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Taliban sez Blinky not dead
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Page 4: Opinion
Delingpole: O'Bama? Oh puh-lease!	4 00:00 swksvolFF [1734]
Friedman: They Shoot Horses, Dont They?	3 00:00 Bright Pebbles [1737]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Drone zap nails 7 in Wazoo	0 [1743]
Paks Retake Naval Base After Attack	10 00:00 JosephMendiola [1768]
Pak nuke security in question after base attack	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [1739]
Stowaway at Port Newark sparks terror probe	0 [1734]
Taliban sez Blinky not dead	10 00:00 Zebulon Thranter9685 [1761]
Ashton visits Benghazi	0 [1741]
Six killed in suicide attack on Afghan police HQ	0 [1739]
Good morning	3 00:00 Uncle Phester [1744]
European Union opens mission in Benghazi	1 00:00 DepotGuy [1747]
One killed, eight injured in fresh Kurram clashes	0 [1745]
Bahrain Court Upholds Death Sentences for 2 Shiites in Police Killings	0 [1740]
Qadaffy bully boyz swarm bus carrying foreign journalists in Tripoli	3 00:00 phil_b [1742]
Nato strikes near Gaddafi's Tripoli compound	0 [1745]
13 dead in blasts in and around Baghdad	0 [1742]
S. Korea to open trial of five Somali pirates	0 [1742]
Afghan officials: Militants storm gov't building in Khost	0 [1745]
Leb Army Frees 3 Abducted Iraqis after Gunfight with Kidnappers	0 [1747]
Militants storm PNS Mehran in Karachi	4 00:00 Thing From Snowy Mountain [1740]
Syrian protesters defy crackdown	0 [1745]
Israel approves nearly 300 settlements	1 00:00 de Medici3489 [1748]
Death sentence for Egyptian policeman	1 00:00 gr(o)mgoru [1746]
[P]GCC shelves Yemen mediation efforts	0 [1739]
GCC, Western Mediators Flown Out of Besieged UAE Embassy	0 [1749]
Yemen's Saleh holds out on signing of Gulf deal	1 00:00 gr(o)mgoru [1753]
New server on the way...	8 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1760]
Page 2: WoT Background
Al Qaeda's new leader and the Iran connection	0 [1742]
French helicopters 'heading for Libya'	3 00:00 Frank G [1731]
Fort Dix plotters to challenge Patriot Act during appeal	0 [1739]
Mideast Staggered by Cost of Wheat	9 00:00 Hellfish [1759]
Nuggets from the Urdu press	0 [1737]
Pakistani senator: 'ISI's strategy is to save the Taliban from defeat' -Bill Roggio	2 00:00 Besoeker [1772]
Older bin Laden widows think younger wife tipped off US	11 00:00 Dale [1744]
Leaked cable: Gulf states 'funded extremism'	7 00:00 swksvolFF [1746]
Moroccan police beat up protesters	1 00:00 gr(o)mgoru [1736]
UN urges Sudan to pull out of Abyei	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [1746]
'China agrees to run Gwadar port'	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [1740]
Pakistan army denies US troops were in northwest	0 [1739]
Obama Accuses Hizbullah of Exercising 'Political Assassination'	1 00:00 Bobby [1738]
Thousands protest against US drone attacks in Karachi	1 00:00 Water Modem [1747]
Jewish donors warn Obama on Israel	3 00:00 Lumpy Elmoluck5091 [1730]
Obama: US support for Israel 'ironclad'	20 00:00 swksvolFF [1759]
Badanov's Buzzkill Bulletin	2 00:00 abu do you love [1767]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Congressional Research Service: US has WORLD'S LARGEST energy resources. Ogabe: Fuhgeddaboutit!	2 00:00 Lord Garth [1759]
Dutch appeals judges on Monday ordered the continuation of Geert Wilders trial	0 [1741]
Supreme Court orders California to release tens of thousands of prison inmates	17 00:00 Silentbrick - Lost Drill Bit Division - Halliburton [1758]
TSA Patdowns - At Santa Fe Prom	6 00:00 swksvolFF [1732]
Full Evacuation of Joplin MO hospital after direct hit by tornado	9 00:00 chris [1741]
Opposition wins Cyprus vote, dents presidency	0 [1729]
The car that thinks it's a tank: Inside Obama's 'Beast' Cadillac	6 00:00 Alaska Paul [1737]
Seminary teacher held for 'assaulting' child	0 [1744]
Spanish ruling party loses ground in poll	5 00:00 Frozen Al [1741]
Cynthia McKinney: 'US lawmakers forced to support Israel'	12 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1760]
Merkel's party loses to SPD, Greens in Bremen	1 00:00 Whiskey Mike [1744]
New volcano eruption begins in Iceland	12 00:00 trailing wife [1761]
Saudi Arabia beheads Pakistani over murder	1 00:00 Redneck Jim [1743]
In Saudi Arabia, another maid dies falling out of a window. Will they ever find a cure?	3 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [1734]
Page 6: Politix
O Wants More Local Control for Schools?	7 00:00 CrazyFool [1762]
The One Explains "1967 Borders"	11 00:00 CincinnatusChili [1731]

