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Khaled Mashaal re-elected Hamas political leader
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
BBC: Taleban face human shields charge	3 00:00 NoMoreBS [1764]
Terrorists gun down four in southern Thailand	0 [1740]
Good morning	6 00:00 GolfBravoUSMC [1736]
Sri Lanka troops take rebels' defense bund	5 00:00 Old Patriot [1735]
Ambush kills two police officers in Algeria	0 [1733]
Ex-NSI boss held	0 [1738]
Iraqi forces arrest US-allied militia leader	0 [1751]
Three dead in south Yemen clashes	0 [1739]
Taliban using gemstones' money to fund terrorism	4 00:00 rabid whitetail [1735]
Somali pirates hijack 'Pakistani ship'	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [1731]
Gulf prince accused of 25 torture assaults	1 00:00 Parabellum [1729]
Taliban must lay down arms or face action: ISPR	1 00:00 Spot [1740]
Night curfew in Mingora	0 [1739]
Armed Taliban back on Mingora roads : TNSM rejects Darul Qaza	0 [1738]
Swat deal is over: Muslim Khan	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1737]
Page 2: WoT Background
Gingrich: 'Obama endangering Israel'	2 00:00 trailing wife [1752]
Emanuel: Thwarting Iran hinges on Israeli-Palestinian talks	3 00:00 trailing wife [1770]
NIMBY Democrats fail to fund GITMO Transfers	6 00:00 Ming the Merciless [1767]
French drug trafficker extradited to Mauritania	0 [1731]
Nasrallah: Israel assassinated Hariri	6 00:00 Old Patriot [1731]
Mahmoud Habbash favored to head PA	1 00:00 g(r)omgoru [1742]
Abdullah, Abbas urge support for 2-state solution	1 00:00 g(r)omgoru [1739]
UN asks Taliban to elect Afghan President	1 00:00 JohnQC [1734]
DPRK sees no change in U.S. hostile policy	4 00:00 NoMoreBS [1759]
Three held for making fake nat'l ID cards	0 [1732]
Lanka hits out at West over ceasefire calls	3 00:00 gromky [1731]
Israel considers pullout from Lebanon border village	0 [1742]
Khaled Mashaal re-elected Hamas political leader	0 [1771]
Taliban Tehreek requests inclusion in talks	0 [1739]
Altaf demands govt scrap Swat deal	0 [1741]
Being photographed, video taped is un-Islamic: TNSM chief	14 00:00 rwv [1733]
Sunni Tehreek to take on Talibanisation: Qureshi	0 [1734]
TNSM creating hurdles to peace: NWFP minister	1 00:00 lord garth [1743]
Protests erupt in Nepal after PM fires army chief	1 00:00 tired of the BS [1738]
Government believes in freedom of expression: Ashfaq Gondal	0 [1740]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Poll Shows Ridge Competitive Against Specter in Pennsylvania Race	3 00:00 OldSpook [1758]
Cessna 182 Crashes, Comes Up Smelling Like Roses	3 00:00 Dar [1734]
Opposition candidate Martinelli wins Panama's elections	1 00:00 Glenmore [1731]
12 bigwigs asked to surrender to trial courts	0 [1744]
British princess attacked	12 00:00 Guillibaldo [1742]
PAS debates role of clerics	1 00:00 JohnQC [1734]
Mexico says flu epidemic past peak	9 00:00 Frank G [1730]
Buffett offers bleak outlook for US newspapers	9 00:00 DMFD [1729]
Tsvangirai says Zim broke, cannot raise wages	5 00:00 DMFD [1732]
US Navy orders another LCS ship	13 00:00 JosephMendiola [1735]
Conservative supermarket tycoon wins Panama vote	2 00:00 AzCat [1742]
Australia to Bolster Defense	3 00:00 Redneck Jim [1739]
SL authorities bust moonshining and hooch den ring	1 00:00 Skunky Glins 5*** [1770]
Maintenance cost for the Big E rises	7 00:00 Procopius2k [1765]
Page 4: Opinion
SNARC study shows Palestinians bassackwards Canadians	1 00:00 Scooter McGruder [1772]
VDH: Questions from Oceania - Example: Waterboarding or No Brains?	2 00:00 Frank G [1760]
Is Afghanistan a 'War of Choice', not 'Necessity',?	1 00:00 JospehMendiola [1735]
How the Taliban finances its operations	2 00:00 Kofi Flomotch5556 [1745]
Pakistan is facing galloping Talibanisation: Ahmed Rashid	0 [1739]
The Taliban's Atomic Threat	11 00:00 Kofi Flomotch5556 [1735]
Kargil revisited on 10th anniversary	0 [1737]
Page 6: Politix
Blood Boil Alert: Ticking Time-bomb, Public Employees retirement	9 00:00 tipover [1759]
FOIA - Barry Soetoro received foreign student aid, Occidental College?	6 00:00 Dale [1746]
Bush I and II killed the "Reagan Revolution", Bush III wants to bury it.	44 00:00 Zhang Fei [1760]

    
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                        21:33 Ming the Merciless

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6	TTP
2	Govt of Pakistan
2	TNSM
1	Palestinian Authority
1	Pirates
1	Taliban
1	al-Qaeda in North Africa
1	al-Qaeda in Pakistan
1	Hamas
1	Hezbollah
1	Iraqi Insurgency

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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2009-05-04
Khaled Mashaal re-elected Hamas political leader

Sun 2009-05-03
64 civilians killed in Lanka hospital attack

Sat 2009-05-02
60 Taliban killed in Buner offensive

Fri 2009-05-01
Taliban hold Buner town people hostage

Thu 2009-04-30
U.S. missile strikes kill 10 in South Waziristan

Wed 2009-04-29
70 militants killed in Pak operation

Tue 2009-04-28
TNSM suspends talks with govt

Mon 2009-04-27
Suspect in Bat Ayin attack in custody

Sun 2009-04-26
North Korea reactivates its nuclear program

Sat 2009-04-25
US may use daisy-cutters 'if Pakistan shows reluctance'

Fri 2009-04-24
73 killed in twin suicide blasts in Baghdad

Thu 2009-04-23
Abu Omar al-Baghdadi nabbed

Wed 2009-04-22
Turkish police detain 37 in anti-Qaeda raids

Tue 2009-04-21
Lanka gives Tigers 24 hours to hang it up

Mon 2009-04-20
Iraq arrests children recruited by Al-Qaeda

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