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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66060942&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iranian security forces stormed a series of opposition offices on Monday, rounding up at least seven prominent anti-government activists in a new crackdown against the country's reformist movement, opposition Web sites and activists reported.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66058605&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Two members of the Afghan National Police were killed when militants attacked a checkpoint in western Afghanistan, police said Monday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66058393&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The families of three Americans arrested in July after crossing into Iran from neighboring Iraq say they have hired a prominent lawyer in Iran to work for their release.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66044115&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The explosive device used by the would-be Detroit bomber contained a widely available — and easily detected — chemical explosive that has a long history of terrorist use, according to government officials and explosive experts.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66042753&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Authorities say they've detained two men thought to have been acting suspicious aboard a flight bound for Phoenix.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66040084&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The same Detroit-bound Northwest Airlines flight that was attacked on Christmas Day saw another security scare Sunday during a confrontation with a sick passenger from Nigeria, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66038588&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK As a member of an uppercrust Nigerian family, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab received the best schooling, from the elite British International School in West Africa to the vaunted University College London.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66037759&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States is strongly condemning the violence in Iran, offering its support to those who seek universal rights.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66035771&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Nigerian man's claim that his attempt to blow up a U.S. plane originated with al-Qaida's network inside Yemen deepened concerns that instability in the Middle Eastern country is providing the terror group with a base to train and recruit militants for operations against the West and the U.S.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=66033540&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A suicide bomber targeted a large gathering of Shiite Muslims in the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir on Sunday, killing five people and wounding 80 — a rare sectarian attack in an area police said has little history of militant violence.