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Blackwater behind Pakabooms: Ex-ISI chief
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Scandal: Taliban, Not Tanker Trucks Targets of Airstrike	5 00:00 DarthVader [1765]
Training Afghan Army Like Pissin Up a Rope - Good Luck Pulling out in 2011	5 00:00 3dc [1762]
Taliban Contact In Korengal Valley	1 00:00 Richard Aubrey [1741]
We Bring You The Gift Of Defeat	3 00:00 lex [1764]
Does Afghanistan need a Phoenix Program?	3 00:00 crosspatch [1733]
Islamists flee Philippines prison after militants' raid	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1758]
Pakistani YouTube militant seen as key to Americans' journey	0 [1747]
Good morning	6 00:00 ed [1742]
Iran men don veil in protest against government	2 00:00 toes192 [1733]
At least 14 militants arrested in Khyber Agency	0 [1744]
Ten militants killed in Bara clashes	0 [1737]
Egyptians uncover car-smuggling tunnel	0 [1735]
Saudi Military Source: Yemeni Women Used as Human Shields by Infiltrators Rescued	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1757]
PFLP wing: Fierce clashes near Beit Hanoun	0 [1731]
Grill Delwar bites dust in Kadamtoli shootout	0 [1740]
Suicide Bombing Kills Three in Afghan East	0 [1742]
Pakistan arrests 3 US embassy employees	2 00:00 3dc [1742]
Pakistani troops kill 15 militants in Kurram Agency	0 [1745]
Explosions shake UNDP HQ in Mogadishu	0 [1738]
Sudan police kill 15 accused of MP murder in Darfur	1 00:00 Scooter McGruder [1742]
Page 2: WoT Background
Happy 10th anniversary of the arrest of the millennium bomber	2 00:00 Old Patriot [1733]
UK's Brown in Afghanistan, meets Karzai after spat	0 [1734]
Did five Torontonians join jihad in Somalia?	10 00:00 JosephMendiola [1731]
Iran agrees to nuclear fuel swap, with caveats	3 00:00 Super Hose [1734]
Israeli settlers burn Quran in attack on mosque	4 00:00 Rambler in Virginia [1729]
Iraq FM sees foreign interference in elections	0 [1730]
Iran FM casts doubt on UN-drafted nuke deal	0 [1730]
Captured Palestinians at risk after Israeli rabbis call	6 00:00 trailing wife [1755]
German diplomats urge tougher stance on Israel	4 00:00 European Conservative [1736]
Gilani hints at military operation in Orakzai	0 [1735]
Six accused in Mumbai case seek acquittal	1 00:00 Angleton9 [1729]
US forces using Shamsi airbase in Balochistan	1 00:00 Uncle Phester [1730]
CIA terminates contract with Blackwater: report	5 00:00 NoMoreBS [1757]
Fatahs Revolutionary Council to meet on Sunday	0 [1735]
Al-Habbash calls mosque arson 'war crime'	3 00:00 chris [1733]
Geneva Convention against Diplomats arrest: Malik	0 [1735]
Al Qaeda denies killing civilians in Pakistan	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1727]
Blackwater behind Pakistan bombings: Ex-ISI chief	1 00:00 3dc [1760]
Pakistan offensive 'over'	0 [1732]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Glenn Likes you!	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [1761]
What links the Copenhagen conference with the steelworks closing in Redcar?	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1769]
Berlusconi's nose broken, teeth missing after rally attack	2 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1768]
MMGW Gets Another Crack In Their Dam	7 00:00 Nimble Spemble [1731]
MTV rap videos save lives in Times Square shootout	16 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1751]
China's 5,000 km Nuclear Weapons Tunnel System	6 00:00 JosephMendiola [1737]
Snow may hit Copenhagen Denmark During Climate Conference	4 00:00 lord garth [1758]
Lord Monckton adresses a Greenpeace-campaigner on global warming	6 00:00 Skunky Glins**** [1738]
Ahmadinejad, Chavez and Mugabe to get U.N. podium	4 00:00 ed [1735]
India test fires ballistic missile from ship	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [1759]
The D-day That Never Was	12 00:00 JosephMendiola [1749]
University honors Poland's most revered World War II resistance fighter.	1 00:00 gromky [1733]
A most interesting clock.	2 00:00 Eric Jablow [1735]
Designer of 50-Star Flag Passes	2 00:00 gorb [1735]
Video from the Copenhagen Climate Vortex	0 [1729]
Youth brave cold to protest global warning	7 00:00 Skunky Glins**** [1732]
Mel gets green light to say adios	1 00:00 SteveS [1731]
Prince William to share Queen's duties	4 00:00 Charles [1729]
Arrest of 286 illegals targets criminals	0 [1739]
Philippine president lifts martial law in southern province	0 [1733]
Syrian president's younger brother stable	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1737]
Terror of Kafrul's expended carcass found	1 00:00 lotp [1736]
Page 4: Opinion
Headquarters of Turkish campaign for EU membership is a confiscated Christian building	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1765]
Islam U.	0 [1730]
CAIR Finally Under Investigation	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [1749]
The new socialism	1 00:00 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [1729]
Does the black continent deserve reparations at Copenhagen?	17 00:00 NoMoreBS [1753]
A politically corrected Santa	0 [1734]
Eat less meat and dairy: official recipe to help health of consumers -- and the planet	11 00:00 Redneck Jim [1756]
Military Mutiny in Iran?	7 00:00 gorb [1726]
Wishing all the Rantburgers a Merry Christmas	2 00:00 trailing wife [1733]
Why their IT hates our IT	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [1734]
Photoshop as an Ideological Tool	3 00:00 Skunky Glins**** [1733]
Theres a method to their madness	2 00:00 3dc [1750]
Page 6: Politix
Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll -19	9 00:00 Procopius2k [1758]
Today in History	0 [1734]
From Awful to Worse	6 00:00 Abu Uluque [1734]
GOP: Copenhagen could 'destroy millions of American jobs'	7 00:00 SR-71 [1734]
Senate Dems Defeat GOP Attempt to Filibuster $1.1T Spending Bill	3 00:00 Abu Uluque [1729]
Tyranny of the EPA	2 00:00 European Conservative [1727]
SC first lady files for divorce on grounds of adultery	3 00:00 Mike Kozlowski [1722]

