News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Radical Iraqi Cleric Orders Six Cabinet Ministers to Resign
Cheney Spars With Dems Over Iraq War Funding
Bombings Kill 45 in Iraq; U.K. Choppers Crash After Collision
Crisis looms for Iraqi refugees: Amnesty
Air Force fills out Army ranks in Iraq

Operation Enduring Freedom
Suicide bomber kills nine Afghan policemen
Taliban Suffer Considerable Losses in Sangin

Homeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings
U.S. Shuts Consulate in Casablanca After Bombings
Pearl honored with Holocaust victims

Troops on Trial
Marines killed Afghans after bombing: report

Other Military News
Troops Face Medical Treatment Obstacles
Russia launches new generation nuclear submarine

Religion of Peace??
Report: Serial Killers Cleared by Iranian Supreme Court as Victims' Activities Were Un-Islamic
Indonesia's Jemaah Islamiah forms hit squad: paper
Pakistan minister faces edict over hug

Worldwide Wackos
U.S. tells North Korea bank funds are available
Chavez challenges U.S. with energy summit

Homegrown Moonbats
Report: Michael Moore Takes Ground Zero Responders to Cuba for Medical Treatment

Politics / Government
World Bank Head Wolfowitz Vows to Stay
Wolfowitz Gets New Lifeline in Scandal
World Bank staff panel scolds Wolfowitz
Hillary Reports She Has $24 Million to Spend
Gonzales: 'Fired Attorneys Not Victims'
Corzine Regains Some Skills After Accident
Son says Corzine recognized him
Corzine has unscheduled operation after crash
Gonzales concedes missteps in attorney firings
Washington, after 200 years, may get vote in Congress
Algeria summons U.S. envoy to protest at alert

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
Tragic Blaze May Have Been Revenge in Family Dispute
Northwest Pilot Nabbed With Suspected Cocaine After Border Chase
Maryland Boy Hospitalized for Burns After Using Playground Equipment Doused With Drain Cleaner
Louisiana Teen, 16, Accused of Paying Another Teen $5 to Kill Dad
New Details in Panama Murder of Socialite

U.N. News
Saudi says Darfur deal reached
China says Taiwan not eligible for WHO membership

Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the Web
Google, Clear Channel in broad U.S. radio ads deal
Adobe player frees viewers to watch video offline

Science / Medicine / Technology
Study adds data that vegetables reduce cancer risk
Study finds strong genetic link to bowel ailment

Mother Nature
Teen Surfer Loses Teeth in Sea Lion Attack Off Australia

News from My Neck of the Woods
Nor'easter Creates State of Emergency - VIDEO - PHOTOS
3 deaths blamed on East Coast storm

Other News of Note
Reinstated Omaha Principal Defends Controversial School Newspaper Article Using Racial Ephithet
More Mideast states eyeing nuclear power
German in racist video still on duty

Fox News
'Our Prom Has Been Stolen From Us'
Players Mark Jackie Robinson's Debut
Brits Speculate on Why Prince William and Kate Middleton Split Up

Reuters: Top News
Correa wants Ecuador overhaul after referendum win
Opposition protests erupt after flawed Nigeria poll
Mega-church weathers gay sex scandal
Chicago is U.S. candidate to host 2016 Games
Brazil pays for inequality with violence
Arctic mosque stays open but Muslim numbers shrink
Disney to offer gowns for Princess brides
Spielberg protege leads box office with thriller
Asia stocks gain
Yen hits new low vs euro after G7, rebounds
Oil edges up, eyeing Nigeria vote, McKee refinery
Earnings and CPI to drive stocks
Earnings threaten to cut oil rally short
Nasdaq should hurry up and buy
Clear Channel bidders suggest sweeter offer: source
Sallie Mae agrees to be sold for $25 bln: paper
Google rivals urge antitrust scrutiny of deal
ABN gives early Q1 numbers as merger talks intensify
China's Sinopec Q1 beats forecast
Wesfarmers mum on Coles bid

AP World News
Malawi awaits Madonna's return
Graf needs stitches after Andre's miscue
Odd couple aim to put civilians in space
Christie's auctions prehistoric objects
2 pull bids for Anna Nicole diaries
Scutaro takes Mo deep as A's stun Yanks
Pope marks 80th birthday with huge Mass
Menudo reforming for MTV reality series
Pujols homers twice to end April drought
Traveler taxes awarded to small airports

Military.com
Def Tech: Robot Rules of War
The Sandbox: On Being Home
Opinion: TV Tyranny of the Left
Check Out the Latest Video News
Podcast: Our Military Kids
Poll: Effect of 15-month Tours?

