  We consider breaking of supersymmetry in intersecting D-brane configurations
by slight deviation of the angles from their supersymmetric values. We compute
the masses generated by radiative corrections for the adjoint scalars on the
brane world-volumes. In the open string channel, the string two-point function
receives contributions only from the infrared and the ultraviolet limits. The
latter is due to tree-level closed string uncanceled NS-NS tadpoles, which we
explicitly reproduce from the effective Born-Infeld action. On the other hand,
the infrared region reproduces the one-loop mediation of supersymmetry breaking
in the effective gauge theory, via messengers and their Kaluza-Klein
excitations. In the toroidal set-up considered here, it receives contributions
only from broken N=4 and N=2 supersymmetric configurations, and thus always
leads at leading order to a tachyonic direction, in agreement with effective
field theory expectations.
