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Somali fighting kills 24, chaos in parliament
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Page 6: Politix
Did you say Swaziland and not Switzerland?	1 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [7]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Iraq Says It Uncovered Al Qaeda Plot on World Cup	0 [3]
Convicted Canadian terrorist seeks new trial	0 [3]
DOD Report (unclassified) on Afghanistan (not good)	5 00:00 JosephMendiola [5]
India to ban 100 Al Qaeda associated groups	1 00:00 gorb [4]
The White Taliban - Chechens?	1 00:00 chris [1]
The Hardcore Insurgent Kit	3 00:00 Pappy []
Video of Russian Navy capturing and sinking Pirate Mothership!	24 00:00 lex [2]
Mexican Army Unit Springs Ambush	3 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [3]
Iran jails women activists, arrests top former MP	0 [4]
Somali fighting kills 24, chaos in parliament	2 00:00 lord garth [5]
Border Guard forces arrest Syrian infiltrator in Anbar	1 00:00 abu do you love []
Army detains 3 wanted persons south of Mosul	0 [2]
Kashmir terrorists get pay hike	2 00:00 Paul2 [2]
SAS Disobeys orders; Rescues Comrades Anyway	3 00:00 Nimble Spemble [2]
Good morning	0 []
Fatah blames Hamas for shootout injuring leader	1 00:00 Admiral Allan Ackbar [1]
Criminal killed in shootout with Rab	2 00:00 gromky [3]
Turbans free 50 Kurram hostages kidnapped on Saturday	0 [7]
Fifteen suspected militants killed in Orakzai	0 [4]
More Mexican Mayhem	3 00:00 Ebbang Uluque6305 [1]
Bombing near Afghan border wounds 3	0 [4]
French teacher freed from Iran, flying home	1 00:00 OldSpook [7]
Three Chinese oil workers abducted in Yemen	0 [4]
Page 2: WoT Background
Hamas Begins Destroying Homes in Gaza	6 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [6]
Follow Up Article to Syria Buying $1 billion in Russian Weapons	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [7]
Deportation of sheikh puts Australia at odds with the UN	4 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [2]
Iran agrees to exchange of nuclear material	1 00:00 lord garth [6]
Southerner wins election as new Thai Muslim head	0 [1]
Israeli Start-Up Makes Army Units Vanish	2 00:00 Alaska Paul [2]
(pdf) Omar Hammami (a.k.a. Abu Mansoor the American) Featured in Jihad Rap Song	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [5]
NY Times: Taliban Find Safe Haven In Pakistan's Karachi	1 00:00 JosephMendiola [6]
Russian warships to base in Djibouti port to fight piracy	4 00:00 Frozen Al []
Iran and Venezuela - Taking it to the next level	2 00:00 mojo [1]
S. Korea moves to stop funding exchanges with Norks	0 [2]
Norks Threaten to Shut Off Traffic to Kaesong	0 [1]
Japan, China Differ Over Cheonan Sinking	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [2]
U.S. Experts 'Believe N.Korea Sank the Cheonan'	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [3]
Mexican Army Shoots at Campaign Vehicles	3 00:00 lex [1]
Iraq's Allawi warns of civil war	1 00:00 g(r)omgoru [3]
Galloway: Lib Dems abandon their policies	4 00:00 Spot [4]
PLO rejects Hamas input on unity deal	0 []
Noam Chomsky denied entry to Israel, West Bank	7 00:00 OldSpook [3]
Khashoggi resigns from al-Watan	0 [5]
No change in Iraq election result after recount	3 00:00 Nimble Spemble []
Page 3: Non-WoT
America on Fiscal Suicide Watch	0 []
Saudi Woman Beats Up Religious Cop	5 00:00 chris [5]
Obit: Edward G. Uhl, 92, co-inventor of bazooka, aerospace engineer	2 00:00 SteveS [6]
Mexico's Cult of Holy Death	3 00:00 lex [2]
Arab-American from Michigan crowned 2010 Miss USA	18 00:00 DMFD [6]
Scientists forecast decades of ash clouds (from Iceland volcanos)	7 00:00 Procopius2k [2]
Russia sells Syria warplanes, air defence systems: official	9 00:00 JosephMendiola [5]
Coalition creates 100 new peers to pass legislation	8 00:00 Lord Alaska Paul [2]
Bangkok hotel attacked	1 00:00 Parabellum [1]
Thailand rejects call for UN mediation	0 [2]
Page 4: Opinion
For Times Sq. Suspect, Long Roots of Discontent	1 00:00 Barbara Skolaut [5]
Reawakening Germany's Nationalism: What Could Go Wrong?	17 00:00 JosephMendiola [4]
This Campaign Ad Is the Most American Thing Ever Made	10 00:00 Anonymoose [3]
Jihad attacks on US not the fault of Islam says CAIR-Michigan Dude	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [6]
Holder wants to shield howling mob of cowards from the truth	7 00:00 Frank G [1]
On being Pakistani	2 00:00 Paul2 [7]
YouTube: Meltup	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [2]

India-Pakistan

Did you say Swaziland and not Switzerland?

NEW DELHI, May 16: Any takers for a junket to Swaziland? Plenty it seems, especially if it's mistaken for Switzerland, as some legislators from Bihar did!

When Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar prepared to go to Swaziland - a land-locked southern African country of a little over a million people - she asked her office to contact MLAs from Bihar to accompany her. Many MLAs literally vied with one another to go to Swaziland.

But it looked like their enthusiasm did not last long. When they landed in Delhi, as the grapevine has it, they discovered they were going to Africa. We all thought we were going to Switzerland,' said a despondent legislator, admitting that not many of them had heard about a country called Swaziland.

Whiners and diners

Disappointment was writ large on the faces of many of the 700-odd guests who had gathered at 3, Krishna Menon Marg, the official residence of the Chief Justice of India, where Justice KG Balakrishnan hosted his farewell dinner. The reason: no booze.

Defying the Delhi culture of wining and dining', Balakrishnan decided not to serve liquor. The guests, who included judges, lawyers, dignitaries and others from different walks of life, were evenly split into whiners and diners. The whiners craved for wine while the diners seemed to revel in the former's agony. IANS

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Only Americans are geographically ignorant - just ask any Lefty.

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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2010-05-17
Somali fighting kills 24, chaos in parliament

Sun 2010-05-16
Qaeda in Iraq 'names replacements for slain leaders'

Sat 2010-05-15
Woman in a veil knifed British MP in the gut

Fri 2010-05-14
Iraqi and Iranian soldiers trade fire on border

Thu 2010-05-13
5 killed in Jakarta anti-terror raids

Wed 2010-05-12
French parliament unanimously bans burka

Tue 2010-05-11
Russers: Captured Somali pirates ''dead''

Mon 2010-05-10
At least 99 killed in attacks across Iraq

Sun 2010-05-09
'Pakistan Taliban' behind Times Square bomb plot

Sat 2010-05-08
Uighur big turban reported titzup in Pak

Fri 2010-05-07
Mullah Atiqullah captured in Afghanistan

Thu 2010-05-06
Death sentence for Kasab

Wed 2010-05-05
Iraqi Troops Arrest Head of Qaeda-Linked Ansar al-Islam

Tue 2010-05-04
Pakistani-American Arrested in Times Square Plot

Mon 2010-05-03
Somali rebels seize pirate haven of Haradhere

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