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-Lurid Crime Tales-
ZombieTime reports on San Francisco's "Up Your Alley" Fair
NSFW, and I am not kidding!
You are about to view the zombietime report about the 2008 Up Your Alley Fair in San Francisco. This report contains photographs and descriptions of extreme sexual behavior performed in public that some viewers may find disturbing.
A serious understatement.
Two versions of this report have been made available:
(direct links deleted. You'll have to go to Zombietime if you still want to see this. Have the brain-bleach handy)
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Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 08/01/2008 16:57 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Note that nobody is smoking cigarettes in any of these pics. It is against the law.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 08/01/2008 17:26 Comments || Top||

#2  Nancy's people!!!!
Posted by: 3dc || 08/01/2008 17:56 Comments || Top||

#3  In case you think there may be women in the photos, there isn't. It is totally gay, and extreme at that. I wish I didn't look.
Posted by: penguin || 08/01/2008 18:12 Comments || Top||

#4  I must have a strong stomach. I lasted a little past the guy in the window. Didn't see anything I didn't already know about but... OMG, hasn't anyone in San Francisco ever heard the saying popularly attributed to Mrs. Patrick Campbell:

"I don't care what you do in the bedroom, as long as you don't do it in the road and frighten the horses!!!"

Although come to think upon the various behaviors displayed, I'm surprised there wasn't a horse involved. Is there one farther on in ZombieTime's report? I honestly was too grossed out to look any farther.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom || 08/01/2008 19:30 Comments || Top||

#5  The Sodom of the US. Unbelievable that this depravity is condoned in public. I don't care what people do in the privacy of their homes but this is way beyond anything that should be allowed.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/01/2008 19:31 Comments || Top||

#6  Why did I look? Why?
How come it's always got to be gay MEN?!
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 08/01/2008 22:24 Comments || Top||


Today's Idiot
Alleged thief stuck under trash bin for 12 hours

DILLON, S.C. - A suspected thief trying to steal $10 worth of copper got himself into a stinky situation when he was trapped under a trash bin at a county landfill for 12 hours, sheriff's deputies said.
Pic at link.
Deputies said Gibson Cook, 56, broke into the landfill, then got stuck as he tried to crawl under the large container. Landfill workers found him about 12 hours later with his legs sticking out from under the bin. Emergency workers had to inflate air bags so they could lift the bin to free him.
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Posted by: anonymous5089 || 08/01/2008 12:11 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "He's one of our local petty thieves," Kirby said.

:) This honesty brought to you by:

Confedrate Sherifs of America
Posted by: .5MT || 08/01/2008 15:10 Comments || Top||

#2  I wasn't aware that stealing trash OUT of a landfill was a big deal. It's going to get covered with dirt, I don't get it at all.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 08/01/2008 22:39 Comments || Top||


I'm with this guy: Bad lawn mower deserved shooting
Time magazine's next man of the year?

I'm nominating Keith Walendowski of Milwaukee, who is charged with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun because it wouldn't start.

The criminal complaint says a witness told police Walendowski had been drinking all morning. So what? A Lawn-Boy that won't start will do that to you.
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Posted by: Beavis || 08/01/2008 08:25 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  a sawed-off shotgun
That's crazy!
This is a job for a .357
Posted by: .5MT || 08/01/2008 9:21 Comments || Top||

#2  I used to hear this line a lot in Texas: "Some lawn mowers folks jus' need killin'.

Smart of Texans to realize that. It's just one more reason why Texas is safer than most of the blue states even with Ein-el-Mexhellhole next door dumping its garbage across the border.
Posted by: Jomock Platypus9662 || 08/01/2008 11:20 Comments || Top||

#3  lawnmowers are not recognized lifeforms so why can't they be targets. Cans are targets. What is the difference?
Posted by: 3dc || 08/01/2008 11:23 Comments || Top||

#4  Yup, out here he would probably just get in trouble for using the wrong firearm.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/01/2008 11:26 Comments || Top||

#5  He should have measured from the front of the receiver instead of the back before applying hacksaw..

All jokes aside; there may be more to his history than just being a drinker with a stubborn lawn mower. I suspect we don't have all the information to make a good call.
Posted by: tipover || 08/01/2008 14:37 Comments || Top||

#6  Yup, out here he would probably just get in trouble for using the wrong firearm.

