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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57722904&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Victims of the worst military massacre during Peru's war with Maoist rebels were laid to rest Saturday, a quarter century after the slaughter in this remote Andean village.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57722838&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Security officials say bombs have exploded inside a security compound and near a mosque in Gaza City.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57716124&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's new judiciary chief has fired the hard-line prosecutor involved in the mass trial of opposition activists charged with seeking to topple the ruling system through a "velvet revolution," state media reported Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57711313&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's official news agency is reporting that the country's new judiciary chief has fired the hardline prosecutor involved in the mass trial of opposition figures.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57710889&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An armed group kidnapped two foreign civilians working for the U.N.-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur on Saturday, a spokesman for the peacekeepers said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57707924&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Helicopter gunships destroyed a training camp for suicide bombers in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley, killing six Taliban fighters in an area the government had already declared clear of militants, an official said Saturday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57693841&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Heavy skirmishes resumed Saturday in northeastern Myanmar after days of fighting between government troops and ethnic rebel militia sent thousands of refugees streaming into nearby China. At least one person was killed and dozens injured in a bomb blast near the border.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57693832&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Basque Country: This region of northern Spain became semiautonomous in 1979 after a new Spanish Constitution was adopted following the death of dictator Gen. Francisco Franco. Its capital is Vitoria, its biggest city is Bilbao.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57693678&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Gen. Douglas MacArthur had his signature corncob pipe. Soldiers got cigarettes in their C-rations during World War II. Even today, America's war on tobacco seems to have largely bypassed the military.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=57691324&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch has called the British Broadcasting Corp. a threat to independent journalism.