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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51009300&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top Iraqi security official predicted Friday that insurgent groups will attempt more attacks similar to those that killed at least 66 people this week after U.S. combat soldiers leave Baghdad and other cities by the end of next month.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51008640&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A judge sentenced the first person convicted in a homegrown terrorism plot in Canada to a 2 1/2-year sentence on Friday. With time already served he was expected to walk free later the same day.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51008473&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The top U.S. general in eastern Afghanistan said Friday he is seeing "some very interesting movement" of insurgents across the border into Pakistan this spring, possibly to join Taliban militants battling government troops. Fighters from both nations have long moved back and forth across the porous frontier, a mountainous region that has been [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51007451&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has accused the CIA and Bush administration of misleading her at a secret 2002 briefing on the use of harsh interrogations in the war on terror.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51007431&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Rwandan man was found guilty Friday of war crimes during his country's 1994 genocide, becoming the first person convicted under a new Canadian law that allows residents to be tried for crimes committed abroad.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50999832&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Italian warship arrested nine pirates after helping a U.S.-flagged container vessel and another ship evade brigands off the coast of Somalia on Friday, a naval spokesman said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50999309&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she won't talk any more about her charge that the CIA lied in 2002 about using waterboarding on terrorism suspects. "I have made the statement that I'm going to make on this," she told reporters at a Capitol Hill news conference. "I don't have anything more to [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50994995&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Hundreds of government soldiers attacked Islamic insurgents across the Somali capital amid heavy artillery shelling Friday, battling along streets strewn with bodies as they tried to regain lost ground.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50994905&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Vice President Joe Biden said Friday that future U.S. aid to Lebanon depends on the outcome of upcoming elections, a warning aimed at Iranian-backed Hezbollah as it tries to oust the pro-Western faction that dominates government.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50993902&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Law enforcement computers were struck by a mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution.