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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62165711&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Fort Lewis has confirmed that eight soldiers who died in Afghanistan on Tuesday were assigned to a unit from the Army base near Tacoma, Wash.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62162480&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Prosecutors urged a federal judge Wednesday to deny bond to one of two Chicago men charged with plotting a terrorist attack against a Danish newspaper, while the man's lawyer argued that his client could have been the innocent dupe of an alleged coconspirator.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62162198&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Armed with an AK-47, an American contract worker said Wednesday he held off militants attacking a guest house in Kabul, allowing about two dozen U.N. election workers to escape.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62141062&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sen. John McCain is exhorting President Barack Obama to make a decision quickly on sending additional troops to Afghanistan, saying U.S allies are nervous and military commanders are frustrated.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62137727&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The president of Iraq's Kurdish region demanded Wednesday that oil-rich Kirkuk be incorporated into his autonomous area, as parliament prepared for a showdown on the contentious issue of which of the northern city's residents can vote in upcoming elections.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62137407&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK At the last minute, Zimbabwe on Wednesday blocked the United Nations' torture investigator from visiting the country where opponents to President Robert Mugabe have been attacked and harassed, but he vowed to go anyway at the invitation of the prime minister.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62134545&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's supreme leader said Wednesday that questioning the results of Iran's June presidential election is a crime, his strongest warning yet to opposition leaders who continue to insist the vote was rigged.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62134488&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president, on Wednesday denied reports that he has received regular payments from the CIA for much of the past eight years.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62127439&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Offering sympathy for victims of Wednesday's terrorist bombing, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised Pakistan's offensive against extremists and pledged U.S. support at a critical point in the country's history.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=62125015&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A car bomb tore through a busy market in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing 91 people as U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the country and pledged American support for its campaign against Islamist militants.