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Marines chase Talibs through Helmand poppy fields
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Good... ummm... evening	3 00:00 Frank G [11129]
Mahdi Army fighters grateful for sand storm standstills in Sadr City	6 00:00 crosspatch [11132]
Hospital attack update - Bill Roggio's Long War Journal	4 00:00 M. Murcek [11129]
Sgt. Merlin German USMC	5 00:00 trailing wife [11134]
Air raid hits Baghdad hospital, US says 14 fighters dead	2 00:00 Mike Kozlowski [11129]
A day of skirmishing for Marines in southern Afghan town	4 00:00 lotp [11127]
FA/18 hoses down Jihadi rocket team, survivors regroup, happy ending	0 [11130]
7 BC personnel injured in grenade attack	2 00:00 George Smiley [11125]
Three injured in bomb attacks	0 [11130]
PHC releases 4 accused of Dargai suicide attack	0 [11128]
Operation vs Abu Sayyaf triggers clash with MNLF in Sulu	2 00:00 CrazyFool [11131]
Isnilon Hapilon wounded, escapes Philippines clash	3 00:00 Frank G [11128]
Marines, Taliban battle in Afghanistan poppy fields	13 00:00 Redneck Jim [11127]
Predator crashes in Iraq	18 00:00 Harcourt Jush7795 [11126]
Eighteen ~~not six~~ killed in mosque blast in Yemen	0 [11126]
Three militants, 18 armed men detained in Khost	0 [11130]
Page 2: WoT Background
Threats against journalists in Sweden on the rise	2 00:00 Anonymoose [11131]
Britain launches Muslim leadership program in Philippines	4 00:00 Rambler in California [11131]
US officials accused of insulting Islam	14 00:00 Frank G [11132]
Imams condemn Islamic teacher	0 [11128]
Hakeemullah Group claims responsibility for madrassa attack	0 [11127]
Haji Namdar says 'we will never wage jihad inside Pakistan'	0 [11126]
Senate Bill Drops C-17s, Funds F-22s	16 00:00 JFM [11127]
US raid 'undermines' Somalia talks	4 00:00 sinse [11131]
Indonesia: Jemaah Islamiyah does not exist, says vice-president	0 [11125]
Taliban claim victory from a defeat	1 00:00 sinse [11127]
Iran within two years of a nuclear bomb: Barak	1 00:00 g(r)omgoru [11128]
Quartet opens door to ending Hamas isolation	2 00:00 g(r)omgoru [11127]
Soldiers getting ahead of civilians in promoting Afghan-Taliban talks: MacKay	2 00:00 Anonymoose [11127]
Al-Qaeda is dwindling in Afghanistan and Iraq	1 00:00 George Smiley [11128]
Rival Lebanese Leaders Set for 1st Talks in Nearly 5 Months	0 [11128]
Iranians Suspected of Monitoring Geagea's Residence	0 [11126]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Germany to cut neo-Nazi party tax breaks	1 00:00 trailing wife [11132]
Computers Coming to Castro's Cuba	9 00:00 Omoque Pelosi8695 [11129]
GOP Uses Obama in Special Elections Today	0 [11125]
Superdelegates Feel the Luv	3 00:00 WTF [11128]
Canadian military storming ethnic barricades	5 00:00 trailing wife [11131]
Bolivia's richest province seeks autonomy - Evo's Heartache!	8 00:00 rjschwarz [11125]
Boris Johnson is the new London Mayor	4 00:00 Nimble Spemble [11126]
Zim poll results 'lack credibility': Britain	0 [11125]
Mugabe rivals reject poll result	0 [11125]
Sudan plane crashes, minister among 26 dead	0 [11125]
McCain clarifies remark about oil, Iraq war	3 00:00 g(r)omgoru [11129]
Guam voters helping to pick Democratic nominee	3 00:00 M. Murcek [11124]
Liberals in England get a butt kicking in elections	7 00:00 SteveS [11125]
Page 4: Opinion
Swaim: Islam similar to Black Church	3 00:00 ed [11126]
Flattop Follies: Navy Cuts Back on Carriers	20 00:00 Zhang Fei [11126]
MMGW Prediction. Still Ignoring Reality.	10 00:00 trailing wife [11136]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
video: Let's praise Allan by dropping the baby	8 00:00 Sheang Henbane2687 [11125]
Geraldo Rivera and Barbara Walters in lurid love triangle	13 00:00 trailing wife [11129]
Snack Cake Sharer in Serious Sh*t	2 00:00 Darrell [11126]
Civil War cannonball kills Virginia relic collector	7 00:00 Oldcat [11136]
Today's Loser	1 00:00 RD [11124]
Judge Holds Court In Parking Lot For 500-Lb. Man	0 [11123]
John Gibson versus the offensive McCain questioner	3 00:00 Pappy [11129]
Sexual predator: Seal's sex attack on penguin	11 00:00 Sonny Joluck1724 [11124]

    
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                        22:34 Zhang Fei

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                        21:56 Omoque Pelosi8695

                        21:26 SteveS

                        21:16 Anonymoose

                        21:12 Frank G

                        21:06 rjschwarz

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                        20:55 Fred

                        20:53 crosspatch

                        20:42 KBK

                        20:07 ed

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                        19:58 Darrell

                        19:49 Oldcat

                        19:29 Sheang Henbane2687

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                        19:27 Redneck Jim

Who's in the News
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8	Taliban
2	Mahdi Army
1	Hamas
1	IRGC
1	Islamic Courts
1	Jaish-e-Mohammad
1	Jemaah Islamiyah
1	Lashkar-e-Islami
1	MNLF
1	Takfir wal-Hijra
1	al-Qaeda
1	Abu Sayyaf
1	Govt of Pakistan

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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2008-05-03
Marines chase Talibs through Helmand poppy fields

Fri 2008-05-02
Orcs strike Iraqi wedding convoy, kill at least 35, wound 65

Thu 2008-05-01
Paks deny Karzai murder plot hatched in Pakistain

Wed 2008-04-30
Hamas steals Gaza fuel

Tue 2008-04-29
Pak Talibs quit peace talks

Mon 2008-04-28
U.S. Marines join Brits fighting Taliban in Helmand

Sun 2008-04-27
Karzai survives another assassination attempt

Sat 2008-04-26
Tater loses nerve, tells fighters to observe truce

Fri 2008-04-25
Basra in govt hands

Thu 2008-04-24
Baitullah orders Talibs not to attack Pak forces

Wed 2008-04-23
Petraeus to Head Central Command

Tue 2008-04-22
Paks free Sufi Muhammad

Mon 2008-04-21
Pak government halts operation in Tribal Areas

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Tater threatens 'open war' on Iraq government

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UK police arrest terror suspect, conduct controlled boom

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