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Afghanistan
NATO frustration as Afghan police flunk drug tests
When British trainers administered random drugs tests to 25 Afghan police recruits at a base in southern Helmand province, most of them failed. One recruit was kicked out of the force. The others were given warnings.

Heroin shouldn't be tolerated, but there is no point kicking out the ones who smoke hashish: there would be too few left, their Afghan commander said.
Islam makes a lot more sense when you're on drugs...
Training Afghan police is a central part of NATO's strategy to eventually turn over responsibility for security in the country to Afghan forces so that Western troops -- soon to number 150,000 -- can begin withdrawing next year.

NATO aims to increase the number of Afghan soldiers and police by 50 percent to a total of 282,000 by mid-2011, when U.S. President Barack Obama says he will begin withdrawing forces.

But commanders acknowledge it is an uphill battle. Afghan recruits are frequently illiterate, many desert soon after joining. Some may be insurgent infiltrators. One policeman killed five British soldiers in November.

And -- if the random testing administered in Helmand is anything to go by -- many are on drugs.

"So far we've found three tested positive for amphetamines and also opiates, approximately 15 for the use of hashish," British Army Captain Pete Alexander, a police instructor, told Reuters, looking over the results of the 25 tests.

The amphetamine and opiates test can only find traces of use of the drugs within the past three days. When the three who failed were given a second chance a few days later, two of them managed to pass. The other was fired.

Those who had failed the test for hashish were forced to stand up and be reprimanded in front of their class of 300 recruits at a parade. But there is no point in kicking them out, since use of the drug is so common, their commander said.

"At first when we understand someone is using hashish we tell them it is not right to use hashish. The second time we just give them a warning. The third time we try helping them to quit the stuff, and finally we sack them," Colonel Mahmoud Refik Sheriar told Reuters.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Look a fungus for the opium and a virus for the mary jane... Just do it!
Posted by: 3dc || 02/10/2010 0:28 Comments || Top||

#2  Our tax dollars at work.
Posted by: ed || 02/10/2010 8:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Explains the inability to do jumping jacks.
Posted by: Lumpy Elmoluck5091 || 02/10/2010 11:09 Comments || Top||

#4  They don't have beer so it is no surprise they would use hash in their off time. Every culture has an intoxicant it uses socially. Ours is alcohol, there's is hash. Not a big deal. The opium, on the other hand, should not be tolerated.

You can smoke hash every day for a month and then go out to the field on a mission and not suffer physically from withdrawal. The same is not true with opiates.
Posted by: crosspatch || 02/10/2010 23:45 Comments || Top||


Britain
Captain Hook's London home seized for legal bills
[Al Arabiya Latest] British legal aid authorities have seized the London home of jailed radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza to recover costs spent on defending him, they said Tuesday.

The Egyptian-born former imam, who has one eye and a hook for one hand, was jailed for seven years in 2007 for inciting followers to murder non-believers, and is fighting extradition to the United States.

The Legal Services Commission (LSC) said it had seized the property in Greenford, west London, and hopes to sell it to pay off some of the 300,000 pounds ($470,000) spent on him.

The LSC "can confirm it has taken possession of Abu Hamza's property, as a contribution to recovering the legal aid costs spent on his defense," said LSC chief executive Carolyn Regan.

"The LSC will not tolerate people trying to conceal their financial assets in an attempt to have their defense costs paid for by the taxpayer," she added.

Abu Hamza is wanted in the United States on charges including setting up an al-Qaeda-style training camp for militants in the northwest state of Oregon.

He is also accused of sending money and recruits to assist Afghanistan's hardline former rulers the Taliban and al-Qaeda and helping a gang of kidnappers in Yemen who abducted a 16-strong party of Western tourists in 1998.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: al-Qaeda

#1  If I may ..

Ha-ha-ha .

On 7 February 2006 he was found guilty on eleven charges and not guilty on four. He was sentenced to seven years' imprisonment to run concurrently for eight counts and 21 months for the others, giving a total of 57 years and 11 months.

