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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57528717&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK It took years for a family of prominent American Shiite scholars to build a specialized seminary that would train Americans and Europeans to lead mosques in the West.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57524729&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Department of Veterans Affairs has canceled a $75 million, five-year research contract with a Texas medical center studying illnesses suffered by veterans of the first Gulf War.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57517523&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The International Federation of Journalists complained Wednesday that news people covering the war in Afghanistan are being monitored by the U.S. military to see if they are sympathetic to the American cause.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57512612&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim, the scion of a revered clerical family who channeled rising Shiite Muslim power after the fall of Saddam Hussein to become one of Iraq's most powerful politicians, died Wednesday in Iran, the country that was long his powerful ally. He was 59.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57504923&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Radovan Karadzic is seeking evidence that the U.S. turned a blind eye to weapons shipments from Iran to Muslim forces fighting in the Bosnian war, to support his claim that Serbs acted in self-defense during the conflict.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57485339&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran, whose nuclear facilities are under threat of possible Israeli military strikes, has enlisted the support of more than 100 nonaligned nations in its push for a ban on such attacks, according to documents shared with The Associated Press.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57475338&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK No one knows when an international court will issue its first indictments in the assassination of Lebanon's former prime minister, but Lebanese are already afraid it could spark a wave of violence between its Shiite and Sunni communities.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57467114&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An agreement by two top leaders of the Pakistani Taliban to share power following the slaying of their chief is a sign the al-Qaida-allied movement is regrouping, but questions remain whether the network is as united as it seeks to appear.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57460585&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Australia's highest court ruled Wednesday that the country's military justice system is unconstitutional because its judges are not independent of the military command — throwing into doubt 171 cases judged in the past two years.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57459738&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK China on Wednesday dismissed as "groundless" a claim by the exiled leader of the Uighur minority that nearly 200 inmates were killed in a prison in the restive Xinjiang region, state media reported.