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Around 60 Taliban, four police dead in Afghan attacks
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
World Bank To Loan Iran $900M	6 00:00 Vinegar Glick4227 [1771]
Iraq set to revoke contractor immunity, BUT	2 00:00 Bangkok Billy [1736]
Unidentified saboteurs bomb oil pipeline in Yemen	3 00:00 Zenster [1743]
Musharraf warned: hold elections and quit as army chief	4 00:00 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [1772]
Hizbullah Military Exercise Undetected By UNIFIL	18 00:00 JosephMendiola [1754]
Five shot dead in southern Thailand; two wounded by "acid bombs"	0 [1756]
Iraqi Police Continue to Listen to USSOF Advice (Capture Ramadi IED Guy)	1 00:00 Red Dawg [1746]
U.S. Navy rescues SoKor fishing boats from pirates	16 00:00 Pappy [1740]
Good morning	3 00:00 George Grusons1641 [1735]
Israeli aircraft whack 3 Gazooks	3 00:00 mojo [1750]
Lupolianski assassination plot foiled	0 [1741]
Iraqi Official Gunned Down in Baghdad	0 [1740]
Activists Detained in Pakistain Emergency	4 00:00 Jack is Back! [1739]
PKK Release Turkish Soldiers	1 00:00 Abdominal Snowman [1747]
Palestinian militants continue rocket attacks at Israel	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1738]
200 soldiers released in S Wazoo	2 00:00 ed [1733]
14 SC judges put under house arrest	9 00:00 Rich W [1769]
Around 60 Taliban, four police dead in Afghan attacks	1 00:00 Jack is Back! [1790]
Action inevitable as Swat fascisti seize police stations	0 [1739]
2 citizens killed, 2 mosques, 70 houses destroyed in Swat clashes	1 00:00 Glenmore [1732]
Page 2: WoT Background
Al-Qaeda propaganda man turns himself in	4 00:00 Ulavimp Dingle7880 [1770]
Bush, Turkish PM Discuss Kurdish Rebels	2 00:00 Nimble Spemble [1742]
Going to the Beijing Olympics? Dont take your Bible.	5 00:00 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [1768]
StrategyPage: Loose Nukes In Pakistan	32 00:00 OldSpook [1774]
StrategyPage: Extraditions Rising	3 00:00 Zenster [1739]
Pakistan to hold vote by mid-Jan.	3 00:00 twobyfour [1756]
Pakistan denies rumors Musharraf is under house arrest	1 00:00 Zenster [1734]
Saudi Minister confirms building a wall along Iraq borders	8 00:00 Redneck Jim [1741]
Freed Reporter Recounts Ordeal in Chad	0 [1732]
Prince of Kuwait Congratulates the Leader on Libya's Security Council Membership	2 00:00 twobyfour [1765]
Danish political party threatened by al-Aqsa Brigade	9 00:00 Tony (UK) [1732]
Red on Red From A Reds Point of View	0 [1737]
Iraq Diggers disappointed by their portrayal	2 00:00 Icerigger [1737]
'Struggle' to rein in Taliban in Afghanistan's south	1 00:00 Frank G [1732]
Rafsanjani Issues Warning to Iran Gov't	4 00:00 Zenster [1742]
Travelers' data would go to EU states	8 00:00 Ebbang Uluque6305 [1736]
Anbar Officials: U.S. Should Stay	4 00:00 JohnQC [1740]
Recognising success on the streets of Iraq	1 00:00 eLarson [1733]
'Hamas not planning West Bank takeover'	4 00:00 flash91 [1732]
Pakistani Police Detain 500 Activists	0 [1753]
Hawatmeh pushes for Hamas-Fatah talks	0 [1737]
Meshaal Wants Dialogue With Fatah	2 00:00 Zenster [1735]
Iranians Commemorate US Embassy Seizure	5 00:00 mojo [1733]
Omar Bakri: Still Banned in the UK	7 00:00 mojo [1736]
Senior French envoys tell Assad to leave Lebanon alone	0 [1735]
Aoun: 'Becoming the next president is not important for me'	0 [1737]
Lebanon MP accuses Hezbollah of preparing for civil unrest	0 [1737]
Emergency short-term, envoys told	1 00:00 Redneck Jim [1735]
Feudalist political culture gave birth to terrorism: Altaf Hussain	2 00:00 Frozen Al [1734]
Israel demands security before Palestinian state	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1740]
Armed northern militias complicate Afghan security	1 00:00 McZoid [1749]
Qazi bitches about Provisional Constitutional Order	1 00:00 McZoid [1744]
Peshawar High Court swears in new justices	0 [1737]
People scared of emergency	1 00:00 Ebbang Uluque6305 [1730]
Hajj flights not to be affected: Waqeel Khan	0 [1736]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Pr0n Causes a 72% decline in rape	1 00:00 Frank G [1762]
Broken glass in sunflower seeds from China	7 00:00 Butch Hupemble1650 [1765]
DARPA race pushes robotics forward	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [1751]
For Fellow Sailing Burgers: Tom Perkins and his Mega Sailing Yacht	1 00:00 mojo [1763]
Girls Sexual Assaulted But Oprah is the one Devastated By School Scandal,	11 00:00 Procopius2k [1734]
Italy police arrest mafia "boss of bosses"	4 00:00 ed [1734]
Dubai and rape: French youth tells his story	8 00:00 Darrell [1736]
Putin sez Russia threatened by "Unipolar World"	2 00:00 Procopius2k [1735]
Polls show: Most people are morons	13 00:00 Anonymoose [1731]
Iraq, With U.S. Support, Voids a Russian Oil Contract	4 00:00 Tyranysaurus Unoluth6411 [1745]
Sri Lanka to probe UN sex claims in Haiti	1 00:00 mojo [1758]
Egypt Eases Mubarak Son's Ascent	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [1733]
UN special envoy meets Myanmar ministers in new capital	0 [1734]
Afghan child mortality rate drops by 25 percent	6 00:00 Procopius2k [1736]
AL demands Hasina's release before polls	0 [1732]
Page 4: Opinion
Turkey-U.S. Relations At a Critical Juncture	4 00:00 Zenster [1770]
General Sanchez, a Continuous Failure	3 00:00 Procopius2k [1730]
NYT: The Perils of Petrocracy	2 00:00 Thomas Woof [1732]
No, No, No, Dont Follow Us	17 00:00 Anonymoose [1750]
Blaming the media for victory	1 00:00 Icerigger [1741]
Checking Out the Bali Beachheads of UN Climate Change	10 00:00 Swamp Blondie [1740]
Ahmad Montazeri: Irans Territorial Integrity in Danger	0 [1756]
Austin Bay on State Department and 'forced' assignments	23 00:00 Zenster [1742]
Warlords of Afghanistan	0 [1728]
Bill O'Reilly: Try telling victims terror threat is overblown	3 00:00 no mo uro [1746]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
Obama: Cheney is 'a crazy uncle in the attic'	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1738]
Publishers See a Way to Track Their Content Across the Net	1 00:00 Anonymoose [1731]
Bihar official ostracised for sheltering pigs	5 00:00 Icerigger [1733]
Prank leaves police overrun by gnomes	4 00:00 Icerigger [1761]
Dictator Doolittle - Putin Easily Mingles in Animal World	4 00:00 Redneck Jim [1729]
Britain complains about Giuliani health care ad	7 00:00 Joe Biden [1728]
Afghan Koran distributor arrested	4 00:00 mojo [1754]

