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Read the Entire Tillman ReportOther Military NewsJapanese Prime Minister Apologizes to World War II-Era Sex SlavesWorldwide WackosIran softens stance on British sailorsIran Floats Threat of Trying Captured British TroopsIran: Detained British Troops Being Interrogated Gitmo Detainee Considers PleaRussia, China to Iran: Comply With U.N.China, Russia leaders reject force on Iran, N.KoreaEU, Iran seek common ground on nukesHomegrown MoonbatsSean Penn Leads California Town Hall Against Iraq WarPolitics / GovernmentEx-Reagan budget director charged with fraudBush, automakers avoid talk on fuel economy -
VideoSupport for Gonzales ErodingBush urged to allow top aides to testify under oathVIDEO: Republican, Democratic Senators Debate Firings Flap Clinton opens up about attorney firingsGonzales Aide Pleads the FifthAide Nabbed Carrying Senator's GunHillary Clinton's $2.6 Million Hollywood HitRice, U.N. chief try to revive Mideast peace process -
VideoIowa's Vilsack endorses Hillary Clinton for 2008Illegal Immigration / Border ControlBorder Agent Jailed for Taking BribesIn the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and OrderSix Off-Duty Chicago Police Officers Accused of Beating Four Men in a BarEx-Boyfriend Accused of Murdering Texas A&M Student and Burning Body on Patio GrillDVD Pirates Place Bounty on Bootleg-Sniffing Dogs' HeadsMichigan Man Sentenced to Jail After Sex Pact With Girlfriend, 15-Year-Old DaughterDefense Attorney in Duke Sexual Assault Case Dies of Heart AttackAmber Alert in Washington for 2 ChildrenSupreme Court to Hear Fla. Child Porn CaseGays arrested at Ky. seminary sit-inMan accused of killing wife diesMedia in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the WebYouTube Reveals Winners of First AwardsScience / Medicine / TechnologyAspirin May Lower Risk of Death in WomenTrans fats linked to greater heart disease riskStudy describes new type of "semi-identical" twinsFrench scientists rebut U.S., Muslim creationismDrugs for 'good' cholesterol fail testsMost angioplasties unneeded, study findsNews from My Neck of the WoodsMassachusetts Man Dives into Freezing Harbor to Save 5-Year-Old GirlCaptain fined in sunken NY tourboat that killed 20OdditiesGolf Team Wedgie Hazing Sends Georgia Student to the Emergency Room (YIKES!)Pakistani Woman Hands Over Teenage Daughter for Poker Debt Wanted in Ohio: two pizzas and a deadbeat parentRev isn't always short for reverendOther News of NoteNY lab doing further pet food testingUNC Mascot Dies After Car Hits HimFox NewsProbe Opened After 2 Fall Off Cruise ShipAnna Nicole Smith's Death Due to Accidental OverdoseSister of Dying Man Refuses to Donate Bone Marrow to Save His LifeStudy Links Child Care and Bad BehaviorReuters: Top NewsN. Ireland parties seal power-sharing deal -
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Video"Potter" stars set for more wizardryTech edges up, but oil and housing hit DowOil hits 2007 high at $63 on Iran tensionsDell shares rise on upgradeBoston Scientific shrs off as Abbott stent shinesDollar slips on disappointing new-home sales dataReuters Summit: Middle East InvestmentVideo: Global: $10b in Assets SoonTyco's value in questionAsterisk marked Conrad Black's payment: witnessCitigroup may cut 15,000 jobs: papersNew home sales fall; some see Fed rate cutsMerck, Schering to develop combo pill with LipitorOracle suit may prompt criminal action against SAPWal-Mart's Asda mulls Sainsbury bid -sourcesAP World NewsEminem, ex-wife, agree to be agreeable'Pacman' Jones could face felony chargesStocks end mixed after trimming lossesDurant, Oden on AP All-America teamWeiland's wife arrested in clothes torchSales of new homes fall sharplySaints to stay in Louisiana through 2010Georgetown upsets N.C. to make Final 4No empty Garden for Elton John, now 60Viewers pick Broadway's 'Grease' starsIntel plans $2.5B chip factory in ChinaMilitary.comPodcast:
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podcastMarine Corps commandant visits U.S. Joint Forces Command -
podcastUSJFCOM signs cooperative research and development agreement with Alion -
podcastMore about cooperative research and development agreements DefenseLinkKeating Takes Command of U.S. Pacific Command -
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StoryIN IRAQEagles and Commandos Find WeaponsSoldiers Rely on Efficient Transport of SuppliesArmy Brigade Begins Work With Baghdad ZooIN AFGHANISTAN Med Evac Flies First Non-stop to GermanyAfghan, U.S. Troops Discuss Future with EldersIN DJIBOUTIForecasts, Updates Assist in Naval PlanningWell-drilling Team Helps Save Girl’s Arm, LifeBACKGROUNDIRAQRenewal 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 TERRORISMFact Sheet: Budget RequestFact Sheet: Terror Plots DisruptedWaging and Winning the War on TerrorTerrorism TimelineTerrorism Knowledge BaseWeatherAfghanistanBost/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 YokohamaToday in History1668 - Britain takes control of Bombay, India
1790 - The US Congress passes the Naturalization Act
1793 - Pro-royalists riot in Vendée region of France
1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa, Palestine
1804 - The US Congress orders the removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana; The Territory of Orleans is organized in the Louisiana Purchase
1862 - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, New Mexico Territory
