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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50945591&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police and soldiers on Thursday raided a property belonging to the head of Venezuela's only anti-government news network amid a growing confrontation between the station and President Hugo Chavez's government.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50931776&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In soaring rhetoric, Barack Obama ran through his logic for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, deliberately planting himself on the middle ground between his conservative critics — led by Dick Cheney — and those to the left who accuse the new president of failing to restore American justice for all.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50930293&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A mosque where two suspects in the Bronx terror plot were known is led by a state prison chaplain who had converted to Islam years ago as an inmate, then went on to become a respected community leader, offering support to other ex-convicts.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50930275&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has lots of hard cases. But the hardest of them all, says President Barack Obama, will be those who cannot be put on trial or freed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50920524&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Two tough speeches conveying two radically different views of America's fight against terrorism and the nation's values unfolded Thursday in separate halls, minutes apart.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50920209&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama fought Thursday to retake command of the emotional debate over closing Guantanamo, denouncing "fear-mongering" by political opponents and insisting that maximum-security prisons in the U.S. can safely house dangerous terror suspects transferred from Cuba. In a unique bit of Washington theater, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivered his own address [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50918111&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An ex-soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family was spared the death penalty Thursday and will serve a life sentence after jurors couldn't agree unanimously on a punishment.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50912732&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Forty-eight terror suspects currently held at Guantanamo Bay are waiting to be released to other nations, the Obama administration said Thursday. The detainees are among 50 detainees whose cases President Barack Obama said Thursday have already been reviewed. The detainees would be the first to be released to other nations under the Obama [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50912372&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK House Democrats on Thursday defeated a Republican push to investigate House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's assertion that the CIA misled her in 2002 about whether waterboarding had been used against terrorism suspects.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50908721&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Two men who worked for the security firm formerly known as Blackwater say the company issued weapons to their employees in Afghanistan despite the military prohibiting workers from carrying guns.