Let me re-iterate

ha-ha-ha ,Im sure we'll give you him soon though
Posted by: Oscar || 02/10/2010 10:12 Comments || Top||

#2  Oooh and the rest of his family :

On 28 May 2009, three of his sons were jailed at Southwark Crown Court for a two-year fraud involving stolen cars. Hamza Kamel, aged 22 and Mohamed Mostafa, aged 27 (both from Acton, London) ran the scam operation with Abu Hamza's stepson Mohssin Ghailam, aged 28. Four other men were jailed on related charges.

Just had a little laugh at the names .. Seems he has a Mustapha Kamel in his ranks ..
Posted by: Oscar || 02/10/2010 10:16 Comments || Top||


Europe
UK group urges Elton John to cancel Israel show
Posted by: Ebbiling Gleans5974 || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  One side of this "debate" welcomes him and no doubt pays him well to do what he does best. The other side would kill him and his husband if given half the chance for being infidels, and homosexuals to boot.

Hmm. Tough call, Reggie.
Posted by: Cornsilk Blondie || 02/10/2010 1:24 Comments || Top||


Anti-US bomber renounces terror: lawyer
[Al Arabiya Latest] A German convert to Islam who has admitted involvement in a thwarted plot to blow up U.S. targets in Germany has now "renounced terror", his lawyer said Tuesday, asking for a lighter sentence.

In closing arguments at the trial of four Islamists charged with belonging to an extremist group linked to al-Qaeda, Dirk Uden said his client, 30-year-old Fritz Gelowicz, had made a "full confession" and deserved leniency.

"In what more impressive way could one demonstrate that one is finished with armed jihad?" Uden added.

Another lawyer for Gelowicz, Hannes Linke, called for a sentence of less than 10 years, as the confession had given authorities "very valuable information for preventing terror."

"Fritz Gelowicz has given unprecedented insight into the inner workings of Islamic terrorism," Linke said.

After months of surveillance, police using U.S. and German intelligence said they caught three of the suspects red-handed, mixing chemicals to make the equivalent of 410 kilograms (900 pounds) of explosives. This was 100 times the amount used in the 2005 London bombings that killed more than 50 people.

Prosecutors had demanded 12 and a half years behind bars for Gelowicz, a member of the so-called Sauerland cell after the region where they were captured. All four have been charged with belonging to the Islamic Jihadic Union (IJU) in Pakistan.

Uden told the court that the authorities' knowledge of the IJU was "sketchy at best" before Gelowicz's confession.

Prosecutors have called for 13 years for another German convert to Islam, 24-year-old Daniel Schneider and 11 and a half years for Adem Yilmaz, a 31-year-old Turkish citizen.

A fourth plotter, 24-year-old German Atilla Selek who was arrested in Turkey, could face five and a half years' imprisonment for planning what prosecutors said would have been a "massacre".
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Impose a longer sentence , send a message
Posted by: Oscar || 02/10/2010 5:15 Comments || Top||

#2  Well, if that does not work he can always find Jesus.
Posted by: Kelly || 02/10/2010 7:56 Comments || Top||

#3  "In what more impressive way could one demonstrate that one is finished with armed jihad?" Uden added

Uden is unfamliar with the term "taqiya"
Posted by: Swanimote || 02/10/2010 8:41 Comments || Top||

#4  "In what more impressive way could one demonstrate that one is finished with armed jihad?"

Suicide?
Posted by: gorb || 02/10/2010 10:43 Comments || Top||

#5  Uden told the court that the authorities' knowledge of the IJU was "sketchy at best" before Gelowicz's confession.

He might be safer inside.
Posted by: tu3031 || 02/10/2010 10:52 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Those who handed over Aafia to US be punished: Imran
[Dawn] The Pakistani authorities who had handed over Dr Aafia to US government must be brought to justice.

This was demanded by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf chairman Imran Khan while addressing a worker's convention at Zafarwal on Monday.

Khan alleged Pakistani intelligence agencies had handed over Dr Aafia to Americans, along with her three children and two of them died of torture in Afghan jails controlled by US authorities.

He said any adverse verdict by an American court in Dr Aafia's case would increase hatred against the US and might enhance terrorism. Khan said after achieving freedom for the judiciary, the media and people should strive to make the Election Commission of Pakistan a free, transparent and independent institution to get rid of poll rigging.

