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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65618292&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A former detainee who spent his teenage years at Guantanamo Bay said Thursday he is struggling to build a life in his parents' native Chad, a central African nation he had never seen before his release from the U.S. military prison earlier this year.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65618102&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The growing number of contractors in Afghanistan is outpacing the ability to oversee them, raising concerns that the waste and fraud that marred the U.S. mission in Iraq will be repeated, lawmakers said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65617955&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Negotiations with Russia to replace an expired Cold War-era arms control treaty are unlikely to conclude by the end of the year as the White House had hoped, U.S. officials said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65616490&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Bristling at criticism from Washington, Pakistan's army dismissed U.S. pressure to open a front against Afghan militants operating on its territory, saying Thursday it was stretched to the limit in a bloody war against its own Taliban.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65616425&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The mothers of three Americans detained in Iran said Thursday they've held off on hiring a lawyer for their children and are still hopeful they will be freed without being put on trial despite being left in the dark by authorities about their case.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65613564&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Spain's defense minister has announced plans to send 511 more soldiers to Afghanistan in response to President Barack Obama's request for more allied help to fight the Taliban.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65612678&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The chief judge of the federal court in Washington told lawyers Thursday that domestic street gangs are more deadly than some Guantanamo Bay detainees who could face trial in U.S. courts.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65610731&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Hard numbers tell the story of Col. Jonathan Neumann's soldiers and the hard times they have endured as part of the United States' refocused fight against the Taliban.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65609239&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A car bomb exploded outside a popular restaurant in central Baghdad on Thursday night, killing three people and wounding 16 as diners were out enjoying the start to their weekend, police and hospital officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65608843&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The killing of pro-democracy demonstrators by Guinean troops in September appears to have been premeditated, then covered up in organized fashion, and was not the work of rogue soldiers, Human Rights Watch said in a report released Thursday.