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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45909645&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama's nominee to be the Pentagon's top weapons buyer said Thursday he supports a proposal in Congress that would place greater scrutiny on defense contracting to cut down on runaway costs for big programs.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45888833&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK SRINAGAR, India, March 26 (Reuters) – Indian troops shot dead four separatist militants on Thursday in Kashmir, the army and police said, a day after the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) militant group threatened more attacks in the region.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45880576&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sri Lanka's military said Thursday it had brushed off a Tamil Tiger counterattack by killing 30 guerrillas, pinning the rebels in a rapidly shrinking area and moving closer to ending the quarter-century-long civil war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45881589&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has no plans for a "substantive" meeting with Iranian officials at a conference on Afghanistan in the Hague next week, the State Department said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45879505&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) – Britain is to investigate whether members of its secret services were complicit in the torture of a British resident released from Guantanamo Bay last month after nearly seven years in detention.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45876000&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK * Two ships hijacked within 24 hours

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45873795&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A car bomb exploded near a crowded market in a mainly Shiite area of Baghdad on Thursday, killing more than 20 civilians, Iraqi officials said, in the sixth major attack in Iraq this month.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45873118&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he does not expect U.S. pressure over Middle East peacemaking because of the "deep and strong" ties between the two countries.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45871563&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain ordered its police on Thursday to investigate allegations by an ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee that U.K. intelligence officers were complicit in his torture overseas.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=45871418&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The nominee to be the next U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan said Thursday that the U.S. and its allies must act fast to pour more money, troops and civilian expertise into the war.