News of Note
Happy Easter
Pope Ushers in Easter With Candlelit Service
Pope starts Easter, says love trumps evil, death

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraq Car Bomb Kills 15
Senior Al Qaeda leader arrested in Baghdad
U.S., Iraqi Forces Battle With Shiite Mahdi Army
Iraqi Prime Minister Barred From Iranian Airspace
Insurgents Transform U.S. Military Jails Into 'Terror Training Camps'
U.S. air strike hits volatile Iraqi city - Video
Man Facing Death in Iraq Seeks Review
Iran wait to see U.S.-held Iranians in Iraq: agency

Homeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings
Top U.S. diplomat visits Somalia to urge truce
NY court unblocks Palestinian bank authority funds
Rep.: Israel said no Syria attack plan
New DNA technology helps ID 9/11 victims

Other Military News
VIDEO: Padres Ink Marine Who Fought in Iraq
Japan's wartime deeds not easily forgotten in China
Officials head to Korea for GI remains
13,000 Guard troops prepare for Iraq

Worldwide Wackos
Recently Freed Iranian Diplomat Says He Was Tortured by CIA
North Korea, Myanmar mull resuming ties: report
Iranian: U.K. can help mend relations

Politics / Government
Bush Slams Democrats Over War Bill
Hoyer Meets Muslim Brotherhood Official

Illegal Immigration / Border Control
Police Find 80 Immigrants in Phoenix Home; 2 Suspected Smugglers Arrested
Thousands in LA demand immigrant rights

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
3 College Football Players Accused of Sexually Assaulting 18-Year-Old Girl
Man Who Abused Puppy Gets Jail Time
Police: 9-Month-Old Baby Ejected From Car During High Speed Chase in Texas, Killing Her
Judge Rules Sex Offenders Can Live Under Bridge
Police: Woman Arrested in California Hate Crime Stabbings
'Girls Gone Wild' Founder Defies Federal Judge, Refuses to Surrender to U.S. Marshals
3 Missouri Kids Allegedly Snatched by Dad Are Found in Honduras; U.S. Seeking Extradition
Inmate Waives Trial, Begs for Death Penalty
Harvard re-examines Dred Scott decision
'Onion Field' killer dead at 76

Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the Web
Talk-Radio Host Don Imus Apologizes for On-Air Racial Slurs Against Rutgers Women's Basketball Team
YouTube seeks to end ban in Thailand
Sharpton, critics demand Imus ouster

Science / Medicine / Technology
Rocket Carrying U.S. Billionaire Blasts Off
Child recovering from vaccine infection

Mother Nature
Weather Hampers Masters Action - PICS
Mountaineers testify to warming's effect
Scientists get last say in climate study
India steps up protection for rare Asiatic lions
Cold weather chills spring rituals
Experts open dolphin 'chat line' in Fla.

Oddities
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch
Pranksters Glue Doors Shut at California High School
Dad Wants Insurance Company to Foot the Bill for Daughter's Wayward Behavior
Pilot Has Obscenity-Riddled Lavatory Outburst
'Church for Men' Opens to Combat Boredom
School district investigates porn bill

Other News of Note
Off to the Races (The America's Cup)
Father's Complaint Prompts U.S. Military to Change How it Brings Fallen Soldiers Home

Fox News
Captain Charged After Greek Ship Sinks
Britney Spears Locked Into Deal With Manager She 'Hates'
Actress Kate Beckinsale Says She Can't Aspire to Ideal Hollywood Look

Reuters: Top News
Occidental CEO got more than $400 million in 2006
Woods and Appleby eyeing green in Augusta
Rampaging gunman kills 10 in southern Philippines
Majority in British poll say Brown unfit to lead
Philippine schools offer hard lesson in life
Google tests directory assistance for phones
Cheap Masters tickets provide priceless memories
Campaign revives France's lost love: politics
"Blades" outpaces disappointing "Grindhouse" - Video
Dollar advances on strong jobs data
Wall Street rises with bid for Chrysler
Nikkei ends flat before U.S. job data
Oil falls after Iran releases Britons
WD-40 shares rise 4.4 pct after results
Caution could stall economic growth
AOL launches search ad service with Google
AFL-CIO to target Verizon over CEO pay
Firms poised to end Sainsbury bid: source
Vonage wins temporary reprieve in Verizon case
Electronic Arts to buy stake in The9: report
AFP, Google News settle lawsuit over Google News

