NATO News-links 24-25/1/08

25/1/08

NATO wear and tear
Los Angeles Times – CA,USA
By every measure, the war in Afghanistan is going badly, and NATO is showing the strains. After sacrificing Afghanistan on the altar of its war of choice in …
www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/
la-ed-afghanistan25jan25,1,3050667.story

Some NATO Powers Not Doing Fair Shares
Wheeling News Register – Wheeling,WV,USA
So are Great Britain and the Netherlands, which also have troops in Kandahar as part of the 42000-strong NATO force in Afghanistan. …
www.news-register.net/page/
content.detail/id/504956.html?nav=511

Being reasonable about Afghanistan is wishful thinking
Times Online – UK
Its broad answer is that Canada should not pull out quickly but its presence should be conditional on more support from other Nato countries and, …
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/
columnists/bronwen_maddox/article3247744.ece

NATO chief urges Russia to stop ‘unhelpful rhetoric’
Abu Dhabi (AFP) Jan 24, 2008 – NATO chief Jaap de Hoop Scheffer urged Russia on Thursday to abandon “unhelpful rhetoric” and talk through its differences with the alliance.
www.spacewar.com/reports/NATO_chief_urges
_Russia_to_stop_unhelpful_rhetoric_999.html

Rogozin Says Set to Work With NATO
The Moscow Times – Russia
By Nikolaus von Twickel Russia’s new representative to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, offered a trademark nationalist farewell Thursday before heading to Brussels …
www.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2008/01/25/012.html

Defining diplomacy
Al-Ahram Weekly – Cairo,Egypt
There are several irons in the East-West fire these days — Kosovo, Poland, NATO, pipeline routes through Eastern Europe, to name just the most obvious…
weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/881/in6.htm

GOP Rep.: NATO spends more on catering than on Afghanistan
Duncan Hunter, the ranking minority member of the committee, attempted to lay most of the blame on the European members of the coalition. “I get to the point where I think that the NATO boys are spending more money on catering than they …
digg.com/politics/GOP_Rep_NATO_spends_
more_on_catering_than_on_Afghanistan

Belgium’s Interim Government Reveals NATO Secret
Yesterday, Belgium’s interim Minister of Defense, the Christian-Democrat Pieter De Crem, revealed a NATO top secret which his predecessor, an anti-American Socialist, had managed to keep: ie that there are (American) nuclear weapons in …
www.brusselsjournal.com/node/2899

24/1/08

Visit to NATO of Prime Minister of Kosovo
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Mr. Hashim Thaci, will visit NATO Headquarters on Friday 25 January 2008 and will meet with the Secretary General, Mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer.
www.nato.int/docu/pr/2008/p08-010e.html

Poll: Almost half of Ukrainians oppose joining NATO membership …
Xinhua – China
24 (Xinhua) — Almost half of Ukrainians objected to joining the NATO membership action plan, an opinion poll released by the country’s Democratic …
news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/25/content_7491014.htm

10 Die in Mistaken Afghan Firefight
New York Times – United States
The soldiers were part of the United States-led coalition that conducts counterterrorism operations, not part of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, he said. …
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/25/world
/asia/25afghan.html?ref=world

Russia: No Peacekeepers to Kosovo
The Associated Press –
MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin’s newly appointed envoy to NATO emphasized Moscow’s opposition to Kosovo’s independence bid Thursday, but said Russia …
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jM4PSL
d6T3WUPzs9cBrGLgcfYewgD8UCFAAG0

Russia: Nato Expansion Reminiscent of Cold War
Speaking at a press call, Sergei Lavrov highlighted how NATO’s growth towards the Russian border was an unjustified move in security terms, and simultaneously issued a warning on the damage that could impact on Russia’s relations with …
www.armedforces-int.com/news/2008/01/24/
russia-nato-expansion-reminiscent-of-cold-war.asp

Nato and Pentagon: Nuclear First-Strike Nessesary
By infolution
Calling for a major change to Nato’s approach to defending its members and their interests, the authors of the report, which has been handed to Nato and Pentagon chiefs, said the first-strike use of nuclear weapons was a “indispensable …
noworldsystem.com/2008/01/24/nato-
and-pentagon-nuclear-first-strike-nessesary/

Comment on Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, Nato told …
By RBG
What do the thousands of other officers, retired or otherwise from the other 21 NATO countries also have to say about this plan if individual opinions are so important? Not to mention the opinion of the UN-mandated International …
www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=15745#comment-973279

Nato and Pentagon: Nuclear First-Strike Necessary
By infolution
Calling for a major change to Nato’s approach to defending its members and their interests, the authors of the report, which has been handed to Nato and Pentagon chiefs, said the first-strike use of nuclear weapons was a “indispensable …
noworldsystem.com/2008/01/24/nato
-and-pentagon-nuclear-first-strike-nessesary/