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UN Security Council approves Iran sanctions
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
FOREIGN FIGHTER FACILITATOR KILLED	5 00:00 SpecOp35 [11127]
Veils to be lifted at British airports	4 00:00 Anguper Hupomosing9418 [11133]
G'morning...	6 00:00 Mike [11129]
46 Guantanamo suspects OK'd for transfer	0 [11127]
Somali rebels claim capture of govt outpost	0 [11131]
Olmert Meets Abbas, Agrees to Thaw $100 Million in Frozen Funds	7 00:00 Zenster [11127]
Kassams Continue to Smash Negev, Following Olmert-Abbas Meeting	3 00:00 CrazyFool [11131]
7 die in police station bombing	0 [11123]
Slain Taliban Leader's ID Confirmed	6 00:00 Shipman [11128]
Ethiopia Launches Airstrikes in Somalia	7 00:00 Charles [11124]
Iraqi forces battle Shiite militia in southern Iraq	0 [11124]
GTMO inmates get 500 holiday cards	5 00:00 SteveS [11129]
Iran found guilty in Khobar Towers atrocity - Must pay $254 M	11 00:00 Zenster [11125]
Somalia: Buurhakaba wokeup sunday morning with the sound of artillery shells	3 00:00 Phineter Thraviger [11125]
Karachi police arrest LJ activist	0 [11126]
Police hunt for 'English brothers' who spent year in Al Qaeda camp	0 [11124]
Sisters accused of plotting suicide attacks released	0 [11127]
Rashid Rauf's detention extended for 90 days	1 00:00 Zenster [11129]
Commandant killed, four soldiers injured in gun battle	2 00:00 pihkalbadger [11129]
Ethiopian bodies seen in Idale town	4 00:00 RD [11126]
Somalia Militia Seeks Foreign Fighters	6 00:00 Old Patriot [11128]
Militants stage car bombing of Nigerian govt HQ	0 [11123]
Turkish police arrest Kurdish bombing suspect	0 [11133]
Gunmen Slay Iraqi Intelligence Officer	2 00:00 RD [11124]
Israel Agrees to Free Palestinian Funds	8 00:00 Zenster [11124]
Page 2: WoT Background
British Army saves by topping up tanks with chip oil	5 00:00 ed [11131]
Wiccan Lawsuit's Goal: Acceptance	16 00:00 Zenster [11125]
British Admiral: 'tinpot' armed services	9 00:00 gromgoru [11124]
India rules out direct intervention in Lanka	0 [11128]
Bush ponders £10bn New Deal to create jobs in Iraq	7 00:00 Captain America [11130]
Iran Refuses to Cease Uranium Enrichment	3 00:00 Zenster [11126]
Democracy? Half of Pakistanis not sure	3 00:00 ed [11139]
UK: Roman Catholic Bishop of Rochester urges ban on veils in public	2 00:00 Zenster [11127]
NYT: Across Africa, a Sense That U.S. Power Isnt So Super	17 00:00 phil_b [11128]
Border Patrol agent fatally shoots rock-throwing man	11 00:00 wxjames [11124]
Report: English Channel Tunnel a Terror Target	7 00:00 Zenster [11128]
Somalia: PM says Islamists lost in the clashes	0 [11125]
Feds obstructed investigation of Islamic ties to OKC bombing	11 00:00 Greremp Uleremp6059 [11129]
Jirga to discuss 'serious issues' in Miranshah	1 00:00 Frank G [11125]
Iran's silenced students strike back	0 [11128]
Beers and a diva for British troops in Helmand this Christmas	6 00:00 pihkalbadger [11127]
Sistani Balks at Plan for Iraq	4 00:00 Ptah [11123]
Gates reports to Bush on Iraq findings	2 00:00 Frank G [11126]
Archdruid Blasts War in Iraq	3 00:00 Parabellum [11127]
Gist of U.N. resolution on Iran	1 00:00 Jesing Ebbease3087 [11135]
N.Korea says it is not afraid of war after impasse	1 00:00 Jackal [11124]
US generals agree to troop surge in Iraq	5 00:00 Greremp Uleremp6059 [11127]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Flower shops bring Christmas to Kabul	1 00:00 Zenster [11124]
1 dead, gunman arrested in mall shooting	0 [11130]
Spanish Surgeon to Treat Castro	9 00:00 Grunter [11134]
Medi-Cal pays for over 100,000 births by undocumented women	7 00:00 Greremp Uleremp6059 [11127]
UN Gen. Ass. OKs $1.9Bn Renovation using Other People's Money	4 00:00 mac [11132]