He said if there were free and fair elections his party would bring a democratic revolution in Pakistan and ensure justice for all.

Khan lashed out at the government for what he called sheer wastage of public money on luxuries and foreign tours.
He said it was deplorable that tax defaulters were sitting in the assemblies while the poor were paying taxes.

He alleged the government allowed Americans to kill Pakistani people in drone attacks only for money which was unjust.

PTI provincial president Ahsan Rasheed, secretary general Raja Javaid, central vice-president Shaid Zulfiqar, provincial information secretary Naveed Ahmed, and district president Rana Lal Badsha also spoke.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Pakistan

#1  I'm bettin Khan hasn't missed many meals lately.
Posted by: mojo || 02/10/2010 0:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Imran Khan - Great cricket player in his time

But another idealist grown fat on free food and fame . The fame-train does that to folk.
Posted by: Oscar || 02/10/2010 4:56 Comments || Top||

#3  "Langley, we've found another target for you".
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/10/2010 15:47 Comments || Top||


Militants seeking refuge in Karachi: Rehman Malik
[Dawn] Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Tuesday said terrorists escaping military operations in the northwest were seeking refuge in Karachi.

The minister was winding up a debate on incidents in Karachi in the National Assembly. He also vowed to eliminate terrorism from the country.

Malik said the technique used in the Chehlum bomb blasts was the same as used in the Ashura blast.

He said the National Assembly would be taken into confidence on completion of probe into the blasts in Karachi.

He also informed the National Assembly that 36 arrests had been made in Karachi.

Rehman Malik said some 2,200 suspected terrorists had been nabbed from Swat and another 600 suspected militants had been apprehended from the tribal areas.

Investigations were underway against the arrested suspects, he said.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: TTP

#1  Militants always feel safe when they return home ie.Pakistan!
Posted by: Paul2 || 02/10/2010 9:29 Comments || Top||


Iraq
Iraq to open 10-15 voting posts in Jordan
[Al Arabiya Latest] At least 10 polling stations are to open in Jordan for Iraqi expatriates to take part in their country's March 7 election, as part of worldwide out-of-country voting, Iraq's ambassador said on Tuesday.

"We have agreed with Jordan to open from 10 to 15 voting centers in Amman and Irbid and other cities, and an office for the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC) has been opened to supervise the voting," Saad Hayyani said.

"The voting is scheduled to take place on March 5 and 6. Eligible voters are estimated at between 100,000 and 200,000," he told AFP, with the ballot abroad taking place just ahead of voting inside Iraq as was the case in 2005.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Sounds like how New Orleans does elections.
Posted by: Glenmore || 02/10/2010 12:18 Comments || Top||


Israel-Palestine-Jordan
'West Bank terrorist who killed Israeli was a PA officer'
Civilian stabbed while waiting in jeep at Tapuah junction, vehicle overturns as he tries to speed away; assailant lightly hurt as he is run over by security officer, arrested.
Tomorrow NYT headline "Israeli security officer deliverately runs over a Palestinian with his car"
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 02/10/2010 09:55 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Southeast Asia
Indonesia hotel bombing suspect goes on trial
A suspected member of late terror leader Noordin Mohammad Top's network appeared in an Indonesian court Wednesday charged over twin suicide attacks on luxury hotels in Jakarta last year.

The bombings killed seven people as well as the two suicide bombers and marked the bloody end of a four-year hiatus in attacks attributed to Noordin and Al-Qaeda-linked regional terror network Jemaah Islamiyah.

Noordin's alleged driver, Amir Abdillah, could face multiple death sentences if convicted on charges including carrying out an act of terrorism, providing explosive materials and harbouring terrorist suspects.

Prosecutors said he was also part of a plot to assassinate Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and had booked a room at the JW Marriott hotel which the hotel bombers used to prepare their attacks.

"He assisted in an act of terrorism by way of purposely using violence and stirring an atmosphere of terror and widespread fear," prosecutor Totok Bambang said.

Two Islamic extremists with backpacks filled with homemade bombs blew themselves up at the neighbouring JW Marriott and Ritz Carlton hotels in downtown Jakarta on July 17.

