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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Army veteran discovers she was groped by Franken during USO tour 14 years ago
[CNN] An Army veteran says Sen. Al Franken groped her in December 2003, telling CNN that while she was deployed in Kuwait, the Minnesota Democrat cupped her breast during a photo op.

Stephanie Kemplin, 41, of Maineville, Ohio, is the fifth woman in two weeks to accuse Franken of inappropriate touching, and the second person to allege that such behavior took place while Franken was on a USO tour. Three of the five women have been identified by name.

Kemplin said while she was stationed in the Middle East during the Iraq War, she met Franken -- at the time, a comedian and writer -- as he was visiting American troops with the USO. A longtime fan of "Saturday Night Live," Kemplin got in line to take a photo with Franken.

"When he put his arm around me, he groped my right breast. He kept his hand all the way over on my breast," Kemplin said in an interview. "I've never had a man put their arm around me and then cup my breast. So he was holding my breast on the side."

Kemplin repeatedly used the word "embarrassed" to describe her immediate reaction at the time.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 03:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Franken used to sit alone and swill Long Island Teas at a friend's country bar outside of Chisago, MN on highway 8. Hazelden treatment center is 10 minutes further down the road towards Taylors Falls on the way to Wisconsin.

I've always wondered what the hell the Frankengropster was doing so far from his Twin Cities's home. The only thing that comes to mind is that he may have been visiting his wife during her alcohol recovery.

Anyways that is a bad stretch of road to drive drunk on. Not to mention the thought process. "Heh honey I'm a supporting ya. Mind if I leave early so I can go get drunk?"

Dirtbag plan and simple. Wonder what would happen if that story became public.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/01/2017 7:48 Comments || Top||

#2  Dunno. Comes across as someone who would be verbally abusive as well as a creep with adulterous intentions.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/01/2017 12:21 Comments || Top||


Swede convicted of 'online' rape, handed 10-year sentence
[DAWN] A court in Sweden on Thursday sentenced a Swedish man to 10 years in prison for coercing teenagers in Canada, Britannia and the United States to perform sexual acts in front of webcams by threatening them or their families.

The Uppsala City Court said that Bjorn Samstrom was guilty of online sexual offences against 27 children between 2015 and early 2017.

The 41-year-old had threatened to post photos of his victims on porn sites or kill their relatives unless they performed sexual acts as he watched in Sweden.

It was the first time in Sweden that a person had been convicted of rape when the sexual assaults took place over the internet.

Under Swedish law rape doesn't have to involve intercourse. It can be another act that's considered equally violating.
Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Under Swedish law rape doesn't have to involve intercourse

Well yeah, if you're a Swede.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2017 22:37 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Jim Nabors, known for his role as Gomer Pyle in two TV shows, dies aged 87
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Him belting out "..back home again,
in Indiana..." minates before they started the engines at the Indy 500 is a Memorial Day memory I won't forget.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 12/01/2017 9:25 Comments || Top||

#2  Well gooooolly!
Posted by: gorb || 12/01/2017 11:32 Comments || Top||

#3  SuPRISE! SuPRISE! SuPRISE!

He was funny and entertaining without having to resort to sexual innuendo or four-letter words like just about all of the current 'comedians'.

Damn good signer too.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/01/2017 13:30 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
Ivanka's White House Christmas (Video)
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 17:49 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  A LOT more class and taste than the previous tenants. Very refreshing.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/01/2017 21:16 Comments || Top||

#2  Melania's video, the Don's wife. Ivanka is the Don's daughter.
Posted by: Cheretle Angeans6218 || 12/01/2017 22:04 Comments || Top||


Dogs really ARE smarter than cats: Canines have more than twice as many brain cells linked to intelligence
[DailyMail] The researchers, from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, say the number of neurons in an animal's cerebral cortex is a hallmark of intelligence.

