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ICC charges against Sudan's Bashir
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Pakistan asks court to uphold curbs on scientist	2 00:00 Paul [1744]
Human Rights Watch says India backing violent vigilante group	2 00:00 Boss Thereter5869 [1747]
Yiiikes, my eyes	11 00:00 Frank G [1755]
Good morning	9 00:00 Red Dawg [1768]
Pakistani forces hit Taliban's hideouts in NW	5 00:00 JohnQC [1745]
Four PKK rebels killed in clash in SE Turkey	0 [1746]
Head of Toheedul Islam killed	1 00:00 tu3031 [1741]
Rockets fired at 'Q' leader's house	0 [1743]
Taliban kill 7 Afghans accused of spying	3 00:00 Frank G [1741]
Israeli forces storm village near Jenin	0 [1742]
Dalal Al-Mughrabi brigades open fire on Al-Julma checkpoint near Jenin	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1742]
Canadian court rejects US Army deserter's attempt to avoid deportation	13 00:00 Hellfish [1743]
Taliban blow up Frontier Constabulary fort in Hangu	2 00:00 M. Murcek [1738]
25 Taliban freed under peace pact	3 00:00 flash91 [1743]
India pulls out of CBI-FIA talks	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1747]
Kabul pulls out of talks with Pakistan	0 [1751]
Iran arrests two prominent student activists	0 [1745]
Tales from the Crossfire Gazette	1 00:00 Old Patriot [1746]
'The Iraq War is over. We won'	13 00:00 JosephMendiola [1750]
Page 2: WoT Background
Tony Blair forced to scrap Gaza visit after assassination threat	6 00:00 Alaska Paul [1775]
Omar Khadr: The interrogation	5 00:00 Butch Grains5850 [1762]
Hamas using Gaza synagogues to train terrorists	5 00:00 Besoeker [1762]
2 Algerians go missing after transfer from Guantanamo, rights group says	8 00:00 AlanC [1749]
No Talibanisation threat to Karachi, says Sindh IGP	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1761]
Swat Taliban form Mohtasib Shura	0 [1740]
Jirga on Tirah Valley clashes on 17th	0 [1736]
'Pakistan marble helps Taliban stay in business'	0 [1740]
Taliban concerned over anti-Mehsud pamphlets	5 00:00 AlanC [1744]
Government has failed to check terrorism: Shujaat	0 [1741]
Somalia Violence Drives Out Aid Workers	0 [1738]
Blair to visit Gaza Tuesday	3 00:00 g(r)omgoru [1737]
'Hizbullah trying to track IAF planes'	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1743]
F-22 faces budget challenge	10 00:00 Bin thinking again [1756]
Human Rights Groups Applaud Charges Against Shoulder Boards Man	2 00:00 crosspatch [1768]
B.O. Calls for Withdrawal of Troops From Iraq By 2010	13 00:00 JosephMendiola [1765]
Local aid workers in Somalia meet, flee	3 00:00 trailing wife [1746]
U.S. terrorist list hits 1 million names	7 00:00 tu3031 [1745]
Pakistani PM warns of foreign elements' interference in tribal areas	2 00:00 mojo [1738]
FATA militants commit to fight in Afghanistan	1 00:00 Richard of Oregon [1737]
Obama promises 10,000 more troops for Afghanistan	16 00:00 mhw [1744]
Britain to send 120 more troops to Iraq	1 00:00 Spock Pelosi4177 [1738]
Basra still faces militia threat: Brit general	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1743]
Short Round would talk to us directly, yew betcha	4 00:00 Red Dawg [1746]
PKK say they can hit German targets	1 00:00 bigjim-ky [1746]
Page 3: Non-WoT
F-22 Raptor at Farnborough Airshow 2008	2 00:00 Bright Pebbles [1744]
Global Warming: Is there anything it doesn't cause	9 00:00 Red Dawg [1760]
Oil prices plunge more than $10 a barrel	11 00:00 Raj [1758]
Danger UXB! New map shows location of unexploded bombs from World War Two	5 00:00 Mike Kozlowski [1740]
Want Obama in a Punch Line? First, Find a Joke	4 00:00 Besoeker [1743]
Obama praises Enrique Morones	8 00:00 Besoeker [1743]
Turkey Charges Alleged Coup Plotters	1 00:00 gorb [1742]
World Leaders Gather in Paris for Bastille Day	7 00:00 Silentbrick [1744]
S Korea denounces Japan's territorial claim over disputed islets	0 [1733]
Dubai police arrest 79 for indecent behaviour on beaches	2 00:00 AlanC [1742]
Top leader admits getting Jamaat funds	0 [1741]
Italians jailed over G8 protest	0 [1740]
Bush to meet Burkina Faso president	1 00:00 Plastic Snoopy [1741]
Russia apologizes for frisking Swiss minister	0 [1745]
Labor set to remain member of Bush's nuclear club	0 [1740]
Obama tosses Jerusalem under the bus	12 00:00 Butch Grains5850 [1749]
US blasts Russia for sending aircraft into Georgia	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1767]
IAEA to consider India atom inspections plan on Aug. 1	0 [1741]
AU chief, Mbeki to hold talks on Zim	1 00:00 Besoeker [1763]
Put Canada on the Human Rights Watch List	7 00:00 Deadeye Choluck2323 aka Broadhead6 [1742]
Page 4: Opinion
Descent From Entebbe	4 00:00 ebrown2 [1755]
A Pakistani call to the donors	5 00:00 john frum [1743]
Hitchens: Stop pitting Iraq against Afghanistan	7 00:00 JohnQC [1739]
Fighting Pakistan's 'informal war'	0 [1753]
Some Quick Observations On Global Warming	4 00:00 Abdominal Snowman [1744]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
Chariot racing could return to Rome	2 00:00 Deacon Blues [1784]
S.F. officials locked out of computer network	11 00:00 Deacon Blues [1773]
Santa Clauses plunged into civil war	2 00:00 FOTSGreg [1745]
Olive Riley, Worlds Oldest Blogger 1899-2008	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1777]
D.C. Guns Legal, Just Nearly Impossible to Get	13 00:00 eltoroverde [1767]
Indian inflation approaches 12%	3 00:00 bigjim-ky [1747]
Belgian PM offers to resign after gov't fails to resolve linguistic spat	5 00:00 ebrown2 [1757]
Hanford faces 'catastrophic' nuclear leak	2 00:00 Frank G [1756]

