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Army sides with Nasrallah against Leb govt
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Debka Sez: Hizballah ultimatum demands Druze disarmament as price for ceasefire	12 00:00 Abdominal Snowman [1762]
Army takes on militants in J&K, rescues five hostages	5 00:00 Steve White [1743]
Fighting in north Lebanon as opposition ends Beirut takeover	14 00:00 JosephMendiola [1755]
Good Morning	5 00:00 trailing wife [1733]
MND-B AWTs engage rocket team and heavily armed criminals	3 00:00 lotp [1740]
Coalition forces detain a dozen al-Qaeda in Iraq suspects	0 [1741]
Mortar attack kills 4 civilians, wounds 5 in New Baghdad	1 00:00 anymouse [1736]
ISOF detains three suspected Special Groups criminals in al-Amarah	1 00:00 gorb [1730]
Turkish military: 19 Kurdish rebels killed in southeast Turkey air strikes	0 [1742]
Tigers sink Sri Lankan Navy ship	0 [1740]
Indian forces kill 11 Assam hard boyz	0 [1744]
Three suspected terrorists arrested	0 [1740]
2 killed in Dera Bugti festivities	0 [1741]
Bomb defused in Peshawar	0 [1745]
Nigeria placed on alert for Al-Qaeda attacks	5 00:00 SD FSO [1736]
Israel raids on Gaza kill five Hamas militants	0 [1738]
Sudanese gov't announces crush of Darfur rebel infiltration into capital	2 00:00 phil_b [1736]
Wana-Tank road re-opened	0 [1732]
Blast damages Swat mosque	0 [1746]
12 people killed in gun battle in northern Lebanon	0 [1736]
Iraqi and US troops move against al Qaeda in Nineveh	0 [1736]
Hezbollah Pledges to Pull Its Forces Out of Beirut	5 00:00 Woody [1757]
Page 2: WoT Background
Nepal Maoists burn Prachanda's effigy	2 00:00 john frum [1732]
Serbs Vote in Key Election	0 [1729]
Sri Lanka holds crucial vote in war-torn east	0 [1733]
'Gaza power out due to fuel shortage'	5 00:00 RWV [1754]
New tactics in Taliban killing season	9 00:00 anymouse [1734]
Fatah welcomes Hamas call for reconciliation	0 [1742]
Thai PM appeals to southern insurgents to surrender	0 [1734]
Hamas says missiles more accurate	3 00:00 gorb [1737]
Turkish General Staff: PKK dissolved to great extent	0 [1731]
Al-Akhbar: US gives Israel green light for large-scale Gaza op	8 00:00 g(r)omgoru [1732]
'Iraq govt agrees truce with al-Sadr bloc'	0 [1738]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Beijing and Riyadh will call the shots on ailing dollar's future	10 00:00 trailing wife [1764]
Rove is Getting to Know John McCain	1 00:00 Thaimble Scourge of the Pixies4707 [1738]
Asia Times: The case for invading Myanmar	22 00:00 Pappy [1751]
Clinton Supporters Face Jeers in W. Va.	10 00:00 G. S. Patton [1747]
Immigration Detention Centers: The New Gitmo	8 00:00 Nimble Spemble [1738]
Brown taking tips from Blair: Cherie	5 00:00 JosephMendiola [1755]
B.O. Is Willing to Debate McCain at Town Halls This Summer	7 00:00 regular joe [1731]
U.S. urges monitors to watch runoff in Zimbabwe	2 00:00 Nimble Spemble [1735]
Pakistani PM says coalition not to split	0 [1737]
Malawi set to approve Madonna adoption: official	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1737]
Minister's chopper escapes accident	0 [1735]
11 officials facing corruption charges await promotion	0 [1731]
Growing calls for Olmert to resign	0 [1740]
Page 4: Opinion
A Defeated Hillarys Best Bet	4 00:00 Zhang Fei [1763]
An oil-addicted ex-superpower	18 00:00 Zhang Fei [1753]
Obama unstained by Chicago Way	4 00:00 trailing wife [1765]
The Myth Of Occupied Gaza	0 [1744]
Tim Blair: Democrats plan, God laughs	0 [1745]
On Illegal Combatants and Torture: A Voice of Sanity	5 00:00 Beavis [1740]
Hezbollah's Divine Betrayal of Lebanon	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1741]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
Pelican Suicide Attack!	2 00:00 USN,Ret. (from home) [1764]
Great tits cope well with warming	6 00:00 Jim K [1735]
Solomon and Sheba: The Plot Thickens	6 00:00 twobyfour [1770]
Feud between teenage girls: British Pakistani man killed in London letterbox bombing	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [1739]
Three Shias shot dead in DI Khan: police	0 [1730]
NW Afghanistan hit by plague of locusts	7 00:00 g(r)omgoru [1730]

    
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                        23:30 Frank G

                        23:29 Abdominal Snowman

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                        23:03 Pappy

                        22:40 Barbara Skolaut

                        22:15 Zhang Fei

                        21:48 crosspatch

                        21:45 Zhang Fei

                        21:36 Zhang Fei

                        21:35 RD

                        21:35 Zhang Fei

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                        21:30 JosephMendiola

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Who's in the News
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5	Hezbollah
5	Govt of Pakistan
5	Hamas
3	Mahdi Army
3	Taliban
2	al-Qaeda in Iraq
2	al-Qaeda
1	Govt of Sudan
1	TNSM
1	Thai Insurgency
1	IRGC

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Two weeks of WOT

Sun 2008-05-11
Army sides with Nasrallah against Leb govt

Sat 2008-05-10
Leb coup d'etat: Hezbollah seizes control of west Beirut

Fri 2008-05-09
Hezbollah seizes large parts of Beirut

Thu 2008-05-08
Hezbollah at war with Leb

Wed 2008-05-07
Hezbollah telecom network shut down

Tue 2008-05-06
3500 U.S. troops surge home

Mon 2008-05-05
Kaboom misses Iraqi first lady

Sun 2008-05-04
24 killed, 26 injured in Iraqi violence

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
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Sun 2008-04-27
Karzai survives another assassination attempt

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