The cortex is the largest layer of the brain and is associated with a range of complex behavioural characteristics.
Researchers found that dogs possess around 530 million cortical neurons, while cats only have around 250 million.
By comparison, a human brain houses around 16 billion cortical neurons.

'I believe the absolute number of neurons an animal has, especially in the cerebral cortex, determines the richness of their internal mental state and their ability to predict what is about to happen in their environment based on past experience,' study lead author Dr Herculano-Houzel told Vanderbilt University's news site.

The researchers applied their intelligence theory to several carnivorous species, and found that bigger brains do not necessarily mean more cortical neurons.


Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Bullsh*t
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/01/2017 2:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Well at least, it's been proven that dogs are smarter than the typical liberal!
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 12/01/2017 3:07 Comments || Top||

#3  My Siamese is laughing his ass off.
Posted by: Woodrow || 12/01/2017 7:26 Comments || Top||

#4  It's been my unscientific observation that the only problem with dogs is they do not live long enough, while a nasty cat can apparently live forever.
Posted by: regular joe || 12/01/2017 8:15 Comments || Top||

#5  Cats may appear at times to interact with humans on an emotional level but I wouldn't bet on it. Of course 100% of canines do so instinctively.
Posted by: jpal || 12/01/2017 10:20 Comments || Top||

#6  Well, it's been known for a long time that dogs have family but cats have staff.
Posted by: DonM || 12/01/2017 10:37 Comments || Top||

#7  It'sbeen my unscientific observation that the only problem with dogs is they do not live long enough, while a nasty cat can apparently live forever.

**

Well, it's been known for a long time that dogs have family but cats have staff.

Couple of the truest statements I've come across. Have a cat who is sharper than cheddar, and will coordinate with myself and the dog (aussie shepherd) in checking out noises.

....then there are the other two cats...(shakes head)...dumber than a bag of bowling pins.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/01/2017 11:24 Comments || Top||

#8  Cats use their brain cells more for 'management' than 'production'.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/01/2017 11:58 Comments || Top||


#10  Right newc.

Besides Dogs are designed to operate and hunt in a pack. Cats are more solitary. Lions may have a 'pride' but they don't hunt as a 'pack'.
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/01/2017 13:37 Comments || Top||

#11  #10 CF: Lions are smarter: all the wolves in a pack hunt, but the Lions make the lionesses do all the hunting....
Posted by: Ptah || 12/01/2017 15:32 Comments || Top||

#12  Depends on the breed...
Posted by: magpie || 12/01/2017 15:43 Comments || Top||

#13  Dawgs are only animal that could keep pace with the long sojourns early humans were prone too. House cats arrived having rode along or carried as kittens, possibly on a pillow.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/01/2017 16:12 Comments || Top||

#14  BS
Not only are cats smarter, they know they are smarter
Posted by: John Frum || 12/01/2017 16:46 Comments || Top||

#15  My experience is that cats are not dumb, just insane. I had one that was really nutz - he would crouch on top of the refrigerator and whack people going past. Scared the sh*t out of folks.
Posted by: Spot || 12/01/2017 19:42 Comments || Top||

#16  I once watched our pet cat tear into a bowl of raw potato peelings. He was really hungry and swallowed several mouthsful before he realized what he had done. When we started laughing at his mistake, he folded his ears back, slunk away & hid his face for quite a while.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/01/2017 20:05 Comments || Top||

#17  That same cat liked to stay away from home for days at a time, or at least, refused to come inside when we called for him before we went to bed. He pulled this one subzero night, and we thought he would freeze to death. Next morning we heard him yowling from the fireplace flue, where the metal damper door was just above the fireplace. He had climbed up on the roof & come down the chimney like Santa Claus. Saved his own life, he did. Took him a few days to get all the soot out of his fur.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/01/2017 20:12 Comments || Top||

#18  That just mean Cats have a wicked sense of fun Spot.

Saw a documentary once about cats and their senses and how they literally perceive things quite differently than we do. From their sense of smell, eyesight, sense of balance, etc... Was interesting.

