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Three US missiles kill 54 in Pakistan
Today's Headlines

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Page 4: Opinion
Two states sue Bank of America on mortgage servicing	0 [1736]
Obama refuses to take WikiLeaks seriously	4 00:00 Besoeker [1728]
Pax Ottomana?	0 [1729]
Page 1: WoT Operations
SHAHAB-3 and other Iranian MRBS to Chavez Land?	5 00:00 JosephMendiola [1761]
Chinese advisers are believed to be working with Afghan Taliban groups	3 00:00 gorb [1756]
La Familia Threatens Guerrilla Warfare	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1755]
Two soldiers gunned down in southern Thailand	0 [1736]
Proceso: Cartel Alliance Says They Have 11 More Car Bombs	2 00:00 Anonymoose [1738]
Mayhem in Monterrey: 4 Die in Two Firefights	1 00:00 newc [1741]
Sonora: Mexican Army Seizes Military Munitions	1 00:00 Thing From Snowy Mountain [1735]
More Mexican Mayhem	0 [1736]
Good morning	9 00:00 gorb [1764]
Security guns down attacker in Shikarpur, four injured	0 [1738]
U.S. Embassy Warns its Citizens in Yemen	2 00:00 Parabellum [1738]
Violence Resumes in South Yemen after Championship Calm	7 00:00 Besoeker [1739]
AQAP Commander Fahd Al-Quso Alive in Yemen	0 [1738]
Three People Killed in Lahj Province	0 [1739]
Taliban blow up girls' school in Peshawar	0 [1737]
Petraeus Radically Increasing War Intensity	7 00:00 Goldies Every Damn Where [1735]
Bolivia recognizes Palestine as a state	4 00:00 Gaz [1761]
Israeli drone violates Lebanon airspace	1 00:00 Mikey Hunt [1738]
Shia leader resigns over sectarian killing	1 00:00 Glenmore [1738]
Mortar attacks kill nine in Pakistan	0 [1747]
Somali troops seize al-Shabab weapons	0 [1732]
Seychellois court jails 9 Somali pirates	1 00:00 Glenmore [1730]
Three US missiles kill 54 in Pakistan	7 00:00 Frank G [1756]
Page 2: WoT Background
Haqqani Network Shifting from North Waziristan to Pakistanâs Kurram Agency	0 [1740]
WikiLeaks: Bangla military intel backed HuJI party	0 [1738]
Printer bomb plot: police unwittingly considered transporting live device	0 [1730]
Ships held by Somali pirates	0 [1739]
Ex-Friends Ask Assange: Where's the Money?	9 00:00 gorb [1754]
Iran minister warns against enemy plots	0 [1733]
'Iraqi Christians fleeing their homes'	1 00:00 Glenmore [1729]
Assange fears US charges	14 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1726]
Dialogue Committee, Houthi Group in Coordination Deal	0 [1730]
Sudan 'could give up' southern oil	1 00:00 Pappy [1747]
Iran: West, enemy of democracy in ME	1 00:00 Mikey Hunt [1738]
US arrests over 135 anti-war protesters	5 00:00 Fire and Ice [1725]
Chavez protected ETA members in Venezuela	0 [1738]
Russia urges S Korea to scrap drill	1 00:00 Glenmore [1730]
N Korea threatens S Korea over drills	1 00:00 gorb [1761]
Page 3: Non-WoT
WikiLeaks cables: UN offered Robert Mugabe a lucrative retirement overseas	1 00:00 Grunter [1744]
Senate votes to end ban on openly gay troops	1 00:00 P2kontheroad [1759]
N.Korea says war with South would go nuclear	6 00:00 JosephMendiola [1757]
Sunnis and Shi'ites clash in Medina during Ashura	2 00:00 Redneck Jim [1732]
Muslims for Peace work Times Square	3 00:00 pan [1760]
Chavez Loses $8 Billion Bond Debt Case	3 00:00 Mikey Hunt [1736]
Sharks Wary of Drunk Serbs	9 00:00 European Conservative [1729]
Anti-Islamists Against Batman	4 00:00 Gaz [1758]
Ainsworth asks UK govt. to legalize drugs	2 00:00 mom [1738]
'China constructing first aircraft carrier'	6 00:00 Pappy [1759]
Fist fight in Ukraine House injures 6	1 00:00 gromky [1735]
National Assembly passes enabling law for 18 months	3 00:00 Goldies Every Damn Where [1729]
Mugabe threatens 'revenge'	3 00:00 Besoeker [1736]
Larry King signs off for last time	10 00:00 Redneck Jim [1733]
Saggy pants garter belt invented	10 00:00 Miss sun so shiny [1735]
Camel pageantry starts in Abu Dhabi	2 00:00 Old Patriot [1743]
Mugabe says power-sharing 'can't continue'	1 00:00 Jeremiah Flainter9609 [1725]
'AU must remove Gbagbo by force'	0 [1736]
Thousands flee violence in Ivory Coast	0 [1727]
Page 6: Politix
WikiLeaks cables detail Fidel Castro's doomed love for Obama	0 [1728]
DREAM act dies in senate	3 00:00 Old Patriot [1741]
'Obama attacking Social Security'	9 00:00 gorb [1751]

