News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Coalition Takes Out Terrorists Choking Iraqi Town's Water
Iraq orders 1 million pilgrims to leave

Operation Enduring Freedom
Taliban Agrees to FreeSouth Korean Hostages
Suicide blast kills 3 NATO soldiers in Afghanistan

Homeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings
Olmert, Abbas meet in Jerusalem
Olmert and Abbas discuss Palestinian statehood
Bush: Fight against extremism is crucial

Other Military News
Guard Troops to Get $2G for Active Duty Army Recruits
DoD Official Under Investigation
Deployments Pressure National Guard

Religion of Peace??
Ex-Islamist Gul elected Turkey's president - Video

Worldwide Wackos
Iran Agrees to Divulge Info on Secret Nuke Program- French President Talks of Bombing if Iran Gets Nukes

Politics / Government
Caught With His Pants Down? - Idaho GOP senator busted in restroom sex sting
Officer Escorting Bush Motorcade Dies in Crash
Edwards wants law against "Brownies"
Senator pleads guilty after airport arrest
U.S., Russia must keep nuclear treaty: U.S. senator
Gonzales departure won't end probes
Sharp questions await Gonzales successor
Iowa leads in presidential campaign ads

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
U.S. Says Pope Immune From Molestation Lawsuit
Pop Tarts: Britney Spears Investigated for Child Abuse?
Husband Arrested in Death of Colorado Woman Buried in Gold Mine
Grrr! Vick Finds Jesus in Record Time
Reports: Virginia Tech Gunman Treated for Mental Illness in High School; University Unaware
Suspect in Texas Killing Spree Arrested in New York
N.J. Police Search Reservoir for Missing Mother
Report: 'Mad Hatter' to Plead Guilty in N.J. Bank Robberies
Texas, Pa. slay suspect to be arraigned

U.N. News
U.S. steps up pressure on Taiwan to drop U.N. referendum
U.N. OKs troops near Darfur

Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the Web
Beijing police launch Web patrols

Science / Medicine / Technology
Oooooooo! Total Lunar Eclipse Visible Across U.S.
China Cracks Down on Safety Amid Recalls of Toxic Goods
Ancient bacteria could point to life on Mars: study
U.S. seeks home for research on fearsome diseases
One gene may be key to coveted perfect pitch
TVs, PCs fight for living room space at tech fair

Mother Nature
Devastating Inferno - PHOTOS
Greek fires rage - Video
Slideshow: Greek fire drama
Death toll in Greek fires rises to 64

Oddities
Snatched sniffer dog found in park
Phantom professor claims salary for 15 years
Trapped miners survive on coal, urine diet
20 million risky condoms recalled

Other News of Note
Weather delays robot's search for miners

Fox News
Measuring America's Waistline
Frequent Prayer Miles: Vatican Starts Airline for Pilgrims
Building Inspections Ordered in Wake of Ground Zero Fire
Study Ranks Mississippi as Fattest State in U.S.

Reuters: Top News
Global rate doubts
State Street faces exposure to conduits
Blog: It's the housing market, stupid
Pakistan's Musharraf may quit army for votes: paper
Gay U.S. bishop says hurt by African critics
HP launches ad campaign to boost printers
Bollywood to revive freedom heroine from history
Venice festival gets serious with films on war, corruption
Stocks lower after consumer confidence
State Street shares rattled by credit worries
Yen, Swiss franc rise as credit fears swirl
Oil steadies above $72
Acer shares fall after Gateway deal and Lenovo slides
Interview: Abdullah al-Badri
Subprime crisis clouds demand picture
Crisis in Credit: Subprime fallout spreads
Newsmaker: J.T. Wang
Acer chief steers PC maker to No. 3
Indexes lower after consumer confidence
FTSE ends up as economy news trumps credit worries
Home Depot to cut unit sale price by $1.8 billion
Consumer confidence falls in August: Conf Board
Medco to buy PolyMedica for $1.2 billion
Subprime fallout heightens global rate doubts
Barclays denies exposure to failed debt vehicles
OPEC says subprime crisis clouds demand picture

AP World News
Winehouse in-law says don't buy her CDs
Hewitt, Hingis, Blake at U.S. Open today
Stocks slip ahead of Fed minutes
Venetian aims to make Macau resort city
Carmelo leads U.S. to win over Mexico
Study questions school defibrillators
Lackey leads Angels to 6-0 win over M's
Tigers rough up Yanks to win key series

Military.com
Poll: What's With Al-Maliki?
Def Tech: Iran's New Bomb
The Army's New Sniper Rifle
WF: Doonesbury's Sandbox Blog
Daily Shock: Tanking Gone Wrong
Community: Find Your People
Kit Up!: TL-29 Knife

CENTCOM: News Releases
SAMARRA FIREFIGHT LEAVES AT LEAST A DOZEN INSURGENTS DEAD
CONCERNED CITIZENS, COALITION FORCES DESTROY WEAPONS CACHE, INSURGENT SAFE HOUSES
IRAQI TROOPS STOP ROCKET ATTACK NEAR MAHMUDIYAH
ANSLOW TAPPED AS SPEAKER FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY EVENT HELD IN WAR ZONE
COALITION FORCES DISRUPT AL-QAEDA; 8 TERRORISTS KILLED, 16 SUSPECTS DETAINED

USJFCOM
U.S. Joint Forces Command, Boeing sign cooperative research and development agreement - podcast
Noble Resolve 07-2 comes to a close
More about Noble Resolve - podcast
Joint training leader discusses Unified Endeavor 2007
More about the Unified Endeavor program

