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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Non-Citizens Are Voting
[NATIONALREVIEW] James O'Keefe documents the problem in North Carolina, where the Senate race is close.
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Remember the hanging chads dilemma the Dems forced upon an election a few years ago? Time for the Republicans to create a calibration dilemma via law suits all over the country.
Posted by: Ebbomosh Hupemp2664 || 10/31/2014 0:31 Comments || Top||

#2  And they aren't voting Republican? Someone call Karl Rove!
Posted by: Iblis || 10/31/2014 11:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Make an example of Amick--give him some prison time. That should help deter this corruption.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2014 11:50 Comments || Top||


Husband of Sen. Hall-Long charged with sign theft
[DELAWAREONLINE] Middletown police have issued an arrest warrant for the husband of state Sen. Bethany Hall-Long for allegedly stealing roadway campaign signs erected by Republicans.

Police on Wednesday responded to a complaint about the theft of political signs, some of which read "Fix the Economy! Vote Republican."

Police identified the suspect as Dana Armon Long, of the 100 block of St. Augustine Court near Middletown. Police confirmed he is the husband of the state senator. Both are Democrats. The warrant was issued for theft under $1,500.

Reached at his home, Long would not comment on the allegations. "I cannot at this point in time make any comments at the advice of counsel," Long said.

An investigation revealed that on Sunday, 28 signs were placed on Middletown Odessa Road at Silver Lake Road, and on the 700 block of Middletown Odessa Road, police said.

They were discovered missing on Monday, replaced, and once again removed. After the campaign signs were replaced a second time, campaign volunteers staked out the spot where the thefts were occurring during early morning hours on Wednesday.

Middletown police said the campaign officials observed "a vehicle pull off the roadway in front of the signs. An individual exited his vehicle and began removing the signs."

The two workers confronted the man and posted video of the incident online.

Republican and Democratic party leaders condemned the thefts on Wednesday.

"When you only have a track record of high taxes, unemployment and lower wages for private sector employees to stand on, the Democrats must resort to breaking the law to win elections because they are scared of being held accountable for their dismal performance," John Fluharty, executive director of the state GOP, said in a written statement.

John Daniello, chairman of the state Democratic Party, said in a statement that, "Each campaign season, we deal with candidates removing their opponent's signs. This behavior is absolutely unacceptable. There are more positive ways in which to support your candidate regardless of party affiliation."

The charge is a Class A misdemeanor punishable by up to 1 year in prison and a fine up to $2,300, including restitution and other conditions set by the court.

In a prepared statement, Hall-Long apologized for the incident.
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  In for the Long-Hall.

Multiple offender caught once. I have a real disgust for this behavior, and should also include charges of trespassing and hate crime.

Is the wife up for re-election, or is this guy a troll by default?
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/31/2014 13:08 Comments || Top||


Massive Non-Citizen Voting Uncovered in Maryland
[PJMedia] An election integrity watchdog group is suing the state of Maryland, alleging that it has discovered massive and ongoing fraudulent voting by non-U.S. citizens in one county. But because of the way that the non-citizens are able to cast votes in elections, the fraud is likely happening in every single county and subdivision across the state. The group believes that the illegal voting has been happening for years.

The group, Virginia Voters Alliance, says that it compared how voters in Frederick County filled out jury duty statements compared with their voting records. The group's investigation found that thousands of people in Frederick County who stated that they are not U.S. citizens on jury duty forms went on to cast votes in elections. Either they failed to tell the truth when they were summoned for jury duty, or they cast illegal votes. Both are crimes. The same group previously found that about 40,000 people are registered to vote in both Virginia and Maryland.
Posted by: trailing wife || 10/31/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "We know where you live!"
Is that even a threat?
Posted by: Skidmark || 10/31/2014 1:48 Comments || Top||

#2  I didn't un-register when I moved from Maryland to Virginia, so I was registered in both state for a while. I never voted in both, however!

Shortly after I moved back to the Lone Star State last year, Virginia noticed my address changed and I un-registered.

I suppose that's an argument for re-registering (by mail) every two years.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/31/2014 9:52 Comments || Top||

#3  Either they failed to tell the truth when they were summoned for jury duty, or they cast illegal votes

I'll go with the former.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/31/2014 12:13 Comments || Top||

#4  The Democrats have always avered that voting fraud was a very, very small problem--so small so as to not be of any concern. Any voting fraud should be of concern; even a very small amount as it undermines the democratic process and threatens the integrity of elections. The only thing to do is to prosecute every one of these cases whenever they occur and not matter how inconsequential.