Abdillah wore the white garb of a devout Muslim, joked with journalists and smiled during the hearing, but was not required to enter a plea.

Police have said his arrest shortly after the hotel blasts was crucial to subsequent operations which ultimately led to the killing or capture of Malaysian Islamist Noordin and several of his accomplices.
Posted by: tipper || 02/10/2010 03:42 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Jemaah Islamiyah


Malaysia seeks from S. Philippines help in hunt for two hostages
Malaysia has sought the help of southern Philippines in the hunt for two Malaysians snatched from a seaweed farm off Sabah by a group of Filipino gunmen believed to be linked to the Abu Sayyaf terror group.

Tawi-Tawi governor Sadikul Sahali said yesterday that the Malaysian authorities have informed Filipino police in Sitangkai of the possibility of the armed group with the two hostages heading towards Philippines waters. He said naval forces under the Western Mindanao Command and the police were keeping an eye out for the group and the two hostages.

“From information received, there is still no sign of the gunmen or the hostages on our side,' Sadikul was quoted as saying in the Star.

The two Malaysian Chinese – a 40 year-old manager and a 25 year-old supervisor of seaweed farm operated by a Hong Kong and local investment company, Dynasty Marine Farm - were abducted by the gunmen at about 1 am on Monday. They fled in two pump boats. Tawi-Tawi in southern Philippines, about 20km away from the Sabah coast, has been a hot spot for hiding hostages before they are slipped off to neighbouring Jolo or Basilan islands where the various factions of the Abu Sayyaf operates from.

Worried family members of the abducted men have declined interviews, as they pray for the safe return of the two hostages before Chinese New Year.

According to Sabah Police Commissioner Noor Rashid Ibrahim, the Malaysian police believe the gunmen might still be in Sabah waters and the search was focused around the districts of Lahad Datu, Tawau and Semporna. Describing the gunmen as robbers who came to grab the payroll from the seaward farm, Rashid said they were not part of any organised group, such as the militant Abu Sayyaf operating in southern Philippines.

Foreign Minister Anifah Aman who is a Sabahan and the brother of Chief Minister Musa Anam, also believes that the gunmen were not part of the Abu Sayyaf group.

The United States, which recently issued a travel warning to Sabah in view of possible kidnappings of foreigners, has linked the Abu Sayyaf to the Al-Qaeda network of Osama bin Laden. The Malaysian authorities who were unhappy with the US travel warning, have maintained that security along the Sabah borders was tight and they were always on the alert.
Posted by: Pappy || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  TOPIX/WORLDNEWS > POLICE SAY "BALI BOMBER" MAY HAD ESCAPED DEATH.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/10/2010 2:02 Comments || Top||

#2  You know some time ago I read about the Philippine- Malay kidnap racket. According to this account the Malay powers to be import Muslim Filipino muscle around election time. To pay them for their service some patsy is kidnapped. The ransom is then paid by the Malay powers to be. Don't know how true this but it does have the right sound.
Posted by: Don Vito Anginegum8261 || 02/10/2010 17:15 Comments || Top||


Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Leb PM Hariri Backs Hezbollah
Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he is concerned about "escalating" threats posed to the Middle East by Israel.

Mr Hariri told the BBC that Israeli planes were entering Lebanese airspace every day, and he feared the prospect of another war with Israel. He accused Israel of making a huge mistake by allegedly threatening both Lebanon and neighbouring Syria.

"We see what's happening on the ground and in our airspace and what's happening all the time during the past two months - every day we have Israeli planes entering Lebanese airspace.

"This is something that is escalating, and this is something that is really dangerous."

Mr Hariri also said that Lebanon was united, and that the government would stand by Hezbollah - the Lebanese militant group which fought Israel in 2006.

