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Tax Dodgers Beware: IRS Forms Elite 'SWAT Team'

Reuters | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Covington, Taxes, Kpmg, Congress, Swat, Tax Costs, University of Southern California, Video, Ernst and Young, Irs, Services, U.S. Internal Revenue Service, Goods, Reuters, Joint Committee on Taxation, IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman, Business News

* Tax evasion by 'transfer pricing' a top target for agency * Talent coming in from Big Four audit, law, consulting firms ...

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Elvis Impersonator Blames Bomb And Ricin Scare On Diabetes

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Standoff, Wmd, Video, Michael Conley, Dumb Crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Hoax, Swat, Florida Crime, America's Best Value Inn, Michael Hughes, Ricin, Crime News

You ain't nothin' but a diabetic bomb hoaxer, cryin' to the cops. Michael Conley, a 64-year-old Elvis impersonator, allegedly locked himself inside...

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Two Cry Weapon Of Mass Destruction At Motel

Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: Standoff, Michael Conley, Video, Wmd, Dumb Crime, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Hoax, Swat, America's Best Value Inn, Florida Crime, Michael Hughes, Ricin, Crime News

Two Florida men were charged with serious felonies after they threatened cops with a weapon of mass destruction -- all because they didn't want to get...

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All That Money, Too Few Terrorists

Norm Stamper | Posted 11.23.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, Radley Balko, Military, Homeland Security, Marijuana, Terrorism, 9/11, Drug War, Community Policing, Fourth Amendment, S.W.a.T., Crime News
Norm Stamper

Police in a democracy belong to the people they serve. Yet one would be hard pressed to picture today's police departments even approximating the ideal of a "people's police."

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Another 9/11? Call 911

Norm Stamper | Posted 07.14.2011

Read More: Abbottabad, Law Enforcement, Military Tribunals, Pakistan, George W. Bush, Iraq, K-9, F.B.I., Osama Bin Laden, Military, Al-Qaeda, Afghanistan, Enhanced Interrogation, C.I.A., Bin Laden Tora Bora, S.W.a.T, Terrorism, Decade After 9/11 - National Security, Politics News
Norm Stamper

The capture of bin Laden argues elegantly against high-priced, nation-building, mission-creeping war, and its inevitable collateral damage, in order to go after individuals who are, at bottom, criminals.

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Police Deploy ROBOT To End Standoff

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Milwaukee Standoff, Swat, Milwaukee, Police Robot, Milwaukee Police, Chicago, Chicago News

MILWAUKEE — Officers sent in a robot they normally use to defuse explosives to break an SUV window and end a standoff that shut down a major Mil...

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The Buddha Image...Out Of Uddiyana: A Conversation with Collector Nik Douglas, plus a Forward by Tibet House's President Robert Thurman

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.26.2011

Read More: Tibert House, Swat, Dalai Lama, Uma Thurman, Artifacts, Bbc, Pierre Bernard, Pakistan, Iraq, Nik Douglas, Buddha, The Moody Blues, The Graham Bond Organization, Cream, Iran, Radio Caroline, Jesus Christ, The Buckinghams, Taliban, Buckingham Palace, India, Afghanistan, Gandhara, Robert Thurman, Hinduism, Museum, Padmassambhava, Uddiyana, Indo-Greco, Arts News
Mike Ragogna

The following is the "Foreword" from The Buddha Image: Out of Uddiyana show catalogue courtesy of Tibet House US. It was written by Robert Thurman, ...

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Inspector General Criticism Doesn't Faze FBI Raids on Midwestern Anti-war Activists

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

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Coleen Rowley

An FBI agent gains "stats" for serving subpoenas, national security letters, executing search warrants, contacting confidential sources, etc., whether or not any relevant evidence is obtained via this "work".

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Compassion in Taliban Territory

Akbar Ahmed | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swat Relief Initiative, Swat, Pakistan, Taliban, World, Development, Public Health, Terrorism, US-Muslim Relations, World News
Akbar Ahmed

If you were a Swati and lived in that idyllic land and were suddenly forced to leave your home to seek shelter outside the district, and then saw the ...

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Columbia, Missouri, SWAT kills family dog over misdemeanor marijuana possession (with video)

Russ Belville | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Swat, Raids, Marijuana, Pit Bulls, Dog Shooting, Canicide, Drugs, Columbia Missouri, Missouri, Dogs, Video, Healthy Living News
Russ Belville

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DC police kill grandmother's dog while serving drug warrant

Russ Belville | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Swat, Drug Raids, Aspca, Humane Society, Dog Shooting, Canicide, Missouri, Lagrange, Peta, Massachusetts, Dogs, Healthy Living News
Russ Belville

Please take a moment to sign the petition at http://CopsSayLegalizeDrugs.com/animals to protest the cruelty of the unnecessary killing of pet dogs by ...

