PermaWar: US forces have carried out two strikes against terrorists in the Middle East. Navy SEALs raided a villa in Baraawe on the coast of Somalia and possibly killed a leader of the al-Shabab terror group that took responsibility for the massacre at Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall. Reports say the SEALs got into a firefight and were forced to withdraw before confirming they had killed their target.

And in Libya, an Al Qaeda leader wanted in the 2008 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania was arrested by the CIA and FBI near the capital of Tripoli. Nazih Abd al Hamid al-Ruqhay has been on a US most wanted list since 2000.

Day 6: Defense Secy. Chuck Hagel has ordered most of the 400,000 furloughed Defense Department workers back to work under the Pay Our Military Act approved shortly before the shutdown began. The House passed, and the Senate is expected to approve, a bill to retroactively pay furloughed workers. But that doesn’t end the shutdown and federal workers will not be paid until it ends.

ChemWeps: UN inspectors in Syria have already begun destroying chemical weapons and the equipment used to make them, the AP reports. Syria is believed to have at least 1,000 tons of chemical agents.

Monster: A Monster truck went out of control at an event in Mexico and barreled into the crowd, killing six and injuring about 40 people.

Gridiron Review: In an interview with the Associated Press, President Obama said that if he owned the Washington Redskins he’d give some thought to changing the name. The Redskins have been under fire for years for having a name considered offensive by many American Indians. The president said, “I don’t know whether our attachment to a particular name should override the real legitimate concerns that people have about these things.”

Burning Mystery: The man who set himself on fire on the National Mall Friday has died of his burns. He is still unidentified and authorities have said they don’t know why he did it.

The Obit Page: Nicholas Oresko, the oldest recipient of the Medal of Honor, has died in New Jersey at age 96. During the Battle of the Bulge, Oresko took out two machine gun bunkers that had pinned down his unit. Oresko once told the Bergen Record how he got the second machine gun after being wounded taking out the first. “They saw me go down. They thought they’d killed me, but they didn’t. I slipped around and somehow got around, and they were in a bunch.”

PB&J: Wonder Bread, the compactible white substance used for making sandwiches, is coming back to the stores after a year’s absence. Flowers Foods, of Thomasville, Ga. bought the rights after the bankruptcy of Hostess foods and is baking the peculiarly American notion of bread. Real bread will continue to be available in your local stores.

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