"I think they're betting that there might be some division in Lebanon, if there is a war against us. Well, there won't be a division in Lebanon. We will stand against Israel. We will stand with our own people."
Posted by: Pstanley || 02/10/2010 00:12 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  At the narrow passage there is no brother, no friend.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/10/2010 3:40 Comments || Top||

#2  I wonder if Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri is also equally concerned about the buildup of Hezbollah men and the overwhelming amount of rocket munitions imported into his country, all aimed at Israel? Maybe that's why Israel is 'violating' he airspace to find out how much and where all these weapons are.


ya think?
Posted by: Mike Hunt || 02/10/2010 11:28 Comments || Top||

#3  PM Hariri can't do a damned thing about it, Mike, and he knows it. So do the Israelis, who have announced that with the formal inclusion of Hizb'allah into the Lebanese government all of Lebanon will be treated as equally responsible for Hizb'allah actions against Israel. The next phase of the Lebanon-Israel war may well result in rubble up to the Syrian border. Or beyond the Syrian border, if current posturing on both sides is to be believed.

How much more would Israel see from fly-overs than they would from satellites and drones? I know Israeli planes periodically break the sound barrier over Damascus as a reminder to the bad guys that they can, with impunity. Would that be a primary or secondary motivation for similar behaviour over Lebanon -- "Behave or we'll bring something you don't like"?
Posted by: trailing wife || 02/10/2010 14:27 Comments || Top||

#4  Mike, Hizbollah and the Syrians he wants to stand with against Israel are the guys who blew his dad into very small pieces.

I suspect at the moment he is facing the choice of having himself and his remaining family blown up by Hezbollah today or whatever Israel is going to do next week.

Given the choice between exploding today or exploding next week, what would you pick?

Maybe something will happen between now and next week.

In the meantime, I have my doubts about the general strategy; Israel can't really deter any Lebanese besides Hezbollah because they don't get to make decisions anyway. And if they want to deter Hezbollah, they'd be better off threatening Damascus and Teheran than Beirut, as they're currently doing.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain || 02/10/2010 15:05 Comments || Top||


Iran to launch home-built anti-missile system
In response to the US military buildup in the Persian Gulf, Iran will soon launch a domestically-built air defense system to counter the ballistic missile threat in the future.

On Tuesday, more than a week after Washington started ramping up its military hardware in the Persian Gulf region, senior Air Force Commander Mohammad-Hassan Mansourian announced that the country will set up a sophisticated system "to detect and deter ballistic missiles" before they reach their targets.

"At the end of the day, it all comes down to how strong your air command is," Mansourian told Fars News Agency. "The better your air deterrence capabilities, the more chances you have to gain the upper hand in combat."

Mansourian said Iran's military and government officials have emphasized on the need to strengthen the defenses around vital spots, particularly the country's various nuclear sites.

"To protect our nuclear installations, particularly the ones in Tehran and Esfahan, we have devised a set of defense strategies to sabotage any attempt or plan to attack us," he said.

The Iranian commander said it is of utmost importance to reduce the effectiveness of a planned strike, be it on the country's nuclear sites or any other sensitive location.

After years of accusing Iran of developing nuclear weapons, Washington has taken silent steps in the past weeks to upgrade its missile systems and war machine in the Persian Gulf, under the pretext of defending its regional allies against missile strikes by Iran.

The US allegations come despite insistence by Iran that neither its missile program, nor its uranium enrichment pose a threat to regional stability.

On a different note, Mansourian said the growing threat of cruise missiles could be easily neutralized by studying the enemy's standard methods of using these weapons in recent warfare and also by building applicable ground-based systems such as heavy artillery units.

His remarks come one day after Heshmatollah Kassiri, another senior military official, announced that Iran has plans to develop an air defense system that is comparable to and even more sophisticated than the advanced Russian S-300 system.

"The domestically-built air defense system, which will be unveiled in the near future, is as powerful as the S-300 system, or even stronger," IRNA quoted Heshmatollah Kassiri as saying.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  "The domestically-built air defense system, which will be unveiled in the near future, is as powerful as the S-300 system, or even stronger," IRNA quoted Heshmatollah Kassiri as saying.

Maybe the Russians should buy a few of these.
Posted by: gorb || 02/10/2010 2:12 Comments || Top||

#2  One Trident nuke sub can stand off Diego Garcia and totally DESTROY Iran. There wouldn't be enough left to qualify as a fourth-world country. Iran typifies "Alligator mouth, hummingbird brain".
Posted by: Old Patriot || 02/10/2010 16:13 Comments || Top||

#3  I say again that, wid NUCWEAPS [or even widout] come Year 2012, Islamist Iran will pragmatically prefer to stay on the GEOPOL, PR DEFENSIVE regardless of its rants agz the US-ISRAEL, + instead let FUTURE NUCLEAR MILTERRS do all the bloody work in Islam's name.