Dogs have more brain cells to track important things like licking themselves, the butt-smell of all their buddies, etc...
Posted by: CrazyFool || 12/01/2017 20:12 Comments || Top||

#19  Cats have it over dogs.

Image result for crazy cat and dog cartoons
Posted by: JohnQC || 12/01/2017 22:11 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Finally! Magnitude 4.4 earthquake felt from New York City to Baltimore
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Whaddaya mean "finally"?
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 12/01/2017 0:42 Comments || Top||

#2  Earthquakes for everybody.
Posted by: newc || 12/01/2017 2:42 Comments || Top||

#3  Show me the fracking!
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/01/2017 2:47 Comments || Top||

#4  I felt it here, about 60 miles north of the epicenter. Two very loud "THUD"s a few seconds apart with some vertical movement of the floor, but no horizontal shaking.
Posted by: Dave D. || 12/01/2017 8:42 Comments || Top||

#5  Say Delaware and New Jersey slip off under the Atlantic - would we miss them?
Posted by: jpal || 12/01/2017 10:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Halliburton earthquake division moving offices?
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 12/01/2017 18:02 Comments || Top||

#7  Remember the monument was damaged a few years ago and had to shut down for repairs. I don't recall the magnitude of that one.
Posted by: Dale || 12/01/2017 18:30 Comments || Top||

#8  WashingtonMonument Earthquake was a magnitude of 5.8
Posted by: Seeking cure for ignorance || 12/01/2017 23:18 Comments || Top||


Personal nuclear bunkers go on sale in South Korea
[Mail] North Korea's latest missile test may have put most of the world on edge - but South Koreans are now being offered peace of mind with these fallout shelters.

Firm Chumdan Bunker System has just opened a showroom in Seoul in order to sell the £20,000 containers which promise to keep people safe if a nuke falls.

Each bunker comes equipped with four beds - though can be modified up to eight - its own air filtration system and solar panels for power.
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  On sale in S Korea, located somewhere in the Rocky Mountains of the USA.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 || 12/01/2017 1:46 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Honolulu Police Dept. to Pot Smokers: ‘You Have 30 Days to Turn over Your Guns'
[GunAmerica] The Honolulu Police Department is demanding that medical marijuana users turn over their firearms.

In a letter dated Nov. 13, Police Chief Susan Ballard drew a line in the sand. It’s either your weed or your guns.

"Your medical marijuana use disqualifies you from ownership of firearms and ammunition," the letter reads.

"If you currently own or have any firearms," it continues, "you have 30 days upon receipt of this letter to voluntary surrender your firearms, permit, and ammunition to the Honolulu Police Department (HPD) or otherwise transfer ownership."
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 07:48 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Come and get em!
Posted by: Chris || 12/01/2017 10:24 Comments || Top||

#2  Sorry, lost in a surfing accident.

Anyways, rights to firearms is explicate and precedes these commerce controls. Ammunition? Cartridges are inherently safer than scissors other than throwing them into campfires. Your ass is showing, who is the law group here?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/01/2017 11:47 Comments || Top||

#3  The problem is they will come and take them. Assualt style, and likely kill anyone in the home in the process to avoid having lawsuits and witnesses. These are Democrats we are talking about, they have no hesitation or second thoughts about killing you for your own good and to demonstrate their power. They re convinced they are right and anyone that disagrees with them is wrong, therefore evil, and therefore subject to whatever force they decide to use whether appropriate or not.

Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/01/2017 11:54 Comments || Top||

#4  They ought to something about their homeless population first. Probably more pot there than in the rest of the city.

