Quote of the Day
"We knew that Bush is the enemy of God, the enemy of Islam and Muslims.
America declared war against God. Sharon declared war against God
and God declared war against America, Bush and Sharon...
The war of God continues against them, and I can see the victory
coming up from the land of Palestine by the hand of Hamas."
-- Abdel Aziz Rantissi, Hamas leader,
after the U.S. veto of a UN resoultion condemning Israel
for assassinating Hamas founder Sheik Ahmed Yassin.
(Rantissi was killed by an Israeli missile a few weeks later)
News of NoteOperation Iraqi FreedomGates: Don't Handcuff Our TroopsU.S. Soldiers Killed in Iraq Were First AbductedBush accepts Republican House resolution on IraqBomb kills 15, Bush critic Pelosi visits Baghdad -
VideoBush: 'I'm the decision-maker' on IraqSenate OKs new U.S. commander in IraqOliver North:
Does Congress Care?Operation Enduring FreedomChaplains Reach Out to Soldiers With Extended Tours in AfghanistanProgress Quietly Proceeds in AfghanistanHomeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah HappeningsFifteen Palestinians killed in Gaza clashesMortars, killings shake MogadishuHezbollah buries dead, urges Lebanese unity -
VideoTroops on TrialAbu Ghraib Officer Faces Court MartialOther Military NewsNavy Helicopter Crashes Off California CoastWorldwide WackosU.N. Officials: Iran to Assemble Thousands of Nuclear Centrifuges Next Month Report: Iran Preparing to Put Satellite in OrbitU.S. OKs 'Necessary Actions' Against IraniansIran wants senior atom inspector outMilitary.com Blog:
Is Iran Launching a Satellite?Two killed in suicide attack in Pakistani capital -
VideoU.S. bans luxury exports to North KoreaHomegrown MoonbatsRosie O'Donnell Sends 'Idols' to Disney WorldPolitics / GovernmentHuckabee to File for '08 Presidential RunLawyers probe Fleischer's immunity dealIn the Courts / Crime and PunishmentManhunt in the Desert -
VIDEOSearch Expands for Missing 3-Year-Old Montana BoyAuthorities: Man Who Posed as 12-Year-Old in Middle School Has Sex Tape With ChildFamily of Woman Who Died After Water-Drinking Contest Sues Radio Station6 H.S. Girls Charged in Murder Plot That Included Energizer BunnyTeens Who Cooked Puppy Alive Plead GuiltyCheer Coach Accused of Sex With StudentsEx-Students Get 5 Years for Seton Hall Fire3 Charged in Major Child Porn BustU.N. NewsU.N. condemns denials of Holocaust; Iran demursMedia in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the WebBartiromo did nothing wrong, says CNBCScience / NatureWife Saves Husband From Mouth of Lion With LogTwo Mountain Lions Shot After Calif. MaulingScientists use radio waves to detect explosivesNews from My Neck of the WoodsPHOTO ESSAY: Cold Grips Northeast -
STORY (HOLY CRAP it's cold!)OdditiesFisherman Returns Home for Own FuneralDelayed convict steals car to get back to jailHuge python makes a meal of 11 guard dogsAP: Michael Jackson returns to the U.S.Other News of NoteTailgating Banned at Super BowlChurch Hosting 'Porn and Pancakes' Talk Fox NewsDesigners Debate: Is Thin Still In? -
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STORYI-90 Reopens After Fatal Crash Near Erie, Pennsylvania Pop Tarts: 'Minder' Escorts Lindsay Lohan to Grocery StoreReal Estate Mogul Plans World's Most Expensive House, at $155 MillionReuters: Top NewsCanada to pay Arar $10.5 million for Syria ordealBlair sees momentum in WTO talksMinimum wage hike would help blacks: studyN.Y. scanners spark union cries of "geoslavery"Users go professional with online videoThe Phone wears PradaMurders spark soul-searching in sleepy Black Sea townSupreme Federer talks down his legacyDiet, exercise take off equal pounds, study finds"Presenteeism" afflicts business, experts sayHollywood studio chief loses bid for film creditNovelis stock surges on talk of company sale Nickel hits new highAmgen shares fall on drug setbacksFortune Brands outlook misses viewDow and S&P dip on rate worrySpinning profits from spinoffsBuying into battered energyWal-Mart not participating in February New York Fashion WeekDisney Leibovitz ads aim for older familyFor stocks, earnings may trump Fed and jobsLifting the Lid-Research firm hunts for clues in insider salesU.S. earns outlooks off this week: Reuters EstimatesNovelis in sale talks; India group said interestedAP World NewsStudy says skin tone affects earningsBeijing unveils centuries-old templesBluesman B.B. King hospitalized in Texas .
