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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60075602&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The government has dropped a murder charge against a Marine who pleaded guilty Tuesday to dereliction of duty for killing an unarmed Iraqi detainee during a battle to recapture the city of Fallujah.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60075484&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The top general in Iraq is sending home 4,000 more U.S. troops by the end of October as the American military winds down the six-year war. Army Gen. Ray Odierno said in remarks prepared for a congressional hearing Wednesday that the number of U.S. soldiers in Iraq will total about 120,000 over the [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60075421&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As a suspected al-Qaida operative pleaded not guilty Tuesday to plotting a bomb attack in New York, the city's police commissioner pronounced the threat neutralized and said there is nothing to fear from the defendant's three alleged accomplices.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60072841&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK While ceding some ground to President Obama on high-profile weapons cuts, lawmakers are cutting money for training and spare parts to pay for other weapons Obama doesn't want and their own pet projects.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60064525&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Shortcomings in enforcement are allowing Saudi individuals and charitable organizations to steer financial support to Islamic extremists in Afghanistan and elsewhere, congressional investigators say.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60063219&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Kuwaiti soccer team will play in Iraq on Wednesday in the first sports competition between the countries since Saddam Hussein invaded his southern neighbor in 1990.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60062899&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As the White House began Tuesday to debate in earnest the increasingly unpopular Afghanistan war, NATO's secretary-general said President Barack Obama is right to delay troop decisions until a possibly revamped approach is devised.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60061302&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Taliban militants are sowing fear along Afghanistan's highways with stepped-up checkpoints, hijackings and bombs — including one Tuesday that killed at least 30 bus passengers in the south. Afghan authorities say the attacks, often carried out by only a handful of militants, are part of a psychological campaign to convince civilians that Taliban [...]

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60061425&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top U.N. envoy warned Tuesday that Afghanistan was facing "decision-time," including certification of results of the flawed presidential elections and its decision on whether to pursue a peace process with the rebels to try to end the country's eight-year-old war.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=60058817&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Homemade bombs known as IEDs appear to be North Korea's latest weapon in its decades-long conflict with South Korea, the U.S. commander in Seoul said Tuesday.