TF Iron conducts air assault to stop insurgent attacks
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/press-releases-mainmenu-326/3554-tf-iron-conducts-air-assault-to-stop-insurgent-attacks.html
GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Task Force Iron Rakkasans continue thwart insurgent activities as three platoons took part in an air assault operation into Shamshay Village, Andar District, here Oct. 29.
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Biggest Week of Year for Markets Could Bring More Volatility
http://www.cnbc.com/id/39917655
The mid-term election and the Fed’s November meeting should clear away some uncertainties hanging over markets but may also lead to a new period of heightened volatility.
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Yemen Covert Role Pushed
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704477904575586634028056268.html?mod=WSJ_hp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsTop
WASHINGTON—The foiled mail bombing plot by suspected al Qaeda militants in Yemen has added urgency to an Obama administration review of expanded military options that include putting elite U.S. hunter-killer teams that operate secretly in the country under Central Intelligence Agency authority.
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Yemen: Al-Qaida turncoat alerted Saudis to plot
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101101/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_yemen_saudi_intelligence
SAN’a, Yemen – A leading al-Qaida militant in Yemen who surrendered to Saudi Arabia last month provided the tip that led to the thwarting of the mail bomb plot, Yemeni security officials said Monday.
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Mail Bombing Suspect Also Behind Attempted Christmas Day Bombing
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2010/10/31/mail-bombing-suspect-also-behind-attempted-christmas-day-bombing/
The person behind the mail bombs recovered in Britain and Dubai is believed to be the same suspect behind the attempted Christmas Day bombing over Detroit and the explosives that severely injured the Saudi counterterrorism chief in the summer of 2009, U.S. and Yemeni officials tell Fox News.
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Yemen official: Arrested woman didn’t mail bombs
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20101031/D9J6SETG0.html
WASHINGTON (AP) – A Yemeni official says authorities in Yemen no longer believe a woman arrested Saturday was the person who mailed two powerful bombs to the U.S.
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TSA Secure Flight Regulations Take Effect Nov. 1
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/2010/10/31/tsa-secure-flight-regulations-take-effect-nov-1/
TSA on Monday will begin requiring passengers to provide complete Secure Flight passenger data when booking reservations so the agency can conduct watch-list matching and approve airlines to issue boarding passes.
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Dem Congressman Objects to Voter Fraud Crackdown
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/dem-congressman-objects-to-voter-fraud-crackdown/
During a press conference Thursday, Minnesota Majority held a press conference to outline their objections to a local policy recently implemented that bans tea party-themed clothing and buttons at polling places, as well as the group’s Election Integrity campaign buttons which call on watchdog voters to report instances of voter fraud.
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Alaska Station’s Alleged ‘Context’ Doesn’t Match Content of Miller Recording
http://bigjournalism.com/sright/2010/10/31/cbs-affiliate-ktvas-alleged-context-doesnt-match-content-of-miller-recording/
Jerry Bever, general manager for Anchorage station KTVA, issued a statement today regarding the inadvertent voice mail left on the phone of a senior staff member of the Joe Miller campaign. He claimed that the discussion his staff members had regarding potential scandals for the Miller campaign was taken out of context.
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Bangor police officer denied right to vote after refusing to surrender weapon
http://www.bangordailynews.com/story/Greater-Bangor/Bangor-police-officer-denied-right-to-vote-after-refusing-to-surrender-weapon,157603
BANGOR, Maine — In the 18 years that he has been a police officer in Bangor, James Dearing couldn’t think of a single time when someone has asked him to turn over his firearm. Until last Friday.
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US faces first scrutiny by UN rights council
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.3fda6adee976b3a33a4faade5f6c18cd.fb1&show_article=1
The United States will come under the spotlight at the UN’s top human rights assembly’s for the first time over the coming week along with other countries that face scrutiny by the Human Rights Council.
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2,000 rally in Moscow, demand freedom of assembly
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/31/AR2010103102294.html
MOSCOW — Nearly 2,000 people gathered in central Moscow on Sunday demanding freedom of assembly in a rare sanctioned rally. The Russian opposition protests on the 31st day of each month are a nod to the 31st Article of the Russian constitution, which guarantees the right of assembly.
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Saudi Columnists: The Government Program to Rehabilitate Extremists is a Failure
http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4718.htm
According to recent reports in the Saudi press, the Saudi Interior Ministry has released 11 prisoners who participated in its Munasaha program, a counseling and guidance program for security prisoners established by the ministry in 2003 with the intent of encouraging them to renounce their extremist beliefs.
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Chavez Says Venezuela’s Golf Courses Should Be Seized, Put to Other Uses
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-31/chavez-says-venezuela-s-golf-courses-should-be-seized-put-to-other-uses.html
President Hugo Chavez said some of Venezuela’s golf courses should be expropriated and used for other purposes. “That’s an injustice — that someone should have the luxury of having I don’t know how many hectares to play golf and drink whiskey and, next door, there’s misery and children dying when there are landslides,” Chavez said during his weekly television show, “Alo, Presidente.”
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80-year-old clocks 39,000 miles on foot
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2010/10/31/80-year-old-clocks-39000-miles-on-foot/UPI-13271288553668/
DALLAS, Oct. 31 (UPI) — An 80-year-old Dallas man who has run at least a mile a day every day since Nov. 5, 1974, says it is just something he’s “got to do.” Every day, Walter Byerly runs at least one continuous mile out of a desire to maintain his health, The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday.
