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Four Madrid bomb convicts cleared
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
AP Reporter Records Execution Of Women By Taliban	1 00:00 Frank G [1765]
Severe Level-2 Threat Warning: Imminent, Gulf State or Turkey	2 00:00 Chaith Panda7870 [1774]
Jewish - Muslim spat sours Saudi interfaith meeting	2 00:00 Pappy [1770]
Somali Stiffs Summed	0 [1729]
Good morning	7 00:00 Red Dawg [1741]
2 die in clashes between militants	0 [1735]
Swat police arrest 3 would-be bombers	7 00:00 Frank G [1766]
Army drives militants from Hangu villages	0 [1737]
US freezes assets of 4 in Algerian branch of Al-Qaeda	0 [1739]
Pakistan army targets militants, Baitullah threaten local government	0 [1756]
Heavy Fighting Kills 5 in Somali Capital	0 [1732]
Afghanistan installing security cameras along Chaman border	3 00:00 Richard of Oregon [1734]
British say troops kill Taliban big turbans	4 00:00 Floper Scourge of the French7743 [1772]
NATO: 'High-priority' Taliban leaders killed in Shindand	0 [1735]
Fresh attack in Thai South injures soldier after cease-fire claimed	0 [1746]
Final Court Appeal of Convicted Bali Bombers Dismissed	4 00:00 Red Dawg [1734]
Spain's Supreme Court Clears 4 in Madrid Train Bombing Case	17 00:00 JFM [1735]
Page 2: WoT Background
Bali bombings: Indonesia to execute three remorseless bombers	1 00:00 Frank G [1739]
Saudi textbooks still filled with 'toxic teaching'	4 00:00 Rambler in California [1731]
Christians saving the slaves	2 00:00 bigjim-ky [1725]
Russia bans Islamic books	6 00:00 Snerelet Untervehr4255 [1730]
Chertoff: Euro terrorists trying to enter US	2 00:00 Snerelet Untervehr4255 [1726]
U.S. Says Iran Has Missile That Could Hit Europe	13 00:00 JosephMendiola [1730]
Israeli Arab arrested on suspicion of planning to kill Bush	4 00:00 FOTSGreg [1994]
Shocking Development: Contractors Hired Foreigners	8 00:00 JosephMendiola [1732]
Air Force brass seek anti-terror funds for luxury 'comfort capsules'	15 00:00 JosephMendiola [1735]
The Spreading Destruction of the Saada War in Yemen	4 00:00 Snerelet Untervehr4255 [1727]
World Health Organisation staff return to Iraq	8 00:00 .5MT [1724]
JUI-F jirga fails to end fighting between LI and AI in Tirah	0 [1735]
Militants warn US-led forces against attack in Pakistan	20 00:00 Frank G [1728]
Indians want Kashmiris to decide own fate: poll	10 00:00 john frum [1729]
Sudan rules out deal with ICC over Bashir warrant	1 00:00 bigjim-ky [1731]
Judge Refuses to Postpone Trial of Bin Laden's Driver	1 00:00 mojo [1731]
Military looking at intelligence before deadly Afghan clash	3 00:00 tu3031 [1729]
Jihadist agreement in Pakistan leads to surge of violence in Afghanistan	1 00:00 Paul [1728]
Hamas presses for Israeli commitment to truce	3 00:00 Old Patriot [1729]
Official: Israel to allow more amount of fuel into Gaza	4 00:00 .5MT [1734]
Pakistani scientist denies Afghan claim on nuclear waste dumping	2 00:00 john frum [1737]
Turkish planes fly to Iraq to pick up wounded Iraqis	3 00:00 dorf [1734]
ICC Prosecutor Says He Will Next Go After Darfur Rebels	5 00:00 mojo [1731]
Iraqi paper welcomes Diwaniya security handover	0 [1725]
Al Qaeda's Summer Reruns	2 00:00 .5MT [1725]
Thai army suspicious on ceasefire in south	0 [1731]
Eta killer's business auctioned to pay victim's widow	0 [1728]
Page 3: Non-WoT
A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy	10 00:00 Chaith Panda7870 [1759]
Gore: America doomed unless it does what I say	25 00:00 Elmavirong Johnson3058 [1757]
Chavez party seeks changes for third term	2 00:00 .5MT [1738]
Pakistan, Zimbabwe ink agreement to avoid double taxation	3 00:00 Nimble Spemble [1735]
Indian border guards shoot dead two Bangladeshi border guards Thursday midnight	0 [1734]
U.K. Budget Deficit Balloons to Widest Since 1946	4 00:00 Richard of Oregon [1736]
EPA Wants More Regs; Cites Global Warming	11 00:00 JohnQC [1766]
McCain Rips Obama	7 00:00 JosephMendiola [1737]
Pelosi: Bush 'a total failure'	11 00:00 Newc [1729]
What Infuriates Obama?	12 00:00 Raj [1735]
Gadhafi's son charged with beating up servants	2 00:00 borgboy [1738]
Swiss Envoy's Relationship With FARC Under Investigation	3 00:00 bigjim-ky [1731]
Oil's 3-day tumble nears $16	9 00:00 Nimble Spemble [1729]
Paterson: Obama Defeat Would Be Victory For Racism	20 00:00 Woozle Unusosing8053 [1761]
Bacterium Vibrio Cholerae on the loose: 3,000 gastroenteritis cases reported	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1720]
India discovers huge gas reserve worth $100 bln	2 00:00 crosspatch [1732]
Mexico captures sub loaded with drugs	4 00:00 borgboy [1738]
Even Al-Guardian notices: anchors shun McCain for Obey	7 00:00 Besoeker [1730]
Indonesian Avian Flu Mortality Much Higher	8 00:00 phil_b [1731]
Page 4: Opinion
The new Lebanon	0 [1742]
Barbie Beats Bratz Badly	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1729]
Braggistan in the America of the Imagination	4 00:00 Pappy [1762]
The Audacity of Vanity	6 00:00 Raj [1729]
No evidence of alteration of Obama birth certicate	4 00:00 Frank G [1744]
Al-Qaeda's star is falling in Iraq but rising in the Maghreb	2 00:00 Anonymoose [1731]
Al-Qaeda's biggest weakness is its propensity to kill indiscriminately	0 [1729]
A hydra-headed monster	0 [1732]
The Truth About Jesse Jackson Comes Out	13 00:00 Deadeye Choluck2323 aka Broadhead6 [1771]
Crossfire deaths must stop	4 00:00 USN,Ret. [1732]
No Smoking Hot Spot (Global Warming)	13 00:00 JosephMendiola [1737]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
Obama Throws Michelle Under the Bus	1 00:00 tipper [1759]
Pizza clerk surprised to find robber is her dad	0 [1732]
Mob Attacks Brit Police Officers For Being Snarky	7 00:00 Raj [1737]
Voters to decide on naming sewage plant for Bush	6 00:00 Nimble Spemble [1737]
North Korea's "Hotel of Doom" wakes from its coma	9 00:00 Angie Schultz [1727]
Today's Scumbag	3 00:00 Besoeker [1737]
Us Brits lub ya !	3 00:00 Newc [1726]
Great Escape Squadron Leader Frank "Fearless" Day, 91, RIP	3 00:00 Anonymoose [1723]
iKoran	3 00:00 FOTSGreg [1733]
Lions devour mentally-ill man in Zimbabwe	9 00:00 Anonymoose [1731]