Doubt the use is 'medical', though.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 12/01/2017 11:56 Comments || Top||

#5  No worries - the ACLU will defend them in a class action lawsuit!
Posted by: Raj || 12/01/2017 12:45 Comments || Top||

#6  This is a fine point -- federal law prohibits you from *buying* a firearm if you are an illegal (under federal law) user of MJ, but does it prevent you from *owning* a firearm? Anyone know?
Posted by: Iblis || 12/01/2017 13:10 Comments || Top||

#7  Great question.

Personally I'd tell them to go pound sand

(does best Recardo Montalbon Khan voice)

And in Hawaii....there's lots of sand. Lots of sand.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/01/2017 15:26 Comments || Top||


Caribbean-Latin America
Venezuela arrests two former oil bosses on sabotage charges
[ALMASDARNEWS] Two former bosses of the Venezuelan petroleum industry have been tossed in the calaboose
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
by security forces on Thursday, according to official sources.

The two detainees are Nelson Martinez, ex-chief of state oil company PDVSA, and former Minister for Oil Eulogio del Pino. According to Venezuelan Attorney General Tarek William Saab, the two high-ranking officials were arrested as part of a security operation in order to "to dismantle the cartel that has been hitting the oil industry."

The attorney further stated that the operation is being carried out by the Military Counterintelligence Unit, and that in total 14 people are being investigated, some of whom are not living in the country at the moment.

"We hope they will be delivered to Venezuelan justice," Saab said.

The arrests come a week after similar sanctions were taken against six executives of Citgo Petroleum Corp, the US-based subsidiary of PDVSA, who were arrested on suspicion of having accepted bribes of over $50 million.

The functions of both Martinez and del Pino are taken over by Manuel Quevedo, a staunch supporter of Maduro. Quevedo has defended the purge of the two former oil bosses, accusing them of planning an economical sabotage of the nation.

"This sabotage plan is aimed at achieving a repeat of 2002-03 when there was an attempted coup against Chavez," Quevedo stated during an OPEC meeting in Vienna.

Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  Scapegoat.jpg
Posted by: Herb McCoy7309 || 12/01/2017 1:41 Comments || Top||

#2  Saboteurs and wreckers...somewhere, Iosif Vissarionivitch smiles.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski || 12/01/2017 5:10 Comments || Top||

#3  Beat me to it, Mike K.

Definitely wreckers.
Posted by: AlanC || 12/01/2017 9:40 Comments || Top||

#4  Part of the Empires secret army.
Posted by: Shipman || 12/01/2017 16:18 Comments || Top||


China-Japan-Koreas
Another NORK Boat in Distress Found in Japanese Waters
Hat tip: gCaptain
Japan’s coast guard on Thursday boarded a North Korean fishing boat near a Japanese island where the crew said they had taken shelter from rough seas, the latest in a series of North Korean vessels in distress drifting into Japanese waters.

The wooden boat was towed nearer the northern island of Hokkaido for inspection, a coast guard spokesman said. Authorities had yet to decide what to do with the vessel and the ten fishermen on board.

"At this point, it is still too early to say what we will do," he said.

Experts say food shortages may be driving fishermen to risk taking their small boats to more dangerous waters closer to Japan. The encounters have attracted greater attention amid tension in the region over North Korea’s weapons programs and its latest missile test on Wednesday.

There has been no suggestion that the fishermen may be defectors from the impoverished, tightly controlled country which has fired two missiles over Japan in recent tests and regularly threatens to destroy the United States.

On Monday, eight bodies believed to be of North Koreans, which had been partly reduced to skeletons, were found in a small wooden ship washed up on a beach on Japan’s northwest coast. Two other bodies were found at the weekend on the western shore of the Sea of Japan island of Sado, with life jackets displaying Korean lettering.

Last week, police in northern Japan found eight North Korean men who said they landed after claiming their vessel had lost power and run into trouble.

On Thursday, the coast guard issued an advisory to shipping about a half-sunken wooden boat floating in waters close to Sado.
Posted by: Alaska Paul || 12/01/2017 14:20 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


US threatens to 'utterly destroy' North Korean regime
[DAWN] The United States (US) warned North Korea's leadership will be "utterly destroyed" if war breaks out but its call for nations to cut ties with Pyongyang was rejected by Moscow while Beijing sidestepped talk of an oil embargo.

