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France Orders Mosque Closed after 'Unacceptable' Preaching
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Good Morning	5 22:32 trailing wife [11133]
Turkey bombarded vicinity of a Sulaimani village, no casualties: official	1 09:28 Skidmark [11129]
NISA asked to hand over report on jailed ex-Al-Shabaab spokesman's detention	0 [11128]
Boko Haram Claims Responsibility For Killing 10 Nigerian Soldiers, Children During Yobe Attack	0 [11129]
Afghanistan Detains 100 Criminal Suspects In Kabul	0 [11125]
Gunmen Demand N50 Million Ransom For Release Of Abducted Prominent Plateau Monarch	0 [11133]
Yemen Rebels Allow Aid Flights to Resume after Saudi-Led Strikes	1 08:51 Frank G [11125]
Blast Rocks Outskirts of Baalbek Town	0 [11130]
France Orders Mosque Closed after 'Unacceptable' Preaching	1 17:22 jpal [11133]
Iraq Security forces kill four ISIS terrorists in Diyala	0 [11133]
Court sentences four Dagestani Yutes in terrorism case	0 [11126]
Page 2: WoT Background
Pennsylvania GOP Rep writes to Homeland Security secretary demanding to know why flights with hundreds of migrants are being flown into Biden's hometown of Scranton in the middle of the night	3 14:24 M. Murcek [11126]
After reported Syria strike, Israel says won’t let Iran bring ‘game-changing’ arm; Russia unhappy	3 10:40 DarthVader [11133]
Muslim Groups To Sign French Islam Values Charter After Months of Resistance	2 13:07 Merrick Ferret [11128]
Gantz hosts Abbas at his home in PA leader’s first meeting in Israel in a decade	0 [11124]
Alibaba may stop shipping to PA, which won’t deliver packages with ‘Israel’ on them	0 [11123]
Miqati Expects Draft Deal with IMF within Weeks	0 [11127]
Turkey, Qatar Await Taliban Green Light to Run Afghan Airports	0 [11127]
Syria Condemns Israel's Plans to Expand Golan Settlements	0 [11127]
Deepening Somalia Crisis Sparks International Alarm	7 21:26 KBK [11130]
Not So 'Explosive' after All, What Made Aoun Change His Mind?	0 [11127]
Miqati Signs Elections Decree, Says Won't 'Bargain' on Cabinet Sessions	0 [11131]
Berri Prohibited Amal Officials from Hitting Back at Aoun	0 [11128]
Libyan Presidential Candidate Calls for ‘Revolution’	0 [11128]
United Nations special envoy for Yemen has strongly condemned SaudiArabia’s military escalation	0 [11131]
Page 3: Non-WoT
ESPN To Lose Up To $400 Million In Ad Revenue Due To Cancelled College Bowl Games	5 22:39 Merrick Ferret [11131]
Vladimir Putin's space invader: Russia launches its biggest rocket since fall of the Soviet Union	1 18:59 Ulolump Grumble1426 [11127]
China 'replaces soldiers with machinegun-carrying robots in Tibet because its troops cannot cope with the freezing conditions and thin air'	6 20:12 Woodrow [11128]
James Webb Space Telescope begins unfolding its massive sunshield as it enters the most perilous phase of '29 days on the edge' journey to solar orbit	2 21:28 KBK [11127]
Russian 'star wars' missile designed to shoot down satellites, nukes and orbital hypersonic weapons enters service amid tensions with the West	3 15:41 M. Murcek [11126]
Moment cops surround mom and son at their table before kicking them out of a Queens Applebee's for not having vaccination cards during clash with anti-vax mandate protesters	10 20:15 Woodrow [11133]
Prince Andrew: Accuser cannot sue because she isn't in US	4 13:50 M. Murcek [11124]
Gary Beikirch, local Medal of Honor recipient, dies at 74	2 20:16 Woodrow [11128]
Congress authorizes Medal of Honor for 5 soldiers and awards upgrade for 4 Black Hawk Down troops	1 08:01 Mike Kozlowski [11125]
Biden drops travel ban for southern African countries	3 22:20 Cheaderhead [11133]
Putin's gas weaponization hits a hot spot in Berlin	6 14:26 M. Murcek [11124]
Praveen Balhumar, of Toronto, has been arrested and charged over the sexual assault of an 84 year old woman	0 [11128]
Lone gunman shot four people to death and wounded three, including a police officer, in a Denver-area shooting spree	4 09:55 M. Murcek [11129]
Oil prices extended gains, with Brent crude trading near $80 a barrel	2 13:57 Lord Garth [11125]
Indiana mom hits out at woke bail funds after one helped free cocaine and burglary suspect who then murdered her son	0 [11124]
Harry Reid and John Madden dead. Madden welcomed to heaven	11 20:17 Woodrow [11127]
Russian court bans Memorial International NGO	0 [11123]
Slain student Miya Marcano's death is ruled a 'homicide of undetermined means' because her body was too decomposed after one week to tell how she was murdered 'by handyman who broke into her apartment using a master key'	0 [11125]
China Goes After Elon the Alien	4 11:46 Mercutio [11125]
Page 4: Opinion
VDH - Elites Are Destroying America with Globalism, Leftism, and Tribalism	6 15:40 Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 [11123]
James Zogby: The Roots of America's Middle East Decline	2 11:33 Frank G [11124]
Transcaucasia in 1917-1918	0 [11125]
Cloth masks are ‘not appropriate for this pandemic’ says CNN medical expert Leana Wen	9 23:21 Bobby [11127]
Testing Alec Baldwin's Revolver Theory	1 13:19 Glenmore [11126]
Page 6: Politix
You Won't Believe What the IRS Says People Must Declare as Income	3 19:20 CrazyFool [11127]
Judge refuses to dismiss alleged Proud Boys leaders' charges	29 16:04 Merrick Ferret [11126]
Florida surgeon general says Biden admin 'actively preventing' monoclonal antibody treatments	2 15:27 Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 [11129]
Prominent Dem Lawyer Predicts Lawsuits To Remove GOP Members From House Seats Next Year	7 17:21 3dc [11127]
Dr Fauci's Retirement Pay Will Exceed $350,000 Per Year: The Largest In U.S. Federal Government History	14 16:06 Merrick Ferret [11131]
Harry Reid, political pugilist and longtime Senate majority leader, dies	4 15:46 M. Murcek [11126]
From the left: Biden's Bipartisanship Bungle	1 16:24 Merrick Ferret [11128]
Swalwell says people cheering on 'Let's go Brandon' guy are 'indecent to their core.' Folks have thoughts.	10 13:36 49 Pan [11131]
Sarah Palin on Joe Biden: 'It's Too Late to Get Through to Him'	0 [11124]
Even CNN Is Criticizing Biden Now, Comparing Him To Carter	2 16:19 Merrick Ferret [11126]
'No Fault Of Anybody:' $100 Billion Is Stolen From Taxpayers Via COVID Relief Funds	7 13:22 Glenmore [11130]
ABC Fawns For Stacey Abrams New Kid's Book, Pitch Race for GA Governorship	0 [11128]
House of Representatives Votes to Eradicate Blasphemy Against Islam	8 17:12 Rambler in Virginia [11129]
'You're a disgrace…the City of Chicago is tired of it': Police dispatcher eviscerates mayor Lori Lightfoot for letting city become a 'death zone' as murders hit 25-year high	4 15:39 Procopius2k [11126]
Biden's Department of Justice to give towns and cities $1.6billion to battle the dramatic rise in violent crime	9 18:21 Merrick Ferret [11129]
Biden ~~hunkers down~~ [hides] in his [fenced] Delaware beach house with NO public events as Omicron continues to surge and after saying there is 'no federal solution' to COVID	3 16:10 Merrick Ferret [11123]

