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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73824055&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Abdul Baseer sent the grenades and explosive vest ahead, then boarded a bus that would take him to his target, accompanied by the 14-year-old boy he had groomed as his suicide bomber.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73823236&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The Taliban are moving fighters into Kandahar, planting bombs and plotting attacks as NATO and Afghan forces prepare for a summer showdown with insurgents, according to a Taliban commander with close ties to senior insurgent leaders.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73823147&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad extolled Iran's military might during an annual army parade on Sunday, saying the country is so powerful today that no one would dare attack it.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73814995&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An American soldier has been killed and three others were wounded in a helicopter crash in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73811137&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=11339 MIKEBREAK Seven people were killed on Sunday in the third suicide attack in 24 hours in Pakistan's northwestern city of Kohat, which has become home to thousands fleeing rampant violence.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73807470&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK An Iranian newspaper says a court has sentenced a prominent critic filmmaker to three-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the post-election turmoil.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73807446&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. Embassy says Syria has allowed the reopening of an American school in Damascus that was shut down two years ago.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73802620&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Israel has barred the entry of nearly all Palestinians from the West Bank as a security measure because of observances for Memorial Day and Independence Day.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73794784&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK Tweeting, Skyping and blogging on Huffington Post, holding forth on CNN or al-Jazeera, debriefing arms negotiators and parleying with generals, the queen is perfecting her nuclear strategy.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=73785128&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK All around, men roared and rifles thudded. Sprawled in the earth in an open field, an American soldier to the left handed me a wounded man's ammunition belt. Even as Taliban bullets whipped overhead, I thought about professional codes of conduct. Carry the belt? Or not?