Quote of the Day
"You cannot negotiate with terrorists
because the single response of terrorists
for fulfilling their demands is blackmail -
new demands, nothing more.
This was our experience
with the regime of Adolph Hitler"
-- Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman, February 17, 2002
News of NoteOperation Iraqi FreedomPentagon Announces 35,000 to Deploy to IraqDems Offer Plan to Fund Iraq War Through JulyCheney makes unannounced visit to IraqSuicide truck bomber kills 19 in IraqOperation Enduring Freedom21 civilians killed in Afghan airstrikeHomeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings
'Unsung Hero' Store Clerk Cracked Jihad Terror PlotFOX Facts: Background on Fort Dix -
VIDEOStore Clerk Helps Feds Bust 6 in Alleged 'Jihad' Plot to Kill U.S. Soldiers at Fort DixJury chosen in former "enemy combatant" trialCuban deserters could be shot for hijack deathsNorth Africa Qaeda wing vows more suicide bombingsCIA did not focus enough on Khan network: researcherOlmert expected to meet Abbas next weekVideo allegedly shows Algerian attackTroops on TrialMarine says found live children among Haditha deadFallen HeroesQueen Elizabeth II to Visit National World War II MemorialOther Military NewsPentagon: Guard Ready for Natural DisastersChanges urged in veteran combat stress policiesWhite House rebuts Guard shortage claimLawmakers Urge GI Bill ExtensionF-22's Wrap up Okinawa DeploymentReligion of Peace??Canadian Women Booted From Saudi FairWorldwide WackosMajor powers to discuss sanctions against Iran -
VideoPolitics / GovernmentSouth Dakota Won't Recall License Plate Calling for Bush ImpeachmentN.Y. Gov. Spitzer to Endorse HillarySharpton denies disputing Romney's faithIllegal Immigration / Border ControlJudge Tosses Fed Indictment of Cuban MilitantSenate talks on immigration bill threatenedLA immigrant activist plan June 24 rallyIn the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
Laughing All the Way to the BankCourt Weighs Koran vs. BibleBrewer Ordered to Pay $49G to Alcoholic Beer TasterWoman Testifies 'Demonic' Spector Forced Her Into Bedroom at Gunpoint$20,000 Reward Offered for Information on Missing Illinois MomNew York Mets Fan Sues Team Over Broken Back Suffered at BallparkPolice Arrest Student Gunman for Deadly Shooting Over PlayStationDOJ: Alleged D.C. Madam Client Is DeadUniversity of Texas Investigates Frat Death- Mo. Sorority Sisters Charged With Hazing$20K Reward Offered for Info on Missing MomMedia in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the WebOld media turns combative against new mediaScience / Medicine / TechnologyTime of Conception Changes Baby's SmartsHospital: We Broke Law By Sterilizing GirlBird flu not only pandemic risk, U.S. experts warnMars probe in Florida for launch preparationsInternet encyclopedia to list all 1.8 mln speciesSoup or salad before a meal helps weight loss-studyStates react to crisis pregnancy centersScientists: Storms power winds on SaturnMother NatureKansas Tornado Cop Dies After Daughter's Bedside WeddingDelaying tactics endanger US wildlife: reportFire in L.A. hills forces evacuation of zoo, parkKansas residents mull whether to rebuildMidwest flooding could near 1993 levelsBear kills moose in Alaska drivewayOdditiesNotorious Black Cult Leader Dead -
Yehweh Ben Yehweh ran Temple of LoveMan takes driving test drunk, failsMotorists drove around dead body on road -
VideoOther News of NoteCracker Barrel Yanks Burgers From MenuFox News
Pop Tarts: Lindsay Lohan Caught in Cocaine Crisis?Reuters: Top NewsU.S. digs in as Europe queries Wolfowitz's commandFrance's Sarkozy attacked over luxury cruiseQuebec separatist leader quits after election lossU.S. urges World Bank to give Wolfowitz "fair process"Men go for luxury when choosing handbags-surveyParis Hilton draws petitions for, against jail -
Video"Ashamed" George Michael admits to driving on drugs -
VideoNikkei nearly flat on profit-takingDollar drifts sideways before Fed decisionWall Street ends steady ahead of Fed meeting -