US prepares for tide of refugees from Cuba	4 00:00 3dc [11122]
Britain to finally pay off 1945 war debt to US	9 00:00 mac [11125]
100 illegals seized in raids released	10 00:00 .com [11126]
Whats Wrong With Cinderella?	21 00:00 Zenster [11137]
The coldest Christmas ever, Walden vet remembers	4 00:00 Zenster [11133]
Comeback kid Edwards takes fight to Hillary	8 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [11126]
Trump Sues Town in American Flag Flap	6 00:00 Zenster [11127]
NYT: Testing the Waters, Obama Tests His Own Limits	9 00:00 wxjames [11131]
Tamil Tigers seize Jordanian ship	2 00:00 john [11126]
Russian bullying over oil is 'a wake-up call'	0 [11124]
Romney Set for Presidential Announcement	1 00:00 wxjames [11126]
Nazi Archive Sheds Light on Death Camps	8 00:00 Zenster [11127]
Spanish royal murder mystery solved	1 00:00 DMFD [11128]
Macy's pulls Sean John hooded jackets	7 00:00 Zenster [11130]
NorK military to get karaoke machines for 'morale'	0 [11125]
Page 4: Opinion
Analysis: Posing for Bush and Blair	0 [11129]
Why Seoul is soft on North Korea.	5 00:00 wxjames [11128]
Steyn: Biggest story of our time: our self-extinction	5 00:00 gromgoru [11128]
Manufactured foul	6 00:00 Zenster [11123]
American Thinker: Dynastic dispute in Saudi?	5 00:00 Zenster [11128]
A surgeon at the Iraqi front whose soul is often wounded	1 00:00 trailing wife [11128]
Is that a star in the east?	0 [11123]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
NORAD on lookout for Santa	7 00:00 .com [11131]
It's Christmas! Have a little more bat meat!	5 00:00 Zenster [11129]
Christmas brings strange seasonal crimes	0 [11127]
Today's Idiot	0 [11124]
Man sets self aflame in Calif. protest of Xmas and Easter in Schools	2 00:00 Zenster [11127]
India's BARC to build thorium based reactor without exclusion zone	2 00:00 Ptah [11131]
Weighs 200g, costs $170	13 00:00 Dave D. [11123]
Schwarzenegger fractures leg on ski trip -- will need surgery	4 00:00 Nimble Spemble [11125]
Seeing MSgt Shawn Richardson home	2 00:00 Art [11124]
Armadillos Marching North to Illinois	8 00:00 Zenster [11131]
Uganda: Museveni had an affair with Besigye's wife	0 [11125]
Boner To Be Knite Thingy; Outrage Close Behind	0 [11126]
Bolivian farmers nervously eye Morales' "land reform"	5 00:00 Manuel [11128]
One in four Saudi marriages end in divorce	10 00:00 wxjames [11128]
EU requires Germany to Introduce Hamsters into Wild	11 00:00 Deacon Blues [11125]
Ex-Aussie soldier in jail after rescue mission	1 00:00 Besoeker [11125]
Acting imam charged with Westlake robbery	4 00:00 Robert Crawford [11132]
Tiger that attacked keeper at SF Zoo had no history of violence	19 00:00 RD [11125]

    
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Two weeks of WOT

Sun 2006-12-24
UN Security Council approves Iran sanctions

Sat 2006-12-23
Somali provisional govt, Islamic courts do battle

Fri 2006-12-22
War is on in Somalia!

Thu 2006-12-21
Turkmenbashi croaks; World one megalomaniac lighter

Wed 2006-12-20
Yet another Hamas-Fatah ceasefire

Tue 2006-12-19
James Ujaama nabbed in Belize

Mon 2006-12-18
Palestinian Clashes Kill 2; Presidential Compound Hit

Sun 2006-12-17
Abbas Calls for Early Palestinian Vote

Sat 2006-12-16
Street clashes spread in Gaza

Fri 2006-12-15
Paleos shoot up Haniyeh convoy

Thu 2006-12-14
Brammertz finds 'significant links' in Lebanon killings

Wed 2006-12-13
Arab League seeks end to Leb crisis

Tue 2006-12-12
Hamas gunnies kill three little sons of Abbas aide in Gaza

Mon 2006-12-11
Talabani lashes out at 'dangerous' Baker report

Sun 2006-12-10
Lahoud refuses to endorse Hariri tribunal accord

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