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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55467914&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A bomb attack killed two American service members in southern Afghanistan on Friday, while the country's president both applauded international troops' effort at a campaign rally and promised to hold them more accountable for civilian casualties, house raids and arbitrary detentions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55451999&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Hugo Chavez says Colombia should not underestimate Venezuela's concerns over the neighboring country's decision to forge stronger military ties with the United States.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55444887&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on all countries Thursday to provide urgent military support to Somalia's embattled transitional government, warning that its survival is at stake.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55444751&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An American-born al-Qaida recruit trained to become a suicide bomber before he was captured in Pakistan last year, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55441436&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Rising casualties in Afghanistan are raising doubts among U.S. allies about the conduct of the war, forcing some governments to defend publicly their commitments and foreshadowing possible long-term trouble for the U.S. effort to bring in more resources to defeat the Taliban.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55441395&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Current troop levels and deaths since 2001 among leading members of the NATO-led force and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan:

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55441301&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Yemeni security forces on Thursday opened fire on thousands of protesters in the south chanting anti-government slogans, killing 12 and wounding scores of others, medics and eyewitnesses said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55438491&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A series of failed tests of a joint U.S.-Israel anti-missile system raised new questions Thursday about the U.S. goal of providing an "umbrella" to defend its allies against an Iranian nuclear attack.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55436459&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Fort Hood-based soldier who was reported as a possible kidnap victim more than a week ago was found unharmed in a Texas border town and there was no indication he was ever abducted, an Army official said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55436049&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A U.S. service member was killed Thursday in an insurgent attack in the country's volatile south, a U.S. military official said, raising to 35 the number of American troops to die in the Afghan war this month.