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http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76205354&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The U.S. military's workhorse rifle — used in battle for the last 40 years — is proving less effective in Afghanistan against the Taliban's more primitive but longer range weapons.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76198535&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK South Korea's president said Friday his country was caught in a "perfect military ambush" when a North Korean torpedo sank a naval warship, but called for a cautious response to the disaster that left 46 sailors dead.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76192517&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK South Korea's president convened an emergency national security meeting Friday, a day after an official report concluded that North Korea was responsible for the deadly sinking of a naval patrol ship.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76181601&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK A senior member of the al-Qaida spinoff group behind the failed Christmas Day airline attack was killed as part of a U.S.-Yemeni counterterrorism campaign, the terror group announced.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76175487&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK At least 16 people later linked to terror plots passed through U.S. airports undetected by federal officials who were on duty to spot suspicious behavior, according to a government report.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76173749&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. officials refused on Thursday to call North Korea's torpedoing of a South Korean warship an act of war or state-sponsored terror, warning that an overreaction could cause the Korean peninsula to "explode."

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76172688&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK President Barack Obama is poised to ask Congress to agree to $9 billion more in loan guarantees for the nuclear energy industry, a Democratic aide said Thursday, in a renewed push for nuclear power as the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico highlights the risks of fossil fuel production.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76171289&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK U.S. officials reacted cautiously Thursday to a report blaming North Korea for sinking a South Korean warship, refusing to call the attack an act of war or state-sponsored terror.

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76169236&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK North Korea, accused of waging the deadliest attack on the South Korean military since the Korean War, flatly denied sinking a warship Thursday and warned that retaliation would mean "all-out war."

http://www.mochila.com/article_powered_by_mochila.html?articleId=76166747&buyerId=Antiwarcom&channelId=1573 MIKEBREAK The United States has agreed to notify other nations before it launches most ballistic missile tests or satellites, in a measure that builds on a landmark arms agreement with Russia and is meant to encourage Moscow to reciprocate.