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Militant threat on Eiffel Tower intercepted
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
90 remaining GIA terrorists, says arrested terrorist	0 [1735]
Private American school Attacked in Gaza	5 00:00 Mu Ham Head [1736]
Windows and Orphans Fund Leaders Jugged	3 00:00 g(r)omgoru [1739]
Full Iranian video of Straits of Hormuz incident	8 00:00 Super Hose [1735]
Good morning...	5 00:00 RWV [1752]
Berlusconi-owned newspaper receives threat, bullets	12 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1726]
Fugitive Lashkar suspect arrested	0 [1733]
US air strikes 'kill 21 Al Qaeda militants'	8 00:00 Super Hose [1744]
Benazir murder suspects escape raid in Pindi	1 00:00 mojo [1730]
Troops defeat militant attack in S Waziristan	0 [1734]
10 more alleged rioters remanded to police custody	0 [1736]
Key militant, five suspects rounded up in Swat	0 [1731]
Militants fire missiles at Mohmand Rifles camp	1 00:00 Black Charlie Spavimp8984 [1730]
Blasts damage two oil tankers in Chaman	1 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1738]
Lebanon arrests another Fatah al-Islam militant	1 00:00 DepotGuy [1737]
Hamas: security services arrest 6 Hamas members in West Bank	0 [1733]
Two Israeli jets violate Lebanese airspace	3 00:00 Omealet Big Foot9727 [1725]
Kurdish rebel gives himself up to Turkish security forces	0 [1736]
Al-Qaeda commander killed in military operation north of Baghdad	1 00:00 Geoffro [1738]
Sri Lankan Air Force claims to destroy LTTE sea base in Mullaithivu	0 [1734]
Yarmouk leader killed by extremist attack (Baghdad)	0 [1730]
Coalition targets al-Qaeda leadership, media networks; two killed, 11 detained	3 00:00 Old Patriot [1731]
Iraqi Security Forces, U.S. Special Forces detain suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq IED specialists (Hillah)	1 00:00 Omealet Big Foot9727 [1737]
Bomb blast in colombo rail station	0 [1735]
Page 2: WoT Background
Will Iran Try To Provoke The USS Harry S. Truman?	7 00:00 crosspatch [1749]
U.S. steps up anti-piracy ops	5 00:00 Super Hose [1745]
FBI Finds Blackwater Trucks Patched	3 00:00 swksvolFF [1735]
States Threatened To Comply With Real ID Act	14 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1752]
Court Rejects Suit of Club Gitmo Guests	0 [1729]
Iraq Parliament Passes De-Baathification Reform Law	4 00:00 Redneck Jim [1723]
Oxford bishop backs Islamic call to prayer	8 00:00 Alaska Paul [1732]
Tehran calls for returning its nuclear file from UNSC to IAEA	0 [1737]
There is a new fear among Jews in Venezuela	4 00:00 Super Hose [1737]
Yemenis Now Biggest Group at Guantanamo	8 00:00 regular joe [1730]
Musharraf rejects UN inquiry on Bhutto	1 00:00 Redneck Jim [1730]
Lebanon presidential vote postponed for 12th time	0 [1730]
Nawaz calls for dissolution of ISI's political wing	0 [1729]
Investigators eye tribal elements	0 [1726]
S Lanka rejects Tiger truce offer	7 00:00 Old Patriot [1721]
Geagea: Syria signaled to allies to oppose the Arab initiative	1 00:00 Old Patriot [1724]
Bush ends visit to region optimistic about peace in 2008	9 00:00 swksvolFF [1740]
Al-Tibi: Palestinian state will be established in spite of Bush, not because of him	3 00:00 Snique Dark Lord of the Apes1889 [1751]
Haniyeh: Bush's visit endorses US-Israeli domination over region	3 00:00 Pappy [1730]
Iraqi official says al-Qaeda in Iraq is penetrated, has become an open book	5 00:00 swksvolFF [1726]
Musharraf warns US of entering Pakistan	3 00:00 Redneck Jim [1723]
Militant threat on Eiffel Tower intercepted	7 00:00 Redneck Jim [1776]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Last Year Among Hottest on Record	14 00:00 DarthVader [1752]
Hugo's Meddling: U.S. Has 49 Tapes From Argentine Election Plot Probe	1 00:00 Super Hose [1730]
US's triple-A credit rating 'under threat'	4 00:00 Zhang Fei [1750]
Russia describes talks with Poland on US missile system as "useful"	6 00:00 swksvolFF [1724]
Opposition calls for mass rallies across Kenya	0 [1727]
Suharto has multiple organ failure	1 00:00 mojo [1721]
Page 4: Opinion
The Middle East is indebted to Bush	3 00:00 trailing wife [1750]
Tunisian Progressive Basit bin Hasan: Why There's Opposition to Human Rights in Arab Society	5 00:00 Icerigger [1737]
Government files amicus -- on DC's side of Gun Control Law	5 00:00 Broadhead6 [1749]
Mark Steyn: Capitalism is the real 'agent of change'	1 00:00 Broadhead6 [1758]
Nasrallah tells Moussa : Don't talk to us , talk to Aoun	3 00:00 Frank G [1732]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
Polish teen derails tram after hacking train network	2 00:00 3dc [1733]
Indian Supreme Court bans bullfight, says it's barbaric	1 00:00 Clains, Dark Lord of the Munchkins [1735]
N.C. sheriff: Pregnant Marine is dead, comrade is main suspect	9 00:00 trailing wife [1745]

