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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50908668&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Four men arrested after planting what they thought were explosives near two New York City synagogues were disappointed that the World Trade Center wasn't still around to attack, a federal prosecutor said Thursday as the men appeared in court for the first time.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50907687&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Thursday that foreign journalists are free to report in the troubled southern African nation where many have previously been banned and others arrested and harassed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50902109&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=50898751&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Vice President Joe Biden will visit Beirut on Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50897318&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair has tapped the deputy director of the Sept. 11 Commission to head the top U.S. office for intelligence analysis.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50896788&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's hard-line president criticized as "disgraceful" a 2003 deal his predecessor reached with Europe to freeze the country's nuclear program, saying his own decision to stand up to the West restored Iran's dignity.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50896725&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed how he viewed his job, but didn't change him. Alluding to Washington whispers that he had turned from pragmatist to ideologue, Cheney insisted he is the same person, but acknowledged the harrowing day's events had a lasting impact.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50896412&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama forcefully defended his plans to close the Guantanamo detention camp Thursday and said some of the terror suspects held there would be brought to top-security prisons in the United States despite fierce opposition in Congress. He spoke one day after the Senate voted resoundingly to deny him money to close [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50895324&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The middle-aged American man whose nighttime swim to visit democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi may cost her a chance at freedom came into fuzzy focus Thursday, as a court in Myanmar showed a home movie he allegedly shot at her lakeside residence.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=50886364&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Senate on Thursday rejected an effort by a GOP conservative to strip new U.S. contributions to the International Monetary Fund from a .3 billion measure funding military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.