecutors Introduce Gruesome Images
U.S. military plans Gitmo legal compound

Supporting Our Troops
Send Care Packages to Troops Online

Other Military News
Senate leaders say Gates should win Pentagon job
Gates getting bipartisan support on Hill

Mid-East Ceasefire / Hamas Rising / Israel at War
U.N. assembly presses Israel to withdraw from Gaza

Religion of Peace??
Islamic militancy could yield world war: U.S. general

Worldwide Wackos
North Korea Will Perfect Bomb, Ex-U.N. Weapons Inspector Blix Says
S. Korea Rejects Bush's N. Korean Nuke Plan
Bush seeks S.Korea's cooperation on North Korea

Homegrown Moonbats
Cindy Sheehan Arrested in Washington (Here we go again.)

Politics / Government
Rice: U.S. concerned about rising China
Howard Dean defends 50-state strategy
GOP chooses Boehner as minority leader
Doc's appt. angers family planning group

In the Courts
Supreme Court Justices Wary of Accepting Cookies From Strangers

U.N. News
Darfur conflict spreads as Annan announces deal - Video
U.N. nations reach deal to cut emissions

Science / Nature
The 2006 Leonid Meteor Shower: A Viewer's Guide
Atlantic hurricane forecasts missed by big margin

News from My Neck of the Woods
Thugs Shoot Man Waiting in Line for PlayStation (my state always makes the news with the most heartwarming stories...)


Oddities
Beauty queen puts down arms to save legs
Traveler ejected for smell loses legal suit

Other News of Note
Tapes reveal LBJ's Vietnam conversations

Fox News
PlayStation 3 Topping $2,000 on EBay
Go-ahead given to California companies to produce silicone-gel breast implants
Former Michigan Coach Bo Schembechler Dies
Life Sentence for Teen in Attack on Hispanic Teen
O.J. Publisher Regan Explains Why She Did It
Bush Draws Iraq-Vietnam Parallels During Visit
21-Year-Old Anorexic Model Dies in Brazil

Reuters: Top News
APEC leaders seek to break Doha deadlock - Video
Briton home after 18 years in Pakistan jail
Sri Lanka battles rebels at sea, troops ambushed
China's Hu to make plans for Japan visit
Sony PlayStation 3 debuts amid shopper frenzy
Cosmonaut to tee up for monster orbital golf shot
Universal Music sues MySpace over music copyrights
Sony PlayStation 3 debuts amid shopper frenzy
Kennedy mystique on display in new Berlin exhibition
Planned skyscraper triggers St Petersburg outcry
FDA OKs wide sales of silicone breast implants
Report calls for "activity-friendly" communities
Cruise-Holmes wedding revives Rome's Dolce Vita
Kate Hudson's rocker husband seeks divorce
Stocks await Black Friday in holiday week
Oil drops to 17-month low amid U.S. economic concerns
U.S. Steel shares jump on takeover talk
Air Canada shares slide in market debut
Red Hat seeks NYSE listing
Activating a passive play
Signs of a growth rally
IMF warns G20 economic powers of inflation risk
OPEC must cut again, $60 oil "moderate": Qatar
U.S. appeals court to review "light" cigarette case
Bush approves Lucent sale to France's Alcatel

AP World News
'60 Freeway Slayer' convicted in SoCal
Taser incident at UCLA under review
Chris Robinson to divorce Kate Hudson
Gibson tops Film Threat's powerless list
Alaskan Thanksgiving feast: Whale meat
Stocks end mixed on housing data
Italian town prepares for TomKat wedding
3 Jolie bodyguards arrested in India
Housing construction drops in October

Military.com
Op-ed: Midterms Were Just Hype
Kit Up! Lets You Show Your Stuff
The Military Blogosphere is Yours
Defense Tech Digs Kit Up!
Advisors: Practice, Practice, Practice
Weekend Entertainment Guide

CENTCOM: News Releases
IA CAPTURES LARGE IED AND WEAPONS CACHE

FIVE SUSPECTS DETAINED, BUILDING WITH WEAPONS CACHE DESTROYED

IRAQI SECURITY FORCES CAPTURES LEADER OF A TERRORIST CELL

IRAQI, US FORCES SEIZE 2 WEAPONS CACHES IN MANSOUR

USJFCOM
Milestone reached in development of Cross Domain Collaborative Information Environment - podcast
Liveblogging: Unified Endeavor 07-1
Omni Fusion ties Army into UR 2015 - podcast

