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40 militants killed as gunships pound Swat and Shangla
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Sadrist leader Abbas al-Gharabawi dies in custody	5 00:00 Muqty [11144]
18 rebels killed in fresh Sri Lanka fighting	0 [11127]
At least 30 bodies found in Iraq	0 [11128]
Residents of three Waziristan villages told to evacuate	0 [11133]
U.S. Secretly Aids Pakistan in Guarding Nuclear Arms	3 00:00 Zenster [11135]
Former Extremist Leads Joint Forces to Huge Weapons Cache	7 00:00 Slappy [11137]
UN and US Delist Nasreddin and His Companies from Sanctions	6 00:00 g(r)omgoru [11129]
Good morning	9 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [11132]
Nearly 30 killed in Afghanistan violence	0 [11129]
Americans troops kill more 25 gunmen in mop-up operation	1 00:00 DarthVader [11125]
Kirkuk blast kills, injures 30, mostly police	0 [11128]
Al Qaeda training camps in Mali behind Djanet attack	0 [11126]
Yahia Abu Al Haytham killed in Tizi-Ouzou	1 00:00 3dc [11128]
Algerian army kills leader of Maghreb branch of al-Qaeda network	0 [11128]
Six Iraqi soldiers injured in bomb attack, 11 insurgents arrested in Kirkuk	1 00:00 Pappy [11130]
Armed clash in Burj Brajneh camp near Beirut''s southern suburbs	0 [11127]
Tanker burnt, Taliban killed in Afghanistan	2 00:00 3dc [11132]
Pipe-bombs found in Dublin park	2 00:00 Thomas Woof [11127]
Turkish army launches large-scale operation against PKK rebels	1 00:00 McZoid [11128]
Palestinian security arrest nine more Hamas members	0 [11126]
Israeli undercover force seize two in Bethlehem	0 [11130]
Nine injured, including Japanese journalist; four arrested at Bil'in demonstration	4 00:00 Old Patriot [11128]
Iraq bound militants detained in France	0 [11128]
US launches assault on Iraqi Qaeda	2 00:00 Thomas Woof [11127]
Nine militants, two troops killed in Kashmir	0 [11127]
Taliban kill two brides, 13 police	1 00:00 Old Patriot [11127]
40 militants killed as gunships pound Swat and Shangla	4 00:00 mhw [11136]
6 militants killed in police encounter in J&K	0 [11129]
Transmissions of Geo TV and ARY shut down	0 [11128]
Page 2: WoT Background
US incapable of striking Iran, says Ahmadinejad	0 [11126]
Sufi Muhammad's condition not serious	0 [11126]
200 PPP activists arrested in Balochistan	0 [11129]
Iraqis Still Afraid to Return Home	4 00:00 Zhang Fei [11127]
Petraeus Helping Pick New Generals!	6 00:00 DarthVader [11129]
Evangelical leaders fight apathy towards Islamist threat	1 00:00 Zenster [11128]
Kuwait: Widespread fear of Iran's nuclear ambitions	4 00:00 bigjim-ky [11129]
IAEA report suggests Iran is playing for time	0 [11128]
IAEA report on Iran not encouraging: Germany	0 [11127]
Fatah accuses Hamas forces of arresting Brigades spokesperson	1 00:00 WTF [11126]
Iran sanctions meeting cancelled: diplomats	0 [11130]
Haniyeh calls for enquiry into Gaza rally massacre	0 [11125]
Hamas says it has freed dozens of Fatah prisoners	0 [11123]
Qazi, Hafiz Saeed decry govt policies	0 [11125]
PPP will not boycott general elections: Rashid	0 [11129]
NWFP CM vows to restore peace in Swat	0 [11124]
Jailed TNSM chief admitted to Peshawar hospital	0 [11126]
Resolution in US Congress for suspending Pak military aid	3 00:00 Duh! [11126]
Negroponte arrives, phones Benazir	0 [11124]
BB, Shahbaz, Fazl reject interim setup	0 [11122]
Hundreds of opposition workers arrested	0 [11125]
US 9th Circuit Court rejects challenge to wiretap program	1 00:00 mhw [11125]
Catholic Mass in Baghdad. Harry Ried- THIS is not a lost war you traitorous liar	6 00:00 Nero [11126]
House votes to end CIA rendition program, ACLU says	6 00:00 Thomas Woof [11129]
Page 3: Non-WoT
T. Boone Pickens Official Reply To Kerry	11 00:00 mhw [11129]
OPEC united against a US legal threat but divided on other aims	0 [11130]
Superstorm storm expected in Northern Europe, local media and metrologists dissmis forecast.	4 00:00 Vortigern Chenter9649 [11123]
Eeeek! Cronkite Returns to TV	5 00:00 Red Dawg [11124]
Kerry Vows to Disprove Swift Boat Claims	16 00:00 Phinater Thraviger [11138]
Reid to Keep Senate in Session to Prevent Recess Appointments	3 00:00 3dc [11129]
Chavez demands apology from Spain's king	8 00:00 Eric Jablow [11130]
Rove: Obama missing opportunities to knock Clinton	5 00:00 Nimble Spemble [11127]
Bangladesh cyclone toll nears 600, may rise	1 00:00 Old Patriot [11133]
Indias communists allow govt to talk with IAEA	1 00:00 twobyfour [11129]
Myanmar vows to push forward with political reforms	0 [11129]
Musharraf wanted to meet me in Jeddah, says Nawaz	0 [11126]
John Noble - American survivor of Stalin's Gulag	1 00:00 ryuge [11124]
Page 4: Opinion
Powerline movie review: The Kite Runner	0 [11127]
Truthless in Gaza	2 00:00 Zenster [11130]
Europe can't deliver	3 00:00 Pappy [11129]
Italy's Third World Future	0 [11127]
The War Against the War, Part 896	0 [11122]
Democratic Strategy: "Slowly Bleed" Our Way to Retreat in Iraq	5 00:00 Spot [11127]
Rafsanjanis "Package" and the Rise of the Hezbollahis	3 00:00 Manuel [11125]
Polish Man Tasered to Death in Olympic City	26 00:00 Red Dawg [11132]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
Lifelike, sexy robot infiltrators influence Belgian mobs	3 00:00 Steve [11128]
One dead in Detroit Gas War	5 00:00 Zenster [11129]
FAA reassures travelers after near-miss	3 00:00 Alaska Paul [11127]
CBS "Mystified" by Dan Rather's "Bizarre Allegations"	7 00:00 Alaska Paul [11131]
Cannonball II: NYC-to-Calif. drive in 31 hrs	3 00:00 Thomas Woof [11125]
Tattoo parlor run by cops busts gangs	3 00:00 Zenster [11127]
Three in hospital after Airbus 340 test accident	9 00:00 TZsenator [11136]