Judge balks at State Farm Katrina dealSnedeker extends Buick Invitational leadWinfrey chooses Sidney Poitier memoir9 youths convicted in Halloween beatingsDow ends down 16 on economic reportsBears QB knows how to handle criticismScalpers put Super Bowl tickets onlineAmnesia victim wandered for 25 daysHome sales fall; show faint life-signsScientist develops caffeinated doughnutsGozalez ready for Federer in AustraliaMilitary.comDoD Gives Equipment to Police Find a Military.com Career Fair Near YouConnect With Your old Military BuddiesSix Tips for Better Money ManagementCheck Out Military.com's Equipment GuideCENTCOM: News ReleasesMILITANT ATTACK USED DECEPTION, U.S. ARMY TYPE UNIFORMSIA CAPTURES LEADER OF TERRORIST BOMBING CELLIA SAVES IRAQI FAMILY FROM TERRORIST THREAT NEAR TAJIIRAQI POLICE-LED OPERATION FINDS TORTURE HOUSE AND WEAPON CACHES, DETAINS 21NINE INSURGENTS KILLED DURING WEAPONS DISTRIBUTIONFOOD DROP OPERATIONS IN WESTERN BAGHDAD NEIGHBORHOOD FOSTERING GOODWILL FROM RESIDENTSIP CAPTURES LEADER OF TERRORIST BOMBING CELL NEAR HASWAHCAMP LEJEUNE-BASED REGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM 2 RELIEVES TWENTYNINE PALMS UNIT IN WESTERN AL ANBAR PROVINCEREGIMENTAL COMBAT TEAM 6 ASSUMES RESPONSIBILITY FOR AREA OF OPERATIONHAIFA STREET B-ROLLIRAQIS HOLD REOPENING CELEBRATION FOR SCHOOLINSURGENTS’ TORTURE HOUSE FOUND – THREE CAPTIVESUSJFCOMUSJFCOM begins Integrated Battle Command Experiment Series -
podcast USJFCOM, others evaluate individual augmentee process -
podcastTraining comes to a close in exercise for Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa -
podcastLiveblogging: Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Mission Rehearsal Exercise 07-1 USJFCOM hosts first-responder focused modeling and simulation demonstration eventDepartment of DefenseNEWS UPDATESStability & Security in Iraq Report (pdf)For Top News Visit DefenseLinkON THE GROUNDMarine Helicopter Squadron Gets Ready to Deploy -
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StoryIN IRAQCombined Effort Provides Aid to Baghdad Insurgents and Weapons Found, Captives FreedArmy Engineers Help Develop Port CapacityIraqi Soldiers Lead Cordon and SearchMarines Clear Insurgents From River Valley Army Engineers Help Develop Port CapacityMarines Provide Combat Roadside ServiceU.S. Soldiers Help Open Schools in MushahidahIraqi Soldiers Receive Leadership TrainingDark Horse Keeps Watchful Eye Over Base Stryker Force Ready to Respond to ThreatMobile Surgical Unit Exercises MusclesSchool Supplies Bring Smiles to ChildrenIN DJIBOUTI Camp Lemonier Expansion Creates New JobsMarine Trains U.S. Embassy Troops in Djibouti BACKGROUND
IRAQRenewal In IraqIraq: Security, StabilityFact Sheet: Progress and Work AheadReport: Strategy for Victory in Iraq Iraq Daily UpdateThis Week in Iraq Multinational Force IraqState Dept. Weekly Iraq Report 'Boots on the Ground' Audio ArchiveWeekly Reconstruction Report (PDF) Iraq ReconstructionMapsAFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan UpdateMapsWAR ON TERRORISM
Fact Sheet: Budget RequestFact Sheet: Terror Plots DisruptedWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseCASUALTIESOfficials Identify Casualties
WASHINGTON, Jan. 26, 2007 - Defense Department officials announced the identities of five soldiers and one Marine who died supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