Posting from 103 degree TX as I am, I can safely say he would be charged with discharging a firearm in the city limits. Which is, I believe a ticket.
Posted by: DLR || 08/01/2008 14:41 Comments || Top||

#7  Most law enforcement (of all stripes) are not at all tolerant of sawed off shotguns. Most of those they run across are in the wrong hands, pointed in the wrong direction.
Posted by: tipover || 08/01/2008 14:56 Comments || Top||

#8  The boy ain't normal.
Posted by: ed || 08/01/2008 14:58 Comments || Top||

#9  my (legal) Winchester Defender 12GA has a pistol grip and a stock 18" barrel and holds 7 shells. Works for me. Of course, my mower (live in a condo now), is a contractor. I can understand why they would take offense if I should shoot it
Posted by: Frank G || 08/01/2008 18:34 Comments || Top||

#10  before you bring out the artillery, check the rotary shaft for wrapped around junk. a quick clean usually does the trick.
Posted by: Jotch Fillmore2862 || 08/01/2008 19:10 Comments || Top||

#11  yes, but should I stop it first?

/stumpy
Posted by: Frank G || 08/01/2008 19:19 Comments || Top||

#12  This reminds me of the old Bill Mauldin cartoon of a sergeant putting his jeep out of its misery.
Posted by: Eric Jablow || 08/01/2008 19:35 Comments || Top||

#13  I beat the living dog shit out of my murray 22in push mower with a hammer a few years ago. Didn't think to use a shotgun, that would add a note of finality.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 08/01/2008 22:33 Comments || Top||

#14  I have a short bbl. Defender too Frank, bought it at Wal-Mart back in the day. I think it hold 8 rounds and one in the chamber. 18" bbl. and a pistol grip.
And these r-tards in D.C. are crapping their pants over a .22 pistol. HA!
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 08/01/2008 22:36 Comments || Top||


Brazil arrests man who beheaded British girlfriend
Brazilian police on Thursday arrested a man accused of having decapitated and mutilated his British teenage girlfriend after a spat over drugs, a spokeswoman said.

The Brazilian man confessed to having killed Cara Marie Burg, aged 17, on Saturday in the central city of Goiania after she threatened to tell authorities he was a drug dealer, Lenita Alves de Brito, spokeswoman for local police, told Reuters. Police found on Monday an abandoned suitcase with her headless and limbless body, which Cara's mother identified on pictures that were distributed by Interpol, Brito said.

Goiania lies some 120 miles (200 km) southwest of the capital Brasilia.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/01/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [4 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Because as we all know the penalties for drug dealing are less than for murder and why not take some photos while you're at it.

There does seem to be a spate of beheadings at the moment doesn't there?
Posted by: Gladys || 08/01/2008 3:43 Comments || Top||

#2  This is what happens when a naive, civilized person attempts to apply a civilized solution to a barbarian. Too stupid for her own good.
Posted by: gromky || 08/01/2008 4:05 Comments || Top||

#3  The murderer's name according to the Beeb:

Mohamed D'Ali Carvalho Santos

Kind of make sense?
Posted by: Howard UK || 08/01/2008 7:43 Comments || Top||

#4  Something like this would never happen in a polite and civilized place like Canada. Oh, wait, never mind...
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/01/2008 7:44 Comments || Top||

#5  I am shocked anyone in the security services would ever confuse a Brazilian with a Muslim maniac.

Now excuse me for a moment, I seem to have some wires sticking out of my coat...
Posted by: Excalibur || 08/01/2008 10:26 Comments || Top||

#6  Cant he just claim Machismo or something?
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 08/01/2008 22:42 Comments || Top||


-Obits-
Today's Idiot
Arkansas Man Dies Tampering With Electric Meter After Service Shut Off

CONWAY, Ark. -- A Conway-area man died from electrocution while he was using jumper cables to hook up power to his house after his electricity was shut off.

Authorities say 33-year-old Lonnie Montgomery was found dead Wednesday outside his home on Skunk Hollow Road. He was still clutching one end of a set of jumper cables. Officials say the other end was connected the electricity meter box.
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Posted by: Beavis || 08/01/2008 11:44 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Let's see, Deputy Sheriff Shock rolls to Skunk Hollow Road and finds a stiff. This in Faulkner County.

Yar!
Moar Mullets!
Posted by: .5MT || 08/01/2008 15:21 Comments || Top||


-Short Attention Span Theater-
"Da hills are alive, with the sound of gunfire . . . "
LONDON -- Will Sylvester Stallone star in "The Sound of Music"?

At the London Palladium the other night, I sat next to the hard man of Hollywood action himself -- who was watching the camp-fest musical!