    
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Who's in the News
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5	Hezbollah
3	Mob Rule
2	Commies
2	Devout Moslems
2	Islamic State
2	Palestinian Authority
2	Houthis
1	Sublime Porte
1	Taliban/IEA
1	Tin Hat Dictators, Presidents for Life, & Kleptocrats
1	al-Shabaab (AQ)
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1	Arab Spring
1	Banditti
1	Boko Haram (ISIS)
1	Govt of Syria
1	Migrants/Illegal Immigrants
1	Moslem Colonists
1	Muslim Brotherhood

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Two weeks of WOT

Wed 2021-12-29
France Orders Mosque Closed after 'Unacceptable' Preaching

Tue 2021-12-28
Libya declares UK Ambassador persona non grata

Mon 2021-12-27
DRC - Deadly bombing at restaurant packed for Christmas

Sun 2021-12-26
Desmond Tutu aka 'The Red Arch' tango uniform at 90

Sat 2021-12-25
Poland: Migrants Attacking Border with ‘Full Aggression’ Using ‘Stones, Logs, Metal Poles as Weapons’

Fri 2021-12-24
Egypt’s border guards arrest over 2,000 irregular migrants, seize tons of drugs

Thu 2021-12-23
Nigeria: Fulani Jihadists Kill 45 Christian Farmers in 'Barbaric' Attack

Wed 2021-12-22
Sudan's Prime Minister Abadalla Hamdok to resign

Tue 2021-12-21
Saudi Arabian 'potential terrorist' nabbed at US-Mexico border

Mon 2021-12-20
Death Toll In Fresh Bandits’ Attack On Kaduna Communities Rises To 38

Sun 2021-12-19
2018 Bodh Gaya blast: 3 JMB terrorists get life imprisonment

Sat 2021-12-18
ISIS-linked extremists decapitate Christian pastor in Mozambique

Fri 2021-12-17
US Navy rescues Iranian drug smugglers from burning ship off coast of Oman

Thu 2021-12-16
Libya PM's office surrounded by militia

Wed 2021-12-15
Police foil Al-Shabaab's attempt to abduct Imam in Kenya Mosque

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