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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65555907&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Americans like seeing President Barack Obama finally tackle Afghanistan — even if most don't support his plans.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65555896&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military is adding more drones and expanding its video surveillance in the skies over Afghanistan to meet the needs of American forces as 30,000 more troops head into the war zone, a top Air Force general said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65553663&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The head of this Palestinian village can't scan the horizon without being reminded of everything his people have lost.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65553011&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Taliban have announced they will release a new video of a U.S. soldier captured in Afghanistan, a U.S.-based terrorism monitoring group said Wednesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65554979&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Behind the U.S. drive for harsh new sanctions on Iran is growing concern that the Iranians are acquiring the technological know-how to build a nuclear weapon. The latest worry is a purported Iranian secret document that lays out a plan for developing a critical component of an atomic bomb.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65552786&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The White House is confident there's enough U.N. support for more penalties unless Iran acts soon to prove it's not working on a nuclear weapons program.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65552641&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The House voted Wednesday to pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and assure the jobless don't lose their benefits, spearheading a flurry of legislative activity as lawmakers hurried to finish their work for the year.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65552161&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Pakistan's Supreme Court invalidated an amnesty Wednesday shielding senior government figures from corruption charges, opening the door for cases to be reopened against the president's allies.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65550677&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell says the first of 30,000 additional troops being sent to Afghanistan have begun to arrive.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=65550175&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama's special representative for North Korea said Wednesday that any future nuclear disarmament talks will have to deal with an atomic program the North has only recently revealed.