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WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today joined a coalition of other civil rights and advocacy organizations in calling on the FBI to eliminate anti-Muslim bias from the system used to train its agents. At a press conference this morning outside FBI headquarters in Washington, D.C., CAIR and the other groups expressed concerns about persistent reports that FBI agents are trained to view mainstream American Muslims with suspicion and to view the faith of Islam itself as the source of terrorism and extremism.
The Grizzlies have made contact with several free agents or their representatives, and general manager Chris Wallace even traveled a great distance to deliver his spiel. Just four days into the NBA's free-agent period the Grizzlies aren't exactly looking like a wallflower.
MACHIAS - The Washington County sheriff continued his public attempt to discredit the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency - a pattern established over the past several years - by repeating this week his accusation that the agency is covering up misdeeds by its agents. In a press release issued Thursday to nearly 20 news organizations in Maine and Canada, Sheriff Donnie Smith charged that MDEA failed to investigate missing drug funds in 2008, tried to cover up the possible theft, and then reacted only when the money was found lost during a routine audit.
MINNEAPOLIS - The FBI said it searched eight addresses in Minneapolis and Chicago as part of a terrorism investigation Friday. Warrants suggest agents were looking for connections between local anti-war activists and terrorist groups in Colombia and the Middle East. FBI spokesman Steve Warfield told The Associated Press agents served six warrants in Minneapolis and two in Chicago.
EVANSVILLE Atlas gets agents
Federal agents have increased radiation inspections in the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles amid concerns that nuclear meltdowns in Japan are affecting goods arriving on U.S. shores. Since March 18, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection has flagged 1,800 containers in the port complex for additional tests, though radiation levels were eventually deemed safe.
Insurance once again gets the bad press, agents are all thrown together in broad-brush accusations against their industry, and pundits everywhere rush to pile on. But the author can see clearly now, the rain is gone. And this is the perfect time of year to set aside droughts and plan for future harvests. He humbly suggests a modest duo of coverage-based seeds they can begin planting now in their own fertile fields. These are focus on the disaster, not the details and focus on feeling, not features. If they encounter customers who reason out not to buy certain coverage, he offers two suggestions. These are move along, nothing to see here and offer as an example something that keeps them awake. And once they know their fears, the benefit of knowing their coverage details becomes apparent:...
News Advisory: Colorado's Iranian-American Society will sponsor a press conference to express criticism of a report by Human Rights Watch.
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