Multi-National Force-Iraq
Iraqi doctors, medics treat fellow Iraqis during medical engagement
American cops teach Iraqi Police to 'serve and protect'
Field Artillery Unit brings a different fight
Medical aid delivered to east Baghdad clinics
Iraqi Army Soldiers kill, capture several attackers, eliminate VBIEDS
Iraqi and Coalition forces capture a suspected distributor of Iranian weapons
33 insurgents killed, Khalis waterway open
Iraqi Army Scouts, U.S. Special Forces detain suspected terrorist assassin
8 terrorists killed, 11 suspects detained in Coalition operations

DefenseLink
TOP NEWS
Bush Praises Iraqi De-Baathification Agreement
Troops Capture Terrorists in 'Lightning Hammer'

IRAQ
U.S. Works with Local Leaders on Reconciliation

AFGHANISTAN
International Military Engineers Work Together

MILITARY NEWS
Army Chief: National Guard Vital in Long War
Travels with Pace Special

ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ
Iraqi Doctors Treat Countrymen
Electricity Generation Improves
Engineers Build Health Centers
Sheiks Seek to Unite Community
Iraqis Work to Rebuild Country

INSIDE AFGHANISTAN
Afghans, U.S. Soldiers Celebrate
Airmen, Afghans Set Up Hospital
Reconstruction Progresses
Video: Freedom Watch Afghanistan

FACE OF DEFENSE
Airman Recalls Convoy Attack
Father, Son Are 'Soldiers First'
Vietnam Vet Leads Support Center

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Group Helps Tennessee Troops
Society Supports Warriors
'American Spirit' Aids Wounded

DefendAmerica
BLOGGERS' ROUNDTABLE with John Melvin Jones
U.S. Works with Local Leaders on Reconciliation in Iraqi Province - Story

NEWS UPDATES
Odierno: Iraq Transition Must Preserve Security Successes - Story

ON THE GROUND
International Military Engineers Work Together - Story
Soldiers, Afghans Celebrate Independence - Story
Iraqi Doctors, Medics Care for Fellow Iraqis - Story
Airmen Cool Down Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Story

IN IRAQ
U.S. Marines, Sailors Return from Iraq Duty
Sheiks Strive to Unite Community, Country
Engineers Work on Four Health Care Centers
'Volunteers' Take Oath to Protect Community
Seabees, Marines Help Iraqis Build Future
Flour Mill Re-opens, Will Employ 100 Workers

IN AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Airmen, Afghans Set Up New Hospital
No Mountain Too High for Reconstruction Team

IN DJIBOUTI
Civil Affairs Team Delivers Medical Supplies

IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
Commander Thanks Airmen for Dedication

IN KYRGYZSTAN
Project Hope Brings New Equipment, 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
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
1609 - Henry Hudson explores the Delaware Bay for the Netherlands.
1655 - New Amsterdam and Peter Stuyvesant bar Jews from military service.
1789 - Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus.
1862 - Belle Boyd (a Confederate spy) is released from Old Capital Prison in Washington, DC.
1867 - U.S. forces occupy the Midway Islands.
1884 - Near Howard, SD, the first known photograph of a tornado is made.
1907 - In Seattle, United Parcel Service begins operations.
1916 - Italy declares war against Germany.
1938 - Northwestern University awards an honorary degree to ventriloquist dummy Charlie McCarthy.
1963 - The Evergreen Point Floating Bridge opens (connects Seattle and Bellevue0; Martin Luther King, Jr. makes his "I have a dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial.
1968 - In Chicago, police and anti-war demonstrators clash at the Democratic National Convention.
1974 - Soyuz-15 returns to Earth.
1981 - John Hinckley, Jr. pleads innocent in the assassination attempt of President Ronald Reagan; the National Centers for Disease Control report a high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men (precursor to the A.I.D.S. discovery)
1983 - Israeli P.M. Menachem Begin announces his resignation.
1986 - U.S. Navy officer Jerry A. Whitworth is sentenced to 365 years for spying.
1988 - Three Italian AF fighter jets collide and crash at an airshow in Germany, killing 70.
1990 - Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province.

Birthdays
1592 - George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, royal minister to King James I of England
1774 - Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton, first American Catholic saint
1831 - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes, First Lady to Rutherford B. Hayes
1878 - George Hoyt Whipple, astrophysicist, Nobel Prize winner (1934)
1906 - Sir John Betjeman, poet laureate of England (Mt. Zion)
1939 - Cassie Mackin, newswoman (NBC TV)
1940 - William Cohen (Sen-ME)
1960 - Leroy Chiao, astronaut
1968 - Scarlet Annette Morgan, Miss NC-America (1991)

Passings
1818 - Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable, trader / founder of Chicago
1955 - Emmett Till, kidnapped and lynched at 14 in Money, Mississippi
1961 - Thomas Connolly, first baseball umpire elected to the Hall of Fame
1964 - Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns / comedian (Burns & Allen)
1985 - Ruth Gordon, actress

Reported Missing in Action
1962
Simpson, Robert Lewis, USAF (Panama); T22B shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1965
Schierman, Wesley D., USAF (WA); F105D shot down, released by DRV (injured) - retired as a Major - alive and well as of 1998

1966
Babula, Robert L., USMC (PA); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site

Bodenschatz, John E., USMC (CA); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site

Borton, Robert C., Jr., USMC (MI); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site, remains ID'd March, 1995 (family rejects ID)

Carter, Dennis R., USMC (CA); disappeared on mission to establish ambush site

1967
Degnan, Jerry L., Civilian
Wallace, Charles Franklin, USMC (MS); A4E shot down

1968
Miller, Robert Charles, USAF (CA); T28 shot down (pilot), KIA, body not recovered

Phillips, Elbert Austin, USAF (AL); T28 shot down (non-aircrew); KIA, body not recovered

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