The outcome of the 2008 and 2012 presidential election would probably not be any different if all the election fraud were rooted out. The spread was just too great in Maryland. In other states, such as toss-up states where the margin was thin, fraud could sway an election.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2014 12:31 Comments || Top||

#5  I have a feeling it's going to be a pretty wide margin this year too. But not like 2008 and 2012.
Posted by: Jomong Gray3113 || 10/31/2014 12:46 Comments || Top||

#6  We are one fixed election shy of an armed insurrection.
Posted by: Ulosing Poodle7595 || 10/31/2014 20:45 Comments || Top||


-Land of the Free
Dems tell voters to get to the polls, or else
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2014 11:43 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  You will vote comrade. And you will vote properly. Or you will go to "re-education".
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2014 11:46 Comments || Top||

#2  Not creepy at all, Democrats. Not creepy at all.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/31/2014 13:59 Comments || Top||

#3  "Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record," the letter says.

Hmm, using this we can cross-check democrat voters against the death certificate rolls, credit cards which place them in a different state or in prison at the time of the alleged vote being cast. I think the donks are on to something....
Posted by: One Bandersnatch || 10/31/2014 14:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Wonder how many of the letters get returned "Addressee Unknown", "Deceased", "Not a Valid Address" or "Addressee Forwarding Expired"?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2014 18:59 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
Democrats: Vote or we'll kick your ass
[NYPOST] The New York State Democratic Committee is bullying people into voting next week with intimidating letters warning that it can easily find out which slackers fail to cast a ballot next Tuesday.

"Who you vote for is your secret. But whether or not you vote is public record," the letter says.

"We will be reviewing voting records .â.â. to determine whether you joined your neighbors who voted in 2014."

It ends with a line better suited to a mob movie than a major political party: "If you do not vote this year, we will be interested to hear why not."
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2014 13:12 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  It would be nice if entire neighborhoods voted Republican in response.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/31/2014 14:37 Comments || Top||

#2  Most tyrants authoritarians who engage in PR votes use the same accounting to jack up those plebiscites at 98%+. The mask slips every now and then from the socialists showing their true nature.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2014 16:19 Comments || Top||

#3  "That's just the way it is
Some things'll never change..."

No wait. It's not the same when we do it...//Bruce Hornsby.
Posted by: Anice Nim || 10/31/2014 16:28 Comments || Top||

#4  "Nice property tax bill ya got there - be a real shame if it suddenly increased, know what I mean?"
Posted by: Raj || 10/31/2014 17:01 Comments || Top||

#5  Yez wouldn't want something should happen to your family, would yez?
Posted by: Mugsy Glink || 10/31/2014 17:15 Comments || Top||

#6  Right now I am registered as an independent. I'm thinking of registering as a Democrat so I can get this sort of abuse.

Of course, I would then be able to vote in the Democratic primary.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia || 10/31/2014 17:31 Comments || Top||

#7  ...and a guy named Mugsy knows how this stuff woiks, see?
Posted by: Raj || 10/31/2014 18:09 Comments || Top||

#8  If idiot democrats win the next elections, they will back it up.

Posted by: newc || 10/31/2014 22:25 Comments || Top||


Nate Silver - 68.5% Chance Of Repubs Winning The Senate
The GOP’s chances of winning the Senate are 68.5 percent, according to the FiveThirtyEight forecast, its highest figure of the year.

Among the 20 new polls released Thursday — it looks like there will be no Great Poll Shortage after all — two were principally responsible for Republican gains. The first was in Kentucky, where a SurveyUSA poll for the Louisville Courier-Journal had Republican incumbent Mitch McConnell ahead 48-43 over Democrat Alison Lundergan Grimes. The poll represented a shift from SurveyUSA’s previous two polls, which had a 1 percentage-point lead for McConnell and a 2-point lead for Grimes. With SurveyUSA (a highly rated pollster) now more in line with other polls of the state, we have a clearer story in Kentucky. It’s one that probably ends in a victory for McConnell, whose chances of winning are up to 87 percent.

Watch the lefties come out and savage Nate for this because he's not telling them what they want to hear.
Posted by: Raj || 10/31/2014 12:18 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Winning the Senate is nice, but a veto-proof majority is really what is needed.
Posted by: Ulosing Poodle7595 || 10/31/2014 21:43 Comments || Top||

#2  (carryover from previous post) Unless the American public will get beaucoup angry at the Dems after 2-years of watching the 'Pubs getting their Healthcare "mods" being slapped back into their faces as one state after another eye-poppingly raises rates.
Posted by: Ulosing Poodle7595 || 10/31/2014 22:00 Comments || Top||


Mary Landrieu: Obama and I Are Unpopular in Louisiana Because the South Is Racist and Sexist
[FREEBEACON] Senator Mary Landrieu said Thursday she thinks one of the reasons she is losing her campaign for re-election is that the state that voted her into office is sexist. Landrieu also said that President B.O. is unpopular in her state because of his race.

