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First Wave of Strikes Targets Leaders, Training Camps and Control Centers of Two Extremist Groups
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n U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria
hit militant leaders, training
camps and control centers,
U.S. officials said. The attacks
targeted both Islamic State
and an al Qaeda-linked group
that officials feared was planning terror attacks on the U.S.
and Europe. Follow-on strikes
continued Tuesday. A1, A6, A7
n Israel shot down a Syrian
fighter jet that entered its
airspace over the Golan
Heights, the first such strike
in nearly 29 years. A8
n A DOT report faults the
rollout of an upgrade to the
U.S. air-traffic-control system, saying technology costs
may outweigh benefits. A1
n Obama told the U.N. that
the U.S. and China have a
special responsibility to lead
efforts to cut emissions. A4
n The number of Ebola cases
could soar unless efforts to
curb the outbreak are ramped
up, health experts said. A11
n The rate of diabetes in
the U.S. may be leveling off
after doubling over nearly two
decades, a study shows. A3
n Coke, Pepsi and Dr Pepper
pledged to cut beverage calories in the U.S. diet by 20%. A3
n Most states will have at
least one more insurer selling plans under the health
law in the coming year. A4
n The number of inmates in
federal prisons is expected
to fall by more than 12,000
over the next two years. A4
n A top EU official blasted
Russia for renewing threats
of retaliation against Ukraine
over a trade deal. A10
CONTENTS
Business Tech..............B4
Corp. News........B2-3,7,9
Global Finance.............C3
Heard on Street.......C16
Home & Digital.......D1-4
In the Markets.............C4
Leisure & Arts........D5-6
Managing........................B6
Opinion....................A13-15
Sports...........................D7-8
U.S. News...................A2-5
Weather Watch..........B9
World News............A6-11
IRAN
Fallujah
Baghdad
JORDAN
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100 km
*Area is approximate
Breakdown of the strikes
IN THE FIRST WAVE The USS Arleigh Burke in the Red Sea and the
USS Philippine Sea in the northern Persian Gulf launched more than 40
Tomahawk Cruise missiles, targeting province of Aleppo. The majority
of these strikes were against Khorasan targets.
IN THE SECOND WAVE F-22 Raptors, F-15 Strike Eagles, F-16s, B-1
bombers and drones hit targets in northern Syria, including headquarters
buildings (pictured) and training camps run by Islamic State militants.
THE THIRD WAVE Involved planes that took off from the USS George
Bush, an aircraft carrier, and F-16s based in the Middle East. Those strikes
were against Islamic State targets in eastern Syria near Deir Ezzour.
Toll of attacks
14 strikes against Islamic State targets
8 strikes against Khorasan targets
160 munitions fired by allied warplanes inside Syria,
destroying key buildings and infrastructure of the extremist groups
Islamic State and Khorasan.
6 nations involved
The U.S., Jordan, U.A.E., Saudi Arabia and Bahrain participated,
with support planes from Qatar.
Sources: U.S. Department of Defense (airstrikes; stats); Institute for the Study of War (Islamic
State areas); U.S. Department of Defense/Reuters (photo)
The Wall Street Journal
Terror Fears Spurred Expanded Attacks
BY SIOBHAN GORMAN
AND JULIAN E. BARNES
World-Wide
IRAQ
WASHINGTON—Two weeks
after outlining a narrow fight
with Islamic State, the U.S. suddenly expanded its offensive,
opening a two-front war in Syria
against the original target and
an al Qaeda-linked group known
as Khorasan.
The Obama administration
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said the decision to include
Khorasan—whose leader may
have been killed in the rapid succession of airstrikes—was made
based on fears that it was planning terrorist attacks on the U.S.
and Europe.
Khorasan was “nearing the
execution phase” in which it had
the ability to act quickly, a U.S.
official said. The plans involved
airline plots with U.S. targets,
bombings in Europe and additional plots against Jordan, according to people familiar with
the intelligence reports.
The move extends the mission
President Barack Obama described to the nation early this
month, when he said military action in Iraq and Syria would be
designed to reclaim territory
now held by Islamic State.
The president announced his
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ROAD TRIP: General Motors said it is moving its headquarters for
Cadillac, long based in Detroit, to New York City, where GM hopes the
struggling car brand can better reach luxury buyers. B7
Report Faults Rollout
Of Air-Traffic Upgrade
BY SUSAN CAREY
AND ANDY PASZTOR
An effort to modernize the
U.S. air-traffic-control system is
seeing such a bumpy rollout that
costs associated with some of
the core technology outweigh
potential benefits, according to a
report soon to be released by a
federal watchdog.
An audit report by the Transportation Department’s inspector
general, slated to be released in
the next few days, raises new
questions about the design, deployment and projected benefits
of one of the Federal Aviation
Administration’s futuristic ways
to enhance monitoring and man-
Widening Conflict
 Mideast coalition formed
amid frantic talks............... A6
 Syria rebels fear airstrikes
could aid Assad................... A7
 Advanced F-22 fighter jet
makes combat debut........ A7
In Germany, Amazon
Keeps Unions at Bay
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VENTURA, Calif.—Tom Carrese
was cruising down Main Street in
his van.
“Dirty, dirty, dirty…filthy!” he
said with delight, pointing at cars
parked along the main drag of
this coastal town.
Taking a side street, he spotted a grimy gray Nissan pickup at
a traffic light and flagged it to
stop. At the curb, Mr. Carrese introduced himself as a representative of a local radio station. “I see
you haven’t washed your car for
a while.”
“…because there’s a water
shortage,” the driver, Mark Castle, said, completing the sentence.
At a gas station nearby, a Subaru Forester was so caked with
dirt that it was impossible to tell
whether its actual color was forest green, smoky gray or black.