ALL THINGS EQUAL, IMO THE ONLY REASON FOR IRAN + SIMIL ISLAMIST GOVTS TO GO ON THE GEOPOL OFFENSIVE 2010-2020/2025 maxima IS BECUZ THE POWERS OR PERSONAGES THAT BE IN WASHINGTON ARE NO LONGER ENGAGING IN TRADITIONAL, PCORRECT "POLITICAL CENTRISM/NEUTRALISM" IN ORDER TO FORCE THE US UNDER LARGER OWG-NWO + GLOBAL COMMIE-SOCIALIST ORDER [CWO-SWO].

* See also WND > IRAN'S NUCLEAR CRSIS IS ALREADY HERE.
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 02/10/2010 19:01 Comments || Top||

#4  Ima thinkrn Al-Aska Paul and his Cessna Of Doom™ could penetrate the Iranian Home-Made Network O' Holes
Posted by: Frank G || 02/10/2010 20:03 Comments || Top||

#5  "Iran typifies 'Alligator mouth, hummingbird brain'"

That ain't the only thing about Iran's "leaders" that's hummingbird size, OP.
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 02/10/2010 20:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Dang it Frank, how 'bout a coffee warning a bit beforehand?
Posted by: Bodyguard || 02/10/2010 20:58 Comments || Top||


US wants new sanctions on Iran in weeks: Obama
[Al Arabiya Latest] U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday the international community was "moving along fairly quickly" toward imposing fresh sanctions on Iran, as the Islamic Republic further expanded its nuclear program.

Obama also said Iran's refusal to accept a U.N.-brokered nuclear fuel supply deal suggested it was intent on trying to build nuclear weapons, despite its insistence that its nuclear program was only for the peaceful generation of electricity.

Obama was asked in an impromptu appearance in the White House briefing room how quickly six key world powers were moving to toughen a regime against Tehran given Iran's enrichment activity.
Posted by: Fred || 02/10/2010 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Govt of Iran

#1  It has been said before, but I'll say it again ... our empty suit POTUS has absolutely NO CLUE. What are the new sanctions going to be? Another sternly worded reprimand? Gimme' a break!
Posted by: WolfDog || 02/10/2010 11:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Something tells me Iran may not have "weeks."
Posted by: Besoeker || 02/10/2010 12:09 Comments || Top||

#3  Must freeze IRGC accounts IMMEDIATELY.
Posted by: newc || 02/10/2010 15:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Oh, and tomorrow, scramble what aircraft you can for stand to. Give who you can some flight time.
an hour or two.
Posted by: newc || 02/10/2010 20:50 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Wed 2010-02-10
  Largest Military Offensive In Afghanistan Begins
Tue 2010-02-09
  Pak Talibs confirm Hakimullah Mahsud titzup
Mon 2010-02-08
  Afghan locals flee ahead of Helmand offensive
Sun 2010-02-07
  Jamaat-ud-Dawaa vows to take Hyderabad by force
Sat 2010-02-06
  Jamaat-ud-Dawaa vows to take Kashmir by force
Fri 2010-02-05
   Danish forces free ship captured by pirates
Thu 2010-02-04
  US To Send 18,000 More Troops to Afghanistan By Spring
Wed 2010-02-03
  Aafia Siddiqui Guilty
Tue 2010-02-02
  Philippines offers MILF autonomy
Mon 2010-02-01
  Abaya Clad Boomerette Murders 40+ in Baghdad
Sun 2010-01-31
  Houthis accept conditional end to Yemen war
Sat 2010-01-30
  Malaysia jugs 10 associated with Undieboomer
Fri 2010-01-29
  Dronezap kills at least five
Thu 2010-01-28
  Saudis declare victory over Houthis
Wed 2010-01-27
  Yemen rebels complete pull out from Saudi land

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