AP World News
102-year-old Calif. woman hits hole-in-1
Tough day leaves Tiger 1 shot off lead
Man ends 9-week, 3,272-mile Amazon swim
Kevin Spacey takes on Eugene O'Neill
Retailers explore movie download options

Military.com
The New Warfighter's Forum
Use Your GI Bill Right
The Battlestar Galactica Story

CENTCOM: News Releases
IRAQI ARMY CALLS IN AIR STRIKE TO ENGAGE MILITIA MEN
TWO DETAINED FROM MOSQUE IN MUSAYYIB
TRANSLATOR JOINS ARMY WITH PASSION FOR PEACE
STATEMENT FROM MULTI-NATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ CONDEMNING THE KILLING OF JOURNALISTS
VBIED CELL LEADER KILLED, EIGHT OTHERS CAPTURED IN RAIDS
MILITARY DOCTORS TREAT AFGHAN WAR’S SMALLEST CASUALTIES
DETAINEE DIES AT CAMP CROPPER

USJFCOM
USJFCOM supports intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance conference - podcast
USJFCOM seeks to pass Joint Force Projection ACTD's final exam - podcast
More about the Joint Force Projection ACTD
More about ACTDs
USJFCOM gears up for Noble Resolve - podcast

DefenseLink
Bush: Troops Need Resources to do Their Jobs - Story
Guardsmen to Receive Alert for Iraq Deployment - Story
Partnership Proves Potent For Insurgents - Story
Soldiers Receive Purple Hearts at Walter Reed - Story
Wounded Warrior Earns Purple Heart, Heads Home
Clinic Pushes Wounded Troops to New Heights - Story

More Headline News
Web Links Guard, Reserve to Employer Support
Gates, Pace Discuss Iraq and Afghanistan
DoD Works to Improve Acquisition Process
USS Cleveland Hosts Naturalization Ceremony

Military News
Officials Stress Zero Tolerance of Sexual Assault
USS Nimitz Deploys to Persian Gulf
Troops Embark on ‘Why We Serve’ Mission

War on Terror
Paratroopers Take Down Terrorists - Story
Forces Kill Five Taliban Fighters
Two U.S. Soldiers, One Terrorist Killed

America Supports You
Ohio Group Supports Marines - Story
Military Families Enjoy Circus
Elmo Helps Military Kids Deal With Parents' Deployments

Transformation
Program Connects Troops to Public
Walter Reed Using 3-D
Soldiers Test New Vehicles

Face of Defense
Hard Work, Dedication Pays off - Story
Captain Relates Experience
Engineer's Idea Saves Money

DefendAmerica
Iraqi Forces' Efforts Improve Security in Baghdad, Official Says - Story
Bloggers' Roundtable Web Site

NEWS UPDATES
Partnership Curbs Violence in Iraq - Story
For Top News Visit DefenseLink

ON THE GROUND
Air Force Captain Teaches Classes, Experiences - Story
Troops Help Repair, Secure Baghdad Roadways - Story
Airmen Help Djiboutians Learn English - Story
Barriers Expected to Strengthen Checkpoints - Story
Transition Team Celebrates Iraqi Graduation - Story

IN IRAQ
Inspection Team Reduces Truck Breakdowns
Civilian Carpenters Lend Soldiers a Helping Hand
Security, Reconstruction Efforts Improving
General Petraeus Visits Revitalized Dora Market
Two-Man Team Helps Troops Communicate

IN AFGHANISTAN
Female Medics Take Forward Mission to Heart
Afghan Government, Coalition Aid Flood Victims
U.S., Coalition Servicemembers Climb 'The Ghar'
Female Aviators Pilot into Strong Career

