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Somali leader taken to hospital
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Israel challenges report on nukes	5 00:00 Geoffro [1758]
Six dead in southern Thai restaurant bombing	4 00:00 swksvolFF [1731]
Suicide Bomber Strikes Near Defense Secretary Gates	3 00:00 USN,Ret. [1745]
Iraq group threatens to kill British hostage	3 00:00 Icerigger [1730]
Suicide car bomb kills 6, wounds 20 in Diyala	0 [1737]
Good Morning	10 00:00 moody blues [1730]
Turkish military kills six Kurdish rebels	0 [1733]
Coalition forces target foreign terrorist facilitators, media cells; two killed, 25 detained	2 00:00 Icerigger [1747]
Coalition forces detain two suspected criminal element members	1 00:00 gorb [1731]
Hamas-affiliated police in Gaza storm Al-Azhar University	4 00:00 Mike [1760]
US Treasury moves against leader of militant group in Algeria	0 [1731]
Fierce fighting in eastern Chad	0 [1737]
Woman bomber kills herself	11 00:00 Alaska Paul [1747]
Swat relief package soon	0 [1731]
Professor gunned down in Bannu	0 [1735]
FC man killed, another injured in Quetta attack	0 [1731]
4 cops killed in Afghan ambush	0 [1737]
Madrassa bombing suspect arrested	2 00:00 Icerigger [1734]
Three Al-Qassam activists killed in Gaza Strip	0 [1735]
Israeli forces arrest two Hamas members in Nablus; fail to arrest 'wanted' Hamas activist	1 00:00 Frank G [1734]
Page 2: WoT Background
OLIVER STONE SEEKS TO FILM "AHMADINEJAD'S ADVENTURES"	13 00:00 ryuge [1747]
Code Pink leader and fellow activist get busted in Pakistan	19 00:00 mrp [1753]
Venezuela: Raid on Jewish Center Condemned	3 00:00 mjhlaw [1721]
Religeon of Peace - "Death to women without a headscarf"	4 00:00 USN,Ret. [1725]
Czech Republic: Deputies approve overseas deployments	1 00:00 trailing wife [1727]
The Iranian Little (Submarine) Wonder	14 00:00 Thomas Woof [1727]
Bush still a factor, Rove warns	0 [1730]
Bush: Iran Still a Danger Despite Report	12 00:00 Ebbang Uluque6305 [1739]
NYSlimes: NIE Report: New Data, New Methods, New Conclusion	2 00:00 SteveS [1738]
JPost: 'US [NIE] report should not deter world'	0 [1738]
Gitmo Inmate Cuts Throat, but Survives	17 00:00 Frank G [1730]
Iraq agrees to seek final UN extension for troops	1 00:00 mojo [1721]
Innocent Tamils caught by Lankan police, freed	0 [1725]
Hizbullah's Mohammed Raad: No to a Constitutional Amendment by Saniora Government	0 [1733]
Spanish government resists clamour to outlaw Basque radicals	0 [1725]
New trial for France's 'Guantanamo six'	1 00:00 Frozen Al [1730]
Somali leader taken to hospital	0 [1774]
Jamaat says 'final no' to elections	2 00:00 Icerigger [1728]
Militants' threats shut video shops to give way to 'Islamic business'	3 00:00 Icerigger [1737]
Iraq to hire 12,000 Sunni militia guards	0 [1728]
French FM on his way to Lebanon to seal presidency deal	0 [1728]
Hamas denies Israeli reports of Shalit's captors agreeing to Red Cross visit	2 00:00 Rambler [1728]
60 wounded Palestinians demand passage through Rafah crossing	4 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1746]
Gas stations close as Israel continues Gaza Strip fuel cuts	9 00:00 JFM [1724]
Uneasy in paradise	4 00:00 Red Dawg [1731]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Area 51 Nowed Powered From Outer Space	10 00:00 JosephMendiola [1746]
Globocrat Paradise on Bali	1 00:00 Old Patriot [1751]
Sarkozy wants to lift the arms embargo against China	1 00:00 Excalibur [1726]
Team Hillary Hangs A Lantern On Their Problem	4 00:00 Procopius2k [1728]
Greenland: All civil servants must speak Greenlandic - Danes unhappy	8 00:00 mrp [1753]
Video: Tancredos new immigration ad has some balls	4 00:00 trailing wife [1727]
US jet intercepts ballistic missile for first time: officials	18 00:00 JosephMendiola [1744]
EU troops hand over camp to Bosnian army	1 00:00 Excalibur [1719]
Mugabe hails Zimbabwe 'new dawn'	7 00:00 Alaska Paul [1749]
UN to join attack on Congo rebels	1 00:00 Redneck Jim [1726]
Page 4: Opinion
Michael Yon : Infrastructure to MRAPs	0 [1733]
The Politics of Intelligence	1 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1751]
Let's shift our troops from Iraq to Afghanistan	2 00:00 SteveS [1731]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
Guardian: Astronauts test sex in space - but did the earth move?	1 00:00 Procopius2k [1745]
Da Timez holdin' it down on the obituary tip, yo!	5 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1748]
Group sez China is showing 1.5 Million the door preparing for the Olympics	2 00:00 DoDo [1745]
Video: cops follow doughnut truck in high-speed chase	2 00:00 USN,Ret. [1725]
Girl, 7, shot 6 times saving mom	9 00:00 RWV [1729]
LA cardinal was assaulted over Church abuse	4 00:00 Frank G [1738]
Enviro group calls on Muslims to stop flying to Mecca for Hajj	21 00:00 Alaska Paul [1757]
Soldier Charged in Sgt.'s Death in Iraq	2 00:00 SeaLawyer [1730]
Tense Times as Teens Toke Toads	4 00:00 J. Thaddeus Toad [1740]
Flatulence ban for club pensioner	10 00:00 Red Dawg [1723]

    
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                        23:46 JosephMendiola

                        22:21 Old Patriot

                        22:20 mrp

                        22:16 Mike N.

                        22:11 Barbara Skolaut

                        22:09 Barbara Skolaut

                        22:09 Alaska Paul

                        22:07 Alaska Paul

                        21:37 Alaska Paul

                        21:35 Alaska Paul

                        21:35 mrp

                        21:33 Alaska Paul

                        21:30 Geoffro

                        21:29 Mike

                        21:23 Procopius2k

                        21:22 Barbara Skolaut

                        21:18 DMFD

                        20:56 Barbara Skolaut

                        20:47 Barbara Skolaut

                        20:45 DoDo

                        20:43 J. Thaddeus Toad

                        20:38 ryuge

                        20:37 Eric Jablow

Who's in the News
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7	Taliban
6	Hamas
3	al-Qaeda in Iraq
2	Iraqi Insurgency
2	Hezbollah
1	Thai Insurgency
1	al-Qaeda
1	al-Qaeda in North Africa
1	Global Jihad
1	Govt of Iran
1	Jamaat-e-Islami
1	Mahdi Army
1	TNSM

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