VideoCisco posts higher profit but market unimpressedReuters investors say bid is fairNasdaq: No "meaningful" LBO plansAudio: Are specialists days numbered?Bidding war seen over AlcanThomson in talks to buy Reuters -
VideoSEC charges Hong Kong couple over Dow Jones tradesDisney profit up on studio, revs short of Wall StStriking GM Opel workers to vote ThursdayEA warns on 2008 profit as "Spore" delayedAP World NewsPope begins pilgrimage to Latin America`Dancing With the Stars' loses one moreFed expected to keep rates steadyNose job: Suns square series with SpursGas station owner told to raise pricesLeBron means business as Cavs cut NetsO.J. tossed from steakhouse on Derby eveMaturing Beckett leads majors in winsMost NASCAR teams want COT in 2008Disney earnings grow 2.1 percentTom Sizemore arrested in drug caseObituaries in the newsMilitary.comPoll:
Is the VA Doing Enough About PTSD?New Must-Have Benefits GuidePodcast:
"The Unit" Season FinaleSpouseBUZZ Live! Going to SoCalBlog:
Real OPSEC ViolatorsDef Tech:
Rat Claws to the RescueSend your love home!CENTCOM: News ReleasesAIRPOWER SUMMARY FOR MAY 7USS NIMITZ STRIKE GROUP ARRIVES IN 5TH FLEETUSJFCOMU.S. Joint Forces Command modeling and simulation division wins awardLiveblogging: Department of Defense Modeling and Simulation Conference 2007Joint Futures Lab flexes cross-domain translation capability during Trident Warrior 2007 -
podcastLearn more about CDCIEUSJFCOM to assist as DoD and DEA partner up to support personnel recovery -
podcastLearn more about JPRAJoint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability rolls out enhanced Joint Knowledge Online - podcastDefenseLinkSix Arrested for Plotting to Kill U.S. Soldiers -
StoryNational Guard Has Assets for Kansas Relief -
StoryOfficials Announce Next Iraq Troop Rotation -
StoryU.S. Soldiers Continue to Gain Trust of Afghans -
StoryOfficial Apologizes over Accidental Deaths -
StoryU.S. Navy Seahawk Helicopter Crashes in Nevada -
StoryMore Headline NewsSigns of Progress Seen in Anbar ReconstructionIraqis Can Move Forward as Surge Takes HoldInstitutional Competence Slow, But GrowingNational Guard Responds to Tornado AftermathMilitary NewsOfficials ID Five Missing World War II Airmen Webcasts Bring Graduations to Deployed ParentsEdwards Airmen Star in 'Ironman' Superhero MovieU.S. Soldiers, Community Remember Wereth 11America Supports YouJeff Gordon’s No. 24 Car Showcases Program Logo -
StoryFormer Marine Helps Heroes Group Helps Families in CrisisPentagon Concert Kicks Off Military Appreciation Month War on TerrorIraqi, Coalition Forces Detain 24 -
StoryThree Servicemembers KilledTaliban Militants Detained12 U.S. Troops Die in IraqTransformationUnmanned Aircraft Wing DebutsNew Concept Ensures Latest Technologies Reach WarfightersTechnology Leaves No Place to Hide Face of DefenseHawaiian Soldier Will Rely on ‘Ohana’ to Manage Extension -
StorySpecialist Sews for OthersAirman Dedicates Work to FallenArmy Scientist Studies SoldiersSoldier Helps African YoungstersDefendAmericaON THE GROUNDMental Health Care Moves to Military Front Lines -
StoryArmy Reserve Chief Visits Troops in Africa -
StorySoldiers Continue To Build Schools Amid Attacks -
StoryIraqi Soldiers Say They Serve for Country, Family -
StoryIN IRAQWolfhounds Secure Economic Success in IraqBombed-out Baghdad Building Has New MissionWater Tops Priorities for Kirkuk’s Rural MajorityAerial Porters Save Lives by Moving Air CargoDragon Soldiers Vie for Prestigious InvitationKirkuk Police Academy Boosts Training LevelIN DJIBOUTI Marines Donate Fitness Equipment to VillagersIN AFGHANISTAN Spartan Sappers Secure Area of OperationTroop Commander Delivers Aid, MentorshipBACKGROUNDIRAQRenewal 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 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 Yokohama1502 - Columbus sets sail from Spain on his 4th & final trip to New World.
1689 - King William III of England declares war on France.
1753 - King Louis XV disbands the French parliament.
1788 - English parliament accepts abolishment of the slave trade.
1862 - The U.S. Naval Academy is relocated from Annapolis, MD to Newport, RI.
