Antiwar Newswire

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41515239&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK JERUSALEM, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Cypriot authorities have detained an Iranian ship en route to Syria with a cargo of weapons, Israel's Haaretz newspaper reported on Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41515107&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK ISTANBUL, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan received a hero's welcome on his return to Istanbul on Friday after accusing Israel of "knowing very well how to kill" during a heated debate at the World Economic Forum.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41513303&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military says coalition troops killed four militants in a strike on a bomb-making operation in southern Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41514870&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK BANGKOK, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The Economist's distributors in Thailand are refusing to circulate the current affairs magazine for a second week runing because of an article critical of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva and the army.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41513255&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK NEW DELHI, Jan 30 (Reuters) – India has tightened security across its major airports after a series of "hijack alerts" passed on to them by intelligence agencies following the Mumbai attacks, officials said on Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41512815&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama's plan to suspend proceedings against Guantanamo detainees hit a snag when a military judge said it would be unreasonable to delay a hearing for the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41507147&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Myanmar said the Rohingya boat people found adrift in the Andaman Sea last week could not have come from its shores because they are not among its recognized ethnic groups, state media reported Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41507149&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK BASRA, Iraq, Jan 30 (Reuters) – The machines have finally gone quiet at Basra's biggest printing press after a frantic month of churning out the election posters now plastered on almost every inch of Iraq's second biggest city.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41503237&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK (Corrects spelling of Barack in first paragraph and date in fifth paragraph to 1898 from 1998)

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=41498458&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Blackwater Worldwide, denied an operating license in Iraq because of lingering outrage over a deadly shooting spree in Baghdad, promised Thursday to leave the country where it guards American diplomats within 72 hours of being ordered out by the State Department.