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Explosion rocks West Texas oil refinery
Today's Headlines

Headline	Comments [Views]
Page 1: WoT Operations
Bali bomber found in shallow grave	2 00:00 anymouse [15]
Car bomb kills 37 Afghan civilians	1 00:00 Throger Thains8048 [12]
PCHR sez: We don't know either	7 00:00 JosephMendiola [15]
Britain: Beheading plot ringleader Parviz Khan jailed for life	4 00:00 Jomosing Bluetooth8431 [10]
Sixth man cleared in plot to kill British Muslim soldier	0 [13]
Lieutenant of Special Groups Leader Hasnawi Captured	0 [8]
Soldier seriously wounded in Gaza	1 00:00 g(r)omgoru [6]
IA Soldiers' quick action prevents suicide attack	4 00:00 Old Patriot [8]
Coalition forces targets weapons facilitation networks; two killed, 12 detained	0 [9]
Two wounded in Beirut shootout amid rising tensions	1 00:00 g(r)omgoru [13]
Six Hizbut Tehrir men arrested in Karachi	0 [12]
Good Morning	10 00:00 Eric Jablow [11]
Kosovo: Grenades in Serb city	9 00:00 RD [10]
Two Red Cross workers freed	0 [10]
Two officials escape blasts in Swat	0 [16]
Anti-Taliban commander killed in Afghanistan blast	0 [9]
Projectile hits Egyptian building at Gaza border	3 00:00 anonymous5089 [8]
Blast toll reaches 47: Polls postponed in Parachinar	0 [11]
PML-N candidate among 9 killed in violence	0 [13]
Policeman kills electoral officer, injures two in Thatta	0 [13]
Iran's MPs demand severance of ties with Denmark over cartoon	4 00:00 USN,Ret. [12]
Arrests on 7th night of unrest across Denmark	3 00:00 Thrulet Dark Lord of the Algonquins1536 [10]
Sri Lanka claims 20 rebels killed	0 [9]
Page 2: WoT Background
Musharraf Trailing in Third Place - Bhutto Leads (early exit polls)	0 [12]
Fallujah Jail	3 00:00 RD [14]
Iraq to take back asylum seekers rejected by Sweden	0 [7]
Palestinians held by Egypt threaten suicide	1 00:00 USN,Ret. [5]
'Israel agrees to release 230 prisoners' (in Gilad Shalit deal)	9 00:00 Iblis [6]
'Europeans Hide Behind the Unpopularity of President Bush'	1 00:00 Woozle Elmeter 2907 [8]
Let Them Eat Grass	2 00:00 John Frum [9]
Norway: Troops likely to stay in Afghanistan until 2015	0 [7]
U.S. to Produce Data on Irans Nuclear Program	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [10]
French police raid housing projects to find last year's rioters	2 00:00 Ptah [5]
Sderot business owners barricade in Supreme Court	0 [7]
Gov't OKs Gaza fortification plan	6 00:00 Redneck Jim [4]
'Mossad killed Imad Mughniyeh'	12 00:00 JosephMendiola [8]
'Press Hamas to stop Kassams'	8 00:00 JosephMendiola [14]
Abbas aide: Dahlan is trying to oust PA head	3 00:00 JosephMendiola [10]
'More British Muslims seeking sharia law'	7 00:00 anymouse [13]
Egypt arrests 51 members of Muslim Brotherhood	0 [8]
Britain plans to issue Shariah law-compliant bonds	3 00:00 USN,Ret. [7]
God strikes ayatollah dead	5 00:00 Halliburton - Hyperbolic Idiot Detection Service [17]
Khamenei: God will reprimand Iranians if they give up nuclear activity	4 00:00 JosephMendiola [14]
Mashaal recently escaped hit	3 00:00 Seafarious [5]
BBC backpedals after calling Mughniyeh a "great national leader"	2 00:00 Redneck Jim [14]
Wikipedia defies 180,000 demands to remove images of the Prophet	10 00:00 Jeque Sinatra4911 [7]
Baitullah Mehsud paid out $7000 for Bhutto assasination	0 [14]
Page 3: Non-WoT
Meanwhile, at Castle Breck...	5 00:00 JosephMendiola [10]
EU regs causing abandonment, starvation of horses in Romania	4 00:00 Thromorong Wittlesbach1916 [14]
Explosion rocks W. Texas oil refinery	14 00:00 RD [21]
Chicago '68: A Chronology	0 [8]
March date for Sharia "gay" trial in Nigeria	3 00:00 trailing wife [11]
Jules Crittenden: Kosova	0 [6]
U.S. airs U.N. dirty laundry	0 [7]
Many Iranians say revolutionary ideals still unmet	0 [8]
Warmth for Americans in Once Hostile Tehran [as long as no police around]	5 00:00 trailing wife [14]
Iran says God protects nuclear program	0 [10]
Iran says its space probe sending data to earth	0 [8]
China concerned by U.S. satellite missile plan	2 00:00 Valentine [4]
~~Nonexistant~~ Gay Africans and Arabs come out online	4 00:00 Redneck Jim [11]
Serbs riot in Belgrade after Kosovo announcement	2 00:00 Woozle Elmeter 2907 [2]
Bush basks in African praise	9 00:00 Procopius2k [5]
Zapatero's Anti-Terror Push Boosts Campaign	2 00:00 JFM [4]
Fed's Lower Rates Pressure China to Strengthen Yuan	2 00:00 OregonGuy [5]
Oogo Sez Venezuela Won't Cut Oil Sales	9 00:00 USN,Ret. [7]
Bill would require California's science curriculum to cover climate change	3 00:00 OldSpook [6]
North Korea Celebrates 66th Birthday of Leader Kim Jong Il	4 00:00 tu3031 [7]
What if the US-So Korean alliance dissolved?	13 00:00 Unager Forkbeard6810 [5]
Google: majority of malware distribution servers, sites are Chinese	5 00:00 Deacon Blues [2]
McCain Says No New Taxes	4 00:00 Redneck Jim [3]
Obama 'robbed' In NY	3 00:00 Redneck Jim [6]
Kosovo declares independence	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [5]
Venezuela's Chavez Threatens To Sue Exxon Over Oil 'Theft'	4 00:00 DMFD [6]
Clinton scales back campaign schedule in Wisconsin	1 00:00 tu3031 [7]
Page 4: Opinion
Kosovo Was Then, This Is Now [Victor Davis Hanson]	3 00:00 Mercutio [13]
American alienation - wake up, people!	2 00:00 JosephMendiola [16]
Chinese people speak up on Spielberg withdrawal - they couldn't care less	2 00:00 DMFD [9]
Why Torts Trumped Terrorism	1 00:00 Bobby [5]
More Roggio Analysis of Special Groups (& Hasnawi)	1 00:00 Glenmore [6]
One Angry Man	2 00:00 Bobby [2]
Machines 'to match man by 2029'	12 00:00 Ptah [4]
Humor: Atheist professor challenges God to prove himself	3 00:00 Thinemp Whimble [4]
Hildebeast would seek to try 9/11 plotters in established courts	3 00:00 Besoeker [7]
An extraordinary encounter with Musharraf	0 [9]
Hamas doesn't want a separate Gaza	2 00:00 Redneck Jim [9]
Iraq's Jihad Myths	3 00:00 trailing wife [7]
Lessons from the breach	3 00:00 Excalibur [7]
Hillary wafts in like a blast from the past	0 [5]
'I don't hate Muslims. I hate Islam,' says Holland's rising political star	15 00:00 anymouse [5]
Page 5: Russia-Former Soviet Union
Looking for a lost racehorse	4 00:00 trailing wife [15]
Top psychiatrist concludes liberals clinically nuts	2 00:00 Anonymoose [15]
Ivory Coast's 'big-bottom' craze	11 00:00 RD [15]
Japanese expatriates find uneasy refuge in Foreign Legion	4 00:00 Mike [13]
Drag Judge Convicted In DWI Case Resigns	4 00:00 CrazyFool [7]
image is everything	1 00:00 Jack is Back! [7]
Woman Dies After Fall From UN Building	5 00:00 tu3031 [8]
Nancy Reagan Hospitalized After Falling	4 00:00 Mike Kozlowski [7]