CENTCOM: News Releases
COALITION FORCES RESCUE CIVILIANS FROM DISABLED HELICOPTER
STATEMENT FROM MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ CONDEMING CONTINUED ATTACKS

USJFCOM
Secretary of the Air Force visits U.S. Joint Forces Command - podcast
USJFCOM continues to improve Joint National Training Capability - podcast
USJFCOM supports intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance conference - podcast

DefenseLink
Delay in War-Spending Bill Will Impact Troops - Story - Transcript
Establishing Democracy in Iraq Worthy Cause - Story
Coalition Kills, Detains Extremists in Afghanistan - Story
Top Enlisted Leader Meets With Marines - Story
Terror Attack in Baghdad Strengthens Resolve - Story
Commander Apologizes for No Notice Extensions - Story

More Headline News
Corps Commander Highlights Progress in Iraq
Detainee Denies Participation in Bombings
Top Official Describes Reserve Mobilization Policy

Military News
Osprey Aircraft to Make Combat Debut in Iraq
Recruiting, Retention Rates Remain Solid in March
Huachuca to be Home of Human-Intel Training

War on Terror
Five Soldiers Killed in Iraq - Story
Terror Suspects Killed
Forces Capture 18 Suspects
Taliban Fighters Killed

America Supports You
Troops Thank Supporters in Arizona
Group Entertains Troops
Arizona City Lauded for Support

Transformation
Sailors Will Need CAC to Log In
Chaplain Invents New Chapel Kit
Program Connects Troops to Public

Face of Defense
Pre-dawn Mission Brings Results - Story
Soldier Takes Oath in a Chinook
Army Captain Embraces Life
Siblings Reunite for Promotion

DefendAmerica
NEWS UPDATES
Commander Highlights Progress - Story

ON THE GROUND
Police Trainers Helping Iraqis Break Risky Habits - Story
Air National Guard Crew Flies First C-5 to Djibouti - Story
Kabul Hosts Engineering Contractor Open House - Story
Transition Team Finds Iraqi Police Eager to Learn - Story

IN IRAQ
Terrain Team Ensures Roads are Mapped Out
Officials Honor Audie Murphy Club Inductees
Expert Reconstruction Team Arrives on Taji
Stryker Troops Lead Initial Push into Diwaniyah

IN AFGHANISTAN
Marines Prepare for Afghanistan Deployment
Bagram Airmen Move Army Force Provider Camps
Female Medics Take Forward Mission to Heart

IN DJIBOUTI
U.S. Military Conducts Human Rights Training
Families Donate Soccer Balls to Orphanage
Airmen Help Djiboutians Learn English

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

Today in History
0556 - Pelagius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1346 - King Stefanus IX of Serbia proclaims himself czar of Greece
1509 - French army under Louis XII enters Alps
1521 - Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms
1705 - Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College
1724 - 1st Easter observed
1746 - Battle at Culloden - Troops of "James VIII & III" defeat Charles Stuart
1777 - Battle of Bennington-New England's Green Mountain Boys rout British
1789 - George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1818 - Senate ratifies Rush-Bagot amendment (unarmed US-Canada border)
1854 - San Salvador destroyed by earthquake; Steamer "Long Beach" sinks off Long Beach, NY, killing 311
1861 - US President Abraham Lincoln outlaws business with Confederate states
1862 - Confederate President Jefferson Davis approves conscription act for white males between 18-35; Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
1865 - Battle of Columbus & West Point GA (Fort Tyler)
1866 - Nitroglycerine at Wells Fargo & Company office explodes; Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1868 - Louisiana voters approve new constitution
1869 - Ebenezer Bassett, 1st US Black diplomat, begins service in Haiti
1871 - German Empire ends all anti-Jewish civil restrictions
1900 - US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1908 - Natural Bridges National Monument established (Lake Powell UT)
1912 - Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross the English Channel
1917 - Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution
1921 - Liberal Freedom League forms in The Hague
1922 - Annie Oakley sets record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row; German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1929 - New York Yankees become 1st team to use numbers on uniforms
1935 - Babe Ruth's 1st National League game, for Boston Braves, included a homerun
1938 - Great-Britain recognizes Italian annexation of Abyssinia
1939 - Stalin requests British, French & Russian anti-nazi pact
1940 - 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1942 - Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship; King George VI awards George Cross to Island of Malta
1943 - 40 New Zealand bombers attack Haarlem Netherlands (85 killed)
1945 - German troops in Groningen surrender; Red Army begins Battle of Berlin; US troops land on He Shima, Okinawa
1946 - 1st US launch of captured V-2 rocket, White Sands NM; 8 km altitude; NSB mayor of Rotterdam Netherlands, FE Müller sentence to 100 years in jail
1947 - Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (New York, NY); Massive explosion & fire kills 500 in Texas City, TX; Explosions & fire on French ship Grandcamp
1948 - Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France
1951 - British submarine Affray sinks in English Channel, killing 75
1953 - British royal yacht Britannica taken out of service
1958 - French government of Gaillard falls due to Tunisia crisis
1959 - Datu Abdul Rozak inaugurated as premier of Malaysia federation
1962 - Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News; Brazil nationalizes US businesses
1964 - 9 men sentenced 25-30 years for Britain's 1963 "Great Train Robbery"
1965 - Test flight of heavy Saturn S-1C-rocket
1966 - Rhodesian PM Ian Smith breaks diplomatic relations with Britain
1967 Yankees beat Boston 7-6 in 18 innings
1967 "Walking Happy" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 performances
1970 - 70 die in an avalanche (France)
1972 - Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1979 - Failed Palestinian attack on Zaventem Airport in Belgium
1981 - Columbia space shuttle returns
1982 - Queen Elizabeth proclaims Canada's new constitution
1986 - To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Qadhafi appears on TV
1987 - FCC imposes a broader definition of indecency over airwaves
1990 - Supreme Court rejects appeal from retarded man, Dalton Prejean, condemned to death for murdering a Louisiana state trooper in 1977
1992 - Afghánistán President Najibullah resigns
1993 - Jury reaches guilty verdict in Federal case against cop who beat Rodney King, but the verdict is not read until April 17th