    
                23:15 FOTSGreg

                        23:13 Chaith Panda7870

                        23:12 Chaith Panda7870

                        22:39 Elmavirong Johnson3058

                        22:39 Barbara Skolaut

                        22:22 JosephMendiola

                        22:04 Frank G

                        22:04 Pappy

                        21:55 Deadeye Choluck2323 aka Broadhead6

                        21:53 tipper

                        21:52 Deadeye Choluck2323 aka Broadhead6

                        21:51 Barbara Skolaut

                        21:44 Frank G

                        21:41 newc

                        21:19 JohnQC

                        21:19 Frank G

                        21:18 Pappy

                        21:16 JohnQC

                        21:15 Floper Scourge of the French7743

                        21:14 JohnQC

                        21:10 Pappy

                        20:51 Woozle Unusosing8053

                        20:46 Woozle Unusosing8053

                        20:41 tipper

Who's in the News
54	[untagged]
11	Taliban
3	al-Qaeda
2	Hamas
2	Islamic Courts
2	al-Qaeda in North Africa
2	Govt of Pakistan
2	Govt of Sudan
2	Thai Insurgency
1	Iraqi Insurgency
1	Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami
1	al-Qaeda in Europe
1	Jemaah Islamiyah

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Two weeks of WOT

Fri 2008-07-18
Four Madrid bomb convicts cleared

Thu 2008-07-17
Israel-Hezbollah 'prisoner' exchange

Wed 2008-07-16
Paks: NATO massing forces on border

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

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