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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53545029&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The bombing of a Baghdad bus station Thursday pushed the death toll from a weeklong series of blasts near Shiite targets to about 200, calling into question Iraq's ability to provide security as U.S. combat troops slowly withdraw from cities.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53544557&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Senators have added .75 billion to a Pentagon budget proposal for seven more of Lockheed Martin's F-22 fighter jets, setting the stage for a battle with the Obama administration.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53541851&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53541829&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iranian doctor who claims he tried to save Neda Agha Soltan as the young Iranian protester bled to death on the streets of Tehran said Thursday that she apparently was shot by a member of Iran's pro-government Basij militia.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53540379&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The urgent call came in: Roadside bombs had ripped through two Humvees and wounded eight or nine U.S. soldiers.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53536234&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK FIFA has asked Iran's soccer federation to respond to reports that players have been punished for supporting the political opposition.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53522386&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK More than three decades after they were booted from the country by Saddam Hussein, international oil companies are poised for a return to Iraq where next week they will bid for a slice of the country's vast crude reserves.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53518325&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama is praising five Cuban dissidents for their pro-democracy activities, and he's calling on the communist government to release all political prisoners.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53510874&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Bowing to pressure from Washington, Israel granted U.S.-trained Palestinian security forces greater autonomy in four main West Bank towns, Israeli and Palestinian defense officials said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=53495428&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A bombing at a bus station in a Shiite neighborhood in southwest Baghdad on Thursday killed at least seven people, police said, the latest in a series of recent attacks that have left nearly 200 people dead ahead of a U.S. military withdrawal from cities next week.