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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57082532&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Twelve years of military service left Donald Spradling highly trained in satellite imagery, nuclear engineering and foreign intelligence analysis. None of that made a difference to the University of Missouri.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57081584&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal judge in New York has rejected a challenge to a law allowing the United States to eavesdrop on overseas conversations. He says U.S. residents who fear surveillance could not show they were harmed.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57080632&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghans turned to the Twitterverse to share news of Taliban intimidation at the polls and voter turnout in the presidential election, even as the country was just trying to keep electricity running and attacks at bay.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57080517&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The chief White House spokesman says the spotty turnout in Afghanistan's presidential elections would not alter U.S. policy in the country, where American forces have been battling the militant Taliban for nearly eight years.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57078925&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Three American hikers detained in Iran are "totally harmless" travelers who carefully planned a trip in Iraq but apparently accidentally ended up crossing the border, their relatives said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57078115&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russian authorities questioned crew members from the Arctic Sea cargo ship after the seamen and eight alleged pirates ship were returned to Moscow on Thursday, adding new details to the mystery of the ship's monthlong odyssey.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57075346&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Lawmakers criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's nominees for his new government as inexperienced cronies and threatened on Thursday to reject some of them, setting the stage for a new fight between the hard-line leader and rivals with his conservative camp.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57075328&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A bomb exploded at a security checkpoint close to the Pakistani capital late Thursday, wounding seven people.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57075007&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Belarus' authoritarian president said Thursday he was willing to work with the European Union and the United States, but warned they should not expect him to leave office or to abandon ties with Moscow.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57073287&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The deadly Baghdad bombings represent an obvious lapse in security, the U.S. commander in charge of training Iraqi security forces said Thursday, adding that he's frustrated with the pace of some of the training.