News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Sunni bloc ends boycott of Iraqi parliament
Iraq protests at Turkish shelling of N.Iraq

Homeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings
Attacks Kill 33 in Pakistan - PHOTOS
Pakistan's Habib Bank denies Pearl allegations
Palestinians in Gaza appeal for more aid
Lebanese army shells militants cornered in camp
Blair to brief Middle East peace Quartet
Fighting erupts before Somali reconciliation talks

Troops on Trial
Officer Ousted After 2 GIs Charged With Murdering Iraqi
Marine awaits sentencing in murder plot

Other Military News
Injured Vets Shortchanged Again

Worldwide Wackos
North Korea talks to go into third day
Envoys seek NKorea nuclear timetable

Politics / Government
Scandals mar vote for India's first woman president
White House to lobby lawmakers on Iraq
Giuliani: Abortion not a test for judges

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
Cops Being Tipped Off to Cold Medicine Purchases
Sex Offenders Told to Hit the Road
Police Say California Mother Drove Son, Fellow Gang Members to Kill 13-Year-Old Boy
Cops: Mom Beat Kids on Flight, Threatening Attendant
Pizza Deliveryman Who Robbed Bank Had Neck Measured for Bomb Collar
U.S. publisher takes action over Harry Potter leak - Video
Death blamed on toilet training anger
Ex-nurse faces life in husband's murder

Adventures in Political Correctness
U.S. food companies promise to limit ads for kids

Science / Medicine / Technology
Texas Stores Pull Tylenol PM as Youths Use It to Create Heroin Mix 'Cheese'
Cancer-fighting gene also delays aging: study
Nokia starts global positioning service
Nintendo Wii Japan sales hit 3 mln units: survey

Mother Nature
U.S. Fire Officials: Help!
Wildfire alert raised to highest level in West - PHOTOS
More than 50 people killed in Sudanese flooding
Japan quake-hit plant may be shut a year or more - Video

News from My Neck of the Woods
Air Tested for Asbestos After NYC Pipe Blast PHOTOS

Oddities
Teen Finds $90G in PlayStation 2 Bought on eBay

Fox News
Building Collapse in Mumbai Kills at Least 24 - PHOTOS
New 'Combustible' Ink Makes Tattoos Less Than Forever
Speedier Safety Checks Urged After Japan Nuke Accident
L.A. Judge Dismisses 'Extreme Makeover' Lawsuit Case Against ABC Television

Reuters: Top News
New York Philharmonic names new music director
World Chefs: Chef Susur Lee says don't call his food "fusion"
Asia's Potter fans await "P-day"
Global equities rebound but credit worries remain
Logitech quarterly profit falls 15 percent
Whitbread up on talk of Accor bid interest: traders
Oil rises above $77, supply worries intensify
Dollar slips slightly as U.S. subprime woes linger
Fishing in a smaller pond
M&A Today: Read the latest headlines
Yang on the hook with Yahoo investors
Dow Jones director Li may face charges in U.S. probe
Citigroup, Lehman receive I.R.S. requests: WSJ
UnitedHealth posts higher quarterly profit
Barclays says may add cash to sweeten ABN offer
Continental Air earnings rise on higher fares
Ford to receive bids for Jaguar, Rover: reports

AP World News
Reports: New leak at Japan nuke plant
Tiger goes for 3-peat at British Open
Obituaries in the news
Depositions: Pilots erred before crash
`Heroes,' `Ugly Betty' eye Emmy nods
Producer defends children's reality show

Military.com
Dole: Notify Marines of Toxic Exposure
DT: Warheads on Foreheads
Find a Military-Friendly School
Discount: Refurbished PDAs
Warfighter's Forum

CENTCOM: News Releases
ROCKETS AIMED AT FOB HAMMER FOUND, NEUTRALIZED

USJFCOM
Capability Portfolio Manager aids better decision-making process - podcast
Strategic Initiatives Forum - July 2007 - photos
Empire Challenge 07 exercise focuses on intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance - podcast
USJFCOM leaders, others to speak at 2007 industry symposiumCommand seeks input from industry and academia to develop a force provider collaborative workflow staffing capability
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Multi-National Force-Iraq
Cyber Islamic State of Iraq foreign-led ruse
Falahat returning to normal as childrens' laughter fills air
Medical Clinic to Benefit Iraqis for Years to Come
Iraqi Army Troops Lead Joint Medical Effort in Hor Al Bosh
Iraqi National Police officers graduate from NCO Course
Central Baghdad car bomb blast kills four, wounds four
Three Suspected Special Groups Terrorists Detained by Coalition Forces
MND-B patrol struck by improvised explosive device
Five militia suspects detained in Karkh
ISF, CF continue clearing ‘Old Baqouba’
Militia rounds fall in Baghdad civilian communities

DefenseLink
Gates Asks Congress to Transfer Funds to MRAP - Video
Transcript from Pentagon Briefing on MRAP
War on Terror Will Require Decades of Effort - Video
Al Qaeda in Iraq Duped Into Following Foreigners - Video
Slides from Bergner Briefing
Transcript from Bergner Briefing
Civilian Casualty Reports Often Exaggerated
ISAF Chief Calls for NATO to Deliver on Promises
New Prosthesis Could Help Keep Troops Fighting

