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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41311040&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Defense Secretary Robert Gates is downplaying suggestions that the closure of Guantanamo Bay prison would risk the release of terrorists. Gates says the vast majority of detainees can easily be tried by the U.S. or sent to other countries for conviction.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41311036&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK RAMALLAH, West Bank, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Echoing popular sentiment, prominent Palestinian politicians and intellectuals appealed to the rival Hamas and Fatah factions on Tuesday to heal rifts that have jeopardised the quest for statehood.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41308940&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A car bomb exploded near a Kurdish party's office Tuesday in Mosul, killing at least three Iraqi soldiers as tensions rose in volatile areas north of Baghdad ahead of pivotal elections.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41308703&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi pop music poured from loudspeakers in Baghdad's popular Zawraa Park as families enjoyed picnics and children squealed on the "Space Gun," a thrill ride that looped them around in a full circle.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41307882&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama chose an Arabic satellite TV network for his first formal television interview as president, part of a concerted effort to repair relations with the Muslim world that were damaged under the previous administration.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41301901&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK National Intelligence Director Michael McConnell resigned his post effective Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41300008&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK ABED RABBO, Gaza Strip, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Standing on the ruins of his family home, 75-year-old Majdi al-Athamna waves an unexploded landmine in the direction of a camera crew.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41295095&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The man nominated to be the Pentagon's second-in-command could make at least a half-million dollars next month with vested stock he earned as a lobbyist for military contractor Raytheon.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41293334&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Vatican intensified its defense of Pope Benedict XVI on Tuesday, highlighting his record of condemning the Holocaust amid an outcry over his rehabilitation of a bishop who claims that no Jews were gassed during World War II.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41293212&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK BAGHDAD, Jan 27 (Reuters) – Iranian opposition exiles informed that they are no longer welcome in Iraq say they will not go willingly and intend to use legal means to fight any attempt to drive them out by force.