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ISIS Retreats From Kobani
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Abbas Derides Hamas Talk Of 'Victory' In War Against Israel	6 13:18 swksvolFF [1735]
Firebombing Palestinian Yoot Killed Near Ramallah, Firebombs Thrown At J'lem Building	1 06:01 g(r)omgoru [1739]
Good morning	0 [1739]
ISIS Retreats From Kobani	17 21:26 OldSpook [1779]
Abu Sayyaf hostage forced to sit inside grave	1 02:36 JosephMendiola [1736]
Mogadishu car bomb attack kills Intelligence official	0 [1731]
US Says It Conducts 14 Air Strikes Against Islamic State Near Kobani	4 19:37 tu3031 [1742]
Attacks In Shi'ite Areas Of Baghdad Kill At Least 36	0 [1752]
Two Bombs Wound 8 in Egypt	0 [1764]
Moroccan Accused Of Bringing Kids To Extremists	0 [1738]
German Arrested Over Link To Syria Al-Qaeda Branch	0 [1739]
Three Ethiopian Peacekeepers Killed in Darfur Attack	0 [1738]
Al-Qaeda seizes Yemen town to counter Houthis	0 [1739]
The IS man who begged for death ... and got it	7 23:08 gorb [1762]
Key Taliban Commander Killed in Herat	0 [1738]
Thinni praises Benghazi operation as at least 12 are reported killed in clashes	0 [1762]
Blast inside Peshawar shrine	0 [1735]
Gunmen kill retired Ahmadi air force official in Attock	0 [1763]
Bara suicide blast leaves seven dead	0 [1739]
21 suspected militants killed as jets bomb hideouts in Khyber	2 07:33 Shipman [1745]
Son of Jalaluddin Haqqani captured in Afghanistan	0 [1759]
Iran sends M-60 tanks into Iraq to help Kurds	9 13:01 Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 [1744]
Page 2: WoT Background
Odierno: ISIS, Russian Threats May Scuttle Plans to Shrink Army	7 19:31 Pappy [1730]
Ultimatum to Crimea’s Muslims: Three months to hand over banned Islamic texts	8 16:05 Shipman [1728]
Kerry: Unresolved Israel-Palestinian conflict fuels IS recruitment	1 07:24 g(r)omgoru [1730]
Powder Keg On Temple Mount	5 21:46 newc [1755]
Hamas Leader Urges Muslims To Defend Temple Mount Mosque From 'Israeli Takeover'	4 23:06 Glolulet Thud5403 [1747]
Red Cross Delivers First Medical Aid In A Year To Palestinians In Syria	1 11:50 USN, Ret. [1728]
Britain Sends Drones To Iraq To Join Fight Against Islamic State	0 [1721]
Asir to Mustaqbal Supporters: Hariri Has Put You in Confrontation with Jihadists	0 [1738]
Turkey to Expel Detained Kobane Kurds to Syria	3 18:20 swksvolFF [1737]
Merkel Ally Leaves Option Open Of Arming PKK In Fighting IS	0 [1721]
Iraq minorities 'face extinction from Islamic State onslaught'	0 [1739]
Kerry's aircraft grounded ... again	9 20:49 Rambler in Virginia [1743]
GCC ministers favor joint action to fight terror	0 [1736]
Riyadh warned world of terror threat	3 16:48 irishrageboy [1731]
EU court overturns Tamil Tiger sanctions	2 09:39 Besoeker [1732]
Ghani Attracts Criticism After Calling Militants 'Political Opposition'	1 07:32 Pappy [1731]
No Polio Vaccinations in Remote Kandahar Areas	0 [1729]
Interview with Hafter: Libya awash with foreign fighters	0 [1731]
Authorities rush to deny Egyptian involvement in Benghazi airstrikes	0 [1731]
'Jamaat building militant network in South Asia'	0 [1733]
Cut-out strategy helping JMB leaders to hide	0 [1734]
PTI-backed Dogar triumphs as Hashmi concedes NA-149 by-poll	0 [1741]
Pakistani Hazara campaigner fights deportation from Britain	0 [1736]
Netherlands says OK for biker gangs to fight Islamic State	1 23:29 Glolulet Thud5403 [1745]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Venezuela blames U.S for global oil price slump	9 22:06 newc [1755]
Belize refuses entry to cruise ship carrying Texas hospital worker	7 18:19 OldSpook [1733]
Frontier Airlines cleans Ebola plane 9 times.	4 19:32 Cheanter Ebbaper3878 [1734]
Feds Bailing Illegals	0 [1734]
Second Strain Of Ebola Identified In The Congo: Mortality Rate At 71 Percent	9 19:40 phil_b [1731]
NYT: Ambulance Work in Liberia Is a Busy and Lonely Business	5 14:27 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [1732]
Sierra Leone peacekeepers bound for Somalia in quarantine	3 10:08 AlanC [1725]
Network Theory and Ebola	7 13:53 rammer [1726]
UN Says Ebola Death Toll Rising To 4,500 This Week	2 09:04 Shipman [1730]
Fire Erupts At Cairo Power Plant	1 03:16 newc [1730]
Berlusconi Paid Ruby for Sex, but Did Not Know She Was Minor, Says Court	5 14:31 3dc [1728]
LHC upholds blasphemy convict Asia Bibi's death penalty	0 [1739]
Small girl recovered, two kidnappers killed in 'encounter'	1 23:26 Glolulet Thud5403 [1750]
Turkey loses out on UN Security Council seat	3 21:29 OldSpook [1751]
Texas Voter ID Law Reinstated	5 12:20 Ebbang Uluque6305 [1724]
Obama calls up reserves to deal with Ebola in Africa	9 22:45 Zenobia Floger6220 [1747]
Nurse Arrested Over 'Killing Annoying Patients'	7 18:46 Glolulet Thud5403 [1734]
Feds have 'gone wild' with taxpayer-funded credit cards	2 09:29 Procopius2k [1742]
Ebola fears grip Cleveland: Seven people in quarantine, two schools shut	12 18:36 swksvolFF [1731]
Russian premier questions Obama's mental state	9 17:27 swksvolFF [1722]
Kansas man charged in the rape of 100-year-old during burglary	1 18:31 swksvolFF [1741]
Geraldo Rivera Selfies: 'I'm 70 and Like to Get Naked'	5 12:01 Ebbang Uluque6305 [1725]
Docs ponder the extent to which they should go on critical Ebola patients	13 20:06 SteveS [1749]
Page 4: Opinion
Robert Reich: The Ivy League is ripping off America!	12 22:09 newc [1756]
Government under-reaction to Ebola is condescending and dangerous	0 [1736]
PJ Media: Five Key Implications If Baghdad Falls To ISIS	5 15:01 Zenobia Floger6220 [1736]
Page 6: Politix
Obama Names Ebola Czar To Throw Under the Bus	11 22:56 Glolulet Thud5403 [1748]
'Top Men' Waffle on Banning Travel from Hot Zone	2 16:34 g(r)omgoru [1728]
Little Biden Busted for Blow, not influence peddling	13 20:29 JosephMendiola [1761]
Houston Mayor Who Tried Harassing Pastors Says She's the Real Victim	20 18:17 SteveS [1735]
Obama Calls For A Medical 'Swat Team' To Fight Ebola	10 16:31 Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 [1740]
New York Daily News Blasts Obama: 'For God's Sake, Get A Grip'	1 11:26 Ebbang Uluque6305 [1733]
Obama defines US as "Muslim Country"	16 15:14 AlanC [1737]