He cried and laughed at all the right times -- and spies tell me that bosses now want to lure him to play Capt. Von Trapp on stage. Will he say yes after going to meet them backstage after the show? We'll keep you posted.
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Posted by: Mike || 08/01/2008 17:05 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


New Guiness Advert
questionable NSFW
Posted by: Beavis || 08/01/2008 10:22 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Fake ad as the guy mentions, but, umm, questionble in taste (except for the Guiness).
Posted by: OldSpook || 08/01/2008 15:23 Comments || Top||


Lamborghini shipped 6,500 miles for oil change (eco-wackies wail, gnash teeth)
Environmental groups blasted the owner of a Lamborghini who had the vehicle shipped from Qatar to London for an oil change.

The Lamborghini Murcielago LP640, the same model driven by Christian Bale in The Dark Knight, cost about $40,000 to ship round-trip and $7,045 to service at an authorized London dealer, The Telegraph reported Thursday.

Environmental groups criticized the owner of the vehicle, thought to be a sheik, for sending his car on a 6,500 mile trip just to change the oil.
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Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy || 08/01/2008 04:51 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Nothing quite like putting sand in the engine of eco-world
Posted by: Mad Eye || 08/01/2008 5:31 Comments || Top||

#2  Mr. Abu youse is need aircleaner seriously. Otherwise you looking at bat things up deh road. Cheep, $1200.
Posted by: .5MT || 08/01/2008 8:30 Comments || Top||

#3  It would probably be cheaper to import a dozen cans of Pennzoil and a Fram oil filter and fly the service tech to Qatar first class to do the work. Put him up in the five-star hotel and let him have all the room service lamb and filafel he can eat.
Posted by: Mike || 08/01/2008 10:42 Comments || Top||

#4  Actually, he probably shipped the car to London to use during the summer. Anyone familiar with London, especially the Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Kensington area sees a lot of very unique and expensive cars on the streets with UAE, Saudi, Qatari and Omani license plates. While there they usually get their cars serviced (mostly a number of times) then trade them in for newer models. Around the Carlton Towers and the Berkeley its a veritable exotic model auto show.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 08/01/2008 10:53 Comments || Top||

#5  I don't see why he didn't just throw the damned car away and buy a new, clean one.
Posted by: wxjames || 08/01/2008 11:14 Comments || Top||

#6  It's a sentimental thing Mr. James. 1st camel etc.
Posted by: .5MT || 08/01/2008 15:23 Comments || Top||

#7  "$40,000 to ship round-trip and $7,045 to service"
Any of you guys want an oil change? I'll do it for just $7,044 and save you a buck!
Posted by: Darrell || 08/01/2008 20:36 Comments || Top||


Tonga crowns king in lavish ceremony
TONGA'S King Siaosi Tupou V has crowned as monarch of his tiny South Pacific nation in a lavish ceremony which attracted royalty from around the world and regional leaders.

The 60-year-old sovereign of Polynesia's last monarchy, known as George Tupou V in English, was crowned on a 2.5m golden throne as a 21-cannon salute rang out and church bells tolled.

The hour long coronation at Nuku'alofa's Centenary Free Wesleyan Church was full of European pomp and ceremony.
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Posted by: Fred || 08/01/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [2 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Both: Oh, it's hard to say...
Flanders: "Oly-ma-kitty-luca-chi-chi-chi"
Both: But in Tonga, that means... "No"!

If I ever have the money,
'Tis to Tonga I shall go.
For each lovely Tongan maiden there,
Will gladly make a date.

And by the time she's said:
Flanders: "Oly-ma-kitty-luca-chi-chi-chi",
Both: It is usually too late!
Posted by: bruce || 08/01/2008 4:06 Comments || Top||

#2  Tonga is on a mission to be the king of pacific area rugby. And they have a chance but there is another island nation standing in the way - New Zealand and the All Blacks. Still makes for great rugby.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 08/01/2008 4:50 Comments || Top||

#3  Tonga are pretty nifty in 7's though Jack .
Posted by: Mad Eye || 08/01/2008 4:53 Comments || Top||

#4  You ask me, they should have gone with Joseph Mendiola instead.
Posted by: Abdominal Snowman || 08/01/2008 21:25 Comments || Top||


-Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
44 lbs N.J. cat's origins uncovered: He was abandoned
Posted by: anonymous5089 || 08/01/2008 12:13 || Comments || Link || [3 views] Top|| File under:

#1  People who dump animals are chickenshit.
No exception.
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 08/01/2008 22:25 Comments || Top||


Saudi religious police ban pets
Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling pet cats and dogs or exercising them in public in the Saudi capital because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official said on Wednesday.

Othman al-Othman, head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice in Riyadh, known as the Muttawa, told the Saudi edition of al-Hayat daily that the commission has started enforcing an old religious edict. He said the commission was implementing a decision taken a month ago by the acting governor of the capital, Prince Sattam bin Abdul Aziz, adding that it follows an old edict issued by the supreme council of Saudi scholars.