StoryWeatherAfghanistanBost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul QandaharGermanyAnsbach Aschaffenburg Berlin Berlin-Tempelhof Berlin/Schonefeld BremerhavenDarmstadt Frankfurt Frankfurt/Main Freiburg/Breisgau GarmischGarmisch-Partenkirchen Geilenkirchen Gelnhausen Giessen KitzingenHanau Am Main Heidelberg Mainz Mannheim Nurnberg Stuttgart TrierWiesbaden WurzburgGitmoGuamAgana Agana Heights Agat Andersen AFB Asan BarrigadaIraqAl Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al KutAn Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall KayfJapanKadena Air Base Okinawa Tokyo YokohamaPhilippinesBaler Radar Site Catanduanes Radar Site ManilaSouth KoreaCheju Upper/Radar Chonju Chunchon Inch'on Kunsan Masan Mokp'oOsan Pusan Seoul Suwon Taegu Taejon Tonghae Radar Site Ulsan Yosu* If you're deployed, and want to see your location's weather listed here, please email me!Today in History0672 - St Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope
0847 - Sergius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1302 - Dante becomes a Florentine political exile
1538 - States of Gelderland accepts Willem van Kleef as viceroy
1556 - Willem of Orange becomes knight of Guilder Flies
1593 - Vatican opens 7 year trial against scholar Giordano Bruno
1662 - 1st American lime kiln begins operation (Providence RI)
1671 - Pirate Henry Morgen lands at Panama City
1710 - Czar Peter the Great sets 1st Russian state budget
1736 - Abdication of Stanislas, last king of Poland
1785 - 1st US state university chartered, Athens GA
1823 - President Monroe appoints 1st US ambassadors to South America
1864 - Civil War skirmish at Kelly's Ford, VA; Battle of Fair Gardens, Tennessee
1870 - Manitoba & Northwest Territories incorporated; After accepting 15th amendment, Virginia is readmitted to Union
1880 - Thomas Edison patents electric incandescent lamp
1886 - 1st British government of Salisbury resigns
1888 - National Geographic Society organizes (Washington DC)
1891 - Mine explosion kills 109 at Mount Pleasant, PA
1897 - British troops occupy Bida Gold Coast (Ghana)
1900 - Social Democrat Party of America (Debs' party) holds 1st convention
1902 - 5 workers killed on explosion during IRT subway construction (New York City NY)
1905 - Maurice Rouvier forms government in France
1908 - Pasiphaë, a satellite of Jupiter, discovered by Melotte
1915 - US Marines occupy Haiti
1916 - Communist party "Spartacus Letters" 1st published in Berlin
1918 - "Tarzan of the Apes", 1st Tarzan film, premieres at Broadway Theater
1924 - Egyptian king Foead nominates Saad Zaghloel Pasja premier
1924 - Lenin placed in Mausoleum in Red Square
1926 - US Senate agrees to join World Court
1927 - Harlem Globetrotters play their 1st game
1934 - French government of Chautemps falls (Stavisky Affair)
1941 - Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreibér warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor
1943 - 1st US air attack on Germany (Wilhelmshafen)
1944 - Leningrad liberated from Germany in 880 days, with 600,000 killed
1945 - Nazi occupiers forbid food transport to West (The Netherlands); Russia liberates Auschwitz & Birkenau Concentration Camp (Poland); Wally van Hall, "banker in defiance", arrested
1948 - 1st locomotive to carry 1,000,000 pounds (450,000 kg) operates; 1st tape recorder sold
1951 - US begins 126 nuclear tests at Nevada Test Site
1953 - Netherlands end Marshall aid
1958 - Ferenc Münnich follows Kádár as premier of Hungary
1961 - "Sing Along with Mitch" [Miller] premieres on NBC TV
1963 - Sam Rice, Eppa Rixey, Elmer Flick, & John Clarkson elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
1965 - 1st ground station-to-aircraft radio communication via satellite
1967 -
Apollo 1 fire kills astronauts Grissom, White & Chaffee1967 - Treaty signed banning military use of nuclear weapons in space
1969 - 14 spies hanged in Baghdad; 9 Jews publicly executed in Damascus Syria
1970 - Movie rating system modifies "M" rating to "PG"
1971 - Montgomery St Station, last link in BART, `holed thru'
1973 -
William Rogers & Nguyen Duy Trinh sign US-N Vietnam treaty1976 - "Laverne & Shirley" spin-off from "Happy Days" premieres on ABC TV; Morocco-Algeria battles in Westerly Sahara
