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Sharon in hospital after minor stroke
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Page 1: WoT Operations
Nail bomb damages car in Cairo	0 [11128]
Operation Moonlight Begins	2 00:00 Brett [11128]
Federal Investigators Probe High-Tech Explosives Theft	7 00:00 Besoeker [11133]
UN investigator sees link between Lebanese assassinations	3 00:00 Captain America [11126]
Druze leader expects further assassinations of anti-Syrian figures	0 [11127]
U.S. Warns Turkey Of Air Strike On Iran And Syria	15 00:00 Darrell [11127]
Coalition calls for ouster of Lebanon's pro-Syrian president	1 00:00 mojo [11129]
Terror Suspect's Extradition To U.S. Not Certain	2 00:00 trailing wife [11124]
Baluchi Leader Slams Army Blitz	2 00:00 trailing wife [11128]
Iran Implicated In Murder Of Turkish Intellectuals	1 00:00 liberalhawk [11131]
Iraqi ministerial advisor escapes assassination attempt near Basra	0 [11126]
U.S. Troops Want a Better Bullet	15 00:00 rlynes [11129]
Car bomb kills five Iraqis in Baghdad	0 [11126]
Iran Ready To Produce 18 IRBMs	12 00:00 Zenster [11132]
Parliament sworn in for Afghanistan	2 00:00 trailing wife [11128]
Iraqâs Zarqawi opens Gaza Branch Office	4 00:00 tu3031 [11130]
Meherpur BNP leader killed in bomb attack	0 [11125]
Iraqi forces launch Operation "Moonlight" in western Iraq -- MNF	0 [11127]
17 dead in Iraqi violence	0 [11126]
Two policemen killed in explosion in Baghdad	0 [11129]
GSPC fighters were in touch with Zarqawi intermediary	0 [11128]
Filippino American sentenced for running guns to Mindanao	0 [11127]
Filippino cooperation with Malaysia keeps Abu Sayyaf out of Sabah	0 [11128]
Military operation in Balochistan	3 00:00 trailing wife [11128]
Khadr charged with supplying weapons to al-Qaeda for pops	1 00:00 Pappy [11129]
Key 'al-Qaeda militant' surfaces	1 00:00 Besoeker [11128]
Spain arrests 15 al-Qaeda recruiters	3 00:00 jules 2 [11134]
Iraqi group shows 'hostage death'	4 00:00 Besoeker [11126]
Saddam-era figures freed in Iraq	4 00:00 Jake-the-Peg [11128]
"Dr. Germ", "Mrs. Anthrax" among Baathist officials released? in Iraq	3 00:00 Jerelet Thineling2988 [11127]
Spain holds 'extremist' suspects	0 [11129]
Murder 'infidels', Mukhlas urges	2 00:00 trailing wife [11128]
Iraqis in Tal Afar cheer American soldiers	8 00:00 CaziFarkus [11138]
President's Speech, 12.18.05	41 00:00 trailing wife [11130]
Jordan launches security sweep after car bomb threat	0 [11125]
Sharon in hospital after minor stroke	1 00:00 trailing wife [11127]
Israeli aircraft pound Gaza to stop rocket fire	7 00:00 Bomb-a-rama [11134]
Three sentenced to death for plotting suicide attack on oil tankers	3 00:00 tu3031 [11129]
Soddies Free 400 Detainees	4 00:00 trailing wife [11126]
Lebanon Shuts Special Border Crossing With Syria	1 00:00 Zip Spemble1219 [11129]
Bangla: Law to Curb Terror Funding	0 [11125]
~~100~~ 300 killed in Chad attack	4 00:00 liberalhawk [11126]
4 policemen, three Taliban killed in Afghan attacks	0 [11128]
Helicopter gunships over Kohlu	0 [11125]
Bangla Bhaiâs bodyguard held	0 [11128]
RAB recovers thousands of detonators, arrests 3	1 00:00 mojo [11132]
500 Rebels Attack Village in Colombia	3 00:00 lotp [11126]
Tehran says questions about Holocaust part of 'scholarly debate'	12 00:00 Frank G [11127]
Page 2: WoT Background
Men Stifling Women Voters	3 00:00 trailing wife [11133]
Iran's President Bans Western Music (but will attend Elton John's Wedding)	0 [11131]
"Progressives" characterized by weakened self-esteem, injured narcissism, paranoid tendencies	4 00:00 Robert Crawford [11133]
Eminem music allegedly used as US torture device	19 00:00 49 pan [11131]
Six Said Killed in Plane Crash Off Miami	3 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [11128]
Bush announces Do-Not-Wiretap list	2 00:00 BigEd [11129]
Sarkozy defends record on Islam	3 00:00 Zenster [11128]
Clinton Used NSA for Economic Espionage	101 00:00 Besoeker [11134]
Gonzalez sez NSA monitoring needed	1 00:00 DepotGuy [11131]
Send Iranians Back Where They Came From	0 [11127]
Fear of Phoning	6 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [11130]
Faulty Claims of Intelligence Failure	2 00:00 Oldspook [11131]
Video recording may have captured possible killers of MP Tueini	0 [11133]
Mubarak talks of reform	0 [11126]
Iran denies assassination attempt on Ahmadinejad took place	1 00:00 BA [11129]
Spymasters warned government before July suicide bombings	0 [11127]
Iraqi oil minister threatens to resign over gas prices	3 00:00 Besoeker [11127]
Russian intel sez nearly 70% of al-Qaeda leadership eliminated	3 00:00 gromgoru [11125]
Gulf states getting tough on Iran	6 00:00 Zenster [11132]
Debka sez Meshaal met with IRGC leaders	0 [11129]
Goss warned Turkey of Iranian threat	0 [11126]
US border fence plan 'shameful'	18 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [11129]
Wanted $10 Million: Ibrahim Al-Doori gives interview	0 [11125]
Injured soldier back to normal (an inspirational story)	2 00:00 raptor [11127]
McCain: Bush Right to Use NSA	16 00:00 Oldspook [11128]
Reserve Army officer charged in Iraq fraud scam	6 00:00 Spuque Elminelet9733 [11133]
Another tidbit on al-Saif's role in Chechnya	1 00:00 Red Dog [11125]
US playing mediatory role in Kashmir: Yasin Malik	1 00:00 john [11130]
Rafsanjani hails elections as a 'victory'	2 00:00 Bobby [11128]
Bugtis claim FC preparing for an offensive	1 00:00 3dc [11129]
B'desh links India to bombing wave, Delhi denies	0 [11130]
Fanatic killers know theyâll be freed by govt: Hasina	2 00:00 bigjim-ky [11129]
Muslims Appreciate U.S. Aid, Not Policies	5 00:00 Zenster [11124]
Hamas poll win would put EU aid at risk -Solana	4 00:00 jules 2 [11136]
Lawmakers Call for Domestic Spying Probe	2 00:00 dorf [11128]
Groups Seek End of Thai Militant Blacklist	3 00:00 gromgoru [11128]
Rival Palestinian Fatah groups reach election deal	1 00:00 gromgoru [11129]
Poll: Majority in U.S. against Iraq pullout	4 00:00 Ulaiper Spavith2077 [11130]
Feingold Says Bush Is Acting Like 'King George'	15 00:00 trailing wife [11135]
Iraqi PM's paper portrays Al-Jazeera as nest of vipers	1 00:00 bigjim-ky [11125]
Oz averts disaster	1 00:00 2b [11134]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Schwarzenegger to Hometown: ~~Kiss my...~~ Remove My Name	8 00:00 mjh [11128]
Democrats Make a Virtue of Necessity	2 00:00 Ulaiper Spavith2077 [11133]
Media ARE Biased....Who Knew?	1 00:00 trailing wife [11132]
On the way to a new government	0 [11126]
Pliestocene Park : Decoding of Mammoth Genome Might Lead to Resurrection	8 00:00 Robert Crawford [11134]
Chimp's painting fools modern art experts	4 00:00 gromgoru [11127]
Iran to ban Kenny G	13 00:00 trailing wife [11136]
Lebanon to host 6th Francophone Games in 2009	1 00:00 liberalhawk [11126]
Islamic Fun	2 00:00 Floter Phinens5857 [11128]
Berliner Schloss to be Rebuilt	1 00:00 DoDo [11128]
U.S. sub may have toured Canadian Arctic zone	12 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [11126]
Bill Clinton Makes Video For Elton John Nups	1 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [11125]
50,000 Chinese Communist Party members punished for graft	1 00:00 BigEd [11122]
Astrologer gets one right	8 00:00 Besoeker [11123]
WA Hospital Adopts Halal Diet. Tells Christians "No Christmas Ham For You"	28 00:00 trailing wife [11133]
Bulgarian nurses appeal to be heard on Dec.25	1 00:00 Besoeker [11129]
~~Fascist sow~~ University Administrator Declares Christmas "forbidden"	7 00:00 trailing wife [11132]
Bolivian president vows to be a nightmare for the US	20 00:00 Kalle [11127]
Bhutan king to step down by 2008 after polls	2 00:00 john [11125]
Congo has first free voting in 45 years	2 00:00 Besoeker [11128]
Socialist Candidate Leads Bolivia Voting	4 00:00 Alaska Paul [11127]
Page 4: Opinion
In uncle Jalalâs Kurdistan	0 [11125]
'So I Have a Blog': Tim Berners-Lee joins the fun	0 [11126]
Islamâs Religious Intolerance	3 00:00 gromgoru [11129]
What A Riot, Mate!	0 [11126]

