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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51317849&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The former head of Italy's military intelligence told a court Wednesday he had no role in the kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect — allegedly as part of the CIA's extraordinary rendition program — but claimed he cannot prove his innocence because the evidence is classified.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51312186&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier Wednesday in Baghdad, making May the deadliest month for the American military since September.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51312174&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan and NATO troops killed 15 insurgents in a battle in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the military alliance said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51310689&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Suspected suicide attackers detonated a car bomb Wednesday that destroyed a police building and sheared walls off a nearby office of Pakistan's top intelligence service. About 30 people were killed and at least 250 wounded in the attack in Lahore, considered a liberal and cultural center.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51310687&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The only conservative challenger to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Iran's elections proposed on Wednesday a step-by-step approach to improve U.S. ties and said President Barack Obama has made an important shift in attitude toward Iran.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51309749&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Moabullah recalled dragging the dead in his wheelbarrow for burial behind a girl's school. There were about 30 bodies, he said, many blown apart in fighting between the Pakistan army and Taliban militants in the Swat Valley.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51305753&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Sri Lankan government will maintain its state of emergency, including sweeping anti-terrorism powers, after the battlefield defeat of the Tamil Tiger rebels, according to a statement posted online Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51305346&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea launched a tirade Wednesday against world powers threatening to punish it for conducting its second nuclear test, saying it is not afraid of sanctions and calling South Korea's decision to join an operation to prevent the spread of weapons a declaration of war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51296275&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea's military says it considers South Korea's participation in a U.S.-led program to intercept ships suspected of spreading weapons of mass destruction tantamount to a declaration of war against the North.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51290523&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Brazilian authorities detained an Arab who ran a Web site forum that could be linked to terrorists and included anti-American statements in Arabic, a prosecutor said Tuesday night.