News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Iraqi Terrorists: We Make Our Own Rockets
Iraq PM says govt not weakened by Sadr pullout
"University of terror"
Iraq PM mulls replacement ministers
Democrats must figure next step on Iraq
Truck Loses Acid in Botched Attack

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghan blast kills five in U.N. vehicle
Military.com Blog: Operation Mountain Fury
Canal Upgrades Begin in Kandahar Province
Medical Assistance Provided for Afghans in Once Violent Sangin District

Other Military News
Reservist keeps pedaling with new heart
Marine's Mom Arrested

Worldwide Wackos
Report: North Korea to Shut Down Reactor
Military.com Op-ed: Iran's Evil Game

Politics / Government
Senate Postpones Gonzales Hearing
Malaysia in no hurry to join U.S.-led security pact
Russia says U.S. defense secretary to visit
RFK Jr. to testify in Skakel appeal
Obamas' 2006 income put at $991,296 (So much for that 'I'm just a regular guy' image...)
Mitch Landrieu declines La. governor bid

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
Virginia Tech Shooting:
GUNMAN ID'D AS CHO SEUNG-HUI
FACTS: Cho Seung-Hui - PHOTOS - USER PHOTOS
Parents Demand Firing of Virginia Tech President, Police Chief Over Poor Handling of Mass Shooting
Video Coverage of the Virginia Tech Massacre
Hero Prof Killed Helping Students Escape
FAST FACTS: Timeline of Tragedy - VIDEO
Prof Recalls Massacre
Eyewitness to Terror: Virginia Tech Students Speak About Campus Massacre
Partial List of Victims
Virginia Tech statement on killings
Video: Students gather to mourn together
Pictures (Reuters)
From the scene in Blacksburg
A list of deadly campus shootings
Columbine families share Va. Tech sorrow
Colleges seek to get word out quicker

Other:
Louis J. Pearlman: Mentor of Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake On the Lam
New York City High School Under Investigation After Spring Break Trip to Cuba
Jury Selection Begins in Trial of Man Accused of Raping Girls Underground
Former Playboy TV Host Gets 11 Years for Smuggling Ecstasy
Slay Trial: Preacher's Daughter Heard 'Boom'
Prosecutor: Teen helped uncle kill woman
$2.8 million verdict against Allstate

U.N. News
Sudan Approves U.N. Troops for Darfur
China hoarding H5N1 samples for over a year: WHO
Sustainable growth

Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the Web
Pulitzers scattered among news outlets
Judges reject appeals from webcasters

Science / Medicine / Technology
Study ties cured meats to higher lung disease risk
Breastfeeding may protect against breast cancer
Rain delays U.S. space tourist return: Russia
U.S. woman first to run Boston marathon in orbit
Sony may launch PS3 with larger hard disk capacity
Intel says new chips about 40 pct faster
Chomp before stomp for first amphibians
Red meat linked to breast cancer
U.S. industry told to invest in "clean-tech"
Mammoth skeleton sets auction record

Mother Nature
Global warming may put U.S. in hot water (Nice - can't motivate us enough to 'save the planet' with this seriously flawed theory, so now we're revisiting the "global warming causes terrorism" approach)

News from My Neck of the Woods
Floods Batter Northeast as Nor'easter Stalls (Our local DMV has a river, literally, in its parking lot...two whirlpools over where the drains are... our area has roads washed out, mudslides...we are lucky we live on the top of a hill)

Oddities
NYC Couple Takes 2,500-Mile Cab Ride to Retirement Home
Passengers fume as sleepy crew delays flight
Oh, and I'm supposed to take the ring back, too...

Other News of Note
NEWS IN PICTURES: Khmer Rouge's Crimes

Fox News
Cops Outraged Over Firefighter Rap Lyrics
Gandhi's Kin: I'm Not Gandhi Enough to Lead
Kylie Minogue Poses for New H&M Swimsuit Line
Philadelphia Police Outraged Over Firefighter Rapper's Lyrics
Pop Tarts: Angelina Jolie to Blame for Sweaty American Males

Reuters: Top News
"Spider-Man" stars mum on fourth film
Video: Gere's kiss: a miss or diss?
Mayor of Japanese city Nagasaki shot
Zimbabwe targets aid groups as crackdown expands
New EU border rules pose headache for local Croats
All quiet on the Western Sahara front
Stone-throwing fracas mars Madonna's Malawi visit - Video
Booker-winning author on Orange shortlist
Dollar falls to 2-yr low vs euro on soft CPI data
Blue chips rise on Coca-Cola, J&J earnings
Boston Scientific wins approval for heart-device wire
Black & Decker shares up on improved forecast
London oil rises on pipe leak, U.S. inventory worry
Inflation tame, house building up
Top 10 Best-Selling Research Reports
Daily Investor Update - Subscribe today
Core inflation muted, homebuilding up
J&J handily beats forecast
Coca-Cola profit tops view
Fannie, Freddie to offer subprime aid: prepared text
KKR, pension funds in talks to take BCE private
Fed's Plosser says inflation uncomfortably high

