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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70181698&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Bank Mellat of Iran on Wednesday won a preliminary court ruling against sanctions imposed by the British government.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70176568&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK A US drone fired missiles into a Taliban compound on Wednesday, killing six militants in Pakistan's northwest tribal belt near the Afghan border, security officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70174885&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Spain took in an inmate from Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday, the first of up to five the government is willing to host as it tries to help President Barack Obama's flagging effort to close the U.S. prison for terror suspects.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70174614&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A two-day gunbattle between Indian security forces and suspected Islamic insurgents has killed three army soldiers and three militants in the Indian portion of Kashmir, an official said Wednesday.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?articleId=70164725&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The bullet-riddled bodies of two alleged U.S. spies were found Wednesday in a Taliban stronghold in northwest Pakistan, the latest victims of an intelligence war that a top American general indicated is tilting in Washington and Islamabad's favor.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70141094&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A Senate investigation accuses the Army of turning a blind eye when a Blackwater subsidiary hired violent drug users to help train the Afghan army and declared "sidearms for everyone" even though employees weren't authorized to carry weapons.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70114473&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A senior operative of the al-Qaida network in Yemen — the group that claimed responsibility for the failed Christmas Day attack on an American passenger jet over Detroit — has threatened more attacks on the United States.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70108454&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A defense contractor facing up to 15 years in prison for accepting a $200,000 kickback got five years of probation Tuesday after a judge applauded his work with federal agents investigating problems with the Congressional earmark process.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70108396&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Supreme Court struggled Tuesday to balance the constitutional rights of humanitarian aid groups with the government's efforts to combat terrorism.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=70103904&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Bouwudin courteously greeted the Afghan and American officers who came to meet him, offering tea and eventually a meal as the meeting lingered on. No amount of invitations could get him to walk a few hundred yards to the Marines base.