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Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Family to hand over militants should drone campaign cease	1 23:26 tu3031 [1771]
Rioting Returns To Cairo: Live Webcast	0 [1750]
Clashes between TTP, Ansarul Islam enter day four	0 [1744]
Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts	0 [1768]
Shots fired at bus, terror attack foiled in West Bank	0 [1754]
Good morning	12 19:43 Besoeker [1741]
Elite troops shell Damascus suburb: Activists	0 [1750]
Police station raided in Suez, prisoners flee	0 [1757]
Clashes continue in Downtown Cairo	0 [1757]
Protesters stop transfer of 60 prisoners from Suez police station	0 [1753]
Port Said funeral attacked, enflaming anger	0 [1754]
Fighting rages between militants in Tirah valley	0 [1745]
Afghan bomb blast kills eight police, three detainees: officials	0 [1747]
ASWJ cleric among seven shot dead in city	0 [1753]
'Sectarian violence': Two injured, one abducted in Peshawar	0 [1749]
One killed, two hurt in Mardan blast	0 [1753]
French forces advance on Timbuktu	5 22:33 SteveS [1776]
French Raids on Mali Town Destroy Islamist Chief's Home	0 [1749]
Morsi declares state of emergency in Suez after clashes kill 49	5 22:22 SteveS [1783]
Three terrorists killed in North Caucasus gun battle	0 [1743]
Iranian-Hizballah convoy blown up on Syrian Golan.	6 16:51 Shipman [1754]
18 killed or injured in attack by Philippine communist rebels	0 [1753]
Raid nets double killing suspect in southern Thailand	0 [1750]
Rebels, troops clash near Damascus train station	0 [1752]
One man shot dead during Port Said funerals	0 [1750]
6 die in Zacatecas including 3 bad guys	0 [1740]
Afghan forces now bearing brunt of war violence	2 21:40 Pappy [1768]
Page 2: WoT Background
Lawyer fired in 9/11 case at Guantanamo	0 [1748]
Mexico missing band: Bodies found in Nuevo Leon well	1 22:19 USN,Ret. [1772]
U.S. Drone Base Would Make Africa the New Home of the War on Terror	1 19:09 JosephMendiola [1749]
Islamic scholars invite Salman Rushdie for debate on Islam and prophet's life	3 15:12 Muggsy Mussolini1226 [1741]
Iran 'successfully sends monkey into space'	7 21:02 Skidmark [1763]
UN Secretary General: Political Solution to Crisis in Syria Still Possible	0 [1737]
Paris urges Syrian opposition to stop extremists	0 [1740]
Mali: Who's Who in armed Islamist Groups	0 [1742]
Paris urges Syrian opposition to stop extremists	0 [1744]
Death penalty sought for Islamist 'prince' over jail murder	0 [1737]
Al-Qaeda-linked group claims blame for Syria blast	0 [1742]
Mali: Al-Qaeda allies plot revenge attacks in Nigeria	4 22:05 JosephMendiola [1774]
Israeli Sources Confirm Blast At Iranian Nuclear Facility	16 23:42 Alaska Paul [1764]
Barak: US has 'surgical operation' plan against Iran	5 22:22 JosephMendiola [1772]
UN backs Yemen transition, thousands protest Saleh immunity	0 [1738]
Brotherhood leader urges for emergency powers amid Egypt-wide clashes	2 11:33 Procopius2k [1741]
Egypt stock market slides Sunday morning after violent weekend	0 [1738]
Assad's chances of staying in power waning, Russian PM says	0 [1740]
Malik invokes Islam in offer to Taliban	0 [1739]
Tunisians reject anti-Mouled fatwa	0 [1735]
UAE to Put on Trial 94 Islamists	0 [1741]
Syria Pledges to End Opposition Prosecutions	0 [1744]
ICRC Chief Voices Deep Concern about Mali	1 15:13 Muggsy Mussolini1226 [1743]
Britain Warns of 'Specific' Threat in Somaliland	0 [1746]
Morsi declares month long "State of Emergency"	0 [1737]
Iran actively weighs Syrian-Israeli clash. Iron Dome posted in N. Israel	6 23:02 JosephMendiola [1756]
Argentina, Iran to form "truth commission" for 1994 bombing	4 16:55 Shipman [1740]
Mali conflict spurs turmoil in Libya	1 07:43 Glenmore [1739]
UN humanitarian chief in Syria for talks	0 [1740]
60 Syrian Kurd villages turn ghost towns	0 [1741]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Ghost car emerges from Queensland storm foam	0 [1749]
Iceland Wins Big Case Over Failed Bank	0 [1750]
Japan To Slash Welfare Benefits In Attempt To Root Out "Comfortably Poor"	1 14:17 Procopius2k [1740]
India successfully test-fires SLBM	6 18:47 john frum [1740]
North Koreans Reportedly Turn to Cannibalism Due to 'Hidden Famine'	8 20:47 Skidmark [1771]
Norway Data Shows Earth's Global Warming Less Severe Than Feared	13 23:12 tipover [1781]
Outcry over UK paper's cartoon showing bloody Israeli oppression	1 10:32 49 Pan [1746]
Shale gas boom now visible from space	5 13:02 trailing wife [1740]
Anger mounts over corruption in recession-hit Spain	2 11:32 ed in texas [1739]
'Dacoit' killed in shootout with police	0 [1745]
Accountant joins backlash against tax dodge attacks	0 [1739]
Chavez recovers from infection, sez state info minister	4 17:06 Shipman [1744]
Page 4: Opinion
Tax the revolving door	2 22:20 DarthVader [1766]
Chuck Hagel: the darling of Tehran	0 [1750]
Arms For The Cheap And Clueless	0 [1734]
Strategy Page: Where Oil Turns Into Hate	4 17:55 tipper [1734]
Washington Casts Wary Eye at Muslim Brotherhood	2 17:01 JohnQC [1745]
A Wealth of Words	0 [1739]
How Much Does the War On Israel Cost Europe?	4 12:43 Thing From Snowy Mountain [1745]
Algiers: Where France is still promised land and enemy	3 17:15 Shipman [1741]
Canada must crack down on Islamic militants	1 21:43 Canuckistan sniper [1760]
Page 6: Politix
Government crony capitalism: It is now a crime to jailbreak your smartphone	4 23:18 Barbara [1770]
Journalist Accosted by Security over Mayor Bloomberg Gun Control Question	2 19:31 JosephMendiola [1741]
Appeals court to EPA: No you can't punish oil companies for not using biofuel not made yet	5 22:38 USN,Ret. [1771]
Brock's Glock	2 11:20 JohnQC [1743]
Obama Vows 'Never Again' on Holocaust Memorial Day	7 20:24 Chief [1767]

