News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Blair to Announce Iraq Withdrawal Timetable
Attacks in Baghdad Leave at Least 18 Dead
Iraqis take Basra command as UK plans troop cuts
Maliki orders security forces to crush foes
9 killed when gas tanker bombed in Iraq

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghan and Coalition Forces Destroy Large Taliban Munitions Cache
Afghans, U.S. Soldiers Recognized for Heroism

Homeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings
Donor to GOP Hit With Terrorism Charges
Appeals Court Rules Against Gitmo Detainees
Report finds U.S. terrorism statistics inaccurate
Hamas hopes for softer U.S. line on deal - Video
Israel threatens to ignore Abbas
Sketches released of India bomb suspects

Troops on Trial
U.S. soldier pleads guilty in Iraq rape, murders

Other Military News
PBS Documentary Captures Corps’ Values (Airing tonight on PBS)

Religion of Peace??
Pakistani Minister Murdered For Refusing to Wear a Veil
Islamic spies to snoop on lovers

Worldwide Wackos
Ahmadinejad: Iran Will Stop Nuke Enrichment If Western Nations Do, Too
Iran offers atomic assurances via talks - Video

Politics / Government
Bush Urges Diversity in Spy Recruitment
White House defends Rumsfeld from McCain criticism
McConnell takes over as new intelligence chief
Russian missile "blackmail" won't work, Czechs say

Immigration / Border Control
Border Agents Find 2 Tons of Pot in Camouflaged Trucks

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
Mom Vanishes Into the Night
11-Year-Old Florida Girl Returns Home After Amber Alert Issued
High Court Won't Review NYC Nativity Ban
Prosecutors say Libby lied as trial ends
Judge: Calif. prison transfers illegal

U.N. News
UN Security Council approves Somalia peacekeepers Video
Serbs, Albanians open last talks on UN Kosovo plan

Science / Medicine / Technology
Pregnancy hormone may offer hope for MS patients
Parents bank kids' umbilical cord blood
Merck suspends lobbying for vaccine

Mother Nature
EPA seeks comment on greenhouse gas inventory

Oddities
Bros. Killed After Crashing Into Each Other
Please don't invite us to your wedding, couple says

Other News of Note
Treasure Trove of Egyptian Tombs Unveiled to World
Holocaust Monument Defaced in Ukraine

Fox News
Oops! It's Rehab, Again!
High Court Tosses $79.5M Tobacco Award
JetBlue Introduces 'Customer Bill of Rights'
AMA to Hear Fears Over 'Forever Young' Girl
Startup Wants to Help You Find Parking Space
Court Battles Over Anna Nicole Smith
Doctors Extend Hospital Stay of Tiniest Premature Baby
Katie Holmes' Creepy Magazine Cover Story
Kelly Osbourne Says Member of Her Family Has AIDS

Reuters: Top News
Police swarm Mexico City barrio in anti-drug push
Mardi Gras revelry brings New Orleans hope - Video
Ground delays impact millions at U.S. airports yearly
New finds show longevity of Egyptian necropolis
Windows Vista well received: Gates
Bill Gates keeps close eye on kids' computer time
U.S. film shows despair under mountain of debt
China's investment curbs face test of steel
Yearning most common after loved one's death-study
Low testosterone in men may be diabetes risk factor
O.J. Simpson residuals must go to Goldman: judge
Indexes rise on mergers
Oil falls over 2 pct as warm weather hits U.S.
Stocks rise, bonds little changed
Two dollar funds begin trading on AMEX
KBW quarterly earnings soar, shares jump
Private equity goes it alone
Chips set to sizzle
HP quarterly profit rises
JetBlue says delays could cost $30 mln
Maguire to buy ex-EOP property from Blackstone
Sapporo considers management buyout - Video

AP World News
Hewlett-Packard 1Q profit up 26 percent
Bonds' message: Go ahead, investigate me
Leyland: Young criticism was out of line
JetBlue vows to win back passengers
Boyfriend: Smith wanted to be in Bahamas
Spike Lee wins Polk Award

