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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51452234&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Police have arrested 39 suspected Taliban fighters hiding among refugees from a military offensive against militants from Pakistan's Swat Valley region, a senior officer said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51448268&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea warned Friday it would take "self-defense" action if provoked by the United Nations Security Council, which is considering tough sanctions on the communist regime for conducting a nuclear test.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51445666&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK His family once ruled the Swat Valley. Now he can only watch as his beautiful ancestral homeland is torn apart by clashes between the Taliban and the Pakistani military — with millions of civilians forced to flee.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51443397&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Australia announced it will send a warship and a surveillance aircraft to the Horn of Africa as part of the international fight against piracy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51440510&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas says there are no meetings on the horizon with the prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, as they look ahead to discussing a peace agreement.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51437970&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK News organizations asked a federal judge on Thursday to grant the media access to copies of audio and video court records key to the upcoming trial against a terrorism suspect.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51436678&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK While worrisome, North Korea's nuclear and missile tests have not reached a crisis level that would warrant additional U.S. troops in the region, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51436609&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK When Pakistan's army drove the Taliban back from this small northwestern village, it also destroyed much of everything else here.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51433981&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States could fight an old-fashioned war against North Korea if necessary, even while newer forms of conflict against terrorists and extremists continue, the Army's top officer said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=51433849&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. and South Korea put their military forces on high alert Thursday after North Korea renounced the truce keeping the peace between the two Koreas since 1953. The North also accused the U.S. of preparing to attack the isolated communist country in the wake of its second nuclear bomb test, and warned [...]