Coalition, Afghan Forces Detain Insurgents
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60828
WASHINGTON, Sept. 13, 2010 – Coalition and Afghan forces disrupted numerous Taliban compounds throughout Afghanistan in recent days, detaining dozens of insurgent suspects and killing several in firefights, military officials reported.
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Face of Defense: Airman’s Hobby Boosts Performance
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60817
KUNSAN AIR BASE, South Korea, Sept. 13, 2010 – An 8th Security Forces Squadron airman here has found an off-duty activity that helps him develop his leadership skills while achieving an ultimate personal goal.
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US Missile Strike Kills 10 in Northwest Pakistan
http://www.voanews.com/english/news/US-Missile-Strike-Kills-10-in-Northwest-Pakistan-102856994.html
Pakistani intelligence officials say a U.S. missile strike has killed at least 10 militants in the country’s northwestern tribal region near the Afghan border. The officials say a series of missiles fired from a drone aircraft Tuesday struck a militant compound in the Shawal district of North Waziristan.
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Gold Prices Surge, Top $1,270
http://www.thestreet.com/story/10860015/1/gold-prices-surge-higher-top-1260.html
NEW YORK (TheStreet ) — Gold prices were popping Tuesday as investors turned to gold as safe-haven asset after a slew of disappointing economic data.
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IMF fears ‘social explosion’ from world jobs crisis
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/8000561/IMF-fears-social-explosion-from-world-jobs-crisis.html
America and Europe face the worst jobs crisis since the 1930s and risk “an explosion of social unrest” unless they tread carefully, the International Monetary Fund has warned.
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20 States Prepare for Day in Court Against Health Care Law
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/09/13/states-prepare-day-court-health-care-law/?test=latestnews
PENSACOLA, Florida — The Obama administration will try to persuade a federal judge Tuesday to throw out a lawsuit by 20 states that claim the president’s health care overhaul is unconstitutional.
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DOJ Inspector General to Investigate Obama Administration’s Voting Rights Record
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/doj-inspector-general-to-investigate-obama-administrations-voting-rights-record/
In a letter to members of Congress today, Veteran Department of Justice Inspector General Glenn Fine announced he will be investigating the Obama administration‘s enforcement of civil rights laws in the DOJ’s Voting Section office.
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Feds Spent $800,000 of Economic Stimulus on African Genital-Washing Program
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/75198
(CNSNews.com) – The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), a division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spent $823,200 of economic stimulus funds in 2009 on a study by a UCLA research team to teach uncircumcised African men how to wash their genitals after having sex.
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Obama Paid $18k to Monitor ‘Negative’ Coverage of Oil Spill
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/obama-administration-hired-media-guru-to-monitor-negative-coverage-of-oil-spill-response/
WASHINGTON (AP) – The federal government hired a New Orleans man for $18,000 to appraise whether news stories about its actions in the Gulf oil spill were positive or negative for the Obama administration, which was keenly sensitive to comparisons between its response and former President George W. Bush’s much-maligned reaction to Hurricane Katrina.
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Lookout! Government peering at you with X-rays on highway
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=202853
A plain white van moving through traffic on a busy thoroughfare looks like a delivery vehicle, making a run to a local business. It could be any plain white van in any American city.
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American Rancher X – Part 1
http://bigpeace.com/pdollard/2010/09/14/american-rancher-x-part-1/
I remember using the Jeep Cherokee’s door for cover, moving fast, hunched over, running zig-zag from tree to boulder to tree for cover, instinctively, as if I was still in the sniper hell of Ramadi.
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Mexican Police Probe Juarez Car Bomb Plot
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/09/13/mexican-police-probe-juarez-car-bomb-plot/
Mexican authorities are investigating who was responsible for a car bomb found in Ciudad Juarez and later disarmed with a controlled explosion by federal police.
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China diverting U.S. military technology to Iran
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=202837
As Obama administration policymakers press to liberalize U.S. export controls to placate the U.S. defense industry and make higher levels of technology more accessible to China, U.S. intelligence has determined that China in fact is acquiring U.S. “militarily critical” technology for Iran’s military and nuclear programs, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
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Iran releases American woman
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/iran-releases-american-woman-2078967.html
The lawyer of an American woman detained in Iran says she has been released from custody but is still in the prison finalising details. The lawyer, Masoud Shafiei, says Sarah Shourd “has been released and she has to go through the formalities inside the prison.”
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Associate of Ground Zero Imam Is a 9/11 ‘Truther’
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/associate-of-ground-zero-imam-is-a-911-truther/
A founding member of an organization run by imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, the lead protagonist for the proposed Cordoba mosque near Ground Zero, has made claims that the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 were an “inside job” and that Muslims have been falsely and improperly made into scapegoats.
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Stakelbeck on Terror: Inside al Qaeda with Former Terrorist, bin Laden Associate Noman Benotman.
http://bigpeace.com/estakelbeck/2010/09/13/stakelbeck-on-terror-inside-al-qaeda-with-former-terrorist-bin-laden-associate-noman-benotman/
A few months back, I traveled to London, where I interviewed a veritable who’s who of the city’s most notorious Islamic radicals and wanted terrorists (see my reports here, here and here). But perhaps my most fascinating interview on that trip was my lengthy conversation with a man who has actually renounced violent jihad—at least, of the “offensive” variety.