    
                23:53 crosspatch

                        23:33 DarthVader

                        23:23 trailing wife

                        23:14 Snique Dark Lord of the Apes1889

                        23:14 trailing wife

                        23:06 Snique Dark Lord of the Apes1889

                        23:03 Zhang Fei

                        22:55 Super Hose

                        22:51 Super Hose

                        22:30 gorb

                        22:28 Barbara Skolaut

                        22:14 Rex Mundi

                        22:12 Rex Mundi

                        22:05 Barbara Skolaut

                        21:08 Phinater Thraviger

                        21:06 Anonymoose

                        21:03 phil_b

                        21:01 RWV

                        20:50 Broadhead6

                        20:46 Broadhead6

                        20:39 Broadhead6

                        20:38 Ptah

                        20:36 Super Hose

                        20:34 Broadhead6

Who's in the News
35	[untagged]
5	al-Qaeda in Iraq
3	Govt of Pakistan
3	Taliban
2	Palestinian Authority
2	Hamas
2	Hezbollah
1	TNSM
1	al-Qaeda
1	Global Jihad
1	Fatah al-Islam
1	Govt of Syria
1	Hizb-i-Islami-Hekmatyar
1	ISI
1	Lashkar e-Taiba

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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2008-01-12
Militant threat on Eiffel Tower intercepted

Fri 2008-01-11
Lahore suicide kaboom kills at least 20, injures 80

Thu 2008-01-10
40,000 pounds of US bombs hit 38 Qaeda 'safe havens'

Wed 2008-01-09
Mullah Fazlullah deadullah?

Tue 2008-01-08
Chadian planes bomb rebels in Sudan

Mon 2008-01-07
Arab FMs urge immediate Leb presidential election

Sun 2008-01-06
Morocco jails 50 Islamists for terror plots

Sat 2008-01-05
Fatah al-Islam sez they're infesting Ein el-Hellhole

Fri 2008-01-04
Coalition forces kill AQI big turban in Baghdad

Thu 2008-01-03
Baquba Awakening Council leader killed by cross-dressing suicide squeegeeman

Wed 2008-01-02
Army intervenes to end fist fights between Hezbollah, Hariri party

Tue 2008-01-01
Iraq December death toll lowest in 22 months

Mon 2007-12-31
Little Pugsley appointed PPP chairman, Gomez regent

Sun 2007-12-30
Bin Laden vows jihad to liberate Palestinian land

Sat 2007-12-29
Sindh Rangers given shoot-at-sight orders

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