STREETS OF RAMADI
American troops and Iraqi security forces conduct a patrol in Ramadi, Iraq, Aug. 22, 2007. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Curt Cashour

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News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Falluja suicide bomb kills 10
Sunni politicians raise doubts over deal
GOP senator may back Dems on withdrawal (With friends like these...)
Al-Maliki Slams U.S. Critics
Guard Members Applaud Withdrawal Call
Military.com Poll: What's With Al-Maliki?

Operation Enduring Freedom
Report: U.S. Troops So Close to Bin Laden His Bodyguards Considered Killing Him, Themselves
Afghan opium crop soars to "frightening levels": UN
6 Western soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Homeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings
Report: GIs Just Missed Bin Laden
Report: U.S. Sponsors Islamic Convention
Hamas chief says conference doomed

Troops on Trial
Jury gets last Abu Ghraib court-martial

Supporting Our Heroes
Vets welcomed at colleges

Other Military News
The Army's New Sniper Rifle

Religion of Peace??
Soccer Ball Handout Offends Muslims (Afghanistan)

Worldwide Wackos
Iran Vows to Use 'Smart' Bomb Against Enemies
Only diplomacy can avert bombs in Iran row: Sarkozy
Military.com Def Tech: Iran's New Bomb
Kim Jong-Il's Eldest Son Returns to North Korea

Politics / Government
Alberto Gonzales gives up attorney general post - VIDEO - TRANSCRIPT
Bush: Gonzales 'WasDragged Through the Mud' - VIDEO - TRANSCRIPT
Interim Attorney General Clement Has Broad Appeal
Reaction: What They're Saying in Washington
FOX Facts: Alberto Gonzales
Fla. Dems Lose Convention Delegates
Turkey's army defends secularism ahead of elections

Illegal Immigration / Border Control
Deal reached in immigrant kids lawsuit

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
Vick Speaks After Plea - VIDEO
Factbox: Vick dogfighting case
Falcons: Cutting Vick not in best interest
Violence draws crowds to dog fights
Strippers Catch on to Man Using Phony Money
Police Investigating Discovery of Four Bodies Found in Home Outside Austin, Texas
10 Arrested in Murder of Russian Journalist
Russia says Politkovskaya murder ordered from abroad
Guilty plea in football player's death
Phil Spector's lead lawyer leaves case

Adventures in Political Correctness
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Printer ... (Newspapers pull 'Opus' cartoon making fun of radical Muslims)

Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the Web
Self-Described Pedophile Blogger Leaving California
YouTube criticized in Germany over Neo-Nazi clips
Yahoo adds features to popular e-mail

Science / Medicine / Technology
Homer Simpson, Rejoice! Donuts Getting Healthier
Flight Crew Keeps 1-Pound Preemie Alive Using Straw
Heavy burden
Reuters Factbox: Body mass index
New vaccines bring hope to polio fight
Human stem cells heal the hearts of rats

Mother Nature
Greek Prosecutor Orders Arson Terrorism Investigation in Deadly Wildfires
Helicopters sent to save trapped Greeks
Midwest Cleans Up From Deadly Tornadoes, Flooding
N.D. tornado kills 1, rips apart town
Snowmaking guns used to fight Idaho fire

News from My Neck of the Woods
3 at FDNY reassigned after deadly fire
Boston Tea Party museum damaged by fire

Oddities
Bidding for Mummified Walrus Penis Bone, 4 Feet Long, Starts at $16,000
Woman traps thief in back seat of car
Thieves switch police dog for mongrel pup

Other News of Note
Ben Franklin Gets High-Tech Makeover in New $100 Bill
PHOTOS: Hot Air Balloon Crashes in Canada - VIDEO
No sign of six missing Utah miners
Robot camera will try to look into mine

Fox News
Reports: Owen Wilson Hospitalized - PHOTOS - VIDEO
Hulk Hogan's Son Released From Hospital After Car Crash
Two Chinese Men Dig Themselves Out 6 Days After Mine Collapse

Reuters: Top News
Japan PM seeks ratings boost with veteran cabinet
Airlines body bids farewell to paper tickets
Prince Charles's wife emerges from Diana's shadow - Video
Backstage secrets of a Vegas illusionist
Wilson asks to "heal" after suicide reports
Malawian official to assess Madonna over adoption
Home Depot shares up amid report of unit deal
Countrywide shares drop amid lowered estimate
Wall Street slips on housing and growth worries
Home-builder shares down on sour data
Oil rises on U.S. refinery problems
Crisis in Credit: Timeline of events
DealZone: 'Walk away' not likely
US STOCKS-Wall Street slips on housing, growth worries
FTSE ends up as economy news trumps credit worries
Home re-sales fall as inventories soar - Video