AP World News
Consumer Price Index up 0.6 pct. in Mar.
Underwood wins CMT video of year award
Sabres beat Islanders, take series lead
Stocks mixed on inflation, housing data
Zito earns his 1st victory with Giants
Many parents admit they bribe their kids

Military.com
Def Tech: Boeing Says "Doh!"
Web's Best Military Equipment Guide
Find Your Long-Lost Military Buddies
Using Your VA Loan Benefit
NASCAR

CENTCOM: News Releases
ACID-LADEN TRUCK BOMBING FOILED NORTH OF BAGHDAD
AIRPOWER SUMMARY FOR APRIL 15
JOINT EFFORT CONTINUES AT JALALABAD PRT

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
Bush Thanks Military Families for Their Sacrifices - Story
Gates Visits Jordan to Discuss Regional Concerns - Story
Photo Essay: Gates Visits Jordan
Detainee Denies Running Al Qaeda Camps - Story
Department Shares Record-Keeping Expertise - Story
Delay in War-Spending Bill Will Impact Troops - Story
Transcript: President's Radio Address

More Headline News
Establishing Democracy in Iraq Worthy Cause
Coalition Kills, Detains Extremists in Afghanistan
Terror Attack in Baghdad Strengthens Resolve
Commander Apologizes for No Notice Extensions

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
Militants Detained in Afghanistan - Story
Troops Kill, Capture Terrorists
Two Soldiers, Two Marines Killed
Five Soldiers Killed in Iraq

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

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

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 Visits Jordan To Discuss Regional Concerns - Story

ON THE GROUND
Troops Working with Diwaniyah Residents - Story
First Permanent Customs Building Opens - Story
Joint Effort Continues at Jalalabad Airfield - Story
Iraqi Tankers Take on First Patrol Mission - Story

IN IRAQ
Transition Team Finds Iraqi Police Eager to Learn
Terrain Team Ensures Roads are Mapped Out

IN AFGHANISTAN
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
0858 - Benedict III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1421 - Dikes at Dort Holland break - 100,000 drown
1492 - Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies
1521 - Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church
1524 - Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay
1534 - Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower
1555 - Siena surrenders for Spanish troops
1596 - Arch duke Albrecht of Austria occupies Calais
1629 - 1st commercial fishery established
1704 - 1st successful US newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1711 - Charles VI Habsburg becomes King of Austria
1747 - French troops occupy Zeeuws-Flanders, Netherlands
1793 - Battle of Warsaw
1808 - Bayonne Decree by Napoleon I of France orders seizure of US ships
1817 - 1st US school for the deaf founded by Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet and Laurent Clerc (American School for the Deaf-Hartford CT)
1824 - Russia abandons all North American claims south of 54º 40' N
1839 - Guatemala forms republic
1853 - US Marine Hospital at Presidio (San Francisco) established; Thorbecke government resigns
1861 - Virginia become 8th state to secede; Indianola, TX-"Star of West" taken by Confederacy
1863 - Grierson's Raid - La Grange, TN to Baton Rouge, LA
1864 - Battle of Plymouth, NC; Bread revolt in Savannah, GA; Grant suspends prisoner-of-war exchanges
1865 - Mary Surratt is arrested as a conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
1869 - 1st pro baseball games-Cincinnati Reds 24, Cincinnati amateurs 15
1875 - "Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain
1895 - Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends 1st Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)
1900 - 7 high chiefs of American Samoa sign Instrument of Cession
1905 - US Supreme court judges maximum work day unconstitutional
1907 - 11,745 immigrants arrive at Ellis Island NY
1924 - Metro Pictures, Goldwyn Pictures & Louis B. Mayer Company merged to form MGM
1925 - Paul Painlevé follows Edouard Herriot on as French premier
1927 - Japan's Wakarsoeki government falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1930 - Abkhazian ASSR established in Georgian SSR
1932 - Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia ends slavery
1937 - Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer J. Fudd & Petunia Pig debut
1939 - Stalin signs British-France-Russian anti-Nazi pact
1941 - Office of Price Administration established (to handle rationing); British troop land in Iraq/Yugoslavia; surrender to Nazis
1942 - 12 Lancasters bomb MAN-factory in Augsburg; Operations begin to destroy Sobibor Concentration Camp
1943 - Admiral Yamamoto flies from Truk to Rabaul
1943 - SS-Lieutenant-General Jürgen Stoop arrives in Warsaw
1945 - 8th Air Force bombs Dresden; German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Netherlands; Mussolini flees from Salò to Milan; US troops lands in Mindanao
1946 - Syria declares independence from French administration
1956 - USSR's Cominform (Parliament) dissolves; Bulgaria premier Tchervenkov resigns
1960 - American Samoa sets up a constitutional government
1964 - Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)
1967 - Surveyor 3 launched; soft lands on Moon, April 20
1969 - Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Senator Robert F. Kennedy
1970 - Apollo 13 limps back safely - Beech-built oxygen tank no help
1971 - Egypt, Libya & Syria form federation (FAR); People's Republic of Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman
1972 - Revised Dutch constitution proclaimed
1974 - Muslim fundamentalists assault military academy in Heliopolis, Egypt
1975 - Khmer Rouge captures Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ending a 5-year war (Kampuchea National Day)
1977 - Christian-Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1982 - Canada adopts its constitution
1983 - In Warsaw, police route 1,000 Solidarity supporters; India enters space age, launching SLV-3 rocket
1984 - Libyan embassy demonstration, 1 shot dead
1986 - IBM produces 1st megabit-chip; Netherlands & Scilly Islands sign peace treaty (war of 1651)
1989 - Soviet-US agreement allows Soviets to fight US pros; Polish labor union granted legal status
1990 - Gas explodes on passenger train in Kumrahar India, 80 die
1993 - Police officers found guilty of violating Rodney King's civil rights; STS-56 (Discovery) lands
1994 - Aruba government of Oduber falls

