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Learned Elders of Islam call for jihad
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Page 4: Opinion
Blood for Water	0 [1]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Civil war warm up, Zionists or that red/blue wire thing - you decide!	0 [2]
Arafat Opened His Eyes, Communicated With Doctors, AFP Reports	0 []
Centcom: INSURGENTS TARGET CHILDREN OF RAMADI	0 []
CNN: Iraqi Officer Deserted With Fallujah Battle Plans (So?)	0 []
Iraqi Militants Release Sudanese Hostage	0 [1]
U.S. Warplanes Pound Targets in Fallujah	0 [1]
Former Taliban Diplomat Arrested [Oh, the Humanity!]	0 [1]
Dutch Detain Eighth Van Gogh Suspect	0 []
US warns of attacks in Uzbekistan	0 []
Peru Retries Shining Path Leader Guzman	0 [2]
Cop wounded in clash with Shia procession	0 [1]
Page 2: WoT Background
Al Qa'ida warns US of 'unbearable hell'	0 [1]
Militants Worldwide Copy Iraq Beheadings	0 [2]
Does Arafat Have AIDS?	0 [1]
Arafat just died, DEBKA banner reports	0 []
Rival Palestinian Factions Meet in Gaza	0 []
Israel: Gaza only option for burial for the Fish	0 [2]
Georgian Leader Vows More Troops to Iraq	0 []
ElBaradei says he did not seek to harm Bush	0 [3]
New Yorker Article About Maureen Baginski	0 [1]
Norway won't take Guantanamo inmates	0 [1]
State Department Counterterror Chief Quits	0 [1]
State Department sets up prayer room for Muslims	0 [1]
Bush Seeks Resumption of N. Korea Talks	0 []
"Bush's morality does not exist over here, thank goodness"	0 [1]
Saudi Religious Scholars Support Holy War	0 [9]
Sudan refuses to sign Darfur security deal	4 00:00 Old Patriot []
U.N. Envoy: Darfur Sliding Toward Anarchy	5 00:00 Lucky [2]
Darfur Talks Stalled Over No-Fly Zone	3 00:00 Shipman [1]
Islamabad, Kabul to fight terror	0 []
Security increased around mosques	3 00:00 tu3031 []
Jihad is not terrorism: Qazi	6 00:00 Zenster []
Deep Sinister Plot Exposed	11 00:00 Zenster [1]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Myanmar fires two ministers, four deputy ministers	0 []
Customs charges man NIS 3,400 for portrait looted by Nazis	0 []
space.com: U.S. Air Force Takes a Look at Teleportation	0 [2]
Hollywood 'goes after' online file swappers	0 []
Kerry tried to give McCain VP and Sec of Defense (as one job!)	0 []
WI Dem Representative-elect's son arrested in tire slashings	0 [2]
Kerry Kamp Kalled Networks With Orders Not to Announce Ohio	0 [1]
Economic revolution in the making	0 [4]
Vandals Hit GOP Headquarters in N.Carolina	0 []
Veterans denied flags by Bloc are flooded with Maple Leafs, support	0 []
Saskatchewan OKs Same-Sex Marriage	1 00:00 Fred [1]
Bush's re-election gets frosty reception from 'Old Europe'	0 []
Mexico Seeks U.S. Immigration Changes	0 []
Rights Group Closes Costa Rica Base	0 []
English lord to cross Russia by motorbike	0 []
French Shoot Down Ivory Coast Warplanes	8 00:00 ed [1]
"French military response was swift and decisive"	16 00:00 Mrs. Davis [2]

Iraq-Jordan

Blood for Water

With a hat tip to Donald Sensing, this article from American Digest posits a strategic underpinning for the decision to take down Saddam Hussein and explains why the troops won't be coming home anytime soon.

What Iraq has that Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia do not is not oil, but fresh water. In fact, Iraq has almost all of the fresh water in the region. It is water that determines life in the Middle East and there's not a lot of it. The two largest rivers, Tigris and Euphrates, flow down the core of Iraq before bending towards Iran to share those waters briefly with Iran before meeting the ocean. No other country gets so much of a taste unless Iraq agrees. Iran has little fresh water as does Syria. Saudi Arabia has almost none. It is one thing to control oil fields. The wealth from that resource can buy desalination plants that give your expanding population the water to survive. If the oil tap is cut off, the economies of the west would begin to wither and die within three months. Cut off water and populations begin to die within three days

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Two weeks of WOT

Sat 2004-11-06
Learned Elders of Islam call for jihad

Fri 2004-11-05
Paleos won't admit Yasser's dead

Thu 2004-11-04
Yasser Croaks!

Wed 2004-11-03
Bush Takes It

Tue 2004-11-02
America Votes

Mon 2004-11-01
Arafat Aides Resume Talks With Israel, Fight Over His Fortune

Sun 2004-10-31
Sharon prepared to negotiate with new Palestinian leadership

Sat 2004-10-30
Arafat losing mental faculties

Fri 2004-10-29
Binny speaks

Thu 2004-10-28
Yasser deathwatch continues

Wed 2004-10-27
Yasser not dead yet

Tue 2004-10-26
Egypt announces arrests of Sinai bombers

Mon 2004-10-25
Yasser allowed out for checkup

Sun 2004-10-24
50 Iraqi Soldiers Ambushed, Executed Near Iranian Border

Sat 2004-10-23
Raid nets senior Zarqawi aide

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