“Thank you for not washing your
car,” said Mr. Carrese, as he
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plans to “degrade and ultimately
destroy” Islamic State, also
known as ISIS and ISIL, but
didn’t discuss additional measures to counter threats from al
Qaeda operatives and affiliates,
which came as a surprise.
Senior administration officials said the airstrikes against
Khorasan fall within the president’s legal basis for striking IsPlease turn to page A8
The attacks were conducted
with the aid of Arab allies, but
the U.S. carried out the bulk of
the raids. After the first wave of
strikes, the U.S. said it conducted follow-on attacks during
the day Tuesday that hit two Islamic State armored vehicles in
Syria.
The U.S. and its allies unleashed more than 160 missiles
and bombs on targets inside
Syria, disrupting infrastructure
used by the extremist groups Islamic State and al Qaeda-linked
Khorasan, Pentagon officials said
in the first assessments of the
impact of the strikes.
While it will be days before a
definitive conclusion can be
drawn, U.S. officials said they
believe some leaders of both Islamic State and Khorasan were
likely killed in the strikes on
training camps and headquarters
buildings.
The expansion of the military
campaign against Islamic State
from Iraq to Syria carries significant risks for President Barack
Obama’s administration.
Mr. Obama has spent his presidency extricating the U.S. from
two long and costly wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan. Now there is
the prospect of getting mired
again in a protracted Middle
East war.
Western-backed rebels fear
U.S.-led airstrikes on Islamic
State and other extremist
groups inside Syria will ultimately tip the balance in the
multi-sided civil war in favor
of the Syrian regime that
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KULTUR CLASH
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n Pakistan said it plans to sell
a stake in the country’s biggest oil-and-gas business. A8
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Deir Ezzour
Kirkuk
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n HDL’s chief quit amid a
probe into fees paid to doctors
for blood-sample tests. B3
By Julian E. Barnes
in Washington and
Sam Dagher in Beirut
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Islamic State
control/support
or contested
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n Norway’s Yara and CF Industries of the U.S. are discussing a merger that would create
a global fertilizer giant. B3
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Airstrikes
n Online retailers and publishers are pushing back against
Facebook’s efforts to track
users across the Internet. B1, B4
n Nielsen will start measuring
mobile TV viewing but many
networks, cable and satellite
firms haven’t signed on. B1
Erbil
Mosul
Sinjar
Raqqa
n Citizens Financial’s IPO
was priced at $21.50 a
share, below the expected
range, raising $3 billion. C1
n Home Depot’s data breach
has started to trigger card
fraud that is rippling across
financial institutions. C2
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Mosul Dam
Aleppo
n Yields on Treasury bills
due Oct. 2 fell into negative
territory as demand for shortterm debt pushed up prices. C1
n Stocks slid on soft economic
news from Europe. The Dow fell
116.81 to 17055.87. The S&P 500
had its third straight loss. C4
n Pfizer explored a potential
inversion deal for Actavis in
recent weeks, but talks between the firms have ended. B1
n New inversion rules should
discourage new deals by making them harder and less profitable, tax experts said. B2
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TAA
he SEC is investigating
whether Pimco artificially boosted the returns of
an exchange-traded fund. C1
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WASHINGTON—The first U.S.led airstrikes on extremist
groups in Syria hit militant leaders, training camps and control
centers, U.S. officials said, promising this was only the start of a
long campaign.
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agement of aircraft.
The document is sharply critical about early implementation
of ground-based radio towers
that are part of a proposed $4.5
billion network designed to track
the locations of planes more precisely than current radar. The
new system, dubbed ADS-B,
eventually aims to rely primarily
on satellite-based navigation and
tracking.
The report comes as U.S. passenger airlines enjoy the safest
period in history, with no fatal
accidents in more than six years,
though incidents persist involving close calls between jetliners
in the air and on the ground. By
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FRANKFURT—German unions
are accustomed to wielding formidable influence. Union officials
sit on supervisory boards at
blue-chip companies. They have
a track record of wearing down
foreign employers.
Not so at Amazon.com Inc.
For the 16 years the online retailer has done business in Germany, it has shunned the nation’s consensus-driven labor
model. It ignores trade unions
and largely dictates contract
terms at its nine German distribution centers, where it employs
about 9,000.
Germany’s Verdi labor union
has been trying to change that,
signing up Amazon employees
and this week launching the latest in a series of strikes in an effort to get management’s ear. It
hasn’t gotten far. Currently, the
union has no say at Amazon.
“From my point of view, Verdi
and Amazon don’t go together,”
says Robert Marhan, Amazon’s
general manager at a warehouse
in the central German town of
Bad Hersfeld, which has become
a logistics hub.
As in the U.S., where Amazon
has resisted unions, the company
in Germany deals directly with
its staff, talking with employees
and on-site councils of employee
representatives. “What we have
is a culture that we see as foreign,” says Verdi President Frank
Bsirske, who calls Amazon’s approach unilateral and arbitrary.
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Europe’s weak job market, labor reforms, financial crises and
pressures of globalization have
kept German unions conciliatory
in recent years. But with Germany’s economy now stronger,
its unions are again flexing their
muscles. Union-backed politicians this year pushed through
Germany’s first-ever national
minimum wage. Verdi last year
added members for the first time
since its founding in 2001.
Amazon has been in Germany
since 1998. Verdi, which has 2.1
million members, didn’t approach management with demands about wages and working
conditions until 2012. It has
wooed some Amazon employees
to join the union, although it dePlease turn to page A12
Labor Struggle
Germany’s Verdi union
membership
3 million
2.1 million,
+0.2%
2
1
0
’01 ’03 ’05 ’07 ’09
’11
’13
Source: German Trade Union Federation DGB
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