IN DJIBOUTI
Soldiers Keep Promise, Check on Injured Girl
Postal Specialists Deal With Limited Space
Security Company Stands Watch in Djibouti

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
1195 - Alexius III Angelus drives out brother Isaäk II as Byzantine emperor
1341 - Francesco Petrarca crowned in Rome
1378 - Bartolomeo Prignano elected as Pope Urban VI
1455 - Alfonso de Borgia elected as Pope Callistus III
1500 - Battle at Novara - King Louis XII beats duke Ludovico Sforza
1716 - Duke Karel Leopold of Mecklenburg-Schwerin signs covenant with Russia & marries Czar Peter the Great's niece
1759 - British troops chase French out of Masulipatam India
1783 - Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim
1789 - House of Representives 1st meeting
1801 - Soldiers riot in Bucharest, kill 128 Jews
1832 - Charles Darwin begins trip through Rio de Janeiro
1848 - 1st battle at Gioto Sardinia-Piemonte beats Austrians; Battle at Xaquixaguana, Peru Pedro de la Gasca beats Gonzalo Pizarro
1861 - US mint at Dahlonega GA seized by confederacy
1862 - John D. Lynde, patents aerosol dispenser
1864 - of Mansfield, Federals routed by General Richard Taylor
1865 - General Robert E. Lee surrenders at Appomattox Court House in Virginia
1869 - American Museum of Natural History opens (New York, NY)
1879 - Khedive Ismael of Egypt fires French/British ministers; Milk is sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1893 - The Critic reports that the ice cream soda is our national drink
1898 - Battle of Atbara River, Anglo-Egyptian forces crush 6,000 Sudanese
1904 - Great Britain & France sign Cordial Entente concerning colonial matter
1908 - Lord Herbert Henry Asquith succeeds Henry Campbell-Bannerman as British Prime Minister
1912 - Steamers collide in the Nile, drowning 200
1913 - 17th amendment, requiring direct election of senators, ratified; Opening of China's 1st parliament takes place in Peking (now Beijing)
1914 - US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning the Panamá Canal Zone
1916 - Norway approves active & passive female suffrage
1933 - Manchester Guardian warns of unknown Nazi terror
1935 - Works Progress Administration approved by Congress
1939 - King Zog I of Albania, flees
1940 - Germany battle cruisers sink British aircraft carrier Glorious
1945 - Nazi occupiers executed, Nazi General Christiansen flees Netherlands
1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time
1947 - Largest recorded sunspot (7,000) observed
1952 - President Harry Truman seizes the steel mills to prevent a strike
1953 - Dag Hammarskjöld chosen as Secretary-General of UN
1956 - 6 marine recruits drown during exercise at Paradise Island SC; M Bandaranaike's People's front wins election in Ceylon
1960 - Netherlands & Germany sign accord concerning war casualties
1961 - British liner "Dara" explodes in Persian Gulf, kills 236
1962 - Accords of Evian (Algeria) accepted by referendum in France
1964 - Unmanned Gemini 1 launched
1966 - OAO 1, the 1st orbiting astronomical observatory, is launched; Leonid Brezhnev elected Secretary-General of communist party
1968 - New socialist constitution of East Germany takes effect; Czechoslovakia Cernik government forms
1970 - Senate rejects Nixon's nomination of Carswell to Supreme Court
1977 - Israel premier Yitzhak Rabin resigns
1979 - People's Republic of China joins IOC
1985 - Amdahl releases UTS/V, 1st mainframe Unix
1986 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, CA
1988 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, 52, was defrocked by the Assemblies of God following the disclosure of his involvement with a prostitute. (Swaggart was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but returned after only three months.)
1990 - King Birendra of Nepal lifts 30-year ban on political parties; Norwegian Scandinavian Star catches fire; about 170 die
1993 - STS-56 (Discovery) launches into orbit
1994 - Japan's premier Morihiro Hosokawa resigns; Smoking banned in Pentagon & all US military bases
1997 - STS 83 (Columbia 22), lands

