* Gitmo detainees get no appeal
* Stennis sprints to Gulf
* Shipbuilding plan mak­ing sense?
* Raptors arrive in Japan
* North Africa: new Al-​​Qaeda home?
* STRATCOM chief: cyber­war strat­egy “dys­func­tional“
* Asteroids! Run!

(Big ups: RC)

* Centcom tar­gets blog­gers
* Blogger arrested for ter­ror­ist ties
* Google Earth, Iraqi life­saver
* Bad turn in Beirut
* 222 “chipped“
* Atmospheric comms field-​​tested
* Roger Morris vs. Rummy
* WWI’s “Tin Noses Shop“
* The “Circus of Detention“
* Joel Johnson 1, gad­get geeks 0
* Flipper to the res­cue
* Quantum ‘puter demo
* Nick tes­ti­fies
* Raptors break Axe’s heart

(Big ups: BP, RC, AT)

* Nork nuke pact?
* Must read #1: Iraq’s four wars
* Must read #2: NSA cyber-​​hunter, los­ing the scent
* Illuminati sell­ing Q-​​branch stock
* Iran unveils stealthy drone
* FBI’s secret lap­tops gone
* Fallen sol­dier is a new dad
* Turbine on a chip
* Ospreys grounded
* The sci­ence of Godzilla
* New camo: gravy!

(Big ups: EM, BB, RC, MO, JQ)

* Sea Knight down; 5th copter in 18 days (back­ground)
* Double the IEDs in Iraq
* Air war picks up; 10K CAS mis­sions in ’06
* Early, bad “signs” for would-​​be killer astro­naut…
* … her sud­den descent
* Yikes! Giant cyber­at­tack
* Israel talk­ing up Iran strike
* All kinds of fraud at spy sat agency
* Missile shield grow­ing
* Shady NSA spook caught
* Shocker! Max Boot mak­ing sense
* Next-​​gen body armor, yours for only $10K
* Hellloooooo, Miss Atom!
* 2nd chance at space
* “Tactical assault hand sig­nals”

(Big ups: PG, AT, JQ, RC, Drudge, Blackfive)

* Astronaut kid­nap!
* “Pimp my cas­cade“
* Africa Command stands up
* MRE = mal­nu­tri­tion?
* Friendly fire cock­pit vid
* GoogleMaps spies Blackbird
* NYT eyes orbital debris
* Contractors gob­bling up the gov’t
* “The brief­case that changed the world“
* Raptor to Japan?
* “La la la la la! I can’t hear you!”

(Big ups: RC, MA, Dad)

* Pentagon’s tank-​​sized bud­get (more to come, later today)
* McMaster, Kilcullen in Petraeus “dream team“
* Troops uncover uni­form stash in Iraq
* Anbar’s “bak­ing tray” bombs
* NYT flies Iraqi air (back­ground)
* Milblogging king deploys, again
* Welcome home cel­e­bra­tions cut
* Surfers’ nuke tech
* Plea deal in MySpace mur­der (back­ground)
* Mars too far for peo­ple?
* Dodgy reports on space sta­tion
* “Big Barda’s” purse stolen (back­ground)
* Israel’s new spysat
* Saudis ban the let­ter X
* More mercs for Iraq
* Arms con­trol wonks cry in their mojitos

(Big ups: RC, AG, AT)

* Pentagon bud­get $30B short
* Gloomy intel esti­mate for Iraq
* DHS won’t give locals ter­ror info
* $10K rewards to dis global warn­ing
* Israel picks rocket defense
* DoD fina­gles casu­alty count
* Boston, city of wimps
* Conventional Tridents, extra dead (back­ground)
* Spec Ops’ pack mules
* Tax man kills space dream
* Blackfive vs. Arkin
* Pic: comet, Southern Lights
* Flying car just around the cor­ner… for the 384958736479th time

(Big ups: RC, EH)

* House GOP: space weapons, please
* Sat-​​killer his­tory
* Bush: “That satel­lite that was blown out of the sky… The Chinese didn’t do it. Cheney was out hunt­ing again.“
* Security woes at NSA lis­ten­ing post?
* Nuke cage match: Wonk duo vs. Weekly Standard
* “Richter Scale for the Information Revolution“
* Pic: F-​​15s, MiG-​​29s duel
* Fallon flunks tes­ti­mony
* Suuuuuuuuuuure… G.I. Daddy dolls “ease burden”

(Big ups: TH, Wonkette)

* AQ big offed in Madagascar
* Gonzales turn­ing over domes­tic spy docs?
* Vid: Sea Launch explo­sion
* Tehran behind G.I. kid­nap­ping?
* …Roggio had the story last week
* More Iranian bombs in Iraq (back­ground)
* “Rogue U.S. attack on Brit con­voy?“
* Big cor­rup­tion in Iraqi police train­ing
* Sadr’s rope-​​a-​​dope
* Congress slams Los Alamos…
* …Deepwater cut­ters up next (back­ground)
* Cold-​​case cops turn to YouTube
* Plea deal in MySpace mur­der
* 1672 “fold­ing cam­era” comes to life
* Inside Putin’s jet

(Big ups: BB, DG, RC, EM, Hambling)

* Massive bat­tle in Najaf
* Another U.S. copter down
* G.I.s in last week’s crash, remem­bered
* Audio: Reporter’s Iraq heart­break
* Tehran closes in
* 770 con­trac­tors dead since inva­sion
* Pentagon’s trash = cops’ trea­sure
* China hits tar­get… on 43rd street
* Remote pilot crashes Predator
* THAAD hits again
* “Homebrew AT-​​ST walker teaches itself“
* Israeli mil­i­tary blocked missile-​​finder?
* USAF chief pro­tects his purse

(Big ups: RC, AMP, Haninah)