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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55383998&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama said Wednesday the United States will stick to its schedule and remove all its troops from Iraq by the end of 2011 even though there will be "tough days ahead."

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55383997&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A public interest group is trying to use the Freedom of Information Act to crack more than three decades of secrecy surrounding how the government deals with wrongdoing by intelligence agencies.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55383990&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad showed rare defiance of his strongest backer, Iran's supreme leader, by insisting on his choice for vice president Wednesday despite vehement opposition from hard-liners that has opened a deep rift in the conservative leadership.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55383969&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Homeland Security Department relaunched its Web site Wednesday and became the first Cabinet-level agency to follow the tech-savvy White House directives on social media.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55382086&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Hamid Karzai said Wednesday he will not take part in Afghanistan's first major televised presidential debate, leaving his top two challengers to talk between themselves — if they show up.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55381022&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama says he is committed to working with Iraq to get the U.N. to lift international sanctions that the world body imposed on the country after the 1991 Gulf War.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55380953&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama says there's been good cooperation between U.S. and Iraqi forces following the end of U.S. combat operations in Iraqi cities, despite what he describes as a "difference in strategy" on some occasions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55380931&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The 2010 trial for a Guantanamo detainee charged in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Africa has been moved further from the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55380784&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Bombs killed two U.S. troops and one Briton in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, as the death toll mounts in the bloodiest month of the war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55380607&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Josh Habib lay in a dirt field, gasping for air. Two days of hiking with Marines through southern Afghanistan's 115-degree heat had exhausted him. This was not what he signed up for.