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Italian revenue guards meanwhile reported having arrested 20 people in a wide-ranging operation against migrant traffickers from Niger.

It is also the first wide-ranging operation since the United States military withdrew combat forces from Iraq's cities in June.

And these wide-ranging operations -- whether ice-cream stands whose employees are paid very low wages, landscaping concerns that hire new immigrants, or home-based businesses with just one or two employees -- generally have few ties to the Chamber of Commerce or lobbying groups.

The state-run media quoted the military command as saying "wide-ranging" operations commenced to "liberate" Ramadi, about 60 miles west of Baghdad, the Iraqi capital.

On Christmas day 2011, the intelligence-analysis firm Stratfor, which Anonymous accused of running a wide-ranging spying operation, was hacked.

It was part of a wide-ranging sting operation that snared some four dozen politicians, rabbis and others, drawing national news coverage and reinforcing New Jersey's reputation as a leader in official sleaze.

WASHINGTON — A wide-ranging surveillance operation by the Food and Drug Administration against a group of its own scientists used an enemies list of sorts as it secretly captured thousands of e-mails that the disgruntled scientists sent privately to members of Congress, lawyers, labor officials, journalists and even President Obama, previously undisclosed records show.

Interpol has announced that it arrested nearly 200 people in a wide-ranging international operation against illegal logging and the trafficking of timber.

We know about the full extent of their wide-ranging espionage operation because the hackers made a fatal mistake.

The strikes may have been few initially, but they appear to have set the scene for more aggressive and wide-ranging drone operations by the CIA.

The assertion has added to fresh scrutiny in the European news media of Berlin and other European governments that may have benefited from the enormous American snooping program known as Prism, or conducted wide-ranging surveillance operations of their own.