Washington urged tough action at an emergency meeting of the Security Council held Wednesday to respond to North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).

"The dictator of North Korea made a choice yesterday that brings the world closer to war, not farther from it," US Ambassador Nikki Haley
...Trump administration's ambassador to the UN. First woman to serve as Governor of South Carolina, and the second Indian-American governor in the country, after Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. At the age of 39, Haley was the youngest governor in the U.S., a distinction formerly held by Jindal. She is a Republican, which really grates on the Dems...
told the council. "If war comes, make no mistake: The North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed."

But her call for nations to "cut off all ties with North Korea" was rejected by Moscow, with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov saying Russia saw the proposal "negatively".

"We have repeatedly stated that the pressure of sanctions has been exhausted," Lavrov told news hounds in Minsk on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
derided Kim Jong-Un as a "sick puppy" and threatened "major" new sanctions after Pyongyang tested its third ICBM ─ which it claimed was capable of striking anywhere in the US.

Posted by: Fred || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1  The condition of the defector who successfully escaped to South Korea was an embarrassment to Fat Boy. It also gave the impression that due to the poor health condition of his military personnel as the defector was NORK military, he had to play his strongest card to date, a true ICBM capability.

The US needs to restore Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative which Bill Clinton killed.
Posted by: Hupeting Sforza8196 || 12/01/2017 1:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Talk is cheap, but vodka costs money.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/01/2017 2:52 Comments || Top||


North Korea releases photos of Hwasong-15 ICBM launch, brags about celebratory dance parties
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under: Commies

#1 
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 12/01/2017 9:18 Comments || Top||

#2  That is a fantastic re-mix.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 12/01/2017 11:52 Comments || Top||


Science & Technology
Lightning bolts are churning out antimatter all over Planet Earth
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2017 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I was expecting an earth shattering Kaboom.
Posted by: BrerRabbit || 12/01/2017 2:53 Comments || Top||

#2  Now darling nothing to be afraid of, lightning is just what happens when the angels lose anti-matter containment,
Posted by: Eohippus Slack5175 || 12/01/2017 5:20 Comments || Top||

#3  ...warp breach?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/01/2017 7:30 Comments || Top||

#4  Another example of climate change killing off all life on earth.
Posted by: jpal || 12/01/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#5  They were doing great until the last paragraph - two 511 kev gammas are produced for each inverse beta decay.
Posted by: KBK || 12/01/2017 10:32 Comments || Top||

#6  May be a way to manufacture anti-matter on an industrial scale with electricity then.

Posted by: DarthVader || 12/01/2017 10:40 Comments || Top||

#7  lightning is just what happens when the angels lose anti-matter containment,

Delightful, Eohippus Slack5175.
Posted by: trailing wife || 12/01/2017 10:43 Comments || Top||

#8  Momma says, lightning happens when angels go bowling.
Posted by: B. Boucher || 12/01/2017 12:49 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Special Warfare Center and School probes criticism of Green Beret training
[Fayetteville Observer] WASHINGTON ‐ The Army’s Special Warfare Center and School has launched an investigation into an anonymous email that accused its leaders of "moral cowardice" for ditching training standards and allowing undeserving soldiers to become members of elite Green Beret teams.

The sharply critical message was sent earlier this week to a wide swath of the Army’s Special Forces community. The nearly 6,300-word message declared that the school’s senior officers and enlisted leaders are primarily interested in advancing their careers by meeting demands for greater numbers of Green Berets and enforcing "political agendas."

Maj. Gen. Kurt Sonntag, commanding general of the school located at Fort Bragg, on Thursday defended the process for selecting Green Berets and rejected a number of the claims in the email. He said he stands firmly behind the "quality of every soldier we are sending to the operational force," in a statement delivered to "men and women" of the Special Warfare Center and School.