Speaking with NBC's Chuck Todd, Landrieu said, "I'll be very, very honest with you. The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans."

Pointing to herself Landrieu continued, "It's not always been a good place for women to present ourselves. It's more of a conservative place."

Landrieu oddly didn't mention that her low approval might stem from the fact she was the deciding vote for Obamacare
... aka the Affordable Care Act, an ineptly designed and worse executed piece of legislation designed to bring 17 percent of the U.S. economy under the direct control of the government. The previous iteration, known as Hillarycare, was laughed out of Washington. This stinker was passed on a party-line vote without being read...
. The senator also didn't note in the interview that President B.O.'s approval ratings are dismal in northern states as well as southern.
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2014 00:37 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans."


Could that be why so many are leaving Atlanta ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2014 3:29 Comments || Top||

#2  I was wondering how long it would take for the "all non-leftists are racist, sexist, homophobic cretins who want to kill children and starve the elderly" cards to come out.


If they are coming out in Landrieu, things must be pretty bad for the Dems.
Posted by: no mo uro || 10/31/2014 6:03 Comments || Top||

#3  Especially among African-Americans and women?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/31/2014 6:38 Comments || Top||

#4  So, they weren't racist and sexist in the elections that put her and O in, but they are now?
Posted by: ed in texas || 10/31/2014 7:52 Comments || Top||

#5  so sayeth the Senator from DC
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2014 8:11 Comments || Top||

#6  Besoeker: leaving atlanta? Did I miss something?
Posted by: chris || 10/31/2014 8:20 Comments || Top||

#7  So all you racists and sexists go out and vote for me to prove you aren't racist and sexist.
Posted by: Mary Landrieu || 10/31/2014 9:39 Comments || Top||

#8  Sarcasm Chris, pure sarcasm.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2014 10:10 Comments || Top||

#9  "The RACE card! Don't leave home without it!"
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/31/2014 10:21 Comments || Top||

#10  That is pretty much all the left have to run on. Racism and sexism to go with their socialism.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2014 10:46 Comments || Top||

#11  I'll be very, very honest with you…

Typically speaking, whenever a politician begins a statement with that phrase the following comments are usually less than truthful.
Posted by: DepotGuy || 10/31/2014 11:16 Comments || Top||

#12  She's scraping the bottom of the barrel and can't find anything else. Buh-bye, Mary.
Posted by: Abu Uluque || 10/31/2014 11:27 Comments || Top||

#13  Ha.
Ha ha.
Huh ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/31/2014 11:57 Comments || Top||

#14  "It's not always been a good place for women to present ourselves"

Couldn't it be because she's Mary Landrieu?
Posted by: Pappy || 10/31/2014 12:15 Comments || Top||

#15  South is racist? Quick someone remind Louisiana Gov Jindal that he's not white! And warn S Carolina Gov Nikki Haley (Female and India descent), and Sen Tim Scott (black) too!

Oh, hmm. Seems the Republicans have managed to elect minority candidates in their primaries...
Posted by: OldSpook || 10/31/2014 14:46 Comments || Top||

#16  I guess there's no question Pork Chop Landrieu is out. It's the bunker scene from Downfall.
Posted by: regular joe || 10/31/2014 15:22 Comments || Top||

#17  Great theory, Mary. But it fails to account for how you and Barry got elected in the first place. Could it possibly be your performance and policies? Nah, the people just suck.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2014 16:37 Comments || Top||

#18  Landrieu plays the racist and sexist card out of desperation. She missed the xenophobe card. I guess she didn't feel she could get away with that since Jindal has Indian origins.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2014 16:47 Comments || Top||

#19  So all the recent immigrates to Louisiana are racist and sexist?
Posted by: Airandee || 10/31/2014 16:55 Comments || Top||

#20  OS, stop expecting Demonrats to use their brains. Trying to think overheats their two brain cells and if one of them dies, they turn into Biden or Gore. If both of them die, then they become Ted Kennedy, dead but still voting.
Posted by: Silentbrick || 10/31/2014 18:08 Comments || Top||

#21  Voters do not like to be smeared with an "X" by their home rep.