AP World News
Home sales hit slowest pace in 5 years
Astros fire manager Garner, GM Purpura
Georgia wins Little League title
'Pirates,' Sophia Bush top Teen Awards
NABE: Bad credit biggest risk to economy

Military.com
WF: Doonesbury's Sandbox Blog
Daily Shock: Tanking Gone Wrong
Community: Find Your People
Kit Up!: TL-29 Knife

CENTCOM: News Releases
SAMARRA FIREFIGHT LEAVES AT LEAST A DOZEN INSURGENTS DEAD
CONCERNED CITIZENS, COALITION FORCES DESTROY WEAPONS CACHE, INSURGENT SAFE HOUSES
IRAQI TROOPS STOP ROCKET ATTACK NEAR MAHMUDIYAH
ANSLOW TAPPED AS SPEAKER FOR WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY EVENT HELD IN WAR ZONE
COALITION FORCES DISRUPT AL-QAEDA; 8 TERRORISTS KILLED, 16 SUSPECTS DETAINED
MILITARY REFUTES REPORTED COALITION CONFRONTATION IN BAGHDAD MOSQUE
IRAQI FORCES, U.S. MARINES, SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN EIGHT, KILL THREE INSURGENTS
IRAQI FORCES, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN NETWORK TERROR LEADER IN TIKRIT; DETAIN AL QAEDA IN IRAQ
MND-B APACHE CREWS ENGAGE ROADSIDE BOMBERS
ISOF, U.S. SPECIAL FORCES DETAIN NINE EXTREMIST MILITANTS IN BAGHDAD
BOMB DETONATES NEAR KADAMIYAH SHRINE; KILLS FIVE, WOUNDS 27
AMERIYA COMMUNITY LEADERS ESTABLISH TRASH COLLECTION PROGRAM
IRAQI CITIZENS ESCAPE MAKESHIFT PRISON, CF FIND REMAINS
EXECUTION SITE DISCOVERED, EIGHT SUSPECTS DETAINED
THREE TERRORISTS KILLED, 17 SUSPECTS DETAINED IN COALITION RAIDS
STRYKER BRIGADE LEADERS MEET WITH IRAQI POLICE CHIEFS
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS, COALITION FORCES PARTNER TO PROVIDE PUBLIC HEALTHCARE CLINICS IN KIRKUK
GUN BATTLE LEAVES 3 INSURGENTS DEAD
AL-QAEDA DISRUPTED IN TIGRIS RIVER VALLEY: 7 TERRORISTS KILLED, 12 SUSPECTS DETAINED
VIDEO AVAILABLE: SENATORS VISIT COP X-RAY, MEET 1ST BRIGADE TROOPERS AND LOCAL SHEIKS

USJFCOM
U.S. Joint Forces Command, Boeing sign cooperative research and development agreement - podcast
Noble Resolve 07-2 comes to a close
More about Noble Resolve - podcast
Joint training leader discusses Unified Endeavor 2007
More about the Unified Endeavor program

Multi-National Force-Iraq
Attacks down, economic development up in Iraq
Residents join Guard Force to improve neighborhood security
Cavalry Soldiers deny enemy sanctuary in Jisr Diyala
U.S. medics train Coalition partners
Three suspected insurgents detained
Coalition Forces detain eight suspected Special Groups terrorists
Task Force Lightning Soldiers attacked
Iraqi Forces, U.S. Marines, Special Forces detain eight, kill three insurgents
MNF-W forces attacked
Iraqi Forces, U.S. Special Forces detain network terror leader in Tikrit; detain al Qaeda in Iraq Emir

DefenseLink
TOP NEWS
Bush Praises Iraqi De-Baathification Agreement
Troops Capture Terrorists in 'Lightning Hammer'

IRAQ
U.S. Works with Local Leaders on Reconciliation

AFGHANISTAN
International Military Engineers Work Together

MILITARY NEWS
Alaskans Honor Military for Completing Road

ON THE GROUND IN IRAQ
Iraqi Doctors Treat Countrymen
Electricity Generation Improves
Engineers Build Health Centers
Sheiks Seek to Unite Community
Iraqis Work to Rebuild Country

INSIDE AFGHANISTAN
Afghans, U.S. Soldiers Celebrate
Airmen, Afghans Set Up Hospital
Reconstruction Progresses
Video: Freedom Watch Afghanistan

FACE OF DEFENSE
Airman Recalls Convoy Attack
Father, Son Are 'Soldiers First'
Vietnam Vet Leads Support Center

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Group Helps Tennessee Troops
Society Supports Warriors
'American Spirit' Aids Wounded

DefendAmerica
BLOGGERS' ROUNDTABLE with Army Maj. Gen. James E. Simmons
Troops Kill, Capture Terrorists,Seize Weapons in Offensives - Story

