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Boko Haram Executes Two People For Smoking Cigarettes
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Death of a banker	10 19:09 SteveS [11134]
Boko Haram exploits in Gwoza: The inside story	0 [11125]
Nigeria: Soldiers Agree to Confront Boko Haram	0 [11128]
Boko Haram Executes Two People For Smoking Cigarettes	6 14:28 Mike Kozlowski [11130]
Good morning	0 [11126]
liveblogging Israel-gaza active conflict day 48	0 [11126]
Police kill two women in tense region of Tunisia	0 [11129]
Egypt court sentence 5 defendants to death on terrorist charges and church attack	2 21:57 BigEdLB [11131]
24 jihadists killed in new push to take Syria air base	1 21:58 BigEdLB [11133]
Suspected Qaeda bomb kills Yemeni general	0 [11126]
Jihadis release video of captured Lebanese troops	0 [11127]
Car bombs kill 15 in Iraq's Kirkuk	0 [11131]
Operation Dignity denies loss of Benina and Air Defence base	0 [11124]
Water supply to Tripoli cut, yet again	0 [11127]
37 Taliban Insurgents Killed in ANSF Operations	0 [11124]
4 killed as India, Pakistan trade gunfire in Kashmir	1 09:36 Frank G [11124]
Iraqi Shia Muslims facing massacre by ISIL in Amerli: UN	6 20:52 Pappy [11130]
Israel shells southern Lebanon after rocket attack	1 06:49 lord garth [11135]
Bomb attacks leave over 40 dead across Iraq	0 [11128]
Gaza tower collapses after Israel strike, several injured	8 17:49 Deacon Blues [11131]
Libya militias say captured Tripoli airport	0 [11127]
Militants execute man for 'spying' in Tirah	0 [11124]
PAF man killed in Saeedabad	1 01:29 imoyaro [11128]
FC soldier, civilian die during border intrusion	0 [11127]
Five killed in Karachi violence	0 [11126]
Ten dead in new air raid on Libyan militia near Tripoli	0 [11128]
Elite helo unit took part in Foley rescue attempt.	7 13:11 49 Pan [11126]
Page 2: WoT Background
British Rapper Lead Suspect in Journalist Foley's Beheading	4 23:46 genbara11 [11132]
Boko Haram: Minimah Hints of Major Army Shake Up	0 [11126]
Qatar condemns Islamic State and rejects funding accusations	2 20:06 Procopius2k [11133]
Bouteflika calls for Algeria to support neighbours	0 [11123]
~~Mars~~ Islamic State needs women	3 08:53 JohnQC [11127]
Peace movements emerge in northern Mali	0 [11126]
Tunisia fails to pass counter-terror law	0 [11127]
AL launches photo album on BNP-Jamaat violence	0 [11125]
HPC Pushing for Taliban Prisoner Release in Kunduz	0 [11126]
Taliban Operations the Bloodiest in Three Months	0 [11127]
Egypt calls for open-ended Gaza cease-fire	0 [11126]
UK charges 2 truckers in death of Afghan stowaway	0 [11123]
Yemen's Houthis hold anti-govt. sit-in	0 [11129]
'Israel may launch new ground incursion into Gaza'	2 19:15 AlanC [11133]
Male workers to run anti-polio drive in Bajaur	0 [11126]
Children taking part in sit-in to be given polio vaccine	0 [11123]
'Proscribed' allies make outlandish claims	0 [11125]
Deadlock persists as third round of talks yields no result	0 [11125]
N. Korea to complete rocket site expansion soon	0 [11124]
Cairo condemns stadium execution of Egyptian in Libya	3 11:09 g(r)omgoru [11125]
Egypt calls for Gaza ceasefire as fighting rages	0 [11127]
170 'migrants' dead after boat sinks off Libya's coast	0 [11128]
Iran launches UO2 production plant at Isfahan's UCF	1 15:29 JohnQC [11126]
Zim ship protest fails in the Puget Sound	2 14:41 Pappy [11128]
Mooslim holy man Syed Soharwardy sez ISIS is recruiting in Canada	6 22:53 JosephMendiola [11129]
Meir Amit Terr Info Center bag list from Operation Protective Edge	1 05:56 trailing wife [11128]
blast gauge is a way to measure a bomb's pressure on the body	4 11:00 Pappy [11125]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Singer Chris Brown 'shot at' and hip hop boss Suge Knight hit twice at MTV awards party	7 20:58 Pappy [11129]
White House to send aides to Brown funeral in St. Louis.	6 20:50 Bright Pebbles [11136]
As aid convoy arrives, Ukrainians shell Lugansk	0 [11125]
Sierra Leone makes hiding Ebola patients illegal	3 08:53 ed in texas [11131]
Iceland issues volcano aviation red alert	4 09:05 JohnQC [11124]
Ukraine government shelling kills three civilians	2 04:31 g(r)omgoru [11125]
Most of Peshawar areas without electricity	1 01:04 Whavitle Gurly-Brown3188 [11125]
'Brain-eating amoeba' kills man with no swimming history	5 23:21 gorb [11128]
Critically endangered species camel dies in Karachi zoo	2 10:41 Ho Chi Pheart7925 [11126]
UN vows central role in fighting Ebola epidemic	2 10:28 Frank G [11127]
Acuity Insurance Flagpole, Sheboygan, Wisconsin	1 00:45 Whavitle Gurly-Brown3188 [11127]
Page 4: Opinion
VDH: Sherman in Gaza	5 22:42 borgboy [11129]
NYT: The Golf Address	1 17:57 Shipman [11124]
The Failure of the E.U.	2 12:15 charger [11124]
There Are No Self-Hating Jews	7 16:01 Besoeker [11126]
Champ Drafted to Fight Bush's War	0 [11129]
Dilemma of Barelvi politics	0 [11124]
Three, two, one	0 [11126]
Light at the end of the tunnel?	0 [11127]
Dershowitz: ISIS is to America as Hamas is to Israel	20 22:22 Frank G [11134]

