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"IRAN SPY NETWORK 30,000 STRONG Pentagon report: Iranian intelligence linked to spying, terror attacks" SNIPPET: "Iran’s intelligence service includes 30,000 people who are engaged in covert and clandestine activities that range from spying to stealing technology to terrorist bombings and assassination, according to a Pentagon report." SNIPPET: "“MOIS provides financial, material, technological, or other support services to Hamas, Hezbollah, and al Qaeda in Iraq (AQI), all designated terrorist organizations under U.S. Executive Order 13224,” the report said. The spy service operates in all areas where Iran has interests, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Lebanon, Central Asia, Africa, Austria, Azerbaijan, Croatia, France,...

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) — A Marine sentenced to 20 years in military prison for cutting parachute suspension lines before a training jump will have to testify against another Marine charged in the case.Lance Cpl. Antoine D. Boykins was sentenced Thursday, a day after he pleaded guilty to nine counts of reckless endangerment, four counts of aggravated assault and one count of destruction of government property.Boykins, 21, admitted cutting suspension lines on 13 of the 22 parachutes that were to be used in the exercise Sept. 21. He said he knew someone could be killed or injured because reserve...

New York State police are investigating multiple incidents in Wyoming county and in neighboring Livingston county where some unknown culprits have been contaminating milk in bulk tanks with antibiotics. In some cases, the antibiotics were mysteriously injected into the cows themselves. It has been estimated that about 48,000 gallons of milk has been rendered useless due to these crimes. There have been fourteen seperate incidents reported thus far.As most rural New Yorkers are aware, Dairy Farming is the number one business Upstate. In Wyoming County alone it's a 116 million dollar industry, per year. While the police are somewhat baffled...

A man was charged Monday with storing deadly powdered cyanide in an underground passage that is part of the city's mass transit system. Joseph Konopka allegedly took over a Chicago Transit Authority storage room under the downtown district and stored sodium cyanide and potassium cyanide there. University of Illinois-Chicago police arrested Konopka and a juvenile Saturday night for allegedly trespassing, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court. They were found in a steam tunnel under the university's education building, according to the FBI. The FBI said Konopka was wanted on charges of fleeing to avoid prosecution in Wisconsin...