    
                23:36 twobyfour

                        23:29 Muqty

                        23:16 TZsenator 

                        22:48 Zenster

                        22:41 Zenster

                        22:35 Red Dawg

                        22:04 WTF

                        21:57 WTF

                        21:56 ryuge

                        21:56 mhw

                        21:46 WTF

                        21:41 Phinater Thraviger

                        21:40 Old Patriot

                        21:29 Barbara Skolaut

                        21:20 bruce

                        21:19 Barbara Skolaut

                        21:18 Eric Jablow

                        21:11 Zenster

                        21:05 Gomez Whineth7908

                        21:04 Zenster

                        21:00 Zenster

                        20:59 Slappy

                        20:51 Slappy

                        20:42 Slappy

Who's in the News
33	[untagged]
8	Govt of Pakistan
6	Govt of Iran
5	Global Jihad
4	Taliban
4	Hamas
3	al-Qaeda in North Africa
3	al-Qaeda in Iraq
3	Iraqi Insurgency
3	TNSM
2	ISI
2	al-Qaeda
2	Jamaat-e-Islami
1	al-Aqsa Martyrs
1	Fatah
1	al-Qaeda in Europe

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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2007-11-17
40 militants killed as gunships pound Swat and Shangla

Fri 2007-11-16
Philippines reaches deal with MILF

Thu 2007-11-15
Morticia Hopes to Form Nat'l Unity Gov't

Wed 2007-11-14
TNSM spreads outside Swat

Tue 2007-11-13
Blasts rips through Philippines Congress building

Mon 2007-11-12
Seven dead at festivities honoring Yasser

Sun 2007-11-11
Thousands flee Mogadishu, over 80 killed

Sat 2007-11-10
Sheikh al-Ubaidi, four others from Salvation Council in Diyala killed by suicide boomer

Fri 2007-11-09
AQI Is Out of Baghdad, U.S. Says

Thu 2007-11-08
Militants now in control of most of Swat

Wed 2007-11-07
Swat's Buddha carving has been decapitated

Tue 2007-11-06
Suicide bomber kills scores in northern Afghanistan

Mon 2007-11-05
Around 60 Taliban, four police dead in Afghan attacks

Sun 2007-11-04
Opp vows to resist emergency

Sat 2007-11-03
Musharraf imposes state of emergency

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