News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Violence, Casualties Down in Iraq
Turkish planes pound rebels along border
U.S. Has Sympathy for Turkey’s Position Against PKK

Operation Enduring Freedom
NATO Allies Offer to Provide More Support in Afghanistan
Gates Urges NATO Counterparts to Keep Afghanistan Commitments

Homeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings
Rice: Mideast peace plan in jeopardy

Troops (and Contractors) on Trial
State Security Chief to Quit Amid Blackwater Scandal
Iraq determined to expel Blackwater USA

Supporting Our Heroes
Dave Matthews to play for Army football

Other Military News
Wars may cost $2.4 trillion over decade

Worldwide Wackos
Bush Outlines Plans for Post-Fidel Castro Cuba
Report: Images Show Syria Facility Akin to Nuke Reactor

Politics / Government
Giuliani: The Blind Should Be Able to Carry Guns (Ummm...)
Black vs. Gay Politics Has Obama Tied in Knots - VIDEO
Obama learned from failed Congress run

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
Officials: 20 Busted Smuggling Young Girls for Prostitution, Scaring Them With Voodoo
Report: FBI Raid of David Copperfield's Warehouse May Involve His Pick-Up Techniques
Miami TV Reporter Arrested for Entering School Property With Gun
Illinois Sex Offender Tries to Castrate Himself
Cops Find Mom's Body After Girl's Fifth-Floor Fall
Prison Preacher Wages Fight for Religious Expression
Possible Sighting of World's Most Wanted Fugitive
Penalty phase starts in stolen-baby case
110-lb mayor puts burglar in headlock
FBI watched McCarthy anti-Hoover effort
Thompson downplays staff departure

U.N. News
UN chief: violence against women surges

Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the Web
Microsoft buys Facebook stake for $240M

Science / Medicine and Health / Technology
Singer Robert Goulet Seeks Lung Transplant to Save His Life
Report: 68 Namibia Villagers Sickened After Eating Dead Dog
Astronauts Inspect Shuttle's Heat Shield
China launches first lunar probe
Breast cancer often untreated in Mideast
Cell phone message warns train gropers
Staph screening said may wipe out germ

Mother Nature
Quickly Spreading Fires 'Out of Control,' Evacuations Grow
BLOG: FROM THE SCENE - uReport: VIEWER PHOTOS - PHOTOS: TODAY'S IMAGES
VIDEO: FRONT LINES OF THE BLAZE - HOLLYWOOD UNDER FIRE: STARS FLEE POSH HOMES
California Firefighters Welcome Easing Winds, Arson Probed in Wildfires
Tsunami Warning in Indonesia Following Strong Quake

News from My Neck of the Woods
New York Teen Firefighter Sets Fire at Church to be 'Hero'
World Series opens tonight in Boston

Oddities
Kenyan Monkeys Make Lewd Gestures at Women

Other News of Note
10 Killed, More Missing in Gulf of Mexico Oil Rig Accident

Fox News
Has Britney Spears Found Her Howard K. Stern?
Pop Tarts: Very Sexy Sale: Heidi Klum Selling Her Supermodel Lips, Quitting the Catwalk?

Reuters: Top News

AP World News
Regents chairman says ORU $55M in debt
Jackie Chan flexes his vocal muscles
Heat trade F Antoine Walker to T-Wolves
Stocks finish rocky session lower
Home sales plunge by 8 percent
Osmond stays, Cuban is voted off `Stars'
Panel recommends FluMist for young kids

CENTCOM: News Releases
SEVERAL MILITANTS, ONE CHILD KILLED, FOUR CHILDREN WOUNDED IN ZABUL PROVINCE
COALITION FORCES DISRUPT BAGHDAD CAR-BOMBING NETWORK; THREE DETAINED

USJFCOM
Command focusing on improving joint fires at the brigade combat team and below - More about JFIIT
Command leadership completes Transformation Advisory Group meetingCommand moves forward with Joint Urban Fires Prototype - podcast
USJFCOM commander meets the press - podcast

Multi-National Force-Iraq
Provincial Reconstruction Teams: The ‘Civilian Surge’
Successful Concerned Local Citizens program makes way for others
Lieutenant helps renovate Iraqi orphanage
Seeds of progress spread in Hawr Rajab
Attack aviation crews engage roadside bombers (Baghdad)
One MNC-I Soldier attacked, five wounded (Baghdad)
Coalition Forces attacked (Tikrit)
Tip from Concerned Iraqi Citizen leads to large EFP,
Dragon Talon II: MND-B troops find two caches, detain
Coalition operations continue to degrade al-Qaeda in Iraq network
Concerned Local Citizens find IEDs
Paratroopers detain two (Adwaniya)
Attack wounds government workers in Adhamiyah