Economy

Two states sue Bank of America on mortgage servicing

Wheels within wheels
Bank of America says it won't process payments intended for WikiLeaks

After BofA Escalates, Refuses To Process Wikileaks' Payments, Wiki Retaliates, Advises Americans To Put Their Money "Somewhere Safer"

Could WikiLeaks Kill Bank Of America Before The New Year? (BAC)

            Posted by: tipper  ||
            12/18/2010            20:20   ||
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The Grand Turk

Pax Ottomana?

            Posted by: ryuge  ||
            12/18/2010            13:54   ||
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Home Front: WoT

Obama refuses to take WikiLeaks seriously

By Oliver North

            Posted by: ryuge  ||
            12/18/2010            14:03   ||
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#1 Obama refuses to take ~~WikiLeaks~~ The Constitution seriously.

fixed

                Posted by: Uncle Phester    ||
                12/18/2010 15:38                Comments ||
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#2 #1 Obama refuses to take ~~WikiLeaks~~ ~~The Constitution~~ anything but vacation time seriously.
fixed Posted by: Uncle Phester 2010-12-18 15:38

It's much closer to the truth now, Unk.

                Posted by: Old Patriot    ||
                12/18/2010 17:28                Comments ||
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#3 "Obama refuses to take WikiLeaks seriously"

And I refuse to take Bambi seriously.

                Posted by: Barbara Skolaut    ||
                12/18/2010 19:10                Comments ||
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#4 Obama refuses to take WikiLeaks seriously

In other news..... If you parents didn't have children, chances are you won't have any either.

                Posted by: Besoeker    ||
                12/18/2010 19:19                Comments ||
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1	al-Shabaab
1	Govt of Pakistan
1	Govt of Sudan
1	Narcos
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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2010-12-18
Three US missiles kill 54 in Pakistan

Fri 2010-12-17
Car Bomb Explodes at a Coppe Shoppe in Monterrey

Thu 2010-12-16
Suicide Attack Kills 33, Wounds 95 Mourners in Iran

Wed 2010-12-15
Border Patrol agent gunned down in southern AZ

Tue 2010-12-14
Another man arrested for plotting bomb attack on DC Metro

Mon 2010-12-13
Six police among 13 killed in Iraq suicide attacks

Sun 2010-12-12
Yemen jails 12 Qaeda members

Sat 2010-12-11
Car Explodes in Stockholm, Gas Cannisters & Second Blast Involved

Fri 2010-12-10
India's ambassador gets pat-down at US airport

Thu 2010-12-09
Pakistan suicide attack kills 17: police

Wed 2010-12-08
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claims suicide kaboom on Balochistan chief minister

Tue 2010-12-07
50 dead, 120 maimed in Mohmand double kaboom

Mon 2010-12-06
Pirates hijack Bangladeshi ship in the Arabian sea

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150 killed in Nigeria's oil delta

Sat 2010-12-04
Officers killed in deadly Nairobi attacks

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