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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65605310&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Senate subcommittee says Pentagon auditors have challenged nearly $1 billion in charges by military contractors in Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65605286&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Prosecutors say a former linguist for the FBI has pleaded guilty to leaking classified documents to a blogger who posted the information online.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65602344&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Authorities are holding dozens of people as suspects in last week's suicide bombings in Baghdad, an Iraqi official said Thursday, clarifying earlier remarks by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that had appeared to link security forces to the attacks.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65600249&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide car bomber attacked a group of police and soldiers in Russia's restive North Caucasus Thursday, wounding at least 23 people, while two security officers were killed in a drive-by shooting, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65598631&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide car bomber attacked a group of police and soldiers in Russia's restive North Caucasus Thursday, wounding at least 23 people, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65598277&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pakistani intelligence officials say the latest suspected U.S. missile strike along the Afghan border has killed 15 people, including seven alleged foreign militants.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65598058&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Russia on Thursday accused the United States of slowing down talks on a new nuclear weapons disarmament treaty, after officials admitted the two sides could no longer sign the accord this year.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65596991&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Security forces struck several al-Qaida hideouts and training sites in Yemen on Thursday, killing up to 34 suspected militants, including four would-be suicide bombers who planned attacks at home and abroad. At least 17 suspected militants were arrested.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65586337&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert offered to swap Israeli territory near the Gaza Strip and West Bank in exchange for settlement blocs in the West Bank, the Haaretz newspaper reported Thursday, in the most detailed account of the former Israeli leader's proposed peace offer to the Palestinians.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65585030&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The top U.S. military officer on Thursday visited the front lines of the war in Afghanistan, where he advised troops to "focus on the people of this country."