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Associated Press – September 24, 2007 YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s military government issued a threat Monday to the barefoot Buddhist monks who led 100,000 people marching through the capital, in the strongest protests against the repressive regime for two decades. The warning shows the increasing pressure the junta is under to either crack down on…