The reason behind reinforcing the edict now was a rising fashion among some men using pets in public "to make passes on women and disturb families", he said, without giving more details.
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Posted by: Pappy || 08/01/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  If I buy a Dog for £10 and name it Mohammed.
I then sell it for £20.

The question is, have I made a prophet?
Posted by: Mad Eye || 08/01/2008 4:37 Comments || Top||

#2 

BANG! BANG! BANGITTY BANG!


There, that'll lern 'em. Don't ever do that again.


Posted by: .5MT || 08/01/2008 8:33 Comments || Top||

#3  But Filipino house slaves maids are OK, as infidels. Leash optional.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/01/2008 11:06 Comments || Top||

#4  What about goats?
Only if they are stump-broke?
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 08/01/2008 22:40 Comments || Top||


Bangladesh
Tata scraps $3 bn Bangladesh investment plan
Diversified conglomerate Tata Group has abandoned plans to invest USD three billion on power, steel and fertilizer projects in Bangladesh, after spending four tiring years trying to secure infrastructure support.

Tatas, who made global headlines with the acquisition of Anglo-Dutch steel maker Corus and British auto companies Jaguar and Land Rover, first took their investment proposal to Bangladesh in 2004.

As part of the formal investment blueprint submitted to Dhaka in April 2005, Tata Steel proposed to set up a 2.4 mtpa plant, Tata Chemicals a one million tonne urea plant and Tata Power a 1,000 MW thermal power plant at a combined cost of USD 2.5 billion - which was to be the single largest FDI inflow into Bangladesh since its independence in 1971.
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Posted by: john frum || 08/01/2008 00:00 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  They must have heard how much beggars earn .
Posted by: Mad Eye || 08/01/2008 4:50 Comments || Top||

#2  Tata is a smart company and they also produce the air car - runs on a compressor and gets over 100 mpg.
Posted by: Jack is Back! || 08/01/2008 4:52 Comments || Top||

#3  UNOCAL left Bangladesh because the Government refused to allow it to sell gas to India.

Now TATA is gone, along with another few billion in badly needed investments.

Posted by: john frum || 08/01/2008 8:18 Comments || Top||

#4  Ta-ta, Bangladesh...
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/01/2008 13:03 Comments || Top||

#5  ...after spending four tiring years trying to secure infrastructure support.

I guess the B'deshis don't quite grasp the concept that you're, like, supposed to do something in exchange for all that baksheesh.
Posted by: xbalanke || 08/01/2008 14:06 Comments || Top||

#6  What is incredible is that after being killed and raped in the millions by Pakistanis, after having the Islamic world make a thundering silence on their plight, after being rescued by Indians (aka infidels) Bangladeshis are rooting for Islamism and Al Quida while doing sailent ethinc cleansing from Bangladeshi Hindus.
Posted by: JFM || 08/01/2008 14:34 Comments || Top||

#7  JFM, that is a good example of why helping any muslims, in any way, is a waste of scarce resources and will come back to bite us.
Posted by: ed || 08/01/2008 14:56 Comments || Top||

#8  Tawi Tawi bekons
Posted by: .5MT || 08/01/2008 15:26 Comments || Top||

#9  Bangladesh is a terribly frustrating place. With government so obnoxious that anarchy would be preferable; more government per capita than the US; some of the world's most fertile farmland, where the government demands they only grow worthless jute fiber.

They could be extremely wealthy, but they are addicted to international welfare, socialism and Islam.
Posted by: Anonymoose || 08/01/2008 23:24 Comments || Top||

#10  Bangladesh is a Lovely Shit-Hole-Li-O....

xbalanke:
I guess the B'deshis don't quite grasp the concept that you're, like, supposed to do something in exchange for all that baksheesh.
LOL!!

ed
JFM, that is a good example of why helping any muslims, in any way, is a waste of scarce resources and will come back to bite us.

Brutal...

Mad Eye
They must have heard how much beggars earn.

The entire Nation... you must must begin bribing and/or begging yourself or you will starve or worse.. SPIT
Posted by: Red Dawg || 08/01/2008 23:46 Comments || Top||


Europe
Sweden: "Pranksters" turn public park into pot farm - hilarity ensues
No one noticed the hundreds of tall, leafy marijuana plants towering above the flowerbeds of a public park in the northern Swedish town of Luleå until a local newspaper received an anonymous tip.

"There's cannabis growing on Floras Knoll," the tipster told the Norbotten-Kurrien newspaper, referring to the name of the park in central Luleå. "I'm totally sure. I've grown it myself."

