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Friday, April 6, 2007 |
YNet: "US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that the United States was not planning to release the five Iranians arrested in January in a raid on the Iranian consulate's office in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil.
Iranian media reported Wednesday that an Iranian official would be allowed to meet with the five detainees, who according to the authorities serve as diplomats."
The Bush administration is essentially racist, hypocritical and unethical.
10:56:28 AM 
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AlterNet: "Now that the U.S. Congress is investigating the truth of President George W. Bush's statements about the Iraq war, they might look into one of his most startling assertions: that there was a link between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden.
Critics dismissed that as an invention. They were wrong. There was a link, but not the one Bush was selling. The link between Hussein and Bin Laden was their banker, BCCI. But the link went beyond the dictator and the jihadist - it passed through Saudi Arabia and stretched all the way to George W. Bush and his father.
BCCI was the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, a dirty offshore bank that then-President Ronald Reagan's Central Intelligence Agency used to run guns to Hussein, finance Osama bin Laden, move money in the illegal Iran-Contra operation and carry out other 'agency' black ops. The Bushes also benefited privately; one of the bank's largest Saudi investors helped bail out George W. Bush's troubled oil investments."
10:50:40 AM
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IHT: "Poland's military mission in Iraq may take a more 'offensive' character, the president said Thursday.
Polish military commanders in Iraq say their troops, which have been concentrating on rebuilding missions and security patrols, have come under increasing insurgent attacks.
'Our base has recently come under frequent fire, and as a result there may be a need to change the character (of the mission) to a more offensive one,' President Lech Kaczynski said, adding that he was not considering sending more troops."
More offensive, like it was less offensive before?
BlackAnthem: "Polish Brig. Gen. Marek Tomaszycki assumed a dual role as commander of the Polish military contingent in Afghanistan and as one of CJTF-82's deputy commanders March 22."
NYTimes: "Thousands of fresh Western troops have flowed into Afghanistan since last year, seeking to counter the resurgent Taliban before an expected spring offensive. Many American units have been conducting sweeps and raids.
But here in Uruzgan Province, where the Taliban operate openly, a Dutch-led task force has mostly shunned combat. Its counterinsurgency tactics emphasize efforts to improve Afghan living conditions and self-governance, rather than hunting the Taliban's fighters. Bloodshed is out. Reconstruction, mentoring and diplomacy are in."
It is time for the Dutch troops to pull out as soon as possible.
10:44:00 AM
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© Copyright 2007 Hetty Litjens.
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