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Mullahs lose NWFP control after five years
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Spacewar.com: China defends stance on terrorism after deadly raid	6 00:00 twobyfour [1756]
Al-Qaida Trains Children	0 [1746]
Terrorist Death Watch Update for Jan 2008	1 00:00 phil_b [1737]
Religion of Peace Targets Children Playing Soccer	1 00:00 Rambler in California [1741]
AQI 'Intelligence' Leader ID'd Dead	1 00:00 AP [1736]
US troops attack al-Qa'eda's Iraq stronghold	4 00:00 www [1737]
Strategy Page: Taliban are reinforcing failure	8 00:00 liberalhawk [1742]
Man burnt alive in southern Thailand	0 [1736]
Good morning	3 00:00 jn1 [1737]
Egypt deports 350 Gazans from Sinai	3 00:00 USN,Ret. [1732]
Mullahs lose NWFP control after five years	7 00:00 imam oron [1773]
Philippines cops round up another Jemaah Islamiyah hard boy	0 [1735]
IDF troops kill Palestinian gunman who approached Gaza fence	0 [1734]
Chicken coop damaged as Kassam rocket lands near Ashkelon	6 00:00 sinse [1741]
Truck bomb in Baghdad kills eight members of Iraqi security forces	2 00:00 sinse [1738]
Anti-Qaeda family gunned down at home in Iraq	0 [1730]
US military holding Afghan journalist for 'Taliban contacts'	2 00:00 Ptah [1731]
Kyrgyzstan says uncovers al Qaeda cell	0 [1736]
Page 2: WoT Background
Pakistan government scraps project to train tribal troops	0 [1730]
Bill Roggio: Pakistan revives the North Waziristan Accord	1 00:00 JohnQC [1752]
Egyptian Officials, Press Condemn E.U. Resolution Criticizing Human Rights Situation in Egypt	0 [1738]
Denmark: SPP (Socialist) leader to Hizb ut-Tahrir: "Go to hel!"	5 00:00 Rex Mundi [1747]
Palestinian man hospitalized after attack by wild boars released by Israeli settlers	18 00:00 twobyfour [1762]
Israeli Air Force integrates home-made miniaturized, long-distance AWACS	3 00:00 Abdominal Snowman [1732]
Strategy Page: the Cessna solution	12 00:00 Eric Jablow [1730]
Al-Sadr threatens to end cease-fire	12 00:00 twobyfour [1764]
Bush says no new U.S. bases in Africa	8 00:00 DMFD [1752]
Rift threatens U.S. antidote to Al Qaeda in Iraq	2 00:00 Bobby [1750]
Unilateral Strike Called a Model For U.S. Operations in Pakistan	9 00:00 Redneck Jim [1742]
Ejazul Haq may form his own PML	3 00:00 Redneck Jim [1736]
10,000 Pakistanis flee to Afghanistan	2 00:00 Gabby Cussworth [1739]
JUI-F accepts people's verdict	0 [1747]
ANP will head NWFP govt	0 [1736]
Musharraf rejects demand for resignation	0 [1740]
Uncle Fester suggests that President Musharraf should go	2 00:00 Glenmore [1734]
Turkish FM: Ground offensive against Kurdish rebels in Iraq an option	0 [1736]
Palestinians: Child killed in Gaza shootout between Israel and Hamas	4 00:00 sinse [1737]
UK Premier: Lebanon's Saniora has our support in political impasse	0 [1733]
British police halted Almog arrest	4 00:00 tu3031 [1734]
Jerusalem issue left out of Olmert and Abbas meeting	0 [1731]
Chadian president announces state of emergency	1 00:00 swksvolFF [1733]
Chadian president appoints defense minister in state of emergency	1 00:00 Redneck Jim [1736]
Muslims in Tanzania hold demonstration against Bush's visit	0 [1737]
Lebanese army says any destabilization attempt will be punished	0 [1731]
PPP takes lead in general elections	0 [1738]
Hamas delegation heads for talks in Cairo over border issues	0 [1734]
Deposed Hamas gov't asks Abbas to stop meeting with Olmert	0 [1731]
Dostum suspended from government post	3 00:00 JFM [1735]
US, North Korean nuke envoys hold talks	1 00:00 Redneck Jim [1732]
Pakistan lodges formal protest with Denmark on Motoons	4 00:00 tu3031 [1730]
KLM refuses to fly Geert Wilders	2 00:00 trailing wife [1740]
