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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59194724&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Taliban's reclusive leader said in a Muslim holiday message Saturday that the U.S. and NATO should study Afghanistan's long history of war, in a pointed reminder that foreign forces have had limited military success in the country.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59182760&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Authorities say a roadside bomb has killed an 11-year-old boy and wounded his two friends in the violence-plagued city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59175379&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The middle-aged woman demanded to know the fate of her daughter, Fariba Pajooh, who had been picked up by three Intelligence Ministry agents a few days earlier.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59175243&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Afghan father left the mountains on foot, carrying his 2-year-old son, but the health clinic could not treat the skull fracture that blinded the toddler and immobilized his left side. By chance the next day, two American medics stopped by the clinic in Day Kundi Province to check on another patient.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59166356&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani police raided a local security firm that helps protect the U.S. Embassy on Saturday, seizing dozens of allegedly unlicensed weapons at a time when unusually intense media scrutiny of America's use of private contractors has deepened anti-U.S. sentiment.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59165185&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top Pakistani official says a court will indict seven suspects in last year's attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in the coming week.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59165916&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Pakistani official says a bomb blast has killed two people at a security checkpoint in the country's northwest.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59163179&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The village is little more than a handful of mud huts surrounded by wheat fields, but the runway at NATO's main air base in Afghanistan's south is visible from the town center. There, the Afghan commando, his beard still youthfully scraggly, tried to persuade a small audience of countrymen to turn against the [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59153686&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's official news agency says police detained several protesters after Friday's massive demonstrations.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=59152428&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Danish soldier was killed and another injured after they came under fire during a patrol in southern Afghanistan, the Danish military said Saturday.