Archive for July 20th, 2010
Ex-M15 spy chief: Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11
China Daily | 20 July 2010 Ex-M15 spy chief: No link between Iraq and 9/11 "Our involvement in Iraq radicalized, for want of a better word, a whole generation of young people - not a whole generation, a few among a generation - who saw our involvement in Iraq, on top of our involvement in Afghanistan as being an attack on Islam," she [...]
Pakistani JF-17 Thunder fighters to be on sale at Farnborough
RIA Novosti | 19 July 2010 Pakistan to offer JF-17 Thunder fighters at Farnborough Air Show NEW DELHI -- Islamabad will put its JF-17 Thunder fighter aircraft on sale at the Farnborough Air Show near London, a Pakistani TV channel said on Monday. According to a senior source, Turkey and a range of Middle East and African states are [...]
U.S. soldiers know they have lost, only the politicans are in denial
New Statesman | By William Dalrymple | 22 June 2010 Why the Taliban is winning in Afghanistan As Washington and London struggle to prop up a puppet government over which Hamid Karzai has no control, they risk repeating the blood-soaked 19th-century history of Britain’s imperial defeat. In 1843, shortly after his return from [...]
Bush’s Envoy to Iraq Calls for Partition of Afghanistan
Politico | By Robert D. Blackwill | 7 July 2010 A de facto partition for Afghanistan “This means accepting a de facto partition, enforced by U.S. and NATO air power and special forces, the Afghan army and international partners. After years of faulty U.S. policy toward Afghanistan, there are no quick, easy and cost-free ways to escape the [...]
Blowing Smoke Rings at the Kabul Charade
Spiegel | By Matthias Gebauer and Shoib Najafizada in Kabul | 20 July 2010 Setting a Date for the Pullout Kabul Conference to Herald End of NATO Mission Under tight security, the foreign ministers of NATO states are convening Tuesday in Kabul. Despite massive problems and a weak President Hamid Karzai, the military alliance wants [...]
Iran calls for democracy, not fascism, at the world level
Reuters | By Robert Evans | 19 July 2010 Iran calls for world body free of big power control (Reuters) - Senior Iranian official Ali Larijani, whose country is under strong pressure from the United Nations over its nuclear program, called on Monday for a more powerful global body free of big-power domination. Speaking to an audience [...]
Two More Russian AWACS for India
RIA Novosti | 19 July 2010 India to purchase two more AWACS planes from Russia NEW DELHI — India will purchase two additional Russian-made airborne warning and control system (AWACS) aircraft, the Times of India newspaper said on Monday. India ordered three A-50EI variants fitted with Israeli-made Phalcon radar systems in 2004. The first [...]
