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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72402135&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Attorney General Eric Holder says the government will appeal an order to release a Guantanamo Bay detainee described in the 9/11 commission report as a significant al-Qaida operative.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72399498&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari briefly walked out Thursday of an Arab League ministerial meeting held in Libya to protest against Moammar Gadhafi's declared support for Saddam Hussein loyalists, delegates said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72399483&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Some 2,000 opposition activists in Belarus held a protest rally Thursday despite police blocks that authorities explained were part of security measures against an alleged bomb threat.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72396974&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Qatari government has forced out the moderate leadership of a popular Islamic Web site and plans to reshape it into a more religiously conservative outlet, former employees of the site said Thursday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72396834&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Britain's Prince Charles made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Thursday, stopping in the Taliban-infested province where his younger son, Harry, served for 10 weeks until his secret deployment was leaked to the media.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72396635&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The military's top uniformed officer has publicly admonished a three-star Army general for urging troops to speak out against allowing gays to serve openly.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72395918&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Top Israeli officials on Thursday rallied behind embattled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his dispute with the U.S., deepening the rift between the two allies over Israeli construction in east Jerusalem.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72394121&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The owner of Venezuela's only television channel that remains critical of President Hugo Chavez was arrested Thursday, spurring concerns among rights activists of a widening government crackdown aimed at silencing critics.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72391937&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Type "Falun Gong" in Chinese into Google's search engine from Beijing, and the Web browser suddenly becomes unresponsive for about a minute. Make the same search from Hong Kong, and you'll get plenty of links to the spiritual movement banned by the Chinese government.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72391752&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Defense Secretary Robert Gates Thursday approved new rules that will make it harder to discharge gays from the military, calling the changes a matter of "common sense and common decency."