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July 15, 2010 — Operation RoosterIraqis Arrest 4 Suspects in Combined Operations
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60010
WASHINGTON, July 14, 2010 – Iraqi security forces arrested four suspected criminal associates of al-Qaida in Iraq members during combined operations with U.S. advisors in the last two days.
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US army hands over last prison in Iraq
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gxdncr_bDe0-MKZjdePmDa_2oaaA
BAGHDAD — The US army handed control of Camp Cropper prison to Iraqi authorities on Thursday, effectively ending one of the most controversial chapters of the seven-year-long American military occupation.
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Mountain warriors capture insurgent leader
http://www.cjtf101.com/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3010-mountain-warriors-capture-insurgent-leader.html
PARWAN PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Soldiers from Troop A, 1st Squadron, 172nd Cavalry Regiment, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (Mountain) conducted an air assault and captured an important insurgent leader in a mountain cave in Parwan Province June 30.
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Face of Defense: Guardsman Retires After 56 Years
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60008
SPRINGFIELD, Ill., July 14, 2010 – A young man working on a farm in Illinois decided to enlist in the National Guard in March 1953 after he received a challenge from his friend and employer.
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Keep Offshore Drilling in the U.S. Afloat
http://michelebachmann.townhall.com/blog/g/beab623e-8225-4ddb-9f8a-a38ec018fc9c
As the unemployment rate sits at 9.5%, American jobs are literally floating away. Two oil drilling rigs from the Gulf of Mexico recently embarked on a two month journey overseas. Diamond Offshore announced one rig is going to the Nile River delta of Egypt and the other is heading to the Republic of Congo; and their job opportunities went with them.
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Spy swap puts halt to fact finding
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/13/spy-swap-puts-halt-to-fact-finding/
The Obama administration’s rapid release of 10 Russian intelligence officers removed the prospect of a public trial revealing embarrassing facts about Russian influence operations, like the targeting of a key Democratic Party financier close to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton.
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Justice: Sanctuary cities safe from law
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/jul/14/justice-sanctuary-cities-are-no-arizona/
A week after suing Arizona and arguing that the state’s immigration law creates a patchwork of rules, the Obama administration said it will not go after so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with the federal government on immigration enforcement, on the grounds that they are not as bad as a state that “actively interferes.”.
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F*ck Yeah! Court Strikes Down FCC Rule Against Unscripted Expletives
http://consumerist.com/2010/07/fck-yeah-court-strikes-down-fcc-rule-against-unscripted-expletives.html
The next time Bono drops the F-bomb while accepting an award or Janet Jackson’s nipple makes a cameo appearance at the Super Bowl, broadcasters won’t have to worry about facing mammoth fines from the FCC. A federal appeals court has said “f@ck this sh&t” to the controversial ban.
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U.S. pockets $20.6 bln in sin taxes in FY’09
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-50132620100714
(Reuters) – Americans armed themselves to the teeth and paid through the nose to have a smoke, according to a U.S. government report released on Wednesday.
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Signs of the Stimulus
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/signs-stimulus/story?id=11163180
As the midterm election season approaches, new road signs are popping up everywhere – millions of dollars worth of signs touting “The American Reinvestment and Recovery Act” and reminding passers-by that the program is “Putting America Back to Work..
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Fed paints weaker picture of growth and employment
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100714/ap_on_bi_ge/us_fed_forecast
WASHINGTON – Federal Reserve officials have a slightly dimmer view of the economy than they did in April, reflecting worries about how the European debt crisis could affect U.S. growth and job prospects.
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Brief for 9 states backs Arizona immigration law
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100715/D9GVBRK80.html
DETROIT (AP) – States have the authority to enforce immigration laws and protect their borders, Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox said Wednesday in a legal brief on behalf of nine states supporting Arizona’s immigration law.
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U.S. paid Iranian nuclear scientist $5 million for aid to CIA, officials say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/15/AR2010071501395_pf.html
The Iranian nuclear scientist who claimed to have been abducted by the CIA before departing for his homeland Wednesday was paid more than $5 million by the agency to provide intelligence on Iran’s nuclear program, U.S. officials said.
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Justice Department withheld evidence from 9/11 panel
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=179093
A U.S. congressman from Virginia charges the Justice Department withheld from Congress and the 9/11 Commission key documents concerning the investigation of a fugitive al-Qaida cleric at the heart of the Sept. 11, 2001, plot and other terrorism.
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What?! FBI weblinks promote Ayers, Peltier
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=178929
The website for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which is assigned to protect the United States and enforce its laws, links to sites that laud the work of unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers and promote freedom for convicted agent-killer Leonard Peltier.
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Somali Terror Group al-Shabaab Gets World Attention
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/07/14/somali-terror-group-al-shabaab-gets-world-attention/
The Somali militants who formed the hard-line terrorist group al-Shabaab carried out their first suicide attack in 2006, during the height of violence in Iraq. The world hardly noticed.
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Fundraising under way to train a dog to assist a paralyzed Parma Heights woman
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2010/07/_animals_in_the_news_1.html
The nonprofit Central Ohio K9 Unit and the owner of Verso Italian restaurant in Parma are raising money to train a puppy who will assist a paralyzed Parma Heights woman.
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18th-Century Ship Found at Trade Center Site
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/14/18th-century-ship-found-at-trade-center-site/?src=mv
In the middle of tomorrow, a great ribbed ghost has emerged from a distant yesterday. On Tuesday morning, workers excavating the site of the underground vehicle security center for the future World Trade Center hit a row of sturdy, upright wood timbers, regularly spaced, sticking out of a briny gray muck flecked with oyster shells.
