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Kenyan police nab 6 terror suspects in coastal town
Today's Headlines

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Page 1: WoT Operations
US retires Predator drones after 15 years that changed the 'war on terror'	10 23:14 Gomez Wholuth7254 [1765]
German police detain suspect over night club attack threat in Offenburg	0 [1745]
Ex-Qaeda affiliate in Syria claims Damascus bombings	0 [1756]
German minister links Essen security alert to Islamic State	0 [1750]
Iraqi army cuts off last 'Islamic State' supply line to west Mosul	0 [1752]
Iraqi forces retake third of west Mosul	0 [1750]
Somalia: Media worker wounded in car bomb blast in capital	0 [1743]
Israel Thwarts Hamas Moves To Spread Influence In West Bank	0 [1751]
Two ANA Bases Under One-Month Taliban Siege In Baghlan	0 [1745]
Policeman gunned down, others wounded in Tunisia	0 [1752]
Italy deports Tunisian suspected of links to Berlin attacker	0 [1742]
Shia militant killed in gunfight with Saudi forces	0 [1753]
Germany agrees to deport Bardo museum fugitive to Tunisia	0 [1744]
Kenyan police nab 6 terror suspects in coastal town	0 [1763]
Syrian Al-Qaeda affiliate claims twin bombing in Damascus	2 18:38 g(r)omgoru [1776]
Page 2: WoT Background
FBI undercover stings foil terrorist plots ‐ but often plots of the agency's own making	13 14:04 Zhang Fei [1745]
‘Teach captured terrorists to sing, dance and play’	0 [1752]
Sweden Realizes It's Been Financially Supporting Hundreds Of Terrorists For Years	4 14:48 g(r)omgoru [1741]
Iran announces mass production of domestic main battle tank-cool autoloader	12 18:45 Pappy [1758]
Iranian backed militia forms Golan liberation brigade	2 09:42 trailing wife [1747]
Scores of immigrants are creeping into Canada in the dead of night to escape Trump's America	4 12:20 chris [1738]
Islamic State Relationship Advice: Gossiping About Wives Shows ‘Lack of Manliness’	1 08:55 Frank G [1747]
Islamic State’s German Magazine Tells Fighters To Kill ‘Apostate’ Imams	2 21:36 trailing wife [1769]
Denmark warns Turkish PM to postpone visit as Germany mulls legal options	0 [1734]
Two women arrested for failing to inform police of their friend who left for Somalia	0 [1749]
Israeli schoolgirls' killer: Israelis are human garbage	4 14:20 Zhang Fei [1743]
Palestinian children reportedly pretend to execute IDF soldiers in foreign aid-funded schools	2 22:01 trailing wife [1772]
Haqqanis, LeT, JeM should be treated like terror groups, says India	0 [1749]
Libya’s deepening split finds battleground at oil terminals	0 [1743]
Carlos the Jackal faces trial again in France	3 10:50 JohnQC [1754]
Lebanese Cardinal slams Hezbollah	3 17:40 magpie [1768]
Ankara Threatens 'Harshest' Retaliation After Minister Barred From Rotterdam	1 16:29 g(r)omgoru [1752]
With Lebanon No Longer Hiding Hezbollah's Role, Next War Must Hit Civilians Where It Hurts, Israeli Minister Says	0 [1739]
N. Korea seen excavating tunnel for far more powerful nuke test	1 08:35 Skidmark [1740]
Russia sends mercenaries to back Libya’s Haftar	0 [1742]
Group of Sunni Arab leaders asks for Kurdish Peshmerga help in Hawija ops	0 [1741]
Inside the Green Berets’ Hunt for Wanted Warlord Joseph Kony	13 23:38 Sock Puppet of Doom [1757]
Turkey rallies row: Germany and Netherlands harden stance	0 [1740]
Page 3: Non-WoT
4chan Finds and Desecrates Hidden Flagpole on Shia LaBeouf's ‘He Will Not Divide Us' Stream	8 19:10 Bobby [1755]
Hispanic coed demands whites fund her spring break as payback for ‘genocide and enslavement of our ppl'	9 21:20 charger [1762]
Reporters freak out over radiation: by the numbers using bananas	3 17:51 AlmostAnonymous5839 [1763]
The Berlin Detachment	0 [1749]
Saudi king visits Japan, seeks help on diversifying economy	4 10:43 SteveS [1736]
Harvard compiles fake news website list	5 17:48 AlmostAnonymous5839 [1764]
Russia confirms: Envoy met with Trump, Clinton camps during election	4 16:45 Abu Uluque [1747]
Why Your Dad's 30-Year-Old Stereo System Sounds Better Than Your New One	4 16:11 rjschwarz [1736]
‘Absurd criminal case’: Russian woman pardoned by Putin over text message freed	0 [1743]
Tillerson to visit S. Korea this week	0 [1747]
South Korea's Park leaves presidential palace after impeachment	2 13:35 Raj [1744]
French elections: Beleaguered Fillon hit by fresh scandals	0 [1740]
Runaway bus 'kills 34' in Haitian city of Gonaives	0 [1738]
'Prepare for the worst': Tuesday nor'easter threatens N.J. with blizzard	1 12:00 SteveS [1735]
731 People Have Switched Genders on Their NYC Birth Certificate Since 2015	1 03:52 phil_b [1735]
46 killed, dozens missing in Ethiopia garbage dump landslide	0 [1742]
Gander Mountain files Chapter 11, 32 stores going Tango Uniform	6 16:22 Mullah Richard [1743]
No Biggies in Ewetah	0 [1740]
Donetsk water plant repairs delayed by artillery	1 16:56 ed in texas [1739]
6.2 quake strikes off Japan	0 [1739]
Page 4: Opinion
The End of the World...for Liberals	4 16:36 lord garth [1744]
Newt: 95% of political donations by federal officials went to Hillary	2 18:02 g(r)omgoru [1758]
Holland: the Canary in the European Coal Mine	2 15:56 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [1740]
Rejecting hate	2 08:36 Pappy [1737]
Panama time	0 [1745]
Win or Lose, Geert Wilders Has Won Netherlands' Battle for Hearts and Minds	0 [1751]
Correction	4 11:30 Frank G [1741]
Page 6: Politix
Bitter Old Man Throws Tantrum - Hint: It's Maverick	20 20:58 rjschwarz [1771]
Cummings: 'May be' connection between Bharara firing, investigations of Trump	3 11:46 gorb [1739]
Test meant to screen teachers instead weeded out minorities	12 16:38 gorb [1740]
Steve King: Geert Wilders tweet sparks a social media backlash	1 09:06 Frank G [1745]