1977 - President Carter pardons most Vietnam War draft evaders (10,000); 1st broadcast of "Roots" mini-series on ABC TV
1982 - Mauno Koivisto installed as President of Finland; Roberto S. Cordova installed as President of Honduras
1984 - Michael Jackson is burned during filming for Pepsi commercial
1985 - 15th Space Shuttle (51-C) Mission-Discovery 3 returns to Earth
1988 - Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves nomination of Judge Anthony M. Kennedy to US Supreme Court
1989 - German war criminals Fischer & Austrian der Fünten freed
1990 - Dissolution of Polish communist party
1991 - Dutch PSP, Pacifist Socialistic Party, disbands
1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial for rape (he is found guilty); Presidential candidate Bill Clinton (D) & Genifer Flowers accuse each other of lying over her assertion they had a 12-year affair
1993 - DC-3 crashes in Kinshasa, killing 12
1994 - Carlos Reina succeeds President Callejas in Honduras; Romanian social-democrats form government with anti-Semites
1996 - 15 day old siamese twins separated-Sarah Morales survives, Sarahi dies; Germany celebrates its 1st Holocaust Remembrance Day
1998 - Crane crashes into Roosevelt Is (New York City NY) Tram, injuring 10
Birthdays1546 - Joachim III, Frederick elector (Brandenburg); Abbas I "the Great", shah of Persia (1587-1629)
1822 - Thomas Leiper Kane, Union Brevet Major General
1826 - Richard Taylor, Confederate Lieutenant-General
1828 - Samuel Allen Rice, Union Brigadier General
1830 - William Henry Fitzhugh Payne, Confederate Brigadier General
1832 - Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson], author (Alice in Wonderland)
1834 - Dmitri Mendeleev, chemist (discovered periodic table of the elements); Robert Sanford Foster, Union Brevet Major General
1850 - Samuel Gompers, Dutch/US 1st president-American Federation of Labor
1859 - Kaiser Wilhelm II Potsdam, German emperor (1888-1918)
1872 - Learned Hand, Chief judge (US Court of Appeals)
1887 - Carl Blegen, archaeologist (excavator at Troy, Pylos)
1900 -
Hyman G. Rickover, US Admiral (father of modern nuclear navy)1908 - William Randolph Hearst, Jr., newspaper publisher (Hearst Publishing)
1914 - Anna Larina, revolutionary
1921 - Donna Reed, actress (From Here to Eternity, Wonderful Life)
1922 - Wilfrid Bourne, QC/Clerk of the Crown in Chancery
1924 - Kenneth Corfield CEO (STC); Rauf Denktasj Turkish-Cypriot politician; William van Straubenzee, British MP
1925 - Geoffrey Tucker, British political consultant
1927 - Nancy Dickerson, journalist (NBC)
1930 - Esteban Edward Torres (Representative-CA); Roger Sims, British MP
1932 - Neville Trotter, British MP
1933 - Mohamed Al Fayed, CEO (Harrods); Rita Hennessy, matron-in-chief (QARANC)
1934 - Federico Mayor Zaragoza Barcelona, Spain, UNESCO directorl Donald Spiers, controller (Aircraft MoD); Edithe Cresson, premier of France (1991-92); Julian Ogilvie Thompson, CEO (De Beers)
1935 - Gillian Beer, professor/president (Clare Hall-Cambridge)
1938 - Timothy, Captain of The Queen's Flight
1940 - Brian T. O'Leary, astronaut
1945 - Mairead Corrigan-Maguire, North Irish peace activist (Nobel 1976)
1958 - Alan Milburn, British MP
1970 - Carlos Javier Bernardo, Dutch prince
Passings0098 - Marius Cocceius Nerva, Emperor of Rome (96-98), dies at about 67
0672 - Vitalianus, pope (657-72)/saint
0847 - Sergius II, pope (844-47)
1565 - Robrecht de Berghes, prince-bishop of Liege (1557-64)
1699 - William Temple, statesman
1763 - John Theodor of Bavaria, prince-bishop of Liege/cardinal, dies
1816 - Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood/admiral
1851 - John James Audubon, conservationist (Audubon Society), dies at 65
