News of Note
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Police Chief in Southern Iraqi City Killed in Bomb Blast
U.S. Holds About 500 'Enemy Combatant' Youths in Iraq

Operation Enduring Freedom
Afghan student firefighters hone skills

Homeland Security / War on Terror / Hamas-Hezbollah Happenings
Bin Laden to Muslims: Fight Israel-Led Gaza Closure
Taliban claim responsibility for Pakistan bombing
High-Ranking Female FARC Leader Surrenders to Colombian Forces

Homegrown Moonbats
Gore Compares Global Warming Fight to WWII Fascism (Are you kidding me?!?)

Politics / Government
And the Crowd Grows Wild
Record 80,000 attend Obama rally in Portland
Clinton Confident in Kentucky, Obama Sees Finish Line
California Dems Add More Superdelegates
BRIEFING BOOK: Kentucky and Oregon (pdf)
Kennedy Recovering After Seizures - PHOTOS - BIO
McCain campaign advisor quits over lobbying ties - Video
Obama eyes general election while Clinton hangs on - Video
McCain vows to fight U.S. farm subsidies, tariffs
New Watergate book says John Dean ordered break-in

In the Courts / Crime and Punishment / Law and Order
Polygamist Sect's Custody Hearings to Begin Today

Media in the Media / Bloggers in the News / Watching the Web
Facebook stresses independence amid Microsoft talk
Now Britons can quiz PM on YouTube

Science / Medicine and Health / Technology
Cell Phones May Put Unborn at Risk
British PM Backs Animal-Human Embryo Bill
Quietly, wind farms spread footprint in U.S
Strong prospects in software to spy on bank staff

Mother Nature
Sirens, Horns Wail Across China as Nation Mourns Earthquake Victims - PHOTOS
Chinese Companies Suffer Nearly $10 Billion in Damage
Quake hurts farmers' hopes
Taiwan rescuer vows not to give up
Marine Scientists Discover Millions of Starfish Inhabiting Undersea Volcano
Study: Hurricane Spike Not Caused by Global Warming
Dozens of Wildfires in Fla. Scorch Nearly 40,000 Acres
U.N. Tours Burma Cyclone Zone; 134,000 Dead, Missing
ASEAN to coordinate Myanmar aid effort - Video
G8 climate talks to discuss targets, rift remains

Oddities
Australia brews beer for man's best friend

Fox News
Forecast Is Good News, Bad News
FOXBusiness: Futures Fall as MSFT Revives YHOO Bid
'Crystal Skull': It's a Hit!

Reuters
Malaysia's PM in danger as Mahathir quits party
Zimbabwe opposition says army plots to kill leader
Asia stocks at 4-month high
Gold tops $900 on spec buying
Protest turns to praise for foreign firms
As homes foreclose in U.S., squatters move in
Chesney gets top country award but criticizes vote
Turkey's AK Party expects to be closed: sources
Strike stalls April auto production
Energy:Oil & the environment
NBER's Feldstein sees U.S. downturn since Dec-Jan
Lehman, Goldman, Morgan Stanley outlooks cut at Citi
New News Corp ad network to court financial sites
Market correction ongoing, significant: ECB's Trichet
UAW urges adoption of cost-cutting Axle deal
BCE buyout in trouble as banks seek new terms: NYT
Manitowoc trumps rival with $2.1 billion Enodis bid
Egypt's Sawiris in talks with U.S. firms on Weather
Green Living: Kids spur supermodel Cindy Crawford to go green
Africa's "Miami" boasts Art Deco trove
Pierce leads Boston to thrilling win over Cleveland
Penguins reach Stanley Cup final with crushing win
Arizona's Johnson blanks Detroit for win number 288
Gay and Campbell-Brown shine in Carson
Nadal gains revenge over Federer in Hamburg

Associated Press
Workers clean up La. derailment, acid spill
'Indiana Jones' debut survives Cannes critics

News Blaze
PHOTOS: ISF take control of OMS building, maintain presence near Shulla
PHOTOS:: Soldier Awarded AAM for Hard Work, Initiative
Soldiers' Angels and Patriot Guard
Iraq News
Operations in Iraq
FOB Warhorse Memorial Photos
Videos