Military.com
Plan Lowers Reserve Retirement Age
New Spy Chief Takes Over
Iran Sets Conditions for Halting Nukes
DT: New Dirty Bomb Threat
Sgt. Shaft: Bills Extending Benefits
Op-ed: Pointing the Finger at Iran
Blog: Russia Redux
This Milspouse is a Cartoon
Military Poll

CENTCOM: Press Releases
HELO ACCIDENT WRECKAGE DESTROYED BY COALITION
IA, 2-7 CAVALRY PARTNERSHIP LEADS TO ONE CACHE AFTER ANOTHER
USS JOHN C. STENNIS CARRIER STRIKE GROUP ARRIVES IN 5TH FLEET
AIRPOWER SUMMARY FOR FEB. 19
UPDATE ON TARMIYAH ATTACK: MND-B TROOPS FIGHT OFF INSURGENTS, DETAIN SEVEN IN WAKE OF ONSLAUGHT

USJFCOM
USJFCOM partners with ACT to sponsor NATO urban workshop - podcast
JPADS continues to improve the way it delivers aerial drops to the warfighter - podcast

DefenseLink
McConnell Takes Oath, Joins Security Team - Story
Survivors of Afghan Helicopter Crash in Germany - Story
Wreckage Destroyed; Coalition Forces Target Taliban

More Headline News
Volunteer Leads With Passion for Troops
Iraqi, Coalition Forces Nab Suspected Terrorists
Dedication Key to Baghdad Security Plan
Force Increase Necessary for War on Terror

Military News
Troops to Teachers Adds Advance Hiring Feature
Officials Accelerate Army Unit's Deployment
Military Health System Excels at Mission
Chu: Recruiting, Retention Remain Solid

War on Terror
Soldiers Help Bomb Victims
Troops Die in Iraq, Afghanistan
Baghdad Security Plan Named

Transformation
Training Becomes More Realistic - Story
Propane Plant Fuels Alternatives
New Program Encourages Savings
U.S., Peruvian Air Forces Train

America Supports You
Businesses Aim to Hire Vets - Story
Foundation Helps Wounded
Group Helps Soldier Fly
Operation Jellybeans Launches

Face of Defense
Soldier Survives Sniper's Bullet
Spouses Serve in Iraq
Sailor Earns Bronze Star

DefendAmerica
NEWS UPDATES
Injured Survivors of Afghan Helicopter Crash Carried to Germany - Story
Stability & Security in Iraq Report (pdf)
For Top News Visit DefenseLink

ON THE GROUND
New Pump Station Improves Quality of Life - Story
Air Cavalry Brigade Observes Black History Month - Story
Iraqi Police, U.S. Soldiers Set Up Headquarters - Story
Medic Re-visits Residents During Medical Ops - Story
U.S. Marines, Sailors Help Clean Up Local School - Story
U.S. Military Helps Build Health Center on Island - Story
Deployed Servicemembers Become U.S. Citizens - Story

IN IRAQ
Chaplain, Soldiers Escort Fallen Heroes Home
Market Opening Signifies Iraqi Resilience
Air Cavalry Brigade Hits 200th Re-enlistment
Soldiers, Iraqi Citizens Share Goal of Peace
Iraqi Police Train to Lead, Protect Fellow Officers
Comedians Bring Laughter to U.S. Troops
Army Vice Chief of Staff Visits Ironhorse Troops
1st Stinger Battery Begins Iraq Deployment
U.S. Troops, Iraqis Celebrate Bridge Opening
U.S. Marines Help Secure 'Smugglers Town'
Organization Delivers Supplies to Iraqi Families

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
'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: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

Weather
Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Germany
Ansbach Aschaffenburg Berlin Berlin-Tempelhof Berlin/Schonefeld Bremerhaven
Darmstadt Frankfurt Frankfurt/Main Freiburg/Breisgau Garmisch
Garmisch-Partenkirchen Geilenkirchen Gelnhausen Giessen Kitzingen
Hanau Am Main Heidelberg Mainz Mannheim Nurnberg Stuttgart Trier
Wiesbaden Wurzburg