    
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                        22:33 SteveS

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                        22:20 DarthVader

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                        22:19 James

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Who's in the News
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6	Arab Spring
4	Govt of Syria
3	al-Qaeda in North Africa
2	TTP
1	Salafists
1	Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
1	Taliban
1	Thai Insurgency
1	al-Shabaab
1	Ansar Dine
1	Boko Haram
1	Govt of Pakistan
1	Lashkar e-Jhangvi

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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2013-01-28
Timbuktu mayor: Mali rebels torched library of historic manuscripts

Sun 2013-01-27
French and Malian troops begin restoring control in Timbuktu

Sat 2013-01-26
Green-on-green clash in Khyber tribal region kills 32

Fri 2013-01-25
AQAP #2 killed for the THIRD time in Yemen

Thu 2013-01-24
US drone strike near Sanaa kills 7 hard boyz

Wed 2013-01-23
Nuristan Airstrike Kills 14 Insurgents

Tue 2013-01-22
French seize control of Diabaly, Douentza

Mon 2013-01-21
Nigeria: Gunmen attack Kano emir's convoy

Sun 2013-01-20
Algeria crisis: Hostage-takers 'taken alive' at gas plant

Sat 2013-01-19
Boko Haram leader Shekau shot, escapes to Mali

Fri 2013-01-18
1,400 French soldiers in Mali for ground assaults: minister

Thu 2013-01-17
41 snatched by AQIM in Algeria gas plant attack

Wed 2013-01-16
France deploys armoured vehicles towards northern Mali

Tue 2013-01-15
Pakistan paralysed after court demands PM arrest

Mon 2013-01-14
Famed Tunisia Mausoleum Torched by Salafists

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