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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57385004&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An al-Qaida front group said Tuesday it carried out last week's truck bombings on government targets in Baghdad, attacks that Iraq has said also involved plotters among Saddam Hussein loyalists based in Syria.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57384858&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Saeed Hajjarian was a die-hard hero of Iran's reform movement, campaigning to reduce the power of the Islamic clerics even after being shot in the head in an assassination attempt that left him partially paralyzed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57360578&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The government plans to appeal a court ruling that directs it to ask the U.S. to return the last Western detainee at Guantanamo Bay to Canada.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57356054&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Obama administration is setting strict new standards for treatment of terror suspects, as the Justice Department launches a criminal probe of past interrogation tactics during President George W. Bush's war on terrorism.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57352023&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK One of Iran's most prominent pro-reform figures admitted fomenting unrest and asked for the country's forgiveness Tuesday, the latest confession in the mass trial of opposition activists detained in the postelection crackdown.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57352062&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK South Korea launched its first rocket Tuesday, just months after rival North Korea's launch drew international anger, but space officials said the satellite it carried failed to enter its intended orbit.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57349045&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The recent capture of a Filipino terror suspect long sought by American and Philippine security officials has crippled his violent al-Qaida-linked group believed to be responsible for one of Southeast Asia's deadliest terror attacks, police said Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57346171&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Israeli air strike on a smuggling tunnel between the Gaza Strip and Egypt on Tuesday killed three Palestinians and wounded seven, a Palestinian Health Ministry official said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57331912&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Former Air Force Reservist Gale Reid received a letter from the Veterans Affairs Department that told her she had Lou Gehrig's disease, and she immediately put herself through a battery of painful, expensive tests. Five days later, the VA said its "diagnosis" was a mistake.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57330420&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK In a largely illiterate country where donkeys delivered ballots to remote areas, Afghan officials say they are confident that algorithms, double-blind computer entries and other modern methods will catch 90 percent of the fraud from last week's presidential election.