Antiwar Newswire

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74387353&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A judge ruled Monday that an anonymous jury will hear the trial of an American student accused of lending support to al-Qaida in Afghanistan.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74386837&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A United Nations investigation has found that four U.N. staff members killed during a suicide attack on a Kabul guest house last October may have died because of friendly fire from Afghan security forces, U.N. officials said Monday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74385863&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iraqi court disqualified 52 candidates Monday from the country's parliamentary elections, including one who won a seat, and threw out their votes in a decision that could potentially change the outcome of the March 7 vote.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74385568&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday signed a law banning Palestinians from working in Israeli settlements and selling settlement goods, with violators facing up to five years in prison and stiff fines.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74380109&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama assured a top Israeli official Monday that the U.S. has an unshakable commitment to Israel's security despite recent tension over Jewish settlement construction in East Jerusalem.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74374919&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United Nations scaled back its operations in the troubled southern city of Kandahar on Monday, relocating several foreign employees to Kabul and telling more than 200 Afghan U.N. workers to stay home amid rising violence.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74374646&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The British ambassador in Yemen narrowly escaped a suicide attack Monday, when a young man in a school uniform detonated his explosives belt near the diplomat's armored car in a poor neighborhood of the capital San'a, officials said.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74373521&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Sudan's president won another term in office Monday with a comfortable majority in elections marred by boycotts and fraud allegations, becoming the first head-of-state to be re-elected while facing an international arrest warrant for war crimes.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74372103&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Iran's foreign minister held talks with Bosnian leaders Monday as part of a campaign to avert another round of U.N. sanctions.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=74366201&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A wave of violence sweeping the southern city of Kandahar has forced the United Nations to tell more than 200 of its Afghan employees to stay home, a U.N. official said Monday. Several foreign U.N. employees were temporarily moved to Kabul.