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Delingpole: O'Bama? Oh puh-lease!

            Posted by: tipper  ||
            05/23/2011            11:04   ||
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#1 I have always found the Irish have a way with words so I will defer to their eloquence. Oh Puh-Lease was a good start.

                Posted by: Dale    ||
                05/23/2011 13:59                Comments ||
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#2 I don't usually read Delingpole, but "presidential Uriah Heep" is very good.

                Posted by: mojo    ||
                05/23/2011 16:06                Comments ||
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#3 Yes mojo that was clever take from Dickens.Uriah Heep lives on so to speak. I believe we will shall see future application of him unfortunately.

                Posted by: Dale    ||
                05/23/2011 17:31                Comments ||
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#4 Good Night. Can't pick a line without picking the whole thing.

Did TOTUS kiss the Blarney Stone?

                Posted by: swksvolFF    ||
                05/23/2011 19:26                Comments ||
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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Friedman: They Shoot Horses, Dont They?

            Posted by: tipper  ||
            05/23/2011            01:29   ||
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#1 Friedman???? I've heard the expression "from the horse's mouth", but from the other end?

                Posted by: gr(o)mgoru    ||
                05/23/2011 5:38                Comments ||
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#2 Recital orifice. Then again his head has been stuck up it for a while, so it makes sense that the sound would come from it.

                Posted by: Procopius2k    ||
                05/23/2011 8:00                Comments ||
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#3 "My bet is that SNN cost no more than a few thousand dollars to start"

Obviously an expert in internet costs... Not.

                Posted by: Bright Pebbles    ||
                05/23/2011 14:09                Comments ||
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                00:12 JosephMendiola

                        23:39 swksvolFF

                        23:39 Silentbrick - Lost Drill Bit Division - Halliburton

                        23:36 JosephMendiola

                        23:35 trailing wife

                        22:59 Barbara Skolaut

                        22:50 Barbara Skolaut

                        22:30 Pappy

                        22:30 Dale

                        22:30 Frank G

                        22:19 Pappy

                        22:16 Lilibeth

                        22:08 Hellfish

                        22:07 Hellfish

                        22:03 Cromert

                        21:54 Frank G

                        21:51 CrazyFool

                        21:32 Airandee

                        21:23 Airandee

                        21:23 Airandee

                        21:20 abu do you love

                        21:11 Lord Garth

                        21:09 Besoeker

                        20:53 phil_b

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1	Govt of Syria
1	Hezbollah
1	Pirates
1	TTP
1	Taliban
1	al-Qaeda
1	al-Qaeda in Iraq
1	al-Qaeda in Pakistan

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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2011-05-23
Taliban sez Blinky not dead

Sun 2011-05-22
Militants attack Karachi naval air base

Sat 2011-05-21
Over thirty killed in Syria, tanks in front of every mosque

Fri 2011-05-20
NATO sez sinks eight Libyan warships in.... NO SAILING ZONE

Thu 2011-05-19
Afghan company: Militants kill at least 35 workers

Wed 2011-05-18
Over 70 militants attack Pakistani security post, 17 dead

Tue 2011-05-17
Frontier Shootout between Pak Army & NATO Helicopter

Mon 2011-05-16
29 Murdered In Northern Guatemala, Most Decapitated

Sun 2011-05-15
Pakistan's parliament condemns US bin Laden raid

Sat 2011-05-14
US charges six with aiding Pakistani Taliban

Fri 2011-05-13
Dronezap kills several in Pakistan

Thu 2011-05-12
ISI Confirms Mullah Omar in Pakistain

Wed 2011-05-11
Qadaffy forces tossed from Misrata. Again.

Tue 2011-05-10
U.N. Team Blocked from Syria's Daraa as Regime Arrests 'Thousands' in Banias

Mon 2011-05-09
Syrian troops, tanks enter Homs, Tafas

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