Birthdays
1573 - Maximilian I, Duke/ruler of Bayern (Catholic League)
1676 - Frederik I [van Hessen Kassel], King of Sweden (1720-51)
1741 - Samuel Chase, judge (signed Declaration of Independence)
1788 - Joseph Gilbert Totten, Union Brevet Major General
1809 - Philip St. George Cocke, Confederate Brigadier General
1813 - Henry Washington Benham, Union Brevet Major General
1870 - Ray Stannard Baker, US journalist (Puliter Prize 1940)
1894 - Nikita S. Khrushchev, 1st Secretary USSR (1953-64)
1916 - Donald Gibson, British Vice-Admiral
1916 - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, world's 1st woman PM (Sri Lanka, 1960-77)
1923 - Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes, ABC, CBS)
1926 - Arthur Hockaday, Director-General (Commonwealth War Graves Commission)
1927 - Tadeusz Mazowiecki, Premier of Poland (1989-90)
1932 - Han J. A. Hansen [Jansen], Dutch journalist (King Comes!); Ramsay Melhuish, diplomat
1933 - Tim Rathbone, MP
1934 - Don Kirshner, rock & roll producer (invented bubblegum music)
1937 - Brian Sedgemore, British MP; Eduard N. Stepanov, Russian cosmonaut; Terry Dicks, British MP
1948 - Viscount Bridport
1958 - Sergei Yuriyevich Vozovikov, Russian Major/cosmonaut
1968 - Maurits Prince of Netherlands

Passings
0818 - Bernhard I, King of Italy
0858 - Benedict III, Italian Pope (855-58)
1272 - Zita/Cita, Italian maid/saint, dies at about 59
1630 - Christian I, ruler of Anhalt-Bernburg (battle of White Mountain)
1711 - Jozef I [Habsburg], Emperor of Germany (1705-11), dies at about 32
1726 - Henriëtte Amalia, ruler of Nassau-Dietz, dies at 49
1790 - Benjamin Franklin, American founding father (Poor Richard's Almanac), dies at 84
1863 - Daniel Smith Donelson, Confederate General/cousin of Andrew Jackson, dies at 61
1936 - Charles J. M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck, Dutch PM (1918-23, 29-33)
1945 - Ion Pillat, Romaniams poet/Senator (Umbra timpului)
1945 - Walter Model German fieldmarshal, commits suicide at 54
1948 - Johan P. Earl of Limburg Stirum, diplomat, dies at 75
1974 - Frank McGee, Today Show host, dies of cancer at 52
1990 - Reverend Ralph David Abernathy, civil rights activist, dies at 64
1993 - Turgut Özal President of Turkey (1989-93), dies at 65
1997 - Chaim Herzog President of Israel (1983-93), dies at 78

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Woodworth, Samuel Alexander, USAF (OK); F105D shot down, KIA / BNR

1966
Tromp, William L., USN (MI); A1H crashed over water

1967
Carlton, James E., USMC (AL); A6A shot down (w/McGarvey)

McGarvey, James M., USMC (IN); A6A shot down (w/Carlton)

1968
Held, John W., USAF (IN); A37A shot down

1969
The following US Army SF personnel reported MIA after their team was attacked:
Dahill, Douglas E. (OH)

Newton, Charles V. (TX)

Prevedel, Charles F. (MO)

Also reported MIA this day in 1969:
Willett, Robert V., Jr., USAF (MT); F100D shot down

1971
Gillespie, John F., (Australia)

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