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Yemen sends thousands of troops to fight Qaeda
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
US forges alliance with Saddam officers to fight Yemen al-Qaeda	4 00:00 rjschwarz [1754]
Al-Qaeda target British soldiers returning from Afghanistan	9 00:00 JosephMendiola [1756]
Feel Good Story: Taliban Workplace Accident	8 00:00 gorb [1743]
US State Dept Revokes Pantybomber's Visa - (Just-in-time)	11 00:00 JosephMendiola [1756]
Former bin Laden bodyguard is among ex-guerrillas in Yemen	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1754]
Thai terrorist who killed 11 arrested	0 [1739]
Good morning	4 00:00 Fred [1740]
Puntland MP assassinated in Somalia	0 [1740]
Israeli airstrike on Gaza kills one, injures four	3 00:00 Atomic Conspiracy [1743]
Saudi attack rages in Yemen, civilians 'die'	9 00:00 trailing wife [1766]
Algerian police dismantle drug trafficking network	0 [1738]
Security forces kill three militants in Swat	0 [1738]
US citizen acquitted after police drop charges	0 [1735]
Moussaoui loses U.S. court appeal	0 [1740]
Turkey arrests 20 Kurds for suspected links to PKK	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1736]
Yemen sends thousands of troops to fight Qaeda	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1803]
Iran bans contact with 60 groups including BBC	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1742]
Somali pirates release Pakistani vessel	0 [1737]
Galloway convoy blocks entrance to Egyptian port following riot	13 00:00 Alaska Paul [1746]
Page 2: WoT Background
Pressure on Obama to reveal what Britain said about Detroit bomber	2 00:00 SteveS [1744]
The Iranian People fight back	4 00:00 OldSpook [1761]
Obama Blames Gitmo For "Formation Of al Qeada In Arabian Peninsula"	10 00:00 Skunky Glins**** [1743]
UN suspends food aid to southern Somalia	0 [1735]
Saudi Arabia and Iran haggle over Bin Laden's children	0 [1737]
Egyptian border guard shot dead in clash with Gazans	1 00:00 AlanC [1734]
The One Feigns Impact with Clue Bat	10 00:00 Ebbang Uluque6305 [1741]
Kenya 'deports Muslim hate cleric Abdullah al-Faisal'	2 00:00 JohnQC [1737]
Slovak Air Security Test Goes Very Wrong	8 00:00 Skunky Glins**** [1733]
Execution threats	2 00:00 Skunky Glins**** [1735]
Eighty per cent of Mohmand cleared, says army	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1758]
PFLP: Suspension of negotiations no longer sufficient	0 [1745]
Fazl asks govt to quit U.S. alliance	0 [1740]
Perpetrators of Ashura blast identified: police	0 [1741]
UK to launch airport body scanners in few weeks	0 [1729]
Hamas pledges loyalty to Arabs: Saudi FM	3 00:00 SteveS [1738]
Saudi insult to Ayatollah Sistani outrages Iraq	3 00:00 746 [1731]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Man, 89, accused of Holocaust museum shooting dies	2 00:00 Mitch H. [1742]
Three Reported Missing After Animal Rights Activists Take "War on Leather" to Motorcycle Gang Rally	10 00:00 Dopey Ominetch3594 [1763]
~~Lion Cheetah~~ Tiger Woods hiding in New York Knick bigwig's waterfront mansion	3 00:00 trailing wife [1763]
China To Execute 10 Iranians For Drug Smuggling	0 [1734]
He was nuked twice, and lived to tell the tale	5 00:00 Old Patriot [1747]
Remember the Sea Shepard using the Green Laser on Japan Whalers - Well they rammed it!	9 00:00 swksvolFF [1729]
Whale protest boat 'cut in half' (rammed and sunk by Japanese whalers)	19 00:00 Old Patriot [1763]
Epic Snow for Britain	6 00:00 trailing wife [1764]
Drill near here, Drill NOW....Cramped on Land, Big Oil Bets at Sea - WSJ	9 00:00 rjschwarz [1731]
Global Warming Threatens Peruvian Andes	9 00:00 JosephMendiola [1757]
Michael Yon arrested at Seattle airport	20 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1774]
Venezuela may shut metal output to save power-paper	7 00:00 SteveS [1742]
If poverty is the root cause of lawlessness, why did crime rates fall when joblessness increased?	11 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1767]
Police rescue child, detain kidnappers in ransom case	0 [1734]
Iceland Refuses To Gouge Taxpayers To Bail Out Banks; UK anger	6 00:00 746 [1735]
Page 4: Opinion
Daniel Pipes: Security Theater Now Playing at Your Airport	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1763]
America is losing the free world - Gideon Rachman	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1737]
Lessons (or maybe just Observations') from the Cases of Abdulmutallab and Hasan	0 [1732]
Spying on Icebergs Instead of Terrorists?	0 [1732]
Treating terrorism as an ordinary crime	0 [1731]
Intellectuals and Society, Part II	6 00:00 OldSpook [1767]
Our Incompetent Civilization	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1736]
Saudi Arabia: Mishal and the Removal of Doubts	0 [1737]
End of the military-jihadi nexus	2 00:00 Frank G [1740]
Our Incompetent Civilization - Stephens, WSJ	1 00:00 3dc [1732]
Page 6: Politix
Queen Nancy Takes a Swipe at The One (cat fight?)	4 00:00 AzCat [1740]
Democrats Open to Raising Medicare Tax to Fund Health Overhaul	5 00:00 JosephMendiola [1736]
Gallup: Obama Begins 2nd Year w/Highest Disapproval Rating in Modern Era	4 00:00 Besoeker [1747]
Departure of ND senator unsettle Senate Democrats	6 00:00 Beavis [1735]
Chris Dodd to ~~step aside~~ announce today that he won't run again?	12 00:00 OldSpook [1763]
Colorado Gov. Ritter -D calls it quits	3 00:00 Mike [1731]
White House Spokeswoman Says Different Bertha Lewis on Visitor's Log	4 00:00 Skunky Glins**** [1758]
The real blowup	7 00:00 Alaska Paul [1736]
Curt Schilling endorses Scott Brown in Mass. Senate race	7 00:00 OldSpook [1756]
Birmingham Sewer Vanity Follies	3 00:00 Glenmore [1729]
Chafee joins RI governor race as an independent	4 00:00 OldSpook [1764]
If the Price Is Right	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1736]
Jackson Lee challenged by Jarvis Johnson	2 00:00 DepotGuy [1740]
Judge sworn in with hand on dictionary	6 00:00 Frank G [1733]
Disgraced Miss. judge reports to federal prison	2 00:00 Phith Dingle6292 [1739]
Barney Frank: Fannie and Freddie now a 'public policy instrument'	13 00:00 Ebbang Uluque6305 [1739]