Gitmo

Guam
Agana Agana Heights Agat Andersen AFB Asan Barrigada

Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut
An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Japan
Kadena Air Base Okinawa Tokyo Yokohama

Philippines
Baler Radar Site Catanduanes Radar Site Manila

South Korea
Cheju Upper/Radar Chonju Chunchon Inch'on Kunsan Masan Mokp'o
Osan Pusan Seoul Suwon Taegu Taejon Tonghae Radar Site Ulsan Yosu

Today in History
1173 - Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas Beckett, Archbishop of Canterbury
1431 - England begins trial against Joan of Arc
1564 - Philip II routes cardinal Granvelle to Franche-Comté
1574 - Spanish garrison of Middelburg Netherlands surrenders
1598 - Boris Godunov crowned tsar
1613 - Michael Romanov, son of the Patriarch of Moscow, elected Russian tsar
1673 - Michiel A de Ruyter appointed Lieutenant-Admiral-General of Dutch fleet
1675 - Prince Willem III appointed viceroy of Gelderland
1764 - John Wilkes thrown out of English House of Commons for "Essay on Women"
1777 - English ambassador Joseph Yorke demands dismissal of Governor John de Graaff for saluting US flag
1782 - US Congress resolves the establishment of a US mint
1792 - Congress passes Presidential Succession Act
1795 - Freedom of worship established in France under constitution
1797 - Trinidad, West Indies surrenders to the British
1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs for 1st time, in Wales
1828 - 1st American Indian newspaper in US, Cherokee Phoenix (weekly), Georgia
1842 - 1st known sewing machine patented in US, John Greenough, Washington DC
1846 - 1st US woman telegrapher, Sarah G Bagley, Lowell MA
1853 - US authorizes minting of $3 gold pieces
1857 - US issues flying eagle cents; Congress outlaws foreign currency as legal tender in US
1858 - Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar alarm (Boston MA)
1861 - Navaho Indians elect Herrero Grande as chief
1862 - Texas Rangers win Confederate victory at Battle of Val Verde, NM; Confederate Constitution & Presidency are declared permanent
1864 - 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore, MD; Battle at Okolonam, MS
1866 - Lucy B. Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman to earn a DDS degree
1874 - Benjamin Disraeli replaces William Gladstone as English premier
1885 - Washington Monument dedicated (Washington DC)
1887 - Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor Day a holiday; 1st US bacteriology laboratory opens (Brooklyn)
1895 - North Carolina Legislature adjourns for day to mark death of Frederick Douglass
1902 - Dr. Harvey Cushing, 1st US brain surgeon, does his 1st brain operation
1903 - Cornerstone laid for US army war college, Washington DC
1907 - SS Berlin sinks off Hoek van Holland Netherlands (142 dead)
1914 - White Wolf troops attack Zhanjiang China
1915 - 20th Russian Army corps surrenders
1916 - Battle of Verdun (WWI) begins (1 million casualties)
1917 - British Mendi sinks off Isle of Wight, 627 die; Train near Chirurcha, Romania catches fire & explodes; 100s die
1918 - Australians chase Turkish troops out of Jericho, Dutch Palestine
1922 - Airship Rome explodes at Hampton Roads Virginia; 34 die; Great Britain grants Egypt independence
1925 - 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published
1931 - Alka Seltzer introduced
1932 - André Tardieu becomes premier of France
1934 - Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by National Guard
1939 - Belgian government of Pierlot forms
1941 - US Senate accepts Omar Bradley's demotion to Brigadier-General
1943 - Dutch Roman Catholic bishops protest against persecution of Jews; German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
1944 - "The War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC (NYC only)
1945 - Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties; British Army captures Goch; US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
1946 - Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
1947 - 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E.H. Land; 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"
1952 - Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
1952 - Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
1953 - F. Crick & J. Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
1958 - Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser President (99.9% vote)
1961 - Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry test reaches 172 km; Gabon adopts constitution
1966 - Indonesia's President Sukarno fires General Nasution
1968 - 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin
1969 - 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
1970 - Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
1971 - Series of tornadoes cuts through Mississippi & Louisiana, killing 117
1972 - Richard Nixon becomes 1st US President to visit China
1974 - Israeli forces leave western Suez; Yugoslavia adopts constitution
1979 - Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km)
1980 - Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olympics gold (giant slalom); Eric Heiden skates Olympics record 1500 meter in 1 55.44
1981 - Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k); NASA launches Comstar D-4
1987 - Syrian army marches into Beirut
1988 - During a live TV broadcast, televangelist Jimmy Swaggart (age 52) admitted to visiting a prostitute, then announced he would be leaving his ministry for an unspecified length of time. (Defrocked in April by the Assemblies of God, he was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but returned after only three months)
1989 - US bust Chinese heroin ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1 billion street value)
1991 - USSR announces Iraq agrees to a proposal to end Persian Gulf War - US calls the plan unacceptable
1995 - RAF-pilot Jo Salter is 1st woman to fly in a tornado
1996 - Soyuz TM-23, launched into orbit
1997 - STS 82 (Discovery 22) lands

