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Hambali Receives Guantanamo Review Board Hearing
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
22 girls assaulted at Stockholm festival	7 20:05 charger [11131]
Singapore detains two "Syria-bound militants" without trial	0 [11125]
Hamas idiot rearrested three days after release	0 [11126]
Iraqi forces push Islamic State out of western Iraqi town	0 [11124]
Police arrest JSMM activists involved in terrorist activities	0 [11126]
Concerns Raised Over Increase In Child Soldiers	6 20:06 Frank G [11131]
Civilians Paying High Price as Helmand War Continues	0 [11126]
Good morning	3 17:29 Shipman [11127]
One police conscript killed by IED, two army conscripts killed by sniper in separate N. Sinai attacks	0 [11129]
Iran executes 3 men charged with terrorism	0 [11130]
Uighur Fighting with Indonesian Radicals Shot Dead	0 [11129]
Four dead as Palestinian police clash with gunmen	0 [11126]
Military camp in Yemen’s besieged Taiz liberated	0 [11129]
Man Held over Stabbing of Jewish Man in Strasbourg	4 13:06 Shipman [11128]
ISIS claims first terror attack in Russia after two jihadis armed with guns and axes injure two traffic cops	1 00:22 gorb [11127]
Pro-JMB ‘Ansar Rajshahi’ targets Hindus	1 14:39 Pappy [11125]
Sirte suicide bombers kill 10 as aid flows into liberated areas	0 [11129]
Clashes in Emsalata after IS suspect arrested	0 [11126]
Fresh tension in Tripoli’s Abu Sleem district	0 [11125]
Explosion in Kabul city leaves one wounded	0 [11126]
Taliban rocket kills 2, injures 49 others in East of Afghanistan	0 [11128]
Warplanes bomb civilians once again in Benghazi’s Ganfouda district	0 [11130]
Egypt Sentences 418 for Supporting Muslim Brotherhood	0 [11127]
Coalition Aircraft Sent to Hasaka, ISIS Pulls Families Out of Towns in Syrian North	3 18:00 Shipman [11128]
ISIS recaptures key town in northern Aleppo	0 [11124]
Syrian Army advances in Daraya amidst total collapse of jihadist defenses	0 [11127]
Russian Black Sea Fleet carries out missile strikes on terrorist targets in Syria - military	3 23:10 Blossom Unains5562 [11132]
Russian Air Force carried out special mission to kill jihadist leaders in northern Homs	2 07:32 Richard Aubrey [11129]
Page 2: WoT Background
Hambali Receives Guantanamo Review Board Hearing	1 18:20 Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 [11129]
26/11 Mumbai attacks: Pakistan probes suspect over financial assistance to Lashkar-e-Taiba	0 [11126]
Two key terrorists held on 13th belong to JuA	0 [11123]
Taliban controls 80 percent of Kunduz	0 [11124]
Dozens of Turkey Academics Held in Post-Coup Crackdown	2 13:24 Shipman [11124]
Russia denies link to Aleppo attack that wounded boy	1 12:06 Mike Kozlowski [11125]
Mufti shocks Russia with call for genital mutilation of all women	4 09:01 DarthVader [11125]
Monirul: Main JMB weakening	0 [11131]
Gulshan attacker linked to Joggeshwar murder	0 [11127]
Hafter orders shake-up of Derna operations room	1 13:22 Shipman [11125]
Maoist militants set to free captive cops ahead of peace talks	0 [11128]
Abu Sayyaf release kidnapped teacher	0 [11129]
Communists would have occupied Pakistan had the Afghans not stopped them: Samiul Haq	2 13:21 Shipman [11125]
US says CIA asset in Libya Khlaifa Haftar is no longer America’s silver lining in Libya	2 16:22 trailing wife [11125]
Thai police name suspect in last week's bombings	0 [11123]
Pakistan invites Indian Foreign Secretary for talks on Kashmir	0 [11123]
FO chides UN for equating AJK with held Valley	0 [11124]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Solar Power Will Steal Sun Energy From Poor, Poor Plants	6 21:11 CrazyFool [11128]
Baltic Dry Index Oscillates in Upper 600-Point Range	0 [11128]
Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) backs citizens' right to arm themselves	0 [11123]
Migrants Refuse Jobs, Claiming They Are ‘Guests of Merkel'	9 18:40 Unelet Protector of the Sith2424 [11124]
No, the U.S. Is Not Moving Its Nukes From Turkey to Romania	6 21:41 Shipman [11125]
Saudi Arabia seen ‘transforming’ into coffee, chocolate producer	8 21:13 CrazyFool [11130]
Morocco cleric blasts nudity among immodestly dressed women	0 [11126]
Bottle removed from patient’s... ummm... tummy	5 20:56 gorb [11125]
Gharyan law students burn faculty buildings after failing exams	3 09:03 Procopius2k [11127]
Page 4: Opinion
Reboot of Ben Hur Bombs At Box Office	6 20:25 swksvolFF [11127]
20 habits of unsuccessful and ineffective leaders	11 19:22 Shipman [11124]
This Week in Guns, August 20th, 2016	9 19:45 badanov [11131]
Montazeri’s revelations and Iran’s crime against humanity	0 [11124]
Don't Cry For Me, Argentina (video)	0 [11123]
Turkey Re-evaluates its Vital Interests	5 08:47 Besoeker [11124]
Pakistan’s paranoid politics	2 21:47 Shipman [11125]
Death by committee	0 [11127]
Page 6: Politix
Clinton not to be 'burdened with oath or appearance' - will testify in writing on secret email account	8 20:10 Skidmark [11125]
FBI and Justice Dept Investigate Manafort's Firm	7 18:37 Besoeker [11126]
Louisiana Flood Victims to Trump: "We Knew You Would Be Here"	3 15:03 Matt [11125]
House to hold Clinton perjury hearing	4 13:29 Andy Elmoluter4168 [11122]
Kaine Crumbles When NBC Actually Presses Him on Hillary E-Mail Scandal	6 15:32 SteveS [11124]
Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards: Donald Trump welcome, ‘but not for a photo-op’	17 19:45 Blossom Unains5562 [11130]