CENTCOM
General: Iran aiding terrorists in Iraq
New bridge links Busayefi to Hawr Rajab
Iraqis refurbish school in al-Buaytha
Basra security situation improves

USJFCOM
Command unveils new command and control vision - podcast
Joint fires team helps Army improves force protection training
SOCJFCOM completes in-residence JSOTF training course - podcast
USJFCOM helps define new conditions for individual augmentee training

Multi-National Force - Iraq
Democracy Takes Root in Arab Jabour
Marne Soldiers Prepare Iraqi Army for Battle
Salvadoran Dignitaries Visit Cuscatlan Battalion
Al-Nassir School Refurbished by Iraqis
Three suspected al-Qaeda terrorists detained in Baghdad, Mosul
Conviction and Sentencing of the Kidnapper of Chaldean Catholic Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho US-EMB
Iraqi residents turn in munitions to Iraqi Army soldiers; MND-B Soldiers eliminate threat (Baghdad)
Water treatment facility on way to recovery (Taji)
Iraqis, servicemembers connect through tennis (Bagdad)
MND-N Soldiers attacked by IED (Salah ad-Din)

DefenseLink
TOP NEWS
Bush Promises Afghans Support

MILITARY NEWS
Indy Motor Speedway Salutes Recruits
Mullen to Troops: 'Your Service Matters'
Military Members Receive Service Award

HUMANITARIAN RELIEF
U.S. Sends Relief Supplies to China
More Relief Flights Arrive in Burma

REFLECTIONS
Air Show Celebrates Berlin Airlift Anniversary
Airlift Dispensed Food, Blow to Communism
‘Candy Bomber’ Sweetened Life for Berlin Kids

IRAQ NEWS
More than 300 Former 'Sons' Become Police Grads
Coalition Troops in Iraq Kill Terrorist, Detain 19

AFGHANISTAN NEWS
New York Guardsmen Train Afghan Security Forces
Forces Detain Eight Taliban Suspects in Raid

FACE OF DEFENSE
Soldier Shares Knowledge, Experience with Actors

AMERICA SUPPORTS YOU
Sinise Rocks Pentagon, Supports Troops With Song - Photos
Groups at Pentagon Event Show America’s Support
Chrysler Initiatives an ‘Investment in Freedom’

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
1568 - Queen Elizabeth I of England arrests Scottish queen Mary.
1585 - Spain confiscates English ships.
1588 - The Spanish Armada sets sail for Lisbon, bound for England.
1635 - France declares war on Spain
1643 - The French destroy the Spanish army at the Battle of Rocroi / Allersheim; Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut and New Harbor form the United Colonies of New England.
1848 - Mexico gives Texas to the U.S., ending the war.
1862 - The Homestead Act goes into effect, providing cheap land for settlement of the West.
1864 - Battle of Port Walthall Junction, VA; last engagement in the Spotsylvania series of battles.
1884 - The Ringling Brothers circus premieres.
1898 - The Post Office authorizes the use of postcards.
1913 - In California, the Webb Alien Land-Holding Bill passes, prohibiting the Japanese from owning land.
1923 - Communists revolt in German Ruhr cities occupied by the Allies.
1926 - The French air force bombs Damascus, Syria.
1929 - China’s General Feng Yu-Xiang of China declares war on Chiang Kai-Shek’s government.
1930 - White women win voting rights in South Africa.
1931 - The Ironclad cruiser Germany is launched in Kiel.
1939 - Churchill signs the British-Russian anti-Nazi pact.
1941 - German occupiers in Holland forbid bicycle taxis; the Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia, Poland.
1943 - Berlin is declared free of Jews - "Judenrien"; Churchill pledges England's full support to the U.S. against Japan.
1944 - More than 200 gypsies are transported to Auschwitz from the Netherlands; the German defense line in Italy collapses.
1951 - The U.N. begins a counter-offensive in Korea.
1954 - Postmaster General Summerfield approves the CIA’s mail-opening project.
1958 - The U.S. and Canada form the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD)
1960 - USAF Major Robert M. White takes the X-15 to 33,222 mph.
1964 - U.S. diplomats find at least 40 secret microphones in the Moscow embassy.
1965 - Patricia R. Harris is named the first American black female ambassador – to Luxembourg.
1967 - The U.S. bombs Hanoi; the U.S.S.R. ratifies a treaty with England and the U.S. banning nuclear weapons in space.
1971 - The U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, the first spacecraft to crash land on Mars.
1976 - The Senate establishes a permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
1983 - NASA launches Intelsat V.
1992 - The 27th Amendment is ratified, prohibiting Congress from raising its salary.