Birthdays
1417 - Louis IX, Duke of Bayern (University of Ingolstadt)
1728 - Peter III, Russian tsar (1761-62), husband of Catherine
1794 - Antonio López de Santa Anna, President of México (1833-36)
1800 - John Henry Winder, Confederate Brigadier General
1802 - George Douglas Ramsey, Union Brevet Major General
1805 - David Tod, US diplomat/(Governor-OH, 1861-63)
1829 - Johnson Hagood, Confederate Brigadier General
1857 - Jules de Trooz, baron/premier of Belgium (1907)
1867 - Otto Hermann Kahn Banker, organized Metropolitan Opera Company
1875 - Jeanne Louise Calment, France, world's oldest woman (died at 122)
1902 - John Smallenbroek, Dutch minister of Internal Affairs
1910 - Douglas R.S. Bader, British pilot (WWII)
1913 - Glenn M. Anderson (Representative-CA)
1917 - Victor G.M. Marijnen, Dutch premier (1963-65)
1924 - Robert G. Mugabe, Premier/President of Zimbabwe
1931 - Larry Hagman, TV actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas)
1932 - Harald V, King of Norway
1936 - Barbara Jordan, (Representative-TX, 1972-78)
1938 - Beryl F. Anthony, Jr. (Representative-CA)
1940 - John Lewis (Representative-GA)
1941 - Charlie Shelburne, English earl/large landowner
1947 - Olympia J. Snowe (Representative-ME)
1964 - Mark E. Kelly, Lieutenant USN/astronaut, Scott J. Kelly, Lieutenant USN/astronaut

Passings
1513 - Julius II (Giuliano dellea Rovere), Roman Catholic Pope (1503-13), dies at 69
1554 - Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany)
1648 - Christian IV, King of Denmark/Norway
1711 - Joan van Hoorn, Governor-General of Netherlands-Indies (1707-09), dies at 57
1730 - Benedict XIII (Pietro F Orsini), Pope (1724-30), dies at 81
1803 - Edward Despard, last person drawn & quartered in England
1864 - Jeffery Forrest, US Confederate Brigadier-General, dies in battle
1872 - Pavel P. Gagarin, Russian monarch/politician, dies at 82
1879 - Peter P. van Bosse, Dutch liberal minister of Finance, dies at 69
1919 - Habib Ullah Chan emir of Afghanistam (1901-19), murdered at 46; Karl von Hohenzollern Prince of Belgium; Kurt Eisner, premier Bayern (socialist), murdered at 51
1926 - Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1913), dies at 72
1938 - George Ellery Hale, astronomer
1965 - Malcolm X (Little), Black Muslim leader, assassinated in New York, NY at 39
1992 - Franc Holden British astronomer (Binary Stars); Kate A ter Horst-Arriëns, Dutch nurse (Battle of Arnhem), dies at 85

Reported Missing in Action
1967
Borja, Domingo R., US Army SF (CA); KIA in ground action, body not recovered

Wright, Arthur, US Army (MI); disappeared while checking outpost perimeter wire

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