    
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2	Arab Spring
2	Govt of Pakistan
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1	Taliban
1	al-Nusra
1	Govt of Pakistain Proxies
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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2017-03-13
Kenyan police nab 6 terror suspects in coastal town

Sun 2017-03-12
Double suicide attack kills 40 in Damascus

Sat 2017-03-11
Syrian force a ‘few weeks’ from Raqqa, U.S. Marines deployed

Fri 2017-03-10
Ax attacker at Düsseldorf main train station arrested

Thu 2017-03-09
Baghdadi abandons Mosul fight to field commanders

Wed 2017-03-08
IS gunmen dressed as medics kill 30 at Kabul military hospital

Tue 2017-03-07
Mufti Hannan jailbreak attempt fails

Mon 2017-03-06
New wave of US air raids on Qaeda in Yemen

Sun 2017-03-05
Jordan hangs 15 death row prisoners at dawn in further break from moratorium on executions

Sat 2017-03-04
Kurdish YPG fighters repel treacherous Turkish attack near Syria’s Afrin

Fri 2017-03-03
Syrian Army recaptures Palmyra, aided by Russian Air Force: Kremlin

Thu 2017-03-02
Islamic State supreme leader’s speech admits defeat in Mosul

Wed 2017-03-01
Two women in nerve agent attack on Kim Jong-nam charged with murder

Tue 2017-02-28
Islamic State claims attempted bombing in Algeria -AMAQ

Mon 2017-02-27
Taliban shadow governor among 21 killed in counter-terrorism operations

Sun 2017-02-26
Hamas Diggers Dead in Gaza Tunnel ‘Work Accident'

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