Birthdays
1628 - Cornelis Evertsen de Young, Vice Admiral of Zealand
1652 - Clement XII [Lorenzo Corsini], Pope (1730-40)
1660 - Hans Sloane, English physician/naturalist; founded British Museum
1682 - John Hadley, mathematician/inventor (1st reflecting telescope)
1703 - Caffarelli [Gaetano Majorano], Italian castra singer/duke
1728 - Joseph Zwart, Scottish chemist/physicist
1808 - Caleb Blood Smith, Union Secretary of Interior
1816 - Edward "Old Allegheny" Johnson, Confederate Major General
1823 - Mother Joseph [Esther Pariseau] religious leader (US capital); Orlando Bolivar Wilcox, Union Brevet Major General
1867 - José de Diego, patriot/Puerto Rican Secretary of Justice; Wilbur Wright, of aeronautical fame (Wright Brothers)
1881 - Edward Frederick Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax/ambassador to US (1940-46)
1886 - Ernst Thälmann, German communist presidential candidate
1897 - John B. Glubb, British commandant/writer (A soldier with the Arabs)
1901 - Leo Poos, nazi police officer (caught Dutch underground agents)
1904 - Clifford Case (Senator-R-NJ)
1905 - John Lee-Barber, Admiral
1906 - Cobina W. "Coby" Molenaar, Dutch peace activist
1920 - John William Farr, bank robber (FBI Most Wanted List)
1931 - Piet de Visser, economist/Dutch MP (PvdA)
1940 - Margrethe II, Queen of Denmark
1941 - Cliff Stearns (Representative-R-FL)
1955 - Henri, Heir Apparent, Prince of Luxembourg
1956 - David M. Brown, Commander USN/astronaut

Passings
1115 - Svjatopolk II, great monarch of Kiev [or 1113]
1496 - David van Bourgondie, Bishop of Utrecht (1456-96), at about 69
1529 - Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake
1687 - George Villiers 2nd duke of Buckingham, at 59
1756 - Jacques Cassini, French astronomer (Discovered rings of Saturn), at 79
1760 - Laurence, 4th Earl Ferrers, executed for murder of his steward
1850 - Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures
1860 - Carolina, duchess of Berry/daughter of crown prince of Naples
1865 - Robert C. Tyler, Confederate Brigadier-General, in battle
1870 - Anatoli O. Demidov, Russian ruler of Donato/traveller
1879 - Bernadette, saint/(saw Virgin Mary at Lourdes), in Nevers, France
1914 - George W. Hill, US astronomer (moon orbit), at 76
1948 - Babe Ruth, baseball legend
1949 - Sutan Ibrahim gelor Datuk Tan Malaka, Indon communist, executed at 54
1955 - Abdullah Seif el-Islam, brother of Yemenite king Ahmed, beheaded
1970 - Péter Veres, Hungarian minister of defense/writer, at 73
1971 - Mihály Váci, Hungarian poet/politician, at 46
1978 - Lucius D. Clay, General/Governor, US zone West Germany (airlift), at 80
1988 - Jacques de Kadt, Dutch 2nd chamber member (Socialist-Democrat), at 90; Khalil al-Wazir, PLO military commander, assassinated by Israeli commandos

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Chesley, Larry J., USAF (ID); F4C shot down (w/Johnson) - released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Lt. Colonel, served as an Arizona senator

Johnson, Samuel R., USAF (TX); F4C shot down (w/Chesley) - released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Colonel, served in the Texas legislature

1969
Konyu, William M., US Army (NJ); UH1H shot down (pilot), believed KIA/BNR

1970
Ayers, Richard L., USAF (IA); RF4C disappeared while on mission (Weapons System Officcer, w/Rausch)

Rausch, Robert E., USAF (NY); RF4C disappeared while on mission (pilot, w/Ayers)

1972
Jones, Orvin C., Jr., USAF (VA); F105G shot down (w/Mateja)

Mateja, Alan P., USAF (KY); F105G shot down (w/Jones)

1975
Lewis, James F., ; released from Hanoi October, 1975 - deceased

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