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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64334824&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States was "hell bent" on a 2003 military invasion of Iraq and actively undermined efforts by Britain to win international authorization for the war, a former British diplomat told an inquiry Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64333463&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK NATO governments may increase their fighting forces in Afghanistan by up to 6,000 soldiers in response to President Barack Obama's expected call for tens of thousands of additional U.S. service members, diplomats said Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64331866&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A key anti-Taliban tribal leader was assassinated Friday in a roadside bombing, the latest in a series of attacks against pro-government militias in the Afghan border area of northwestern Pakistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64330226&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military says an American soldier has died of noncombat-related injuries in Iraq.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64327638&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A top Iraqi official warned Friday "it is too early" to claim a breakthrough in a political crisis over the fragile democracy's election law, all but assuring that a national vote will be pushed past its deadline.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64326925&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain's top diplomat at the United Nations in the build up to the 2003 Iraq war told an inquiry Friday that attempts to win international authorization for the invasion were deliberately undermined by the United States.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64326425&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Russia's once-mighty navy faces further dramatic decline after 2015, when most Soviet-built ships will have to be mothballed, a retired admiral was quoted as saying Friday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64322133&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Afghan President Hamid Karzai called on the Taliban and other extremist groups Friday to lay down their weapons and participate in rebuilding the battered country, as part of reconciliation efforts he has said will be his main objective during his second term.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64317878&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A key anti-Taliban tribal leader was assassinated Friday in a roadside bombing, the latest in a series of attacks against pro-government militias in the Afghan border area of northwestern Pakistan, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=64293212&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Cuba's armed forces launched three days of intense military exercises across the island Thursday, a mobilization that state-controlled media says is designed to guard against an American invasion.