Posts Tagged ‘Netherlands’
Dutch troops to withdraw from Afghanistan in August
China Daily | 30 July 2010 THE HAGUE - The Dutch troops deployed in Afghanistan will leave as scheduled starting August 1 after concluding a four-year mission in the country, Dutch military chief General Peter van Uhm said Thursday. While being stationed in Afghanistan's southern province of Uruzgan over the past four years, Dutch [...]
COAS Lt. Gen. V. K. Singh Modernising the Indian Army
Aviation Week | By Neelam Mathews (New Delhi) | 10 June 2010 Slow Going As India Revamps Army Program delays and an urgent need for upgrades and new equipment are among the challenges confronting Lt. Gen. V.K. Singh, India’s new army chief of staff, as he begins wrestling with modernization of the 1.1-million-strong force. The service [...]
Asif Zardari Richer than Queen Elizabeth II
The Independent | By David Usborne | 19 May 2010 Rich and powerful: Obama and the global super-elite The US President's bank balance has been buoyant since he took office. But he is still some way short of rivalling the very richest world leaders Now the nation knows. That doggy in the White House window is worth $1,600 (£1,100). Pretty [...]
Dutch Troops May Quit Afghanistan by August 2010
BBC | 20 February 2010 Dutch cabinet collapses in dispute over Afghanistan The Dutch government has collapsed over disagreements within the governing coalition on extending troop deployments in Afghanistan. After marathon talks, Christian Democratic Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende announced that the Labour Party was quitting the [...]
Insecure Americans, Abdulmutallab, & Terrorism
New American | By Joe Wolverton, II | 4 February 2010 “The government can’t deliver the mail, it can’t operate surveillance cameras at an airport; it can’t pay back its debts; it can’t tell the truth.” — U.S. Judge Andrew Napolitano On January 9, 2009, an apparently fit, though slightly limping Umar Abdulmutallab entered the [...]
Al-Jazeera’s “Osama bin Ladin” Tape: Alternative Translation
Just as consensus was emerging that Osama bin Ladin was long dead and Al Qaeda a spent force, a 1-minute voice recording has emerged, in a video with an old photograph of an extremely young Osama bin Ladin, that starts with the incongruous greeting, "From Osama to Obama" . With exquisite timing for U.S. info-war objectives, the voice [...]
Dutch Inquiry Declares U.S. Invasion of Iraq Illegal
Download : Davids' Committee Report (Dutch; Extensive English summary from page 517) Summary of conclusions of the Committee of Inquiry on Iraq 49 Conclusions of commission report (English) Internal Memo DJZ/IR/2003/158 (advising Dutch Minister of illegality) Pravda.ru | By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey | 13 January 2010 The Iraq War was Illegal [...]
Drones for Afghanistan Fuel Export Boom in Israel
Ares | By Robert Wall | 13 January 2010 Afghanistan Becomes Heaven for Heron The Israeli unmanned aircraft industry owes a collective thank you to the Taliban and Al Qaeda -- or maybe NATO -- since there appears to be no end in sight in the demand for Israeli made UAVs to support operations in Afghanistan. (more...)
Netherlands: Doctor refuses to treat infant because mother was wearing a veil
Islamophobia Watch | By Martin Sullivan | 30 December 2009 Netherlands: doctor turns away woman wearing veil On Christmas day, a family doctor in Utrecht refused to allow a woman into his surgery because she was wearing a niqab, or burqa. The 23-year-old woman had brought her baby to see the doctor. The three-month-old child had diarrhoea and [...]
While Pakistanis die by the dozens, the British want their troops out, Now
How many more will die in vain before we withdraw? The attempt to exploit soldiers' deaths to win support for the shameful war in Afghanistan thankfully isn't working Seumas Milne | Wednesday 15 July 2009 22.00 BST All week politicians, media and the military have strained every nerve to turn public sympathy over the deaths of British [...]