    
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                        21:20 Thing From Snowy Mountain

                        21:19 Pappy

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Who's in the News
46	[untagged]
10	Islamic State
3	Arab Spring
2	TTP
2	Taliban
2	Govt of Pakistan
2	Lashkar e-Jhangvi
1	Abu Sayyaf
1	Jamaat-e-Islami
1	Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
1	Salafists
1	al-Nusra
1	al-Qaeda in Arabia
1	Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis
1	al-Qaeda in Pakistan
1	Govt of Iran
1	Govt of Saudi Arabia
1	Govt of Sudan
1	Hamas

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Two weeks of WOT

Fri 2014-10-17
ISIS Retreats From Kobani

Thu 2014-10-16
Kurdish fighters gain ground in Kobane

Wed 2014-10-15
Six top TTP commanders announce allegiance to Islamic State's Baghdadi

Tue 2014-10-14
Kurds, IS in Heavy Fighting near Turkish Border

Mon 2014-10-13
21 militants killed in Khyber, Waziristan strikes

Sun 2014-10-12
Al-Qaeda convoy en route to Mali 'destroyed' by French

Sat 2014-10-11
Islamic State Advances Deeper Into Syrian Town Of Kobani

Fri 2014-10-10
Operation Dignity sinks ship attempting to enter Benghazi Port

Thu 2014-10-09
Sanaa suicide bomber kills at least 40

Wed 2014-10-08
After Fierce Gun Battle: 400 Boko Haram insurgents killed in battle to retake Bazza, Michika, Madagali

Tue 2014-10-07
Derna's rival Islamist militias fall out over Caliphate allegiance

Mon 2014-10-06
Huge Explosion at Iranian Explosives Plant

Sun 2014-10-05
Patient Zero, Thomas A. Duncan is dead

Sat 2014-10-04
Zarb-e-Azb: 15 more terrorists gunned down

Fri 2014-10-03
Iraq Butcher's Bill: 40 jihadists, 17 police and army

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