* 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)