More Headline News
NORTHCOM, NORAD Work to Foil Terrorists
Pace Walks Ramadi’s Streets, Notes Progress
New Press Secretary Prepares to Take Podium

Military News
Program Helps Disabled Veterans Get Contracts
Marine Missing From Vietnam War Is Identified
Search Under Way for WWII Japanese MIAs in Alaska
Kadena Recovers From Typhoon Man-Yi

War on Terror
Coalition Forces Take Down Enemy 'Cell by Cell' in Iraq
Militia Leader Identified
Leaders Condemn Kirkuk Bombings
Citizens Foil Car Bomb Attack
‘Operation Ithaca’ Surprises, Pummels, al Qaeda Forces

Transformation
Cyber Command Online for Future
Symposium Keys on Future
Officials Realign Installations

Face of Defense
Sailor Re-enlists on Sunken Ship
Father, Daughter Serve
Peer Amputee Helps Veterans

America Supports You
Group Provides Link to Home
Golfers Tee Up for Troops
WNBA Salutes Troops, Families
‘Spirit of America Tour’ Honored
Jeep Puts Group in Driver’s Seat

DefendAmerica
BLOGGERS' ROUNDTABLE with U.S. NAVY Rear Adm. Mark I. Fox
Coalition Forces Taking Down Enemy - Story
Bloggers' Roundtable Web Site

NEWS UPDATES
Militia Leader Identified - Story

ON THE GROUND
Lifeblood Pumped into Iraqi Farming Community - Story
Marines Train Djiboutian Police on Firearms - Story
Offensive Moves into Iraq's Eastern Baqouba - Story
Sheiks Meet in Reconciliation Effort at Camp Taji - Story

IN IRAQ
Clinic Provides ‘More Than Standard’ Care
Navy Assisting Marines in Counterinsurgency
Hawaiian Soldiers Strengthen Ties with Project
Role-model Town Produces Positive Results

IN DJIBOUTI
Air Force Chaplain Visits Djibouti Orphanages
Volunteers Build Bookshelves for Youth Center
Civil Affairs Donates Supplies to African Hospital

IN AFGHANISTAN
Personnel Services Support Deployed Troops
Individuals Assist in Search for Criminals
Coalition, Afghan Workers Complete Projects

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
War on Terror Reconstruction Report
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
1510 - Jews are burned at the stake in Berlin, Prussia.
1553 - Lady Jane Grey (who is 15 at the time) is deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1816 - After more than two weeks, survivors of the French frigate Medusa are rescued off Senegal.
1848 - The first women's rights convention opens in NY.
1860 - The first railroad reaches Kansas
1862 - Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest conducts his first raid.
1870 - The Franco-Prussian war begins.
1918 - German armies retreat across the Marne River in France.
1927 - Ty Cobb gets his 4,000th hit.
1941 - The first US Army flying school for black cadets is dedicted in Tuskegee, AL ; British PM Winston Churchill launches his "V for Victory" campaign; President Roosevelt appoints the FEP Committee.
1943 - Allied air forces raid Rome.
1949 - Laos becomes and associated state within the French Union.
1957 - The first rocket with a nuclear warhead is fired (Yucca Flat, NV).
1963 - NASA civilian test pilot Joe Walker takes the X-15 to an altitude of 105 km.
1967 - The U.S. launches Explorer 35 for a lunar orbit.
1969 - Apollo 11 goes into a Moon orbit.
1980 - The 22nd modern Olympic games open in Moscow; the U.S. and 59 others do not attend, boycotting in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1989 - United flight 232 crashes in Iowa.

Birthdays
1814 - Samuel Colt, inventor (Colt revolver)
1817 - Mary Ann Ball Bickerdyke, Union Army nurse
1860 - Lizzie Borden, alleged murderer
1922 - George McGovern (Sen-SD), presidential candidate (1972)
1943 - Roy D. Bridges, Jr. , Colonel USAF/astronaut (STS 51F, STS 61F)
1952 - Howard Donald Saunders, murderer (FBI Most Wanted List)

Passings
1940 - Samuel H. Chang American newspaper magnate, murdered in Shanghai.
1969 - Mary Jo Kopechne, at 28, in Ted Kennedy's car after it plunges off Dike Bridge in Chappaquiddick, MA.

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Diamond, Stephen Whitman USAF (NY); F105 shot down; SRV returned remains March, 1977

Dennison, Terry A., USN (WA); F8E shot down, remains returned March, 1974

Winters, Darryl G., USAF (CA); photograhper aboard F100F shot down

1967
Frye, Donald P., USN (CA); SH3A shot down during rescue mission, KIA, remains returned October, 1982

Jackson, William B., USN (TX); SH3A shot down during rescue mission, KIA, remains returned October, 1982

McGrane, Donald P., USN (IA); SH3A shot down during rescue mission, KIA, remains returned October, 1982

Peterson, Dennis W., USN (CA); SH3A shot down during rescue mission, KIA, body not recovered

1969
Martin, Aubrey Grady, USN (TX); OV10A shot down, remains recovered July, 1974

Sikkink, Roy Dean, USN (OK); OV10A shot down, remains recovered July, 1969

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