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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55380506&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The total cost of the U.S. response to the Sept. 11 attacks and the ongoing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan would top trillion under a Pentagon funding bill approved by a key House panel Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55379837&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. still has not figured out who was behind the July 4 cyberattacks that took down a series of government Web sites, National Intelligence Director Dennis Blair said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55378288&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to tell North Korea that it can avoid "unrelenting" sanctions and win normalized relations with the U.S. by completely scrapping its nuclear program.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55376390&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sudan's fragile peace overcame a major hurdle Wednesday when a legal panel drew a compromise map splitting an oil-rich region between the government-held north and the semiautonomous south controlled by former rebels.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55374674&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russian news agencies quote the country's nuclear agency chief as saying a Russian-built nuclear power reactor in Iran is still set to be switched on this year.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55374261&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Turkey's prime minister said Wednesday his country is prepared to resume mediating in the Arab-Israeli conflict and pressed Israel to return the Golan Heights to Syria.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55374245&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Diplomats from NATO and Russia met on Wednesday to discuss ways of cooperating in the battle against pirates off Somalia and supplying alliance forces fighting in Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55374071&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani officials voiced fears Wednesday that a U.S.-led offensive in southern Afghanistan could force Taliban fighters into this nation's restive southwest, but said they had not asked the Americans to stop or slow the operation.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55373913&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An American has been charged with receiving training from al-Qaida and providing the terrorist organization with information about the New York City transit system.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=55357156&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistan raised concern Wednesday with visiting U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke over a U.S.-led offensive in neighboring southern Afghanistan that Islamabad fears could send Taliban fighters across the border.