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Officer, security guard honored for stopping armed soldier
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=12407323
SALT LAKE CITY — On Aug. 27, a Salt Lake City police officer stopped what could have been a disaster. He fatally shot a heavily-armed soldier outside of the Grand America Hotel, whom investigators believe had a deadly plan.
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September 12, 2010 — Operation RoosterISF lead medical, humanitarian visit
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/isf-lead-medical-humanitarian-mission
KARMAH — U.S. Army medics joined their Iraqi counterparts here Tuesday for an Iraqi Security Forces-led medical clinic and humanitarian mission where hundreds of area residents received free medical care and essential supplies.
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Bagram servicemembers, civilians run in honor of 9/11
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3284-bagram-servicemembers-civilians-run-in-honor-of-911.html
BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – More than 2,200 deployed servicemembers and civilians ran 9.11 km here Sept. 11 in remembrance of 9/11. Before starting the Patriot Day Run, U.S. Coast Guard 1st Lt. Jim Cullen, the Redeployment Assistance and Inspection Detachment team officer in charge, spoke to the large crowd in front of the airfield chapel about his experience on that infamous day.
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Kunar teams commemorate Patriot Day
http://www.cjtf101.com/en/regional-command-east-news-mainmenu-401/3283-kunar-teams-commemorate-patriot-day.html
KUNAR PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Soldiers, Airmen, Sailors and civilians of the Kunar Provincial Reconstruction Team and the Iowa National Guard’s 734th Agri-Business Development Team held a solemn ceremony here to commemorate Patriot Day and the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York City’s Twin Towers, the Pentagon and those lost in Shanksville, Pa. The ceremony started at exactly 8:47 a.m. Eastern time, the same time the attacks began in 2001.
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Denver’s Finest Climb 110 Stories to Honor 9/11 Firefighters
http://www.gnn.com/article/denvers-finest-climb-110-stories-to/1265283
(Sept. 10) — Constructions workers were paving Jordan Legan’s street the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. He and his dad climbed into the car, headed to Legan’s Colorado middle school. Instead of its usual sports jabber, their favorite radio station was reporting that a plane had flown into one of the World Trade Centers in New York.
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Suspected US missile strike kills 5 in Pakistan
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iFjeLpY0WWXBnPMXduA-Ml0Z4TDwD9I6D4AG0
MIR ALI, Pakistan — A suspected U.S. missile strike Sunday killed at least five associates of a warlord who is fighting Western troops in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.
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‘Unpaid pay czar’ got 6-figure salary
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=201961
Contrary to press reports that he would not be compensated, uncovered Treasury Department documents reveal President Obama’s pay czar, Kenneth Feinberg, received a $120,830 annual salary.
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Daniel Rubin: An infuriating search at Philadelphia International Airport
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/columnists/daniel_rubin/20100818_Daniel_Rubin__An_infuriating_search_at_Philadelphia_International_Airport.html?viewAll=y
At what point does an airport search step over the line? How about when they start going through your checks, and the police call your husband, suspicious you were clearing out the bank account?
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Mexican Gunmen Fire at Border Patrol Agents
http://www.krgv.com/news/local/story/Mexican-Gunmen-Fire-at-Border-Patrol-Agents/YR9M9I1TsEO-UB47uLS2Eg.cspx
ANZALDUAS PARK – The FBI is investigating after armed men shot at border patrol agents on the Rio Grande. A Border Patrol Spokesperson tells CHANNEL 5 NEWS agents chased a vehicle to the river’s edge near Anzalduas Park this morning.
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Iran says it will release US hiker
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3384ab06-be83-11df-a755-00144feab49a.html
Iran’s judiciary has announced that one of three US hikers jailed on charges of espionage will be released on bail because of her poor health. But Sunday’s announcement follows contradictory messages over the fate of Sarah Shourd, 32.
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West needs new missile shield against Iranian nuclear threat, Nato chief says
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/7996581/West-needs-new-missile-shield-against-Iranian-nuclear-threat-Nato-chief-says.html
Anders Fogh Rasmussen told The Sunday Telegraph he has full American backing for a proposed €200 million (£165 million) defensive “shield”, which he hopes will be agreed in November at a summit of members in Lisbon.
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Like the ’55 Chevy, the 3,000-Mile Oil Change Is Pretty Much History
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Like-the-55-Chevy-the-nytimes-3825041162.html?x=0&mod=pf-family-home
I STILL remember learning from my father how to carefully remove a dipstick to check the oil level in our cars. It was drilled into me — along with turning off the lights when you left a room and clearing the plates off the table after dinner — that oil needs to be changed every 3,000 miles or so.
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Good Samaritan Thwarts Bank Robbery
http://www.gnn.com/article/good-samaritan-thwarts-bank-robbery/1264322
ST. FRANCIS, Wis. (Sept. 9) — A good Samaritan has thwarted a bank robbery in Wisconsin by jumping on an armed man.
The Associated Bank’s surveillance video shows the man at a counter when the masked robber carrying a gun rushes to a teller at the bank in St. Francis at about 1 p.m. Wednesday.