    
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                        23:13 Descartes

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                        22:42 Butch Grains5850

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                        22:24 Butch Grains5850

                        22:19 Frank G

                        22:17 Bin thinking again

                        22:17 Butch Grains5850

                        22:16 Besoeker

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Who's in the News
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13	Taliban
3	Govt of Pakistan
1	Govt of Sudan
1	Hamas
1	Hezbollah
1	Iraqi Insurgency
1	Islamic Courts
1	Jamaat-e-Islami
1	Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
1	al-Qaeda
1	Fatah
1	Global Jihad

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Two weeks of WOT

Tue 2008-07-15
ICC charges against Sudan's Bashir

Mon 2008-07-14
Failed Meknes suicide bomber sentenced to life

Sun 2008-07-13
Nine US soldier among scores who die in wave of attacks in Afghanistan

Sat 2008-07-12
Leb Forms New Cabinet, Hezbollah Keeps Veto Power

Fri 2008-07-11
Petraeus takes command of CENTCOM

Thu 2008-07-10
3 dead and 32 wounded in Leb fighting

Wed 2008-07-09
Turkey: 3 turbans, 3 cops killed in shootout outside U.S. consulate

Tue 2008-07-08
One killed, scores injured in series of blasts in Karachi

Mon 2008-07-07
Suicide bomber kills 41 at Indian embassy in Kabul, 141 injured

Sun 2008-07-06
Maliki: government has defeated terrorism

Sat 2008-07-05
2 Pakistanis detained in S Korean bust on 'Taliban' drug ring

Fri 2008-07-04
Norway: "Osama" bomb threat forced offshore platform evacuation

Thu 2008-07-03
Bulldozer Attacker's Dad: Is My Son a Dog? He's not a Terrorist

Wed 2008-07-02
Many hurt, 7 killed in Jerusalem bulldozer attack

Tue 2008-07-01
'MMA no more an electoral alliance'

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