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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61597099&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi lawmakers failed to agree on key changes to the election law on Wednesday, throwing January's crucial parliamentary vote into jeopardy and potentially slowing down U.S. withdrawal from the country.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61596350&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The smuggling of Afghan opiates is fueling addiction and drug use along trafficking routes from Iran to Central Asia as well as spreading diseases and funding insurgents, the U.N. warned Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61594950&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Military prosecutors have asked a judge at Guantanamo Bay for another continuance in the war crimes case against a Sudanese detainee.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61594434&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Soldiers fought for the Pakistani Taliban chief's hometown Wednesday as they pressed an offensive along the Afghan border, while intelligence officials said U.S. missiles hit territory controlled by another insurgent, threatening to undermine deals that keep some militants out of the battle.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61594400&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK NATO defense ministers will meet here Thursday to discuss the war in Afghanistan and the growing support for President Barack Obama's plans for a new missile defense system in Europe.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61593981&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan President Hamid Karzai needed high-level American arm-twisting over several tense days — and meals that included "gallons of tea" and endless platters of lamb — before he finally agreed to a run-off vote in the country's fraud-plagued presidential election.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61585584&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The head of Iraq's parliament urged political leaders on Wednesday to swiftly agree on a new election law so that crucial nationwide elections can take place on time.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61581232&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A 27-year-old Massachusetts man conspired to kill two prominent U.S. politicians and carry out a holy war by attacking shoppers in U.S. malls and American troops in Iraq, federal prosecutors said Wednesday as they announced his arrest.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61580702&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A federal judge in Ohio has sentenced a man to 20 years in prison for a terrorist plot that the government said targeted U.S. troops.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61580529&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Soldiers fought for control of the Pakistani Taliban chief's hometown Wednesday, pressing forward with a major offensive targeting an insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border, authorities said.