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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61426932&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The trial of a man convicted of plotting to help recruit for al-Qaida has provided the fullest account yet of what went on a decade ago at a terrorism training camp in Oregon that never came to fruition.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61413499&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi police say five civilians have been killed in a bomb explosion near a popular cafe in a primarily Sunni district of Baghdad.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61408599&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghanistan's political opposition accused President Hamid Karzai on Sunday of delaying release of a U.N.-backed investigation into fraud in the August presidential balloting and pressuring election officials to declare him the winner.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61407167&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama will not commit more U.S. troops to Afghanistan until he is convinced that the central government can be a credible and effective U.S. partner, a senior White House aide said Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61406065&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Pentagon's chief is undertaking the tricky task of trying to persuade allies to remain committed to the war in Afghanistan even as the Obama administration debates whether to send more troops to fight.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61399437&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani troops and the Taliban fought fierce battles Sunday in a militant sanctuary near the Afghan border, with both sides claiming early victories in an army campaign that could shape the future of the country's battle against extremism.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61393798&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK EDITOR'S NOTE — Since January, AP correspondent Hamza Hendawi has embedded at regular intervals with a U.S. infantry company in Baghdad to gauge how the military mission in Iraq is changing. Here, Hendawi accompanies the unit on its journey back to the United States.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61391135&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As America's military role in Iraq winds down, the U.S. is grappling with how to help some of the more than 30,000 troops injured in six years of war move ahead with their lives. One approach is to bring them back to the battlefields where they were injured.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61389463&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Pakistani army and the Taliban claimed to be inflicting heavy casualties on each other as fierce fighting raged Sunday on the second day of a military assault on an al-Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=61388167&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide bomber killed five senior commanders of the elite Revolutionary Guard and at least 26 others in an area of southeastern Iran that has been at the center of a simmering Sunni insurgency, state media reported.