An Iraqi army soldier cuts the lock off a gate to search a house during a clearing mission with U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment in Rashid, Iraq, June 2, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland


An Iraqi army soldier searches a house during a clearing mission with U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment in Rashid, Iraq, June 2, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland


A U.S. Army soldier assigned to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, pulls security while soldiers break through a gate to search a house in Rashid, Iraq, June 2, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland


Iraqi army soldiers search a house during a clearing mission with U.S. Army soldiers assigned with Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment in Rashid, Iraq, June 2, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland


An Iraqi army soldier searches a house during a clearing mission with U.S. Army soldiers in Rashid, Iraq, June 2, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland


U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Alpha Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Infantry Regiment, continue to perform a cordon and search in Rashid, Iraq, June 2, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tierney Nowland



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Worldwide Wackos
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Adventures in Political Correctness
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Mother Nature
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Death toll in Australian storm rises to six

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AP World News
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Transformation
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IN DJIBOUTI
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IN AFGHANISTAN
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BACKGROUND
IRAQ
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Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
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Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report
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Wiesbaden Wurzburg

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Iraq
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Japan
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Today in History
1628 - Thomas Morton becomes the first person deported from what is now the U.S. (in Massachusetts).
1732 - James Oglethorpe receives a royal charter for Georgia.
1822 - Charles Graham receives the first patent for false teeth.
1862 - Battle of Port Republic.
1863 - Battle of Brandy Station, Va.
1898 - China leases Hong Kong's New Territories to Britain for 99 years.
1934 - The first Donald Duck cartoon is released ("The Wise Little Hen").
1940 - Norway surrenders to Germany.
1949 - Georgia Neese Clark becomes the first woman Treasurer of the U.S.
1954 - During the Senate-Army hearings, Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy, "Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
1959 - In Groton, CT, the first ballistic missile submarine is launched (USS George Washington).
1969 - Warren Burger is confirmed as U.S. Chief Justice.
1980 - The Soyuz T-2 returns to Earth.
1982 - Israel wipes out Syrian SAM missiles in the Bekaa Valley.
1984 - NASA launches the Intelsat V - it failed.
1985 - The U.S.S.R.'s Vega 1 deposits its lander on Venus.
1988 - Attorney General Meese orders Joseph Doherty, bartender and IRA member, deported to the U.K.
1997 - The British lease on the New Territories in Hong Kong expires

Birthdays
1640 - Leopold I, Emperor of Holy Roman Empire
1916 - Robert S. McNamara U.S. Secretary of Defense / head of World Bank
1930 - Marvin Kalb, educator / newscaster (CBS/NBC)
1934 - Donald Duck

Passings
68 - Nero Roman Emperor, suicide
1870 - Charles Dickens, author

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Dale, Charles A., US Army (AZ); OV1C shot down over Vinh Bihn (w/Demmon)

Demmon, David S., US Army (CA); OV1C shot down over Vinh Bihn (w/Dale)

1966
Bush, Robert Ira, USAF (WI); A1E shot down (w/Shorack), KIA/BNR

Shorack, Theodore James, Jr., USAF (OR); A1E shot down (w/Bush), KIA/BNR

1968
The following personnel reported missing when their HU3E was shot down over water; all KIA/BNR:
Holden, Elmer Larry, USAF (OK)

Locker, James Douglas, USAF (OH)

Rittichier, Jack C., USCG (OH)

Yeend, Richard C., USAF (AL); HU3E shot down over water; KIA, body not recovered

Also reported MIA this day in 1968:
Schmidt, Walter R., Jr., USMC (NY); A4E shot down, known ejected and wounded, presumed POW

1970
Elliott, Andrew J., US Army (CA); OH6A crashed

Hilbrich, Barry W., US Army SF (TX); O1F disappeared (w/Ryder)

Ryder, John L., USAF (MI): O1F disappeared (w/Hilbrich)

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