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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66133614&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The roommate of the Nigerian suspected in the attempted attack on a U.S. airliner says the would-be-bomber led a devout life and shunned music and women while he stayed in Yemen.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66134242&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Staggered explosions Wednesday killed 23 people — 13 of them policemen — and wounded an Iraqi provincial governor, officials said, in the worst violence in months to hit the western province that was formerly al-Qaida's top stronghold in Iraq.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66132986&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iraqi official says the Angolan national oil company Sonangol has signed preliminary deals to develop two small oil fields in northern Iraq.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66116859&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Canada's top counterterrorism official says Canada has significant limitations in its ability to share information about potential terrorist suspects with other countries.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66116769&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day suggest a fervently religious and lonely young man who fantasized about becoming a Muslim holy warrior.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66112114&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Yemeni investigators pieced together the movements and contacts of the Nigerian suspect in the botched Christmas Day airline attack, questioning the principal of a school where he studied for a second day on Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66112113&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Cuban government has given a U.S. diplomat access to a jailed American citizen accused of providing communications equipment to dissident groups while working as a government contractor, a U.S. official in Havana said Tuesday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66111964&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. Congressmen said Tuesday they are urging Afghan President Hamid Karzai to delay the next parliamentary ballot until electoral reforms are in place or risk American financial support for his government.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66111855&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Internet postings purportedly written by a Nigerian charged with trying to bomb a U.S. airliner on Christmas Day suggest a fervently religious and lonely young man who fantasized about becoming a Muslim holy warrior.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66111473&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The bodies kept surfacing — hanged, shot, beheaded — and always with a note alleging the victims were anti-Taliban spies. "Learn a lesson from the fate of this man," warned one message found on a corpse in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region.