News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Failed Truck Bomb Containers Filled With Gas, Not Acid
Operation Dixon: Nitric Acid Cache Seized, Three Detained

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghanistan's Hazaras still await their due
Iranian Weapons Found in Afghanistan (What a surprise...NOW is it enough?)
Afghans Seeking Peace, Turn-In Weapons Caches

Troops on Trial
U.S. soldier on trial in Italy for Iraq killing
Haditha killings charges dropped against Marine

Supporting Our Heroes
Military.com Blog: Help Specialist Lozano

Other Military News
Army Cuts Spending as Deadline Passes
DoD Announces Troop Care Improvements

Worldwide Wackos
Conoco CEO says Venezuela talks could last months
Increased activity confirmed at N.Korea reactor: report

Homegrown Moonbats
Bermuda cut from O'Donnell's gay cruise

Politics / Government
Politicians fall behind in cyberspace race
Rampage may not influence '08 presidential race
Corzine's car was doing 91 mph before crash
Contractor says was told to hire Wolfowitz friend
U.S. and Australia strike refugee exchange deal
Edwards' haircuts cost a pretty penny

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
Virginia Tech Shooting:
'QUESTION MARK' KILLER QUIETLY SEETHED
VIDEO: 'A LONER'
GUNMAN'S DISTURBING WRITINGS
USER PHOTOS (Fox News)
PROFILES: Victims of Virginia Tech Massacre
- PHOTO ESSAY: Lives Ended by a Killer
Witnesses Paint Grisly Picture of Horror
- Hero Prof Died Helping Kids Escape VIDEO
- FOX FACTS: Timeline of Tragedy VIDEO
VIDEO: Survival Story
Student Heroes
PHOTO ESSAYS: Mourning Prayers Tributes
Click Here for Full Shooting Video Coverage
URGENT QUEUE: Latest on Massacre
Reporter's Notebook: A Reeling Campus
Are Your Kids Safe on Campus?
Virginia Tech Gunman Led Quiet Life in H.S.
U.S. shuts student database to lenders amid concerns
Mass murderers painted as loners bent on revenge
Bush offers condolences at Virginia Tech
Threats rattle schools in 7 states
Reid warns against rush on gun control
U.S. gun laws draw heat after massacre

Other:
Prosecutors: Devlin Tried to Suffocate Boy
Missing Iowa Student Found Dead in Pool
Mayor of Nagasaki Killed in Brazen Attack
Doctor says preacher's wife claims abuse

U.N. News
AIDS ravages poor children needlessly: UN

Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the Web
Ideology and Imus
Yahoo net profit falls
J-Lo sues National Enquirer for libel in Europe
Participation on Web 2.0 sites remains weak
Google CEO knocks Viacom tactics in piracy suit

Science / Medicine / Technology
FDA Approves First Bird Flu Vaccine
Argentine cow clones to produce insulin in milk
Canadian robot melds brain surgery, rocket science
Tourist handed an extra day in space for free
Study: Antidepressants may help kids

Mother Nature
China creates Tibetan snow as glaciers melt
Global warming may spur wind shear, sap hurricanes
Young whale found in New York harbor

Oddities
Lighting a Fire Under Your Rear End ... Literally (Very funny!)

Other News of Note
2 miners missing in Md. wall collapse

Fox News
Target-Date Retirement Funds Getting Aggressive

Reuters: Top News
Nigeria opposition demands poll delay over abuses
19 killed in Rio shantytown shootout, police raid
Fracas mars Madonna's Malawi visit
Asian stocks rise, dollar weak on rate cut talk
Gold inches up, but jittery heading towards $700
Oil rises on forecast of lower U.S. gasoline stocks
Nikkei up 0.7 pct, helped by property stocks
Dollar hits 15-year low vs sterling on yield
Drugs stock rally likely to continue
Wells Fargo CFO on mortgage risk
Chrysler set for two new Michigan plants
Intel quarterly profit helped by tax item
IBM profit up on software and services
Clear Channel bidders consider higher bid: source

AP World News
Clyde no longer 'Dancing With the Stars'
Lemaire's gamble pays off; Wild survive
Crosby proves prophetic as Sens top Pens
Chappelle jokes for over 6 hours in L.A.
Decade drought ends: Rangers win at home
NBA referee suspended over Duncan flap
Cardinals looking like September duds
Intel 1Q profit surges 19 percent
Why does Sanjaya reign on 'Idol'?
Stocks up on inflation, housing data

Military.com
Poll: Tougher Handgun Laws?
Op-ed: Freedom's Champs
Warfighters Read Warfighter's Forum
Def Tech: Good Call on M9
Kit Up! Wants You!