	
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10	Islamic State
4	Govt of Pakistan
4	Govt of Syria
4	Taliban
4	Arab Spring
2	Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh
2	Govt of Iran
1	Lashkar e-Taiba
1	Muslim Brotherhood
1	Palestinian Authority
1	Sublime Porte
1	Thai Insurgency
1	al-Nusra
1	Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis (IS)
1	al-Qaeda
1	Commies
1	Hamas
1	Houthis
1	Abu Sayyaf
1	Jamaat-e-Ulema Islami

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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2016-08-20
Hambali Receives Guantanamo Review Board Hearing

Fri 2016-08-19
Egypt’s Islamic State group affiliate confirms killing of its chief

Thu 2016-08-18
Three killed, 40 wounded in car bomb near Turkish police station

Wed 2016-08-17
Anjem Choudary Convicted of Supporting ISIS

Tue 2016-08-16
Russia deploys jets at Iranian Airbase to combat insurgents in Syria

Mon 2016-08-15
Taliban takes control of Dahana-e-Ghori in North of Afghanistan

Sun 2016-08-14
ISIS Member Beheads His Father in Mosul

Sat 2016-08-13
Terror on Swiss train as passengers are attacked by passenger with fire and knife

Fri 2016-08-12
Iraq Kurds Say IS Financier Killed in Joint Raid with U.S.

Thu 2016-08-11
Canadian authorities foil ISIS suicide bombing, suspect killed

Wed 2016-08-10
Hezbollah drone carries out airstrike over southern Aleppo

Tue 2016-08-09
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar claims hospital bomb attack that killed 70

Mon 2016-08-08
Iran executes nuclear scientist reputed to have spied for U.S.

Sun 2016-08-07
Syrian opposition: rebels break Aleppo siege

Sat 2016-08-06
Belgium police machete attack: Female officer attacked outside station by someone shouting 'Allahuh Akhbar'

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