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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72525686&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A human rights group says at least 321 civilians were killed by the Lord's Resistance Army in Congo in a previously unreported massacre in late 2009.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72518239&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. says an Iraqi-American contractor said to have been kidnapped in Baghdad in January by Shiite militiamen is back in American hands.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72505670&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The number of U.S. troops killed in Afghanistan has roughly doubled in the first three months of 2010 compared to the same period last year as Washington has added tens of thousands of additional soldiers to reverse the Taliban's momentum.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72479054&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A district court judge convicted a newspaper editorial writer Friday of insulting the head of the Ecuador government's National Financial Corp. and sentenced him to three years in prison.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72464791&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A military judge on Friday refused to dismiss charges against a Marine who led a squad that killed 24 Iraqi men, women and children in the town of Haditha after a bomb killed a Marine.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72464237&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A look at the distribution of seats in Iraq's parliament from each province, after full vote returns from the March 7 parliamentary elections. In the 325-seat parliament, there are 310 general seats, 8 seats for Christians and other minorities and 7 compensatory seats.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72461265&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Marine Corps' commandant said he won't force his troops to bunk with gays on base and would give them separate rooms if Congress votes to allow openly gay service.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72458819&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Word that a South Korean naval ship sank in the tense waters around the disputed maritime border with communist North Korea set off panic: The president convened an emergency meeting and the military dispatched a fleet of ships.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72456525&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The families of three private security contractors who were kidnapped and beheaded in Iraq are suing the U.S. State Department.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=72452216&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A gunman attacked a group of German and Afghan aid workers inspecting a high school under renovation in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, killing one person and injuring several others, officials said.