1864 - Battle of Dalton, GA
1901 - Australia opens its first parliament in Melbourne.
1936 - Italy takes Addis Ababa, annexing Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1941 - The British Army breaks German spy codes.
1943 - The 5th German Panser army surrenders in Tunisia.
1944 - Dutch resistance fighter Gerard Musch is arrested; The Russians recapture Crimea, taking Sevastopol.
1945 - Czechoslovakia is liberated from Nazi occupation; Jersey is liberated from the Nazis; Nazi propagandist Max Blokzijl is arrested; A victory celebration takes place at Red Square.
1949 - Prince Rainier III becomes the leader of Monaco.
1950 - French Foreign minister Robert Schuman announces the Schuman Plan for European integration.
1955 - The German Federal Republic joins NATO.
1960 - Nigeria becomes a member of the British Commonwealth; The U.S. send a U-2 over the USSR.
1962 - A laser beam is successfully bounced off the Moon for the first time.
1964 - Khrushchev visits Egypt.
1967 - The first flight of a Fokker F-28 Fellowship occurs.
1977 - Patty Hearst is released from prison.
1978 - The corpse of kidnapped ex-premier Aldo Moro is found.
1979 - The U.S. & USSR sign the Salt 2 treaty, limiting nuclear weapons.
1989 - Vice President Dan Quayle says in a United Negro College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead of "a mind is terrible thing to waste."
1993 - Paraguay holds its first presidential & parliamentary elections in 50 years.
1995 - Kinshasa, Zaire is placed under quarantine after an outbreak of the Ebola virus.
1997 - The first US ambassador since Saigon fell arrives in Vietnam.
Birthdays
1800 - John Brown, abolitionist; leader of Harpers Ferry attack
1824 - William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate Brigadier General
1873 - Howard Carter British archaeologist/Egyptologist, discoverer of King Tut's tomb
1907 - Baldur von Schirach German writer/Nazi politician
1913 - John Hayes, Admiral
1915 - Richard Janvrin, British Vice Admiral
1918 - Mike Wallace, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes); Orville Freeman, (Senator-MN)/Secretary of Agriculture
1927 - Manfred Eigen, German physicist/chemist, 1967 Nobel Prize winner
1931 - Vance DeVoe Brand Longmont, astronaut (Apollo 18, STS-5, 41B, 35)
1932 - J. Alex McMillan (Representative-NC)
1942 - John D. Ashcroft (Governor, MO /Attorney General)
1949 - Oleg Yuriyevich Atkov, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz T-10)
Passings
1280 - Magnus VI Lagaboeter, King of Norway (1263-80), dies at 42
1657 - William Bradford Governor (Plymouth Colony, Massachusetts), dies
1667 - Marie Louise de Gonzague-Nevers, French Queen of Poland (1645-48)
1688 - Frederick William, Great Elector of Brandenburg, dies at 68
1864 - "Uncle" John Sedgwick, Union Major-General, dies in battle at 50; Thomas Donnely Doubleday, Union Colonel, dies in an accident
1931 - A[lbert] A[braham] Michelson, US physicist (1907 Nobel), dies at 78
1937 - Walter Mittelholzer, Swiss aviation pioneer, dies in crash at 43
1949 - Louis II Prince of Monaco
1965 - Leopold Figl, premier of Austria, dies at 62
1968 - Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), dies at 74
1987 - Obafemi Awolowo, President of Nigeria (1979-83), dies at 78
1990 - Pauline Frederick 1st woman to moderate Presidential debate, dies at 84
1991 - James L. Reinsch media-advisor (Roosevelt/Churchill/Kennedy)
1992 - Mike Tyrell [Red Baron], British air acrobat, dies in an accident
Reported Missing in Action1965
Kardell, David A.,
USN (CA); F8D crashed, remains returned July, 1989 - ID'd November, 1989
Wistrand, Robert C.,
USAF (NY); F105D crashed
1966 Dexter, Bennie L.,
USAF (OR); capture witnessed, Jeep found
1967 Todd, Robert Jacy,
USMC (MA); KIA/BNR
1968Leopold, Stephen R.,
US Army (OK); released by PRG (injured) March, 1973 - alive as of 1998
Van Artsdalen, Clifford V.,
US Army (PA); KIA/BNR
1970Haight, Stephen H.,
US Army (NY); UH1C crashed - Killed, BNR
1972 Reeder, William S.,
US Army (CA); AH1G shot down, released by PRG March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel
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