    
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                        23:39 Barbara Skolaut

                        23:37 Skunky Glins****

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                        23:32 Barbara Skolaut

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                        23:30 rjschwarz

                        23:29 trailing wife

                        23:28 OldSpook

                        23:27 JosephMendiola

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                        23:10 Dopey Ominetch3594

                        23:09 Old Patriot

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                        23:09 JosephMendiola

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                        23:06 JosephMendiola

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Who's in the News
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3	Hamas
2	TTP
2	Govt of Iran
1	Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
1	PFLP
1	Pirates
1	Popular Resistance Committees
1	al-Qaeda
1	al-Qaeda in Arabia
1	al-Qaeda in Pakistan
1	Commies
1	Global Jihad
1	Islamic Courts

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Two weeks of WOT

Wed 2010-01-06
Yemen sends thousands of troops to fight Qaeda

Tue 2010-01-05
Two Qaeda bad guyz banged in Yemen

Mon 2010-01-04
Fresh US drone attacks kill 5 in Pakistain

Sun 2010-01-03
Yemen sends more troops to al-Qaida strongholds

Sat 2010-01-02
At least six killed in two drone attacks in North Wazoo

Fri 2010-01-01
US drone strike leaves two dead in Pakistan

Thu 2009-12-31
7 CIA workers killed in suicide kaboom

Wed 2009-12-30
Iran MPs call for 'maximum punishment' of protesters

Tue 2009-12-29
Iran MPs rally against populace

Mon 2009-12-28
13 turbans titzup in N.Wazoo dronezap

Sun 2009-12-27
Mousavi's nephew banged in Tehran

Sat 2009-12-26
Delta boomer wasn't on no-fly list

Fri 2009-12-25
Nigerian attempts to detonate on Delta flight from Amsterdam

Thu 2009-12-24
Yemeni strike kills 30, targets cleric linked to Ft. Hood attack

Wed 2009-12-23
Iran militia attack pro-reform cleric's home in Qom

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