Security agency warns of rising radicalism in Norway	2 00:00 swksvolFF [1736]
Indonesia accuses US of bird flu plot	8 00:00 USN,Ret. [1735]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Vietnam to cut coal exports to Chicoms nearly in half	2 00:00 swksvolFF [1738]
German Spy Agency hunts TAX EVADERS	2 00:00 3dc [1733]
SpaceWar: US allocates %1.59 of Defense Budget for Missile Defense	2 00:00 Procopius2k [1766]
Northern Hemisphere Land Temperatures fall 2.4C in 1 Year	5 00:00 JosephMendiola [1758]
Venezuela asks ExxonMobil to talk, drop legal cases	9 00:00 Procopius2k [1733]
Lileks: Obamamania	14 00:00 Jomosing Bluetooth8431 [1741]
Bush sees results of his AIDS plan in Africa	8 00:00 lotp [1733]
Three charged in France over mosque violence	11 00:00 JohnQC [1727]
Pak election map	1 00:00 tu3031 [1732]
US Won't Lift Cuba Embargo	5 00:00 Nimble Spemble [1725]
US declares 1400-mile Pacific sat-shoot exclusion zone	29 00:00 www [1757]
McCain, Obama Win Wisconsin Primaries	2 00:00 Iblis [1736]
Serbian Supreme Court dismisses Kosovo independence as null	3 00:00 sinse [1752]
Armenia holds presidential election	1 00:00 ed [1737]
U.N. police quit destroyed Kosovo border post	4 00:00 AlanC [1737]
Crude Oil Rises to a Record $100.10 on OPEC Production Outlook	13 00:00 phil_b [1737]
Crisis talks resume in Kenya as government toughens stand	0 [1739]
Obama's Communist Mentor	19 00:00 Woozle Elmeter 2907 [1749]
Disc listing foreign criminals lost for a year	3 00:00 swksvolFF [1742]
GCC interested in South Africa's peaceful nuclear power technology	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1742]
Diplomats present credentials to Kosovo's president	1 00:00 Spike Uniter [1738]
Credit-Suisse suspends traders linked to $2.85 billion overvaluation	1 00:00 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [1744]
Page 4: Opinion
A Brit Speaks Out Against Crazy Middle Easterners	0 [1739]
Mugniyah's fingerprints on al Qaeda's terror	0 [1737]
Gold Star Mom bitch slaps Bezerkeley City Council - Video	1 00:00 JohnQC [1743]
I've got news for all the latte-drinking, Prius- driving, Birkenstock-wearing, trust fund babies	10 00:00 no mo uro [1741]
Operation Gratitude in Iraq	4 00:00 USN,Ret. [1735]
Islamic Multiculturalism	0 [1750]
A Response to Feminists on the Violent Oppression of Women in Islam	4 00:00 JohnQC [1764]
Pelosi's Wiretap Offensive	1 00:00 GK [1738]
Hillary's comeback (WARNING: disturbing mental picture alert)	8 00:00 Omiting the Younger9947 [1739]
The Eternal Hero, eternally disappointing	2 00:00 Glenmore [1731]
So what would it take to alarm you?	2 00:00 DarthVader [1732]
Archdruid Was Right	3 00:00 Alaska Paul [1743]
Archdruid: too intellectual to lead?	2 00:00 Spot [1740]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
Danes say IKEA guilty of 'cultural imperialism'	2 00:00 phil_b [1751]
Australian penis artist bids for top art prize	3 00:00 Redneck Jim [1741]
Today's Idiot	0 [1730]
Mysterious Creatures Found in Antarctica	9 00:00 Procopius2k [1769]
Letters from WW2	0 [1736]
Killed Hezbollah Man Revered in Hometown	5 00:00 3dc [1731]
Wal-Mart apologizes to Muslim woman	12 00:00 Glaviper Bonaparte5115 [1733]

    
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Who's in the News
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6	Hamas
5	Govt of Pakistan
3	Taliban
3	Hezbollah
2	al-Qaeda in Iraq
2	al-Qaeda
1	Mahdi Army
1	Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal
1	Palestinian Authority
1	Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
1	Thai Insurgency
1	Global Jihad
1	Jemaah Islamiyah

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Thu 2008-02-14
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