Unsure whether or not to believe the caller, the newspaper first reported the matter to local police. After a brief inspection, however, Per-Olov Andersson of the narcotics division assured the reporters there was nothing amiss.
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Posted by: mrp || 08/01/2008 11:48 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:

#1  “Oh, this really looks like hemp,” said Andersson.

“This is definitively cannabis. We don’t know how strong, but it is cannabis.”


LOL, the real reason for the BS behind biomass, clothes, rope, cancer-cure, glacoma treatment, revolutionary tire and generalized Earthy goodness and did you know George Washington raised it?

It looks like dope, we can hide our shit.


LOL. For gawds sake legalize the stuff and save everyone some time and money.
Posted by: .5MT || 08/01/2008 15:31 Comments || Top||

#2  not tomaters? LOL legalize it. Increase the tax $ from Ho-Ho's, Ding-Dongs, Doritos, and such...
Posted by: Frank G || 08/01/2008 18:44 Comments || Top||

#3  They better pull those males before they ruin the whole lot!
Posted by: bigjim-ky || 08/01/2008 22:26 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Threat letters keeps Vadodara tense
Thursday turned out to be yet another day when Barodians remained on tenterhooks after threat letters and rumours spread in the city. Thousands of people were evacuated from their workplace after five institutions - Vadodara Stock Exchange (VSE), central bus depot of Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation (GSRTC), Bank of Baroda's Mandvi branch and newspaper offices of two prominent Gujarati dailies received threat letters claiming that bombs were planted in their offices. While the threat turned out to be hoax, it kept cops on their toes for the entire day.

All the five letters were almost identical in nature with prominent usage of Hindi language and some English words. Besides similar handwritings, all carried Rs five stamps marking 100 years of co-operative movement of India and they were posted from Vadodara head post office. The letters had the sender's name as SIMI. VSE received the letter at 11.45 am while letters at the offices of two Gujarati dailies had arrived with other routine posts. Similarly, GSRTC's central bus depot and BoB's Mandvi branch received letters at 2.05 pm.

The letter addressed to VSE's managing director stated: "Ex. mein bomb rakha hain... saari building khaali kar do... Aatankvad" , with 'jihad' written in bracket on left side and SIMI on the right side of the letter. "We immediately informed Sayajigunj police and police control room which arrived with dog squad and metal detectors to check all nine floors of the building," VSE's chairman Sudhir Shah said.
Posted by: ryuge || 08/01/2008 10:31 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Pakistani cleric hints at return of American girl at seminary
A radical cleric on Friday softened his stance on an American girl student holed up in his madrassa in Pakistan's southern port city Karachi, saying he would allow the teenager to return to her homeland if the government comes to terms with him. Muna Abanur Mohammed, an American girl of African origin, is among eight foreign students studying at Jamia Binoria who were blacklisted by Pakistani authorities and asked to leave the country immediately following the expiration of their visas. However, the head of the seminary, Mufti Naeem, refused last week to serve the order to the students while vowing to resist any attempt by police to round them up.

The talks between the madrassa administration and the Pakistani government, which is under growing pressure from Western governments to expel their students from Pakistani seminaries that promote jihad in their education, remained deadlocked. "We have no objection if they want to go to their countries on their own will, but we are concerned about their well-being," Naeem told Deutsche Presse-Agentur.
Posted by: ryuge || 08/01/2008 10:18 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:


Science & Technology
Gunfighters and Indians - Workups for Red Flag
Posted by: john frum || 08/01/2008 12:40 || Comments || Link || [1 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Photos at link






Posted by: john frum || 08/01/2008 12:47 Comments || Top||

#2  Great photos, thanks John!
Posted by: Icerigger || 08/01/2008 13:21 Comments || Top||



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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.

Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.

Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has dominated Mexico for six years.
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Thu 2008-07-31
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Wed 2008-07-30
  Gilani in Washington; Paks raid Haqqani's empty madrassa in N Wazoo
Tue 2008-07-29
  Military offensive under way in Diyala
Mon 2008-07-28
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Sun 2008-07-27
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Sat 2008-07-26
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Fri 2008-07-25
  Serial booms in Bangalore
Thu 2008-07-24
  'Mohmand Agency now under Taliban control'
Wed 2008-07-23
  Sheikh Aweys claims Somali opposition leadership
Tue 2008-07-22
  Another Paleo Bulldozer Operator Goes Jihad
Mon 2008-07-21
  Death-row Bali bombers forgo presidential pardon
Sun 2008-07-20
  B.O. visits Afghanistan on grand tour
Sat 2008-07-19
  Mighty Pak Army zaps 10 Hangu Talibs
Fri 2008-07-18
  Four Madrid bomb convicts cleared


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