    
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                        23:58 OldSpook

                        23:54 Zenster

                        23:05 Anguper Hupomosing9418

                        23:03 Anguper Hupomosing9418

                        22:58 twobyfour

                        22:58 3dc

                        22:56 Vinegar Glick4227

                        22:54 twobyfour

                        22:47 twobyfour

                        22:34 Alaska Paul

                        22:12 mojo

                        22:11 JosephMendiola

                        22:07 mojo

                        22:05 mojo

                        22:00 Butch Hupemble1650

                        21:51 Zenster

                        21:49 trailing wife

                        21:46 Rich W

                        21:37 twobyfour

                        21:28 Pappy

                        21:22 Zenster

                        21:21 Frank G

                        21:20 Icerigger

Who's in the News
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4	Govt of Pakistan
2	Hezbollah
2	Hamas
2	Taliban
1	DFLP
1	Govt of Syria
1	al-Aqsa Martyrs
1	Al-Muhajiroun
1	Iraqi Insurgency
1	Islamic Jihad
1	Palestinian Authority
1	TNSM
1	al-Qaeda in North Africa
1	Thai Insurgency
1	Global Jihad
1	Govt of Iran

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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2007-11-05
Around 60 Taliban, four police dead in Afghan attacks

Sun 2007-11-04
Opp vows to resist emergency

Sat 2007-11-03
Musharraf imposes state of emergency

Fri 2007-11-02
Anbar leaders visit US, stress partnership

Thu 2007-11-01
Bus bomb kills eight, injures 56 in Russia

Wed 2007-10-31
Iraqi Special Forces Detains AQI Commander in Khadra

Tue 2007-10-30
Crew of North Korean Pirated Vessel Regains Control

Mon 2007-10-29
Baghdad: Gunmen kidnap 10 anti-al-Qaida tribal leaders

Sun 2007-10-28
80 Talibs escorted from gene pool at Musa Qala

Sat 2007-10-27
Pakistani forces launch offensive against militants in Swat valley

Fri 2007-10-26
Mehsuds formally ask army to leave Tank compound

Thu 2007-10-25
India jails 31 for life over 1998 blasts

Wed 2007-10-24
Binny demands reinforcements for Iraq

Tue 2007-10-23
PKK offers conditional ceasefire

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