Enjoy your life as a lobbyist, Mary. Too bad we didn't have better limits on "The Revolving Door."
Posted by: Ulosing Poodle7595 || 10/31/2014 22:06 Comments || Top||

#22  Then move away you Stupid BITCH.
Posted by: newc || 10/31/2014 22:21 Comments || Top||


Charlie Rangel Says Some Republicans 'Believe That Slavery Isn't Over'
[BUSINESSINSIDER] Veteran Rep. Charlie Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Rangel
Congressman-for-Life from Harlem, who became what 20 terms in Congress turns you into ...
(D-N.Y.) had some harsh words for the Republican Party during a Thursday campaign rally for New York Gov. Andrew Sonny Cuomo (D).

As he has done repeatedly before, Rangel compared some members of the GOP to confederates from the Civil War era. But at the Thursday evening event, he added that they "believe slavery isn't over."

"We have to win. We have to be able to send a national message with Andrew Cuomo. And the thing is everything we believe in --everything we believe in -- they hate. They don't disagree -- they hate! They think if you didn't come from Europe 30 years ago, you didn't even make it. Some of them believe that slavery isn't over and they and think they won the Civil War!" Rangel shouted.

In contrast, Rangel said the Democratic Party was doing "God's work" on issues important to the American people.

"And so what we have to do is send a collective voice," he said of the upcoming midterm elections. "Everything we're doing is God's work: education, healthcare, affordable housing, discrimination, paying people the minimum wage."
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  they think they won the Civil War!" Rangel shouted.

Actually, dude, we kinda sorta did. Do we need to revisit the history of the Democratic Party from the post-Civil War thru the Civil Rights era?
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2014 2:33 Comments || Top||

#2  Because they see US citizens being slowly, but surely, turned into serfs?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/31/2014 3:02 Comments || Top||

#3  CBC poster boy, loser, and Zeke Emanuel longevity violator. Please go away.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/31/2014 3:08 Comments || Top||

#4  It's true. Slavery isn't over until Income taxes are abolished.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 10/31/2014 4:42 Comments || Top||

#5  . . . and central banks. Both of which are necessary to accomplish all those things he identifies as "God's work." Just because he doesn't understand where all the money magically comes from doesn't make it divine.

And, um, yeah, a Republican DID win the civil war. Sheesh. Is he really that dumb?
Posted by: RandomJD || 10/31/2014 6:39 Comments || Top||

#6  Serial Tax Cheater™
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2014 8:11 Comments || Top||

#7  Charlie Rangel Says Some Republicans 'Believe That Slavery Isn't Over'

Says Charlie 'Judas Goat' Rangel who keeps his own people in subservient bondage for vote harvesting. Keep projecting Charlie. Obama is about to throw the bunch of you under the bus for the Latino faction.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2014 9:02 Comments || Top||

#8  We Republicans KNOW the Civil War isn't over because the Democrats still enjoy the ownership of black Americans.
Posted by: AlmostAnonymous5839 || 10/31/2014 10:19 Comments || Top||

#9  Yes, the Latino flesh trade is particularly lucrative at the moment.

Especially trying is the fact that it will happen on the orders of a president who identifies himself as black...who makes the character Carlton Banks look like Tu Pac.

Less believable is Michelle and her pretty princess routine. Its a seriel lie, a deception, and its in your face, and if someone lies for you they are going to lie to you. Includes Rangel, convicted liar.

Better wake up Black America. You are about to be sold by the democrats for a box of paper and point cards.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/31/2014 10:30 Comments || Top||

#10  Desperation.
Posted by: Pappy || 10/31/2014 12:16 Comments || Top||

#11  Rangel, the man who pushed for a new Draft.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/31/2014 14:38 Comments || Top||

#12  When the one grants amnesty all these illegals - watch how our ballots start looking third world with just the party symbol on the ballot and no names.
Posted by: Slaitch Thrusong6976 || 10/31/2014 14:41 Comments || Top||

#13  They are desperate. They're bringing out the race card. Unfortunately, since the MSM aids and abets such notions, some will buy into this.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2014 16:42 Comments || Top||


Gerrymandered Chicago District 'Leans Republican'
[BREITBART] The 10th congressional district of Illinois, which was redrawn by state Democrats to make it virtually impossible for a Republican to win, is now leaning Republican, according to veteran political analyst Larry J. Sabato of the University of Virginia.

Sabato switched the race between incumbent Democrat Brad Schneider and Republican Bob Dold from "Toss-up" to "Leans Republican" in his latest ratings, less than a week before Election Day.

The shift towards Dold and a Republican victory likely heralds a nationwide trend. Of the 22 ratings changes that Sabato has released, 15 include districts moving towards Republicans, while Democrats have shown gains in only 7.