    
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                        23:30 49 pan

                        23:29 Robert Crawford

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                        23:27 Robert Crawford

                        23:26 Besoeker

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                        23:11 Barbara Skolaut

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                        22:54 tu3031

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                        22:43 CaziFarkus

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                        22:37 Oldspook

                        22:35 Besoeker

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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2005-12-19
Sharon in hospital after minor stroke

Sun 2005-12-18
Mehlis: Syria killed al-Hariri

Sat 2005-12-17
Iraq Votes

Fri 2005-12-16
FSB director confirms death of Abu Omar al-Saif

Thu 2005-12-15
Jordanian PM vows preemptive war on "Takfiri culture"

Wed 2005-12-14
Iraq Guards Intercept Forged Ballots From Iran

Tue 2005-12-13
US, UK, troop pull-out to begin in months

Mon 2005-12-12
Iraq Poised to Vote

Sun 2005-12-11
Chechens confirm death of also al-Saif, deputy emir also toes up

Sat 2005-12-10
EU concealed deal allowing rendition flights

Fri 2005-12-09
Plans for establishing Al-Qaeda in North African countries

Thu 2005-12-08
Iraq Orders Closure Of Syrian Border

Wed 2005-12-07
Passenger who made bomb threat banged at Miami International

Tue 2005-12-06
Sami al-Arian walks

Mon 2005-12-05
Allawi sez gunmen tried to assassinate him

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