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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43605494&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK SANG-I-KHEL, Afghanistan, Feb 24 (Reuters) – The United States' decision to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan will mean little to the people of northern Sang-i-Khel village whose fight is not against Taliban insurgents but against hunger.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43596471&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea is about a month away from launching a missile or a rocket, but U.S. officials are monitoring its coastal launch site for indications it could come more quickly, a senior U.S. intelligence official told The Associated Press.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43589679&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal magistrate on Tuesday set bail at 0,000 for an alleged brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden's bodyguard, and a Muslim advocacy group said it wants a federal investigation into whether he was arrested because he had refused to become an FBI informant.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43589666&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Wary neighbors Pakistan and Afghanistan have achieved a "new environment" of trust that will help them fight cross-border Islamist militants, Pakistan's foreign minister said Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43588242&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea declared Tuesday it is making "brisk headway" in plans to send a satellite into orbit as part of its space program, a launch regional powers fear is a cover up for testing a long-range ballistic missile capable of striking Alaska and the western United States.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43577729&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Custard-filled doughnuts, cheese, hummus and bread with chocolate spread were on the menu Tuesday as a former Guantanamo detainee spent his first full day of freedom after seven years in captivity.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43576023&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States plans to withdraw most of its troops from Iraq by August 2010, 19 months after President Barack Obama's inauguration, according to administration officials. The withdrawal plan would fulfill one of Obama's central campaign pledges, albeit a little more slowly than he promised. He said he would withdraw troops within 16 [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43572926&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain's justice secretary overturned an order on Tuesday that would have forced the government to make public the formal minutes of two contentious Cabinet discussions held before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43571647&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK MADRID, Feb 24 (Reuters) – Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos said on Tuesday his country was prepared to accept prisoners from U.S. detention camp Guantanamo Bay.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=43552860&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK * Explosives found under bridge in Tibet