http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69897429&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military says two Army helicopter pilots have been killed in an accident on a base in northern Iraq.
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Powell backs Obama on national security record
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69889327&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Former Secretary of State Colin Powell is rejecting charges that the country is less safe because of the way President Barack Obama has handled national security matters.
Petraeus: Troops may not care if gay ban repealed
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69886868&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. commander overseeing troops in Iraq and Afghanistan says he's not sure that troops in the field care about the sexual orientation of fellow service members.
Petraeus: Marjah first salvo in long campaign
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69885633&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. general who oversees wars in Afghanistan and Iraq says the current battle around the southern Afghan town of Marjah is the opening battle in a long campaign.
Makeshift bomb thrown at Cairo synagogue, no dead
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69882560&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A man hurled a suitcase containing a makeshift bomb at Cairo's main downtown synagogue in the early hours Sunday morning, but there were no injuries or damage, police said.
Holbrooke seeks Central Asia help for Afghanistan
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69879493&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke visited Kazakhstan on Sunday to drum up regional assistance in stabilizing Afghanistan, the last stop on his tour of former Soviet states in Central Asia.
Iran says forces kill armed 4 Kurdish separatists
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69877021&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iranian state television reports that intelligence agents have killed four members of an armed Kurdish separatist group.
Thaksin ruling could further inflame Thai unrest
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69866831&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A court ruling on whether Thailand's deposed leader Thaksin Shinawatra should lose his fortune for alleged corruption could become the latest flash point in four years of sometimes-violent political unrest that has exposed deep divisions in Thai society.
Checkpoint misery epitomizes a Mideast divide
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69858318&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The journey to Jerusalem, for tens of thousands of Palestinians, begins in a dank, trash-strewn hangar.
Plane attack prompts debate over terrorism label
http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=69829574&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK When a man fueled by rage against the U.S. government and its tax code crashes his airplane into a building housing offices of the Internal Revenue Service, is it a criminal act or an act of terrorism?