Sonntag also said comments in the email "warrant further evaluation" and that is being done through "formal inquiries and a number of existing institutional forums." He wasn’t more specific, however.

The anonymous email said the push to hit unrealistic quotas has led to a "dangerously less capable" force as dozens of flawed Green Beret candidates are nonetheless graduated. The message said instructors who’ve sought to hold students accountable for their academic, physical and character performance have been instead muzzled or punished.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 07:13 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actually, this qualifies for a DoA or DoD Inspector General visit. BTW, IIRC we still don't have a Trump appointed Secty of the Army.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 12/01/2017 7:28 Comments || Top||

#2  A bit more at GunsAmerica
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 7:55 Comments || Top||

#3  This is a surprise?
Posted by: Skidmark || 12/01/2017 10:06 Comments || Top||

#4  The Socialist would destroy and ruin from the inside what they could never defeat from the outside. Hard read that letter, names many names and many detailed incidents.
Posted by: Cesare || 12/01/2017 10:10 Comments || Top||

#5  "They've been at war so long they've forgotten how to be soldiers."

Damn and double damn, just what on earth is a soldier anyway but someone who goes to war?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/01/2017 10:15 Comments || Top||

#6  what on earth is a soldier anyway but someone who goes to war?

Ask various bunches of warriors what happened when they met soldiers - use a medium.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 12/01/2017 11:47 Comments || Top||

#7  And after all of the crap I went through to get SF qualified, including HALO qualification, and they are letting candidates skate on basic mission essential physical fitness performance.

Please tell me the SEALS aren't doing this.

Kinda makes me wonder about all of those SF casualties we've been taking...maybe part of the problem is they are not properly trained and qualified for what they were doing???
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/01/2017 14:23 Comments || Top||

#8  Back to the wind tunnel for you SPOD. Moon Hall awaits your return.
Posted by: Besoeker || 12/01/2017 15:16 Comments || Top||

#9  Besoeker,

No never again no way no how.

I did it but HALO school, the night stuff, scared the crap out of me...
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom || 12/01/2017 19:08 Comments || Top||

#10  Probe the criticism? Hell, how about probe the leadership that generated such a shitshow.
Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/01/2017 23:44 Comments || Top||

#11  Grosgrain, I think you need to use a medium to contact the soldiers who met warriors, not the other way around.

"I'd rather go down the river with seven studs than with a hundred shitheads"
--Colonel Charlie Beckwith

Posted by: Injun Bucket8891 || 12/01/2017 23:47 Comments || Top||



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Wed 2017-11-29
  200+ schools in Herat controlled by Taliban
Tue 2017-11-28
  After ISIS mass beheading, Taliban militants execute own leader in Nangarhar
Mon 2017-11-27
  Islamist protesters clash with Pakistan police for second day
Sun 2017-11-26
  US airstrike wipe-out ISIS hideout in Nangarhar, leaving 13 dead
Sat 2017-11-25
  Mnangagwa, the ‘Crocodile,’ sworn in as Zimbabwe president
Fri 2017-11-24
  More than 54 85 235 dead in Sinai Bombing, shooting attack
Thu 2017-11-23
  Rouhani declares end of IS
Wed 2017-11-22
  Former Saudi military man gets 23 years for recruiting Daesh fighters, traveling to Syria
Tue 2017-11-21
  Huge amounts of Islamic State’s weapons seized, southwest of Mosul
Mon 2017-11-20
  Arrested Ansar al-Islam militant confesses to killing blogger Avijit Roy
Sun 2017-11-19
  Police Confirm Multiple Suicide Bombings in Borno, As Death Toll Rises
Sat 2017-11-18
  Iraq Forces Retake Last IS-Held Town in Country
Fri 2017-11-17
  Iraqi troops destroy ISIS HQ in Diyala

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