DefenseLink
TOP NEWS
U.S., Russia Still Strategic Allies

IRAQ
Coalition Forces Detain 21 Suspects
Shiites Work Against Extremists

WILDFIRES
Military Planes Douse Wildfire Flames
Katrina Lessons Help Wildfire Response
National Guard Attacks Wildfires by Air, Land
Bush: Wildfires Constitute Major Disaster
Photo Essay: Troops Help Fight Wildfires
Photo Essay: Military Aids Evacuees

MILITARY NEWS
Chairman Asks Straight Questions, Gets Hard Answers from Soldiers About Service
Chairman Visits Army Posts, Meets Troops
Photo Essay: Chairman Visits Fort Leavenworth
Maritime Security Important for Africa

ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ
Soldiers Help Renovate Sadr City Girls' School

AFGHANISTAN
Coalition Forces Kill Five Extremists
Bridge Project to Employ Hundreds of Afghans


FACE OF DEFENSE
Airborne Buddies Are Friends for Life
Airborne Ranger Gets 'Dirty Jobs' Done
Retiree Trains for Run

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Literacy Group Reaches Out to Military Families

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

National Hurricane Center

Today in History
1648 - The Peace of Westphalia ends a 30-year war and the Holy Roman Empire
1795 - Austria, Prussia, and Russia make the third partition of Poland.
1836 - The match is patented.
1851 - William Lassell discovers Uranus' satellites Ariel and Umbriel.
1861 - The first transcontinental telegram is sent, ending the Pony Express.
1901 - Anna Taylor becomes the first woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1911 - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for the South Pole.
1929 - "Black Thursday" - the beginning of the stock market crash.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge (NY to NJ) opens.
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia.
1939 - Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time in Wilmington, DE.
1940 - Japan eliminates American terms (strike, play ball) from baseball.
1943 - The Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting.
1945 - The United Nations Charter takes effect.
1951 - The U.N. publishes its first postage stamps.
1952 - The Arab Liberation Movement becomes the only political party in Syria.
1956 - Soviet troops invade Hungary.
1960 - Disaster strikes on a Soviet launch pad; missile expert Nedelin and his team are believed killed (unconfirmed - the U.S.S.R. later claims he was killed in a plane crash).
1964 - Zambia gains independence from Britain.
1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens is elected president of Chile.
1973 - On the NJ Turnpike, heavy fog causes a 65-car pileup that kills 9; the Yom Kippur War officially ends.
1980 - The Polish government legalizes the independent labor union Solidarity.
1984 - Intelsat-5 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere, five months after it failed.
1987 - The Senate officially rejects the nomination of Robert Bork.
1988 - Typhoon Ruby sinks a Philippine ferry; hundreds drown.
1989 - Rev. Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud.

Birthdays
1788 - Sarah Josepha Hale, author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
1890 - Chicago Mainbocher, uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves)
1911 - Clarence M. Kelley, FBI head
1926 - Y.A. Tittle, NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants, MVP 1963)
1936 - Bill Wyman England, rocker (Rolling Stones); David Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1940 - F. Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus, Mad Man)
1947 - Kevin Kline, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill)

Passings
1537 - Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, due to complications after childbirth
1601 - Tycho Brahe, astronomer
1957 - Christian Dior, French designer
1961 - Dr. Milan Stoyadinovich, Fascist Yugoslavian PM (1935-9)
1971 - Chuck Hughes, Detroit Lion, collapses during game, and later dies
1972 - Jackie Robinson, first African-American player in modern major league baseball
1973 - Allan "Rocky" ,actor (voice of Mr. Ed)
1975 - Ismail Erez, Turkish ambassador, killed by a car bomb in Paris
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek creator, of a heart attack

Reported Missing in Action
1964
Woods, Lawrence, US Army SF (TN); C123 shot down (passenger); Killed, body not recovered

1967
Clark, Richard C., USN (WA); F4B shot down (backseater, w/Gillespie), captured

Frishmann, Robert F., USN (CA); F4B shot down (w/Lewis), released August, 1969

Gillespie, Charles R., USN (MS); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Clark), released by DRV March, 1973 - killed in MU2 crash February, 1989

Lewis, Earl G., USN (MO); released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Commander - alive as of 1998

1968
Tyler, George E., USAF (MI); F4D crashed


Heideman, Thomas E., USAF (IL); CH3C shot down (aircrew), KIA, body not recovered

1972
Bixel, Michael Sargent, USN (FL); A6A shot down (aircrew), KIA, body not recovered

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