Birthdays
1808 - Confederate Brigadier General Samuel Jameson Gholson
1812 - Confederate Brigadier General Felix Kirk
1815 - Union Brevet Major General John Gross Barnard
1828 - Union Brevet Major General Adin Ballou
1890 - Ho Chi Minh, Vietnamese leader
1915 - Pol Pot, dictator / mass murderer
1925 - Malcolm X (Little), black muslim leader
1935 - David Hartman, TV personality (Good Morning America)
1938 - James H. Bilbray (Representative-NV)
1939 - Francis R. Scobee, USAF / astronaut (STS 41C, 51L-Chal disaster)
1941 - Jimmy Hoffa, Jr., son of Jimmy Hoffa / Teamster union leader
1948 - Jean-Pierre Haignere, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-17)

Passings
1536 - Anne Boleyn Queen of England / wife of Henry VIII, beheaded; Lord Rochford English, brother of Anna Boleyn, beheaded
1795 - Josiah Bartlett, physician / judge, signer of Declaration of Independence
1864 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, writer (Scarlet Letter)
1935 - Thomas E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia), motorcycle crash
1966 - Tortoise reportedly given to Tonga's king by Captain Cook in 1773
1994 - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady
1997 - Millie, dog of President Bush

Reported Missing in Action:
1965
Donovan, Leroy M., US Army (CO); O1F overdue (observer, w/Harper) - presumed Killed / BNR

Harper, Richard K. , US Army (MA); OIF overdue (pilot, w/Donovan) - presumed Killed / BNR

1967
Anderson, Gareth L., US Navy (MA); F4B shot down (RIO, w/Plumb), released by DRV March, 1973, died in a military training flight in 1974

Griffin, James Lloyd, US Navy (TN); RA5C shot down (w/Walters), DIC - remains returned March 1974

Hellbach, Harold J., USMC (LA); F8E shot down - remains returned 1997, ID'd May, 1998

Knight, Roy A., Jr., USAF (TX); A1E shot down

McDaniel, Eugene B., USN (NC); A6A shot down (backseater, w/Patterson), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive and well 1998 - founder of the American Defense Institute

Metzger, William J., USN (WI); F8C shot down (Russell shot down a short distance away), released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Captain - alive and well as of 1998

Patterson, James K., USN (CA); A6A shot down (pilot, w/McDaniel), probably captured with broken leg

Plumb, Joseph C., USN (KS); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Anderson), released by DRV February, 1973 - alive and well 1998

Rich, Richard, USN (CT); F4B shot down (pilot, w/Stark)

Russell, Kay, USN (TX); F8E shot down (Metzger shot down a short distance away), released by DRV March, 1973 - deceased, 1995

Stark, William R., USN (CA); F4B shot down (w/Rich), released by DRV March, 1973 - received 2 Silver Stars, the Legion of Merit with Combat V, the Distinguished Flying Cross, Bronze Star with Combat V, DMSM, 2 Air Medals, Navy Commendation with Combat V (2nd Award) and 2 Purple Hearts - retired as a Captain - alive and well as of 1998

Walters, Jack, Jr., USN (NC); RA5C shot down (w/Griffin), DIC - remains returned March, 1974

1968
Davies, Joseph E., USAF (VA); F4D shot down (w/McCubbin)

McCubbin, Glenn D., USAF (KS); F4D shot down (w/Davies)

1972
Mott, David P. , USAF (ND); OV10A shot down (w/Thomas), released by PRG March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998

Nichols, Aubrey A., USN (TX); A7B shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Commnander - alive and well as of 1998

Thomas, William E., USMC (PA); OV10A shot down (w/Mott), released by PRG March, 1973 - retired as a CWO-4 - alive and well as of 1998

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