    
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                        21:18 Barbara Skolaut

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Who's in the News
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5	Govt of Pakistan
4	TTP
3	Govt of Iran
2	al-Shabaab
2	Hamas
1	Fatah
1	Lashkar e-Taiba
1	PFLP
1	Palestinian Authority
1	Govt of Sudan
1	Taliban
1	al-Qaeda
1	Govt of Syria

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Two weeks of WOT

Sun 2009-12-13
Blackwater behind Pakabooms: Ex-ISI chief

Sat 2009-12-12
Hariri government wins Lebanon parliament vote

Fri 2009-12-11
Houthis stop Saudi offensive. Saudis stop Houthis offensive

Thu 2009-12-10
Clashes on the Streets of Khartoum

Wed 2009-12-09
Baghdad bomb attacks kill 127, wound 450

Tue 2009-12-08
Peshawar blast kills 10, injures 45

Mon 2009-12-07
Explosions rock market in Lahore

Sun 2009-12-06
Little resistance on day 2 of US-Afghan offensive

Sat 2009-12-05
Attack temporarily shuts Herat airport

Fri 2009-12-04
Russian Police find car packed with explosives near train station

Thu 2009-12-03
14 dead in suicide bomber attack in Somalia

Wed 2009-12-02
Obama: 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan by summer

Tue 2009-12-01
At least 61 militants killed in Khyber tribal region

Mon 2009-11-30
Air strike kills 30 Taliban in Khost

Sun 2009-11-29
Russia train disaster was terrorist attack

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