Birthdays
0563BC - Gautama Buddha (as celebrated in Japan-Kambutsue)
1460 - Ponce de León San Tervas de Campos, Spanish conqueror/explorer, searched for fountain of youth, found Florida
1605 - Philip IV, King of Spain & Portugal (1621-65)
1642 - Gerard Callenbach, Dutch Admiral
1655 - Louis Willem I Margrave (Baden-Baden)
1726 - Lewis Morris, US farmer (signed Declaration of Independence)
1775 - Adam A. earl von Neipperg, Austrian General/Napoleon's wife Marie lover
1818 - Christaan IX, King of Denmark (1863-1906)
1828 - George Baird Hodge, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1832 - Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian fieldmarshal
1875 - Albert I von Saksen-Coburg, King of Belgium (1909-34)
1898 - Achiel H. Acker, Belgian Premier (1945-46, 1954-58)
1904 - John R. Hicks, British economist (Nobel 1972)
1905 - Helen B. M. Fennell Joseph, anti-apartheid writer (Side by Side); Pierre Wigny, Belgian minister of Foreign affairs (1958-61) [or 4/18]
1908 - Neil Lawson, British high court judge
1909 - William James Millar Mackenzie, political scientist
1911 - Melvin Calvin, US chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961)
1912 - Josef Gabcík, Czechoslovakian resistance fighter (attacked Heydrich)
1919 - [Douglas] Ian Smith, Premier of Rhodesia
1921 - Betty [Bloomer] Ford, First Lady (1975-76)/namesake for Betty Ford Clinic
1935 - Albert G. Bustamante (Representative-TX)
1937 - Seymour Hersh, award winning investigative reporter (New York Times)
1943 - Tony Banks English politician (Labour Party)
1944 - Anthony Farrar, Hockley military historian
1945 - Ian White, Member of European Parliament for Bristol
1947 - Thomas D. Delay (Representative-TX)

Passings
0217 - Caracalla [Marcus Aurelius Antoniius], Roman emperor (198-217), murdered at 29
1143 - John II Comnenus, Emperor of Byzantium (1118-43), dies in an accident
1364 - Jan II the Good, King of France (1350-64), dies at 44
1492 - Lorenzo I de' Medici "il Magnifico," ruler of Florence (1469-92)
1498 - Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), beheaded at 27
1697 - Niels Juel, Danish Admiral (Oland, Moen, Kjögebocht), dies at 67
1861 - Elisha G. Otis, US elevator builder (Otis), dies at 50
1897 - Heinrich von Stephan, UK politician
1902 - Sipyagain, Russian minister of interior/headed Secret Service, assassinated
1919 - Roland baron Eötvös, Hungarian physicist, dies at 70
1943 - Paul Colin, Belgian journalist/collaborator, executed
1947 - Henry Ford, US industrialist (Ford cars)
1969 - Denton Cooley, got 1st fully artificial heart, dies at 48
1981 - Omar Bradley, last US 5-star General, (Normandy) dies in New York at 88
1987 - Francis C. Denebrink, US Naval officer (WWI, WWII, Korea) dies at 90
1990 - Ryan White, hemophiliac AIDS sufferer, dies at 18 - The Ryan White Foundation was founded later in 1991 by Jeanne White and Phil Donahue

Reported Missing in Action
1962
Groom, George E., US Army SF (MO); released May, 1962

Gabriel, James, Jr., US Army SF (HI); remains recovered April, 1962

Marchand, Wayne Ellsworth, US Army SF (NE); remains recovered April, 1968

Quinn, Francis, US Army (NY); released May, 1962

1970
Bellendorf, Dieter, Civilian - NBC (Germany); (sp Ballendorf?)

Gensluckner, Georg, Civilian (Austria)

Yieng, Ung Ling, Civilian (Cambodia);

1972
Ray, Johnnie L., US Army (OK); released by PRG February, 1973

Wanat, George K., Jr., US Army (CN); released by PRG February, 1973

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