CENTCOM: News Releases
AIRPOWER SUMMARY FOR APRIL 16

USJFCOM
USJFCOM to co-host 2007 industry symposium - podcast
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
Defense Secretary Describes ‘Excellent Visit’ - Story
Photo Essay: Gates Visits Jordan Part II
Resignation of Iraqi Cabinet Can Be Positive Step - Story
Gates Expresses Condolences to Virginia Tech - Story
Military Runners Conquer Boston Marathon - Story
DoD Policy Change Boosts G.I. Bill Eligibility - Story

More Headline News
Campaign Urges Parents to 'Never Shake a Baby'
Bush Thanks Military Families for Their Sacrifices
Detainee Denies Running Al Qaeda Camps

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
12 Detained in Iraq - Story
Afghans Lead Troops to Weapons
Eight U.S. Servicemembers Killed
Militants Detained in Afghanistan

America Supports You
USO Opens Lounge at Dulles - Story
Group Provides Stars for Stripes
Bikers Salute, Support Troops
Troops Thank Supporters in Arizona

Transformation
Joint Force Ops Industry Symposium
Sailors Will Need CAC to Log In
Chaplain Invents New Chapel Kit

Face of Defense
Brothers Reunite in Iraq - Story
450th ‘Ironhorse’ Re-enlistment
Pre-dawn Mission Brings Results
Soldier Takes Oath in a Chinook

DefendAmerica
NEWS UPDATES
Defense Secretary Describes ‘Excellent Visit’ to Jordan - Story

ON THE GROUND
Army Completes Reconstruction Projects - Story
Engineers Bring More Electricity Near Iraq - Story

IN IRAQ
Troops Working with Diwaniyah Residents
Iraqi Tankers Take on First Patrol Mission
Transition Team Finds Iraqi Police Eager to Learn
Terrain Team Ensures Roads are Mapped Out

IN AFGHANISTAN
First Permanent Customs Building Opens
Joint Effort Continues at Jalalabad Airfield
Kabul Hosts Engineering Contractor Open House
Marines Prepare for Afghanistan Deployment

IN DJIBOUTI
Air National Guard Crew Flies First C-5 to Djibouti
U.S. Military Conducts Human Rights Training

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
0310 - St Eusebius begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1521 - Parliament of Worms Cardinal Alexander questions Martin Luther
1552 - Mauritius of Saksen occupies Linz
1663 - Osman declares war on Austria
1666 - Peace of Kleef Netherlands & bishop Von Galen of Münster
1676 - Sudbury, MA attacked by Indians
1775 - Paul Revere & William Dawes warn "the British are coming!"
1797 - France & Austria sign cease fire
1834 - Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia
1835 - William Lamb Lord Melbourne forms British government
1838 - Wilkes' expedition to South Pole sails
1856 - Russian Republic Chancellor Earl von Nesselrode resigns
1861 - Colonel Robert E Lee turns down offer to command Union armies; Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV
1862 - Battles of Fort Jackson, Fort St Philip & New Orleans LA
1864 - Battle of Poison Springs, AR (Camden Expedition)
1865 - Confederate General Johnson surrendered to General Sherman in North Carolina
1879 - Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians citizen rights begins
1890 - New York Commission of Emigration ends, closing Castle Clinton
1902 - Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1906 - San Francisco earthquake & fire kills nearly 3,000 & destroys approximately 75% of the city
1909 - Joan of Arc declared a saint
1923 - Poland annexes Central Lithuania
1924 - 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)
1927 - Chiang Kai-shek forms anti-government in China
1929 - Palace for People's industry in Amsterdam devastated by fire
1934 - 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth TX); Hitler names Joachim von Ribbentrop, ambassador for disarmament
1935 - Netherlands election (Musserts NSB wins 8% of vote)
1936 - Pan-Am Clipper begins regular passenger flights from San Francisco CA to Honolulu HI
1939 - Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey; Hubert Pierlot forms Belgian government
1942 - "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts; James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
1945 - Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-Nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops; Epe freed (by Corporal G van Aken)
1946 - League of Nations dissolves (3 months after the UN starts); US recognizes Tito's Yugoslavia government
1948 - International Court of Justice opens at Hague Netherlands
1949 - Republic of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1950 - 1st transatlantic jet passenger trip; Polish Catholic church & government sign accord over relations
1951 - Dutch Antilles government of Da Costa Gomez forms
1954 - Colonel Nasser seizes power & becomes PM of Egypt
1955 - 1st Bandoeng Conference - Afro-Asian conference opens
1956 - Egypt & Israel agree to a cease fire
1958 - Government troops reconquer Padang, Middle-Sumatra Indonesia
1963 - Dr. James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
1968 - Dutch Department of Amnesty International forms; London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
1974 - Red Brigade kidnaps Italian Attorney General Mario Sossi
1978 - Senate votes to turn Panamá Canal over to Panamá on Dec 31, 1999
1979 - Major Haddad declares South-Lebanon independent
1983 - A lone suicide bomber kills 63 at the US Embassy in Lebanon
1986 - Robert M. Gates becomes deputy director of CIA; Titan rocket explodes seconds after liftoff from Vandenberg AFB
1987 - An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
1990 - Supreme Court rules that states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home
1991 - Congress ends railroad workers' 1 day strike; Census Bureau says it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
1994 - Former President Richard Nixon suffers a stroke & dies 4 days later; Lebanon drops relations with Iran; STS-59 (Endeavour) lands
1995 - Houston Post folds after 116 years; Quarterback Joe Montana announces his retirement from football