1863 - West Virginia votes to approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1913 - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1931 - Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign a peace treaty
1935 - "RvJ" Mitchell & Major Sorley discuss the armament of the Spitfire
1942 - The 1st "Eichmann transport" to the Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
1942 - Colonel-General Rommel launches a German offensive in North Africa
1943 - Army Nurse Elsie S. Ott becomes the first woman to receive an air medal; Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific theater
1944 - 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 - Churchill looks over at the Rhine, near Ginsberg; Generals Eisenhower, Bradley, and Patton attack at Remagen; Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima; Kamikazes attack the US battle fleet near Kerama Retto; The US 7th Army crosses the Rhine at Worms
1954 - The US performs an atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge on the River Kwai", Alec Guinness & Joanne Woodward win; The US Army launches America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1960 - Iraq executes 30 after an attack on President Kassem
1971 - Bangladesh declares independence
1974 - The Romanian communist party names Nicolae Ceausescu President
1979 - Israel and Egypt sign the Camp David peace treaty
1982 - In Washington DC, ground is broken for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1989 - 190 million votes are cast in the first free elections in the USSR; Boris Yeltsin wins
Birthdays1479 - Vasili III, great prince of Moscow, son of Ivan III
1813 - Thomas West Sherman, Union Brevet Major General
1817 - Herman Haupt, Union Brigadier General
1868 - Fuad I, King of Egypt
1875 - Syngman Rhee, President, South Korea
1893 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder of the Communist Party of Italy
1914 - Ian McGeoch, Vice-Admiral
1914 - William Westmoreland, US Army General (Vietnam)
1920 - George E. Brown, Jr. (Representative, CA)
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st female Supreme Court Justice
1940 - Nancy Pelosi (Representative, CA)
1962 - Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, Russian Lt. Colonel/cosmonaut
Passings 0752 - Pope Stephen II, dies only 4 days after his election
1258 - Floris the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies
1350 - Alfonso XI, King of Castile & León
1546 - Thomas Elyot British diplomat, dies
1649 - John Winthrop, Puritan & 1st Governor (Massachusetts)
1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies in Wien (Vienna) at 56
1902 - Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48
1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74
1945 - David Lloyd George British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82; Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1948 - Helen Ernst German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
1975 - Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz, King of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered at 68
1983 - Anthony F. Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75
1993 - Roy Riegels University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
1994 - Constantine Koukouchkine, Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at 41
1996 - Edmund S. Muskie, Vice Presidential candidate/(Governor-ME), dies at 81
Reported Missing in Action1964 Thompson, Floyd J.,
US Army SF; L19 shot down (w/Whitesides), released March, 1973 - alive as of 1998
Whitesides, Richard L.,
USAF (CA); L19 shot down (w/Thompson), NVA told Thompson he was Killed
1967Crow, Frederick A., Jr.,
USAF (VA); F4C shot down (w/Fowler), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
Fowler, Henry P.,
USAF (MD); F4C shot down (w/Crow), released by DRV February, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive as of 1998
1968 The following USMC personnel reported MIA when their UH34D crashed while evacuating wounded; all listed as Killed, body not recovered:Allgood, Frankie E. (KS); passenger
Evancho, Richard (PA); passenger
Green, Larry E. (MI); crew chief
Kerr, Ernest C., Jr. (OH); gunner
Lomax, Richard E. (OH);
Mowrey, Glenn W. (OH); passenger
1970
Allen, Henry L.,
USAF (FL); O1 shot down (w/Elzinga)
Elzinga, Richard G.,
USAF (OR); O1 shot down (w/Allen)
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Women and children from a Shia neighborhood in Baqubah file past a Stryker vehicle of Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
A schoolgirl in a Shia neighborhood in Baqubah stares at a Stryker vehicle of Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
Schoolgirls in a Shia neighborhood in Baqubah file past a Stryker vehicle of Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
A Soldier with Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., walks by a bullet-ridden window in a building in Baqubah March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
A Soldier with Company A, 5th Battalion, 20th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, from Fort Lewis, Wash., pulls security from a rooftop in Baqubah March 22. Soldiers of Company A visited a sheik in the neighborhood and met with area residents. The unit arrived in Baqubah on March 13 to reinforce recent successes by the 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sergeant Antonieta Rico, 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
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