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More Troops and New Strategy for Afghanistan Will Be Hard to Come By
The dire situation in Afghanistan, highlighted by the call for more troops by NATO’s top commander there, is forcing the alliance to make tough decisions. Surprisingly, Europe and the US are closer than before. Whatever decisions President Barack Obama and other NATO leaders make in response to General Stanley McChrystal’s assessment of the conflict in [...]
French General Takes Over Key NATO Command
In the hangar bay of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, before an international audience of 800 military personnel and civilians, French general Stephane Abrial became head of Allied Command Transformation. He is replacing outgoing US Marine Corps General James Mattis who remains head of the US Joint Forces Command. It is the first [...]
NATO Probe Finds German Officer at Fault Over Afghan Bombing
A German army officer who ordered a deadly airstrike on two fuel trucks in Afghanistan, leaving many civilians dead, violated procedures, a preliminary NATO investigation has found. In a report published Thursday, the German daily, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, quotes the initial NATO review of the incident stating that Colonel Georg Klein overstepped his authority and misjudged [...]
Debate Heats Up Over German-Ordered Afghanistan Airstrike
Germany and the US both sought to deflect blame for a recent airstrike in Afghanistan aimed at insurgents but which may have killed dozens of civilians. The matter could open a rift between the NATO allies. According to a report by the US daily the Washington Post, a NATO fact finding team on the ground [...]
Arms Dealer with Ties to Merkel’s Party Extradited to Germany
Karlheinz Schreiber, a key figure in a funding scandal which rocked Chancellor Merkel’s conservatives a decade ago, has arrived in Germany from Canada. But it’s unlikely his case will be heard before polls next month. The 75-year-old, who holds dual Canadian and German citizenship, arrived in Munich on Monday after fighting extradition from Canada for [...]
New Rules of Engagement for German Troops in Afghanistan
According to media reports, the German government has dropped some of the conditions of engagement under which its soldiers in Afghanistan had been bound. Bundeswehr troops will in future be able to engage in combat much earlier than has been the case.German News Magazine, Der Spiegel, reported the change in its online edition on Saturday. [...]
German Researchers Deplore Trend Toward Arms Build-Up
German peace researchers say Germany has not only steadily increased its defense budget over the past three years – it is also one of the world’s leading arms exporters. The Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC), one of Germany’s leading peace and conflict research institutes, on Thursday welcomed the new disarmament initiatives in the nuclear [...]
German Admits Selling Rocket Material to Iran
A German businessman on trial for selling graphite to Iran to make rocket nozzles has admitted the offense. At the opening of his trial on April 8, the 63-year-old businessman on trial for selling Iran 16 tons of graphite to make rocket nozzles initially rejected all 12 counts of the indictment. However, in a statement [...]
German Police Search British Army Bases In Corruption Investigation
Local police raided several British military installations in Germany on Tuesday. They suspect that military personnel have been accepting kick-backs from contractors for work done on the bases. Prosecutors in Wuppertal said that around 200 police officers and 50 officials searched British army premises in the towns of Moenchengladbach, Elmpt, Paderborn and Herford. Eight local [...]
