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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46279720&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK American authorities are planning a broad new campaign to choke off the prime source of financing for terrorists in Afghanistan, sending in dozens of federal drug enforcement agents to disrupt the country's massive opium trade and the money that streams to the Taliban and al-Qaida.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46277783&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Mexican President Felipe Calderon said Monday he's ruled out joint raids with the United States aimed at stemming drug cartel violence along their border, but called for closer cooperation between the neighboring nations.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46276903&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India, March 30 (Reuters) – Heavily armed commandos locked down a stretch of the southern Indian coast on Monday and began a house-to-house search for a group of suspected Tamil Tiger rebels from Sri Lanka, police said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46263652&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Syria's president made clear Monday that he still wants peace with Israel but told Arab leaders they must take a tougher approach when dealing with the new hard-line government of Benjamin Netanyahu.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46256047&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Khmer Rouge executioners threw victims to their deaths, bludgeoned them and then slit their bellies, or had medics draw so much blood that their lives drained away, prosecutors alleged Monday at the opening trial of Cambodia's genocide tribunal.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46251824&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK BRUSSELS, March 30 (Reuters) – Turkey's resistance to Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen could prevent NATO nations naming a new secretary-general of the alliance at a summit this week, diplomats said on Monday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46239324&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK JERUSALEM, March 30 (Reuters) – Israeli military investigators said on Monday that Israeli soldiers were passing on unsubstantiated rumours when they said Israeli troops shot unarmed Palestinian women and children in the Gaza offensive.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46239087&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1570 MIKEBREAK ISLAMABAD, March 30 (Reuters) – Fighters loyal to Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud were suspected of carrying out an attack on a police academy in Lahore on Monday, Interior Ministry head Rehman Malik said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46228732&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As the only Muslim member of NATO and a candidate to join the EU, Turkey has come to be seen as a bridge between East and West — held up by Washington as a shining example of how Islam is compatible with modern democracy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=46226865&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Leaders of U.S.-backed Sunni paramilitary organizations said Monday they feared that a crackdown against one of their groups in Baghdad may be part of a purge of their ranks by the Shiite-led government before American troops pull out of Iraq.