Birthdays
1480 - Lucretia Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI)
1521 - François de Coligny, ruler of van Andelot, French General (Jarnac)
1590 - Ahmed I, 14th sultan of Turkey (1603-17)
1797 - Louis-Adolphe Thiers, President of France
1803 - Charles F. Pahud de Montagnes, Governor-General of Netherlands East Indies (1856-61)
1857 - Clarence S. Darrow, defense attorney at the Scopes monkey trial
1889 - Jessie Street, Australian pro women's/aborigine rights fighter
1906 - Edgar Unsworth, Justice of Appeals (Gibralter)
1910 - Jamie L. Whitten (Representative-MS)
1914 - Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/Dutch MP (PSP)
1917 - Louise Frederika, Queen of Greece
1924 - Henry J. Hyde (Representative-IL); Lord Mason of Barnsley, MP (Lab)/British defense secretary
1934 - Jaap F. Scherpenhuizen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1935 - Joel Hefley (Representative-CO)
1938 - Andreas J. "Cat" Liebenberg, supreme commander (South Africa army)
1940 - Joseph L. Goldstein, physician (Nobel-1985)
1942 - Dick K. J. Tommel, chemist/(D66) Dutch Assistant Secretary of State

Passings
0680 - Mu'awijja, kalif of Al-Schaam
1567 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63
1610 - Robert Parsons, English jesuit leader/plotter, dies at 63
1689 - George Jeffreys, 1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem/infamous judge
1690 - Charles V. Leopold, Duke of Lotharingen/Austrian fieldmarshal
1853 - William King, US Vice President, dies a month after his inauguration
1871 - Omar Pasha [Michael Lats], Croatian Governor, dies at 64
1917 - Moritz F. Freiherr von Bissing, Governor-General of Belgium (1914-17), dies at 73
1941 - Alexander Korysis, PM of Greece, commits suicide
1943 - I Yamamoto, Admiral of Japanese fleet
1945 - Ernest T. Pyle, British/US newscaster, killed in WWII at 44
1955 - Albert Einstein, German/US physicist (E=MC²)
1958 - Maurice-Gustave Gamelin, French Generalissmo (WWI, WWII), dies at 85
1963 - Henrietta Kreis 3rd of famous Wallenda aerialist killed in a fall
1986 - Marcel Dassault [Bloch], French airplane builder, dies at 94
1994 - Ken Oosterbroek, South African press photographer, shot dead at 32
1995 - Arturo Frondizi, President of Argentina (1958-62)
1996 - Kalim Siddiqui, Islamic campaigner, dies at 62

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Wheeler, James A., USAF (AZ); A1E crashed at target site

1969
Ellis, Randall S., US Army (SC)

1973
James, Samuel L., USAF (TN); F4E crashed (w/Martin) - remains ID'd April, 1999 - ID disputed

Martin, Douglas K., USAF (TX); F4E creashed (w/James - remains ID'd April, 1999

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