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Regulatory Swat Team Approach Needed

The 14th Banker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Banks, Elizabeth Warren, Financial Regulation, Financial Reform, Swat, Business News
The 14th Banker

Regulators should have access to any information they request at any time. They should have robust field communication amongst themselves. They must be given system access.

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Interview: Colin Farrell and Neil Jordan on Ondine

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

Neil Jordan and Colin Farrell, in New York for the screening of their film Ondine at the Tribeca Film Festival in late April, make an amusingly mismat...

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Movie Review: Ondine

Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011

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Marshall Fine

A witty, fanciful and touching film, Ondine is part myth, part fairy tale, part wistful romance. It's quietly surprising in its own lovely way.

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SWAT and the Drug War: License to Kill

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swat, Civil Liberties, Radley Balko, Seattle, Cato Institute, Homeland Security, Richard Nixon, San Diego, Jonathan Whitworth, Paramilitary, Police Chief Daryl Gates, Columbia Missouri, Lapd, War on Drugs, Barack Obama, Politics News
Norm Stamper

As long as this country remains addicted to current drug laws, the police will have to enforce those laws. But where is it written that they must show up in the dead of night, armed and armored, in order to do so?

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Robert Cottle, LAPD Officer, Killed In Afghanistan

Los Angeles Times | Joel Rubin and Tony Perry | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swat, LAPD Afghanistan, Marines, Afghanistan, Lapd, Robert Cottle, Afghanistan War, Los Angeles News

A member of the Los Angeles Police Department's elite SWAT unit, who also served as a U.S. Marine, was killed Wednesday in Afghanistan by a roadside b...

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View from Pakistan: Today's Blast

Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Swat, Pakistan Suicide Bombing, War on Terror, Northwestern Frontier Province, Pakistan, Checkpoints, Proxy War, Fata, Baluchistan, Punjab, British, International Islamic University, Tribal Areas, Lahore, Islamabad, Peshawar, Iran, Rawalpindi, South Waziristan, Sindh, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Afghanistan, India, Schools, Hillary Clinton, Nwfp, Universities, World News
Shirin Sadeghi

Pakistani children may be enjoying the break, but most of them know exactly why they can't go to school. I sit stiff as one boy looks up from his video game to tell me the school buses might not be safe right now.

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Virgina Post Office Hostage Standoff

AP | MITCH WEISS | Posted 05.25.2011

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WYTHEVILLE, Va. — A daylong standoff at a small-town Virginia post office ended peacefully with three hostages being released and a suspect who ...

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Mona Sarika | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mona Sarika

Due to repeated instances of plagiarism and misattribution, both on HuffPost and elsewhere, Mona Sarika's work has been removed and will no longer app...

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Taliban Returns To Pakistan; Immediate New Offensive By Pak Army In Waziristan Unlikely

Naveen Naqvi | Posted 05.25.2011

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Naveen Naqvi

Now if the Pakistani Taliban have regrouped and found a leader in the newly elected Hakeemullah Mehsud, is it a good time for the Pakistan military to launch a new offensive in Waziristan?

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Pakistan Army Accused Of Extrajudicial Killings In Swat

nytimes.com | JANE PERLEZ and PIR ZUBAIR SHAH | Posted 05.25.2011

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MINGORA, Pakistan Two months after the Pakistani Army wrested control of the Swat Valley from Taliban militants, a new campaign of fear has taken hold...

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Pakistani Forces Arrest Taliban Spokesman In Swat

Reuters | Zeeshan Haider | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) �" Pakistani security forces have arrested the spokesman for the Taliban in the Swat valley, the military said, the first major ...

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More Deaths In Pakistan Drone Attacks

Al Jazeera English | Posted 05.25.2011

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At least 10 people have been killed after a suspected US drone fired missiles into Pakistan's North Waziristan region, Pakistani intelligence has said...

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Pakistan Army Kills 45 Taliban; Border Reopens

AP | ZARAR KHAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pakistan War on Terror, Pakistan, Pakistan Taliban, Swat, Pakistan Border, Pakistan Swat, Taliban, Obama Pakistan, Pakistan Troops, Pakistan Crisis, Swat Valley, Pakistan Swat Valley, North West Frontier, Pakistan Army Taliban, Taliban Swat Valley, Pakistan Army, Taliban Pakistan, Taliban Swat, World News

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani soldiers killed at least 45 Taliban militants in scattered gunbattles across the northwestern Swat Valley after a suicide ...

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Majority Of Pakistan Swat IDPs Back Home

GroundReport | Posted 05.25.2011

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ISLAMABAD: Around 90 per cent displaced people, out of the total, due to the operation in Swat, have so far returned to their homes....

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