Archive for February 11th, 2010
Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969?
Common Dreams | By Pratap Chatterjee | 8 February 2010 Operation Breakfast Redux Could Pakistan 2010 Go the Way of Cambodia 1969? Sitting in air-conditioned comfort, cans of Coke and 7-Up within reach as they watched their screens, the ground controllers gave the order to strike under the cover of darkness. There had been no declaration [...]
German foreign minister calls Afghanistan ‘armed conflict’
Deutsche Welle | 10 February 2010 German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle has called the situation in Afghanistan an 'armed conflict' and asked Parliament for more troops to be sent. But he did not name a withdrawal date as part of the new strategy. In a speech to the German parliament on Wednesday, Guido Westerwelle called the mission [...]
Russia rules out sending troops to Afghanistan – Security Chief
RIA Novosti | 9 February 2010 MOSCOW -- Russia will not send troops to help NATO forces counter Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan, where it fought nine years ago during the Cold War, the country's top security official said on Tuesday. "We are strongly opposed to our military's role in operations in Afghanistan," Security Council Secretary [...]