    
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                        23:17 anymouse

                        23:16 Mercutio

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                        22:49 Halliburton - Hyperbolic Idiot Detection Service

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                        22:35 Thromorong Wittlesbach1916

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                        22:34 JosephMendiola

                        22:33 Anonymoose

                        22:30 Old Patriot

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Who's in the News
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11	Hamas
8	Global Jihad
5	Taliban
4	Govt of Pakistan
4	Govt of Iran
3	al-Qaeda in Iraq
2	Hezbollah
2	al-Qaeda in Britain
2	Iraqi Insurgency
2	IRGC
1	TNSM
1	Muslim Brotherhood
1	Palestinian Authority
1	PFLP-GC
1	Hizb-ut-Tahrir
1	al-Qaeda

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Two weeks of WOT

Mon 2008-02-18
Explosion rocks West Texas oil refinery

Sun 2008-02-17
Somali president unhurt in mortar attack on residence

Sat 2008-02-16
Islamic Jihad commander kabooms himself, family, neighbors

Fri 2008-02-15
Multiple explosions at TX pipelines near Mexican border

Thu 2008-02-14
Muslim group 'planned mass murder'

Wed 2008-02-13
Mugniyeh rots

Tue 2008-02-12
Mansour Dadullah in custody in Pak

Mon 2008-02-11
UN offices attacked in Mogadishu

Sun 2008-02-10
UK Oil Rig Evacuated After Bomb Alert

Sat 2008-02-09
Sudan planes, militia attack Darfur towns-witnesses

Fri 2008-02-08
Israel may target Hamas heads

Thu 2008-02-07
WMD Documents Found in NYC Apartment of Iraq Translator

Wed 2008-02-06
Baitullah declares hudna

Tue 2008-02-05
Nine dead as Israel strikes Gaza after suicide kaboom

Mon 2008-02-04
Woman killed, one critically hurt in Dimona suicide attack

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