zaterdag, juni 28, 2008
Iraq security handover delayed
he handover of al Anbar province from the US troops to Iraqi forces has been delayed due to a sand storm and a suicide bomber attack that killed 20 people.Labels: Iraq, United States
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maandag, juli 09, 2007
Pakistan, the next nightmare
Pakistan is in crisis according to Brooking Institution professor Stephen Cohen. It even is a time bomb, according to Cohen in the Washington Post recently. Not only Pakistan, but together with Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan this corner of the world, loaded with nukes (Iran, Pakistan, India) is the most explosive. It is comparable with the situation in the beginning of the 20th century Balkans in Europe.
Sectarian terrorist and Taliban violence is destabilizing the region turning it to a potential time bomb. US leadership should revise its policy toward Pakistan. Not solely leaning on the military dictatorship, but pushing moderate civic society, according to Cohen, also on C- Span.
See Washington Journal C- Span.
Labels: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan
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zaterdag, juli 07, 2007
Bobby Gosh: US effort in Iraq in vain
Aparisim "Bobby" Ghosh, Time Magazine, Baghdad Bureau talks about the military and political situation in Iraq in C-Spans Washington Journal. He is one of the few journalists who reports from Baghdad itself.
In more than half an hour Q&A all aspects of the present political delicate situation comes around. Mister Gosh is very pessimistic about the present development in Iraq.
View the entire program on C-Span, click here.
Labels: Iraq, United States
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vrijdag, juli 06, 2007
Boekestijn over Afghanistan in Who's Next
NRC Handelsblad verslaggever Robert van de Roer praat met Tweede Kamerlid Arend Jan Boekestijn (VVD) over NRC Next, Afghanistan, martelingen en Joshua Livestro. Bovendien biedt Boekestijn zijn excuses aan voor de invasie in Irak.
Labels: Afghanistan, Iraq, NRC Next, VVD
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donderdag, juni 28, 2007
Cut US Army in two
Strategic planner Thomas P.M. Barnett has advised US leaders on national security since the end of the Cold War. In this bracingly honest -- and very funny -- talk, Barnett outlines a solution for the foundering US military: Break it in two. One half makes war, and the other half builds the peace that follows.
Labels: Afghanistan, Iraq, Politiek, TED Talk, Terrorisme, United States
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woensdag, juni 27, 2007
Colin Powell Saying He Was Misled Before UN Speech on WMDs
Labels: Iraq
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