International Business News - Raid http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Police say they raided a cockfight in a rural part of Dallas, arresting three organizers and sending hundreds of spectators fleeing into the woods. Police spokesman Jerry Monreal says nearly 400 people who paid $20 admission scrambled as officers broke up a cockfight Saturday at a boxing ring-sized pit. Misdemeanor citations were issued to about 100 who were caught. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081130/hundreds-flee-raided-dallas-cockfight-3-arrested.htm Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:07:37 EST The former owners of a New Bedford leather goods factory raided last year by immigration agents will pay $850,000 to workers--including illegal immigrants--to settle a lawsuit claiming the company violated wage laws, attorneys said Tuesday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081118/mass-factory-raided-last-year-settles-worker-suit.htm Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:58:50 EST The president of a New Bedford leather-goods factory that was raided last year by immigration agents has pleaded guilty to harboring and concealing illegal immigrants. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081104/mass-factory-owner-guilty-in-immigration-case.htm Tue, 04 Nov 2008 08:26:42 EST The president of a New Bedford leather-goods factory that was raided last year by immigration agents has pleaded guilty to harboring and concealing illegal immigrants. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081103/plant-owner-reaches-plea-deal-in-immigration-case.htm Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:12:06 EST The first account came from the police: In a September raid on a fourth-floor apartment in a crowded Muslim neighborhood, authorities stumbled upon the heart of a militant network behind a series of bombings. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081101/truth-and-rumor-mix-in-indian-terror-shooting.htm Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:15:02 EDT An Ecuadorean presidential commission has concluded that U.S. intelligence services infiltrated the Andean nation's military and police and supported a cross-border incursion by Colombian troops that killed a top rebel commander. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/164441-ecuador-us.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/ecuador-alleges-clear-signs-of-cia-infiltration.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081031/ecuador-alleges-clear-signs-of-cia-infiltration.htm Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:00:32 EDT The deadly U.S. raid into Syria may complicate efforts to win approval for a new U.S.-Iraqi security deal by drawing attention to a fact many Iraqis detest--that they can't control everything American forces might do. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/161100-mideast-syria-us-raid.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081028/analysis-raid-into-syria-complicates-iraqs-ties.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081028/analysis-raid-into-syria-complicates-iraqs-ties.htm Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:13:45 EDT The Syrian government ordered an American school and a U.S. cultural center in Damascus closed Tuesday in response to a deadly U.S. attack on a village near the Iraq border, the state-run news agency said. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/161439-correction-mideast-syria-us.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081028/us-official-raid-on-syria-killed-leader-of-cell.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081028/us-official-raid-on-syria-killed-leader-of-cell.htm Tue, 28 Oct 2008 15:26:32 EDT A cross-border raid by U.S. special forces killed the al-Qaida-linked head of a Syrian network that smuggled fighters, weapons and cash into Iraq, an American counterterrorism official said Monday. Blood stained the earth in this border village as anguished Syrians buried relatives they said were killed in the U.S. helicopter attack Sunday. Some shouted anti-American slogans and carried banners reading "Down with Bush and the American enemy." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/160452-syria.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081027/syrians-hold-funerals-people-killed-raid.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081027/syrians-hold-funerals-people-killed-raid.htm Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:18:22 EDT U.S. military helicopters launched an extremely rare attack Sunday on Syrian territory close to the border with Iraq, killing eight people in a strike the government in Damascus condemned as "serious aggression." http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/160247-syria_raid.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081026/witnesses-us-helicopters-attack-syrian-village.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081026/witnesses-us-helicopters-attack-syrian-village.htm Sun, 26 Oct 2008 21:37:45 EDT Anti-terrorism police seized bomb-making materials and a large cache of weapons and ammunition during a raid Tuesday on a house in the Indonesian capital, police and a local television station reported. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081021/anti-terror-police-raid-home-in-indonesian-capital.htm Tue, 21 Oct 2008 04:44:35 EDT Norwegian economic crime police raided Fast Search and Transfer ASA headquarters in Oslo on Thursday on suspicion that it inflated revenue before it was bought up by Microsoft Corp. for $1.2 billion in January. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081016/norwegian-police-raid-microsoft-subsidiary.htm Thu, 16 Oct 2008 07:45:45 EDT In an Oct. 8 story about the aftermath of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid on a poultry processing plant, The Associated Press reported that an agency spokeswoman said the raid occurred because people were violating immigration law. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081009/clarification-immigration-raid-story.htm Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:01:49 EDT When Magdalana Domingo Ramirez Lopez moved to this South Carolina city nearly two years ago to work at the chicken processing plant, she felt at home. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/147783-immigration-raid.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/300-suspected-illegal-immigrants-caught-in-sc-raid.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081008/300-suspected-illegal-immigrants-caught-in-sc-raid.htm Wed, 08 Oct 2008 22:55:59 EDT Federal agents swept through a chicken processing plant Tuesday, detaining more than 300 suspected illegal immigrants, sending panicked workers running and screaming through the hallways. Worried relatives collected outside, fearful their loved ones would be deported. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/146983-immigration-raid.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/feds-300-suspected-illegals-held-after-sc-raid.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081007/feds-300-suspected-illegals-held-after-sc-raid.htm Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:16:08 EDT Officials found hundreds of animals crowded into a filthy, foul-smelling compound and dozens of puppy carcasses in a freezer, and the kennel's owner lost his license to operate Thursday and was charged with animal cruelty. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/144185-kennel-raid.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/agents-raid-pa-kennel-find-hundreds-of-animals.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20081002/agents-raid-pa-kennel-find-hundreds-of-animals.htm Thu, 02 Oct 2008 18:44:09 EDT Responding to allegations of worker abuse at the nation's biggest kosher slaughterhouse, an organization of Orthodox Jewish rabbis announced Wednesday it was forming a task force to craft Jewish principles and ethical guidelines covering the kosher food industry and business in general. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080924/2-in-iowa-plants-hr-department-plead-not-guilty.htm Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:40:47 EDT The U.S. military says seven Iraqis have been killed in a raid by American troops backed by attack aircraft targeting al-Qaida in Iraq. A military statement says those killed Friday in the Sunni town of Adwar include four suspected insurgents and three women. It says a child has been pulled from the rubble and is being treated at a nearby U.S. base. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080919/us-mil-7-iraqis-killed-in-raid-north-of-baghdad.htm Fri, 19 Sep 2008 07:33:25 EDT A New York judge threw out an indictment against five operators of a Florida pharmacy targeted almost two years ago in an investigation of illegal steroid sales over the Internet and by phone. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080911/ny-judge-drops-steroid-case-against-fla-pharmacy.htm Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:09:30 EDT Attorney General Jim Hood's office is determining whether a new Mississippi law was violated by Howard Industries in Laurel, the site of the largest workplace immigration raid in U.S. history. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080905/ag-to-decide-if-company-broke-mississippi-law.htm Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:27:04 EDT