1857 - Dorothea von Benckendorff. Baltic monarch of Lieven, dies at 72
1889 - Ivan S. Aksakov, Russian journalist, dies at 65
1893 - James G. Blaine, US minister of foreign affairs, dies at 62
1967 -
Roger B. Chaffee astronaut, dies at 31 in Apollo I fire; Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom astronaut, dies at 41 in Apollo I fire; Edward Higgins White II, Lieutenant-Colonel USAF/astronaut (Gemini 4), dies in Apollo I fire at 36; Alphonse Juin, French marshal, dies at 78
1974 - Georgios Grivas, Greek General/opposition leader on Cyprus (EOKA), dies at 75
1981 - Leo Collard, Belgian minister of Education (1946/54-58), dies at 78
1983 - Paul "Bear" Bryant, US football coach (Alabama), dies at 69
1986 - L. Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74
1993 - Andre "the Giant" Roussimoff, WWF wrestler, dies of heart attack at 49
1995 - Halsey S. Colchester, British SAS/MI6-spy/priest, dies at 76
1996 - Olga Havlova, political activist, dies at 63; Ralph Webster, Yarborough, politician, dies at 92
1997 - Cecil Lewis, airman/writer, dies at 98; Matthew Coady, journalist, dies at 73
Reported Missing in Action
1968
Cordova, Robert J.,
USN (NE); reported missing overboard, KIA
1969 Conger, John E.,
US Army (OH); reported WIA
1973
Hall, Harley H.,
USN (WA); F4J shot down (pilot, w/Kientzler) - Killed in Captivity, remains returned June, 1995 (ID disputed)
Kientzler, Phillip A.,
USN (CA); F4J shot down (RIO, w/Hall), released by PRG March, 1973
Morris, George W., Jr.,
USAF (CA); OV10 shot down while looking for Hall and Kientzler (co-pilot), ejected
Peterson, Mark A.,
USAF (OH); OV10A shot down while looking for Hall and Kientzler (pilot, w/Morris), ejected
1974 Bell, Steve,
Civilian; detained 24 hours and released
Collins, Peter,
Civilian; detained 24 hours and released
U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division conduct door- to - door searches during a raid on suspected weapons caches in Al Doura, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Olanrewaju Akinwunmi
U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division conduct door to door searches during a raid on suspected weapons caches in Al Doura southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Olanrewaju Akinwunmi
A U.S. Army gunner from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division keeps an eye for any enemy activity during a raid on suspected weapons caches in Al Doura, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Olanrewaju Akinwunmi
A U.S. Army soldier from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division scales a fence during a raid on suspected weapons caches in Al Doura, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Olanrewaju Akinwunmi
A U.S. Army soldier from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division provides security during a raid on suspected weapons caches in Al Doura, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Olanrewaju Akinwunmi
U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division search a pile of rubble for weapons in Al Doura, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Olanrewaju Akinwunmi
U.S. Army Staff Sgts. Douglas Middleton and Joseph Staver, from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division, dig a site for suspected weapons cache in Al Doura, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2006. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Olanrewaju Akinwunmi
U.S. Army soldiers from Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division cordon off the streets during a search for suspected weapons caches in Al Doura, southwest of Baghdad, Iraq, Jan. 18, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Spc. Olanrewaju Akinwunmi
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