Dold was elected in the wave election of 2010 but was unseated in 2012 after the district was redrawn. The 10th district takes in some reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
... home of Al Capone, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel,...
suburbs as well as urban areas north of Chicago, such as Waukegan.
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Leans Republican?

No matter. The fix is in at the voting machine.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/31/2014 11:44 Comments || Top||


Mary Burke: I wasn't technically 'fired' from my family's company
[HOTAIR]
Multiple former executives at Trek Bicycle now say Burke was forced out of her position by her own family as a consequence of her terrible management, and a fellow member of a Democratic administration referred to her leadership as "a disaster" in a contemporaneous assessment. And now she wants to be governor. Even as GOP-aligned pollsters are privately warning that Marquette's Walker +7 projection is more bullish than their internal findings, this can't be the front page coverage Team Burke was hoping to see five days out from the election.
Posted by: Fred || 10/31/2014 00:00 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  When your brother and father "eliminate your job" due to poor performance? You're fired
Posted by: Frank G || 10/31/2014 9:08 Comments || Top||

#2  Depends on the meaning of what 'is' is. And it wasn't sex. Right Bill?
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/31/2014 10:26 Comments || Top||

#3  Sometimes you hire relatives just to keep tabs on them so they don't do something stupid and hurt themselves or others.

When that doesn't work, you ship them to Europe.

When that doesn't work, you get them an appointment job in government (perhaps as a state Secretary of Commerce).

When that doesn't work, you get him/her elected to the governance of the local Country Club. Least damage to others possible (except for maybe the caddies and greens).

Some relatives can't help themselves and still try to create havoc for others by running for School Boards or possibly the governorship of some Midwestern state.
Posted by: Mullah Richard || 10/31/2014 10:51 Comments || Top||

#4  Some family members just need shipped to the dark side of the moon and left there.
Posted by: DarthVader || 10/31/2014 11:47 Comments || Top||

#5 
The mainstream media, playing frantic catch-up on a story they evidently didn’t bother to investigate for months — even as Burke routinely cited her Trek experience as a raison d’etre of her campaign — is finally asking questions.

That might prove to be a bigger story than Burke's firing.

Posted by: Pappy || 10/31/2014 12:27 Comments || Top||

#6  Having had court side seats at several businesses organized under the dysfunctional family business model, the father and the brother probably heard the adage "shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in 2 generations"- founding father starts with nothing, works his/ her/ their arses off to build a successful business that then gets handed down to the idiot son/ daughter who runs it into the ground and ends up where the founder started once they find actual hard work and talent are involved. Shuffle her off to government where here talent is more suited.
Posted by: Capsu78 || 10/31/2014 13:25 Comments || Top||

#7  ...or as Bobcat used to say "... I lost my job. Well I didn't really lose it, it's just that when I went back someone else was doing it".
Posted by: Capsu78 || 10/31/2014 13:28 Comments || Top||

#8  "And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire..."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/31/2014 16:25 Comments || Top||

#9  She left to spend more time with her family - at home rather than at work.

I hope she kept her stapler.
Posted by: SteveS || 10/31/2014 23:04 Comments || Top||



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Steve White
Seafarious
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trailing wife
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Fred
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Frank G
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Two weeks of WOT
Fri 2014-10-31
  IS kills 30 Assad men; Homs blast injures 37
Thu 2014-10-30
  Muthanna chemical weapons facility liberated from ISIS control
Wed 2014-10-29
  ISF, tribal militias kill Emir of Heet while defending Anbar against ISIS attack
Tue 2014-10-28
  Three days of clashes leave 250 dead in south Yemen
Mon 2014-10-27
  100s of ISIS casualties in battles with Kurdish forces near Mosul, says Kurdistan Alliance MP
Sun 2014-10-26
  Chlorine gas rocket factory seized in Jurf al-Sakhar, 11 ISIS terrorists arrested
Sat 2014-10-25
  Ottawa X-ray Technologist Sentenced to 12 Years in Terror Plot
Fri 2014-10-24
  Two killed as Fazl escapes suicide attack in Quetta
Thu 2014-10-23
  Violence Erupts In Jerusalem After Deadly Terror Attack
Wed 2014-10-22
  Soldier, security guard shot in Parliament Hill attack
Tue 2014-10-21
  Al Qaeda attacks kill at least 33 people in Yemen
Mon 2014-10-20
  IS Takes Heavy Losses In Battle For Kobani
Sun 2014-10-19
  LNA claims advance in Warshefana district
Sat 2014-10-18
  Cameroon Soldiers Kill 107 Boko Haram Fighters
Fri 2014-10-17
  ISIS Retreats From Kobani


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