we report our preliminary results for the LMC, sadly reduced in scope by hurricane Yasi. In Section \[sec:agnsel\], we describe the selection methods leading to a sample of 2434 quasar candidates behind LMC. Section \[sec:data\] describes the observation plan, the observations, and the data analysis. Section \[sec:newquasars\] introduces the new quasars and Section \[sec:contamination\] discusses the contaminating sources. We discuss the results in Section \[sec:discussion\] and summarize the paper in Section \[sec:summary\].

AGN candidate selection {#sec:agnsel}
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We selected targets based on their mid-IR, X-ray and/or photometric variability characteristics and we describe each method in detail below. The observations were designed for AAOmega, a 400-fiber spectrograph mounted on the 3.9 m Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT; @2006SPIE.6269E..14S). The AAOmega instrument has many more fibers than the expected number of quasars in its field of view, so we kept candidates satisfying any of the selection criteria, thereby aiming for higher completeness at the price of higher contamination. There is no point in having empty fibers even if it means observing more contaminating stars.

Mid-IR-selected AGN Candidates {#sec:mIRsel}
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[@2005ApJ...631..163S] showed that active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have redder mid-IR colors than galaxies and stars, and that they form a distinctive group in the mid-IR 