    
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                        22:42 borgboy

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                        21:58 BigEdLB

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                        21:27 CrazyFool

                        21:01 Ebbomosh Hupemp2664

                        20:58 Pappy

                        20:52 Pappy

                        20:50 Bright Pebbles

                        20:42 49 Pan

                        20:33 CrazyFool

                        20:30 Bright Pebbles

                        20:09 Procopius2k

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                        19:25 Airandee

                        19:22 Barbara

                        19:15 AlanC

                        19:09 SteveS

                        18:35 Anguper Hupomosing9418

Who's in the News
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9	Govt of Pakistan
8	Islamic State
6	Hamas
4	Taliban
4	Boko Haram
3	Arab Spring
3	Ansar al-Sharia
1	al-Nusra
1	Houthis
1	Islamic Jihad
1	Jamaat-e-Islami
1	Lashkar-e-Islam
1	Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
1	Commies
1	al-Qaeda in Arabia
1	Govt of Iran

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Two weeks of WOT

Sun 2014-08-24
Boko Haram Executes Two People For Smoking Cigarettes

Sat 2014-08-23
Syrian army ambushes 140 IS fighters in al-Raqqa

Fri 2014-08-22
Boko Haram Takfiris seize town in NE Nigeria

Thu 2014-08-21
Israeli Fire Kills 31 in Gaza as Hamas Warns Foreign Airlines, Declares Truce Talks Over

Wed 2014-08-20
Geelani, Yasin Malik meet Pak envoy after India calls off talks

Tue 2014-08-19
Kurdish PKK trains Yazidis to fight back against Islamic State.

Mon 2014-08-18
Apple employee took assassin's bullets for British colonel

Sun 2014-08-17
Jihadists kill dozens in north Iraq 'massacre': officials

Sat 2014-08-16
Iraq Sunni Tribes Take Up Arms against Jihadists

Fri 2014-08-15
ISIS jihadist poses with severed head as Caliphate seize more key towns

Thu 2014-08-14
Boko Haram Appoints New Emir for Gwoza

Wed 2014-08-13
Prince Saud: Israel has no right to self-defense

Tue 2014-08-12
"Convert by noon today or we will kill all of you"

Mon 2014-08-11
Iraq PM to sue president, security forces deploy across Baghdad

Sun 2014-08-10
Al-Qaida Militants Kill 15 Yemeni Soldiers

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