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Yemeni (Saleh) army commander defects
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Good morning	7 21:02 Blossom Unains5562 [11130]
Six attacks foiled in Belgium since November 2014: Police	0 [11125]
Terror cell planning to attack IDF soldiers in the Negev uncovered	0 [11132]
Europe migrant colonist briefs	7 20:56 Shipman [11128]
Lawfare: Indonesian tit for tat	1 04:57 anon1 [11126]
‘New JMB’ planned suicide attack on Dhaka church	0 [11126]
Yemeni (Saleh) army commander defects	0 [11129]
Lebanese Army searches for Bad Guys in Hermel district	2 16:14 AlanC [11126]
1 kop dies in bombing attack in Lashkargah city	0 [11124]
5 Bad Guys die in Jawzjan	1 11:46 Shipman [11126]
Taliban kommander, 6 others die in Ghazni	0 [11126]
Taliban executes 1 in Sar-e-Pul	0 [11124]
Taliban changes tactics in Badakhshan	0 [11128]
ISIS gains more yardage in Homs	0 [11127]
Scores of ISIS troops surrender in Raqqa	0 [11127]
The Beatings Will Continue: Iraqi Edition	1 07:24 Bobby [11131]
7 die in car bomb attack in Mosul	0 [11124]
Iraqi forces destroy ISIS hideout in Diyala	0 [11128]
Many U.S. pilots wore a traditional red	12 20:01 Zenobia Floger6220 [11134]
Gunmen abduct Iraqi journalist hours after criticizing armed groups	0 [11128]
Armed group stop Gharyan radio broadcasts	0 [11126]
Tripoli unrest following assassination of two policemen, more inter-militia fighting	0 [11127]
4 killed in Zabul airstrikes conducted amid ISIS expansion concerns	0 [11124]
Senior Taliban leader arrested in Logar, 60 killed during the operations: MoI	0 [11126]
Page 2: WoT Background
Nigeria's army says 3,000 people who fled Boko Haram return to hometown	0 [11126]
Kerry to speak on Middle East peace on Wednesday	15 16:15 Alaska Paul [11127]
Trump names Bush-era veteran, policy newcomer to posts	0 [11123]
Israel Prepares to Build More Settlements	4 14:03 trailing wife [11129]
Middle East Forum Presents 15 "Useful Infidels" Who Enable Islamists	4 22:59 Skidmark [11132]
Peshmerga are in their homeland, won’t hand over territory, says commander	0 [11129]
Flights to resume at Misrata; first plane in three years lands at Ghadames	0 [11125]
Iraqi PM: Iraq will be free of ISIS in 3 months, contradicts US claim	1 10:53 Pappy [11124]
Russia sees US decision to supply MANPADS to militants in Syria as ‘hostile move’	5 20:59 Blossom Unains5562 [11134]
Kabul police foil 8 explosions in the city in past 2 weeks, arrest 597 criminals	0 [11127]
'Bilawal should ask father why he didn’t arrest Benazir’s killers'	0 [11127]
Russia, China, Pakistan agree on delisting Afghans from UN sanctions list	0 [11126]
Children's Crusade Plan to March on ISIS While Waving White Flags	4 16:40 swksvolFF [11132]
John Kerry Working On Another UN Resolution That Would Officially Recognize A Palestinian State	12 20:22 SteveS [11128]
Page 3: Non-WoT
NYT Thinks the States will Protect the Environment from Trump	5 19:17 Airandee [11127]
New York Times Q3 profit plummets by 95.7 percent	8 19:08 Raj [11126]
29 Turkish police officers in court for first coup trial	1 02:15 Raj [11128]
President rejects Muslim PM candidate Sevil Shhaideh	1 03:42 g(r)omgoru [11125]
Twelve people were murdered and more than 40 people were shot in Chicago	6 18:00 Silentbrick [11125]
Carrie Fisher dead At 60	3 22:06 Pholurt Uloluling1696 [11128]
Venezuela Admits Mortgaging Citgo in the USA to Russia, Goes on Attack	2 10:58 Pappy [11128]
‘God Made Me Bulletproof,' Atlanta Rapper Tweets After He's Shot Again	5 11:57 Procopius2k [11125]
Page 4: Opinion
Why Netanyahu refuses to ‘turn the other cheek’ in his response to the UN defeat	2 15:46 Nero White 3083 [11130]
The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority	1 07:57 Procopius2k [11124]
Machiavelli's Rules of War	2 19:23 M. Murcek [11127]
Blight of extremism	4 23:25 newc [11131]
Page 6: Politix
Congress Moving to Cut U.S. Funding to U.N. in Wake of Anti-Israel Vote	6 14:27 NoMoreBS [11124]
Kenyan Master: '...there was never a moment where I didn't feel as if I was special'	6 13:41 newc [11128]
Krauthammer: Israeli Settlement Resolution ‘A US Operation All the Way'	3 11:11 AlanC [11125]
Transcript Shows US Worked with Palestinians on Anti-Israel UN Resolution	1 03:21 Besoeker [11126]
Dem Rep Mazine Waters: 'I Will Not Work With Trump'	13 19:32 Harry Angumble5395 [11132]
Obama Administration Is Close to Announcing Measures to Punish Russia for Elections Interference	19 16:28 Barbara [11123]
HRC Email Case Back On; Court Sez More Could Have Been Done to Turn Over Messages	4 10:13 DarthVader [11127]
Kellogg Foundation Made Huge Grants to John Podesta’s Center for American Progress	3 23:11 Raj [11129]
Clinton allegation may force Obama to act, Clinton to admit	8 14:30 NoMoreBS [11126]
Gingrich to Congress: Condemn Obama over anti-Israel resolution	2 12:42 Bobby [11124]

    
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                        23:11 Raj

                        22:59 Skidmark

                        22:06 Pholurt Uloluling1696

                        21:02 Blossom Unains5562

                        20:59 Blossom Unains5562

                        20:56 Shipman 

                        20:46 Zenobia Floger6220

                        20:44 Zenobia Floger6220

                        20:22 SteveS

                        20:01 Zenobia Floger6220

                        19:32 Harry Angumble5395

                        19:27 DarthVader

                        19:23 M. Murcek

                        19:17 Airandee

                        19:08 Raj

                        19:05 Raj

                        18:46 Procopius2k

                        18:40 Pappy

                        18:00 Silentbrick

                        17:27 AlanC

                        16:40 AlanC

                        16:40 swksvolFF

                        16:37 AlanC

Who's in the News
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9	Islamic State
6	Taliban
3	Arab Spring
2	Govt of Pakistan
2	Govt of Iraq
1	Houthis
1	Boko Haram
1	Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (IS)
1	Muslim Brotherhood
1	Palestinian Authority
1	Sublime Porte
1	Govt of Syria

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Wed 2016-12-21
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Tue 2016-12-20
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