Operation Rooster

Iraqis Arrest 6 With Alleged Terrorist Ties
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60447
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16, 2010 – Iraqi security forces arrested six people who allegedly have ties to the al-Qaida in Iraq terrorist organization, military officials reported.
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ISF arrest AQI criminal associate in western Baghdad
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/press-releases/isf-arrest-aqi-criminal-associate-in-western-baghdad
BAGHDAD – Iraqi Security Forces arrested a suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) criminal associate during a joint security operation conducted in western Baghdad today.
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Iraqi Police host first outreach event
http://www.usf-iraq.com/news/headlines/iraqi-police-host-first-outreach-event
ANBAR PROVINCE – U.S. advise and assist operations here helped Iraqi Police host their first-ever community outreach event recently, donating school supplies, stuffed animals and clothes to nearly 20 orphaned children of police officers killed in the line of duty.
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Face of Defense: Physician Mentors Afghan Doctors
http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60444
PAKTIA PROVINCE, Afghanistan, Aug. 16, 2010 – Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Robert Sarlay Jr. has become fond of a quote by T.E. Lawrence: “Better the Arab do it tolerably than you do it perfectly.”
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Scathing Congress report slams Obama’s ‘covert, criminal activity’
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=191809
Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., the ranking Republican on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, issued a scathing staff report today charging that the White House has “used the machinery of the Obama campaign to tout the president’s agenda through inappropriate and sometimes unlawful public relations and propaganda initiatives.”
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How many socialists sit in Congress today?
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=191609
WASHINGTON – The Democratic Socialists of America boasted in a newsletter to insiders 70 of its members currently serve in Congress, but an independent survey by WND suggests the number of actual avowed or semi-secret socialists in the House and Senate is considerably higher – at least 82.
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U.S., S. Korea launch joint military exercises amid threats from N. Korea
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/16/AR2010081601551.html
TOKYO — Amid threats from North Korea, 86,000 U.S. and South Korean troops on Monday launched their latest round of joint military exercises, described by South Korean President Lee Myung-bak as a deterrent against war.
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Proud to be Union? How Unions Decimate Small Family-owned Businesses
http://biggovernment.com/laborunionreport/2010/08/16/proud-to-be-union-how-unions-decimate-small-family-owned-businesses/
As perverted as this may seem, there is almost no company that is too small to become a target of a union, as long as there are at least two employees. Even worse, adding to the already-lengthy trail of industrial carnage left by unions, American labor law gives today’s unions the right to destroy small companies under the guise of unionizing employees.
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Democrats Continue to Loot Food Stamp Fund, Now Helping the SEIU
http://biggovernment.com/sahiller/2010/08/16/democrats-continue-to-loot-food-stamp-fund-now-helping-the-seiu/
Medicare is broke. A record number of Americans are on food stamps thanks to all of the economic stimulus being thrown around by the Obama administration and congressional Democrats.
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The Dutch Connection: The Funding of the Ground Zero Mosque, Part 1
http://bigpeace.com/nmay/2010/08/16/the-dutch-connection-the-funding-of-the-ground-zero-mosque-part-1/
The organization behind the proposed Cordoba Initiative — more commonly known as the Ground Zero mosque — is the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA). As reported previously, the government of the Netherlands has been implicated in the funding of ASMA — $500,000 and $1,000,000 respectively, in separate instances — and thus can be considered a co-financier of the Ground Zero mosque.
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The Rotten Foundation of the Ground Zero Mosque
http://bigpeace.com/jperren/2010/08/15/the-rotten-foundation-of-the-ground-zero-mosque/
The organizers of the Ground Zero Mosque project have already won a big victory, in a way, and not just in New York’s city government rolling over and playing poodle.
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Britain’s New Export: Islamist Carnage
http://bigpeace.com/dpipes/2010/08/16/britains-new-export-islamist-carnage/
Britain’s largest and longest-running terrorist investigation ended last month with the conviction of three British Muslims. Their 2006 plot involved blowing up trans-Atlantic airliners with the hope of killing up to 10,000 people. That near-disaster offers a pungent reminder of the global danger poised by U.K.-based radical Islam.
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‘Iran to build third plant’
http://www.jpost.com/IranianThreat/News/Article.aspx?ID=184912
Iran will begin building a third facility for enriching uranium in 2011, said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy Organization on Sunday, according to an AFP report.
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Iranian Mullahs: Can We Talk? (Part 1)
http://bigpeace.com/phuessy/2010/08/15/iranian-mullahs-can-we-talk-part-1/
The Iranian Mullahs want to talk. So does the United States. Tehran wants to negotiate because the economic sanctions are hurting. The US wants to negotiate because it wants to be sure Iran is not building nuclear weapons. But can such talks work? The historical record is not promising.
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Explosive Devices Go Off Outside Mexico TV station Televisa
http://www.nationalterroralert.com/updates/2010/08/15/explosive-devices-go-off-outside-mexico-tv-station-televisa/
Threats against journalists in Mexico have continued to increase and today’s blasts indicate the threat level may be rising even higher. Officials from Mexico’s largest television network Televisa say an explosive device went off in front of their station in the northern city of Monterrey.
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Lawrence woman fends off large man’s attack
http://www1.whdh.com/news/articles/local/12001953700684/lawrence-woman-fends-off-attack-from-large-man/
LAWRENCE, Mass. — A Lawrence woman who said she had never been in a fight in her entire life fended off an attack from a much larger man late last month. She’s 5-foot-1 and barely more than 100 pounds, but full of fight.