NEWS UPDATES
Odierno: Iraq Transition Must Preserve Security Successes - Story

ON THE GROUND
International Military Engineers Work Together - Story
Soldiers, Afghans Celebrate Independence - Story
Iraqi Doctors, Medics Care for Fellow Iraqis - Story
Airmen Cool Down Unmanned Aerial Vehicles - Story

IN IRAQ
U.S. Marines, Sailors Return from Iraq Duty
Sheiks Strive to Unite Community, Country
Engineers Work on Four Health Care Centers
'Volunteers' Take Oath to Protect Community
Seabees, Marines Help Iraqis Build Future
Flour Mill Re-opens, Will Employ 100 Workers

IN AFGHANISTAN
U.S. Airmen, Afghans Set Up New Hospital
No Mountain Too High for Reconstruction Team

IN DJIBOUTI
Civil Affairs Team Delivers Medical Supplies

IN SOUTHWEST ASIA
Commander Thanks Airmen for Dedication

IN KYRGYZSTAN
Project Hope Brings New Equipment, Training

BACKGROUND
IRAQ
Renewal In Iraq
Iraq: Security, Stability
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
War on Terror Reconstruction Report
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Fact Sheet: Budget Request
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

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

Today in History
26 BC - Origin of Egyptian Era
1667 - Jamestown, VA is the site of the earliest recorded U.S. hurricane.
1776 - The British defeat the Americans in the Battle of Long Island.
1783 - The first hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned) reaches an altitude of 900 m.
1789 - The French National Assembly issues the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen."
1859 - Near Titusville, PA, the first successful oil well is drilled.
1883 - Mt. Krakatoa explodes with a force of 1,300 megatons.
1896 - Zanzibar loses to England in a 38 minute war (9:02 AM-9:40 AM).
1913 - In Kiev, Lt. Peter Nestrov of the Imperial Russian Air Service performs the first aerobatic maneuver in an airplane - a loop in a monoplane.
1918 - Dr. Joseph L. Johnson is named minister to Liberia.
1927 - America's oldest aviation school opens (Parks College).
1928 - Sixty nations agree to outlaw war, signing the Kellogg-Briand Pact.
1939 - Erich Warsitz, in a Heinkel He-178, makes the first jet-propelled flight.
1940 - The Caproni-Campini CC-2, an experimental jet plane, makes its maiden flight in Milan.
1945 - Following the Japanese surrender, U.S. troops land in Japan.
1962 - Mariner-2 launched; it becomes the first probe to fly by Venus.
1966 - Francis Chichester begins the first solo sail around the world.
1981 - Divers begin to recover a safe found on the Andrea Doria.
1982 - Soyuz T-7 returns to Earth.
1984 - President Reagan announces the "Teacher in Space" project.
1985 - The 20th Space Shuttle Mission (51-I - Discovery 6) is launched.
1990 - 52 Americans arrive in Turkey from Iraq.

Birthdays
1809 - Hannibal Hamlin, 15th VP (1861-65)
1865 - Charles Gates Dawes, 30th VP (1925-29), Nobel Prize winner (1925)
1882 - Samuel Goldwyn, pioneer film maker/producer (MGM)
1908 - Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th Pres (1963-1969)
1941 - Yuri V. Malyshev, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-2, T-11)
1952 - Pee-wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens), actor (Pee-wee's Big Adventure)
1963 - Patty Duffek, Playboy playmate (May, 1984)

Passings
1576 - Titian, Italian artist
1840 - William Kneass, 3rd US chief engraver (1824-40), dies in office
1879 - Sir Rowland Hill, introduced postage stamps
1958 - Dr. Ernest O. Lawrence, inventor (Cyclotron), Nobel Prize winner (1939)
1963 - W.E.B. Du Bois, scholar / founder of the NAACP
1975 - Haile Selassie, depossed Ethiopian emperor
1979 - Earl Mountbatten, British Admiral of the Fleet, assassinated by the IRA
1990 - Stevie Ray Vaughan, blues guitarist, in a helicopter crash at age 35

Reported Missing in Action
1966
Coker, Georget T., USNR (NJ); A6A shot down (BN, w/Fellowes), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Commander - alive and well as of 1998

Fellowes, John H., USN (VA); A6A shot down (pilot, w/Coker), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive and well as of 1998

1967
Bacik, Vladimir Henry, USMC (TX); A6A shot down (pilot, w/Boggs), presumed KIA

Boggs, Paschal Glenn, USMC (GA); A6A shot down (BN?, w/Bacik), presumed KIA

1968
Pick, Donald William, USAF (WA); F4D shot down, KIA, body not recovered

1970
Rogers, Lyle D., US Army; AWOL

1972
Everett, David A., USN (GA); F4B shot down (pilot), released by DRV March, 1973 - alive and well as of 1998

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