Department of Defense
NEWS UPDATES
President: Coalition in IraqWill ‘Succeed Unless We Quit’ - Story
For Top News Visit DefenseLink

ON THE GROUND
Troops to Get Hot Traditional Holiday Meals - Story
Soldiers Help Deliver Supplies to 2,000 Orphans - Story
Indiana Guard Aids Border Patrol Mission - Story

IN IRAQ
International Zone Soldiers Run Marathon for Vets
Iraqi Soldiers Begin Sweep in Northern Iraq
1st Cavalry Division Takes Reins in Baghdad
Maintenance Marines Provide Needed Protection
Turkey-based Airmen Saving Troops' Lives in Iraq
Iraqi Mayor Writes New Chapter of Success
Operating Base Units Receive Combat Patch

IN AFGHANISTAN
Engineers Dodge Explosives to Provide Services
Afghan Officer Saves Governor, Coalition Soldiers
Coalition Sponsors Chamkani Sports Tournament
Afghan Reconstruction Projects Continue
Turkey to Open Provincial Reconstruction Team

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
Officials Identify Army Casualties - 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
1307 - William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.
1421 - The Zuider Zee floods 72 villages, killing an estimated 10,000 in the Netherlands.
1497 - Bartolomeu Dias discovers the Cape of Good Hope.
1755 - The worst quake the Massachusetts Bay area has seen strikes Boston; no deaths are reported.
1776 - Hessians capture Fort Lee, NJ.
1803 - At the Battle of Vertieres, the Haitians defeat the French.
1820 - U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer discovers Antarctica.
1883 - Standard time zones are established by railroads in the U.S. and Canada.
1889 - The Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii.
1903 - The Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives the U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama.
1905 - Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
1909 - The U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrowing President Zelaya.
1911 - Britain flies its first seaplane.
1912 - Albania declares independence from Turkey.
1913 - In San Diego, Lincoln Deachey performs the first airplane loop-the-loop.
1918 - Latvia declares independence from Russia.
1928 - Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in "Steamboat Willie."
1929 - A large quake in the Atlantic breaks the Transatlantic cable in 28 places.
1936 - Germany and Italy recognize the Spanish government of Francisco Franco; the main span of the Golden Gate Bridge is joined.
1940 - George Matesky - the Mad Bomber - makes his first time-bomb.
1943 - Ray Atherton is appointed as the first U.S. ambassador to Canada.
1955 - The Bell X-2 rocket plane is taken up for its first powered flight.
1960 - The U.S. Copyright Office issues its 10 millionth registration.
1961 - The U.S. Ranger-2 is launched to the Moon; it fails.
1964 - J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King, Jr. as a "most notorious liar."
1966 - U.S. Roman Catholic bishops do away with the rule against eating meat on Fridays.
1970 - Russia lands a self-propelled rover on the Moon.
1976 - Spain's parliament establishes a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.
1985 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport Washington, DC, where it is turned over to the Smithsonian Institution.
1990 - Saddam Hussein offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait.
1991 - Muslim Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland.

Birthdays
1923 - Alan B. Shepard, Jr., Rear Admiral USN / astronaut (Mercury-3, Apollo-14); Ted Stevens (Sen-AK)
1928 - Mickey Mouse
1929 - William (Pete) Knight, X-15 pilot
1951 - Mark N. Brown, Major USAF / astronaut (STS-28, STS-48)

Passings
1886 - Chester A. Arthur, 21st U.S. President
1962 - Niels Bohr, physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1922)
1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, politician, Kennedy patriarch
1978 - Leo J. Ryan (Rep-CA) and four others killed in Jonestown, Guyana by members of Jim Jones'
Peoples Temple, followed by the ritual mass suicide of over 900 members, including Jones.

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Arnold, William T., USN (WI); A4C crashed at sea

1967
Burdett, Edward B., USAF (GA); F105D shot down, DIC November, 1967 - remains returned by DRV March, 1974

Dardeau, Oscar M., Jr., USAF (LA); F105D shot down, remains returned November, 1987

Hauer, Leslie J., USAF (MI); F105D shot down, remains returned June, 1977

Lehnhoff, Edward W., USAF (KS); F105D shot down, remains returned November, 1987