26 June, 2009
First top Russia-NATO talks set since Georgia war
Washington Post – United States
By Dina Kyriakidou ATHENS (Reuters) – Russia and NATO hold their first
high-level talks this weekend since the war with Georgia and Moscow is due
to …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/06/26/AR2009062600951.html
International News brief
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader – Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
Despite the thousands of US troops headed to southern Afghanistan this
summer, a NATO commander said Thursday they’ll fall short of the numbers
historically …
www.timesleader.com/news/International_News_brief062609.html
NATO general: More forces needed in Afghanistan – Army News, news …
WASHINGTON — Despite the thousands of US troops headed to southern
Afghanistan this summer, a NATO commander said Thursday they’ll fall short
of the numbers historically needed to defeat insurgents.
www.armytimes.com/news/2009/06/
ap_nato_general_afghanistan_062509/
CovertRadioShow.Com: American Intelligence “ NATO chief says …
By Covert Radio Show
NATO chief says Central Asia must decide on ties | Reuters.
covertradioshow.com/blog/?p=454
RA’s Daily Russian News Blast – June 26, 2009 – Robert Amsterdam
By Editor
TODAY: Politkovskaya suspects to be retried; NATO claims to be no rival to
Russia; Medvedev says START negotiations still ongoing; extent of alcohol
abuse deaths sends shockwaves; Duma speaker superhero …
www.robertamsterdam.com/2009/06/ras_
daily_russian_news_blast_-_june_26_2009.htm
Afghanistan – Iran: Minister snubs Afghan summit in Italy …
Troops killed at least two dozen militants in the run up to August
elections in Afghanistan as separate insurgent bomb attacks killed an
Afghan and a NATO soldier, authorities said Thursday. …
globalnewsblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/afghanistan-
iran-minister-snubs-afghan-summit-in-italy-adnkronos/
Turkish Army holds Seminar for NATO Members and Partners | Turkish …
On June 22-23, the Turkish army organized the tenth Silk Road
General/Admiral seminar in Istanbul, which brought together around 119
military officers from NATO countries, Partnership for Peace (PfP) nations,
and the members of NATO’s …
www.turkishforum.com.tr/en/content/2009/06/25/turkish
-army-holds-seminar-for-nato-members-and-partners/
Erik’s Choice: Sixty Years On
By Erik Donald France
In 1949, Germany formally became two countries, one dominated by the
Soviets, the other dominated by NATO. The Berlin Airlift was a big deal at
the time, helping to preserve Berlin for the West. Here, we’ve made some
intervening changes …
www.eriklerouge.blogspot.com/2009/06/sixty-years-on.html
KAZAKHSTAN: GEOPOLITICAL RIVALRY FLARES AT NATO FORUM IN ASTANA
EurasiaNet – New York,NY,USA
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer used a June 25 security forum
in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana to encourage debate on how the Atlantic
Alliance …
www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav062509.shtml
The Iraq Drawdown Is Proof of Success
Wall Street Journal – USA
Thirteen NATO countries are presently teaching and advising the next
generation of leaders in Iraq’s military staff colleges and police
academies. …
online.wsj.com/article/SB124597271501557121.html
Security through Partnership; Keynote Speech by the Secretary …
ISRIA – France
NATO has taken this logic to heart. When the Cold War ended, the Alliance
reached out to its neighbours, and worked hard to build closer ties with
them. …
www.isria.com/pages/25_June_2009_160.htm
NATO, Russia tensions flare at security summit
Daily Times – Lahore,Pakistan
ASTANA: Tensions between NATO and Russia burst into the open again on
Thursday at a regional security summit in the Kazakh capital, which was
marred by …
www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=
2009%5C06%5C26%5Cstory_26-6-2009_pg4_2
PREVIEW: NATO and Russia, ever squabbling, aim to make up on Corfu
Monsters and Critics.com – USA
By Dieter Ebeling Jun 26, 2009, 2:08 GMT Brussels/Corfu – Foreign ministers
of NATO’s 28 member states meet with their Russian counterpart on the Greek…
www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_
1485967.php/PREVIEW_NATO_and_Russia_ever_squabbling_
aim_to_make_up_on_Corfu_
NATO in sovereign Afghanistan | FREE PRESS INTERNATIONAL
By admin
REUTERS WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NATO forces in southern Afghanistan, boosted
by a big influx of US troops, will step up operations in Helmand province
and.
www.freepressinternational.com/2009/
06/nato-in-sovereign-afghanistan/
NATO commander predicts violent uptick as Afghan elections approach
By Lara Jakes
General: More troops needed to defeat insurgentsWASHINGTON — Despite the
thousands of US troops headed to southern Afghanistan this summer, a NATO
commander said Thursday they’ll fall short of the numbers historically
needed to defeat …
blog.taragana.com/n/nato-commander-predicts-
violent-uptick-as-afghan-elections-approach-92301/
Scientology’s CAN President works for NATO… – Why We Protest …
By Smurf
Get this… Rev. George Robertson is a Scientology tool I worked with, at
OSA’s direction, to help destroy the original Cult Awareness Network.
forums.whyweprotest.net/291-scientology-discussion/
scientologys-can-president-works-nato-48177/
NewsChex – Welcome to NewsChex “ Blog Archive “ Afghan focus at …
By Jerry
Afghan focus at NATO’s first Central Asia talks. Reuters ASTANA, June 25
(Reuters) – NATO held its first meeting in Central Asia on Thursday to
discuss issues ranging from Afghanistan to Caspian Sea cooperation. …
www.newschex.com/world-news/afghan-focus
-at-natos-first-central-asia-talks-reuters/
Serbian aim to kill all Kosovans is nothing new
By Editor
It is easy to assume that the all-out Serbian assault on the Albanian
population there is a response to NATO’s bombing campaign. No one reading
accounts this week of the terrible massacre of Albanians at Mej defends
what the Serbs are …
www.kosovotimes.net/analysis/638-serbian-
aim-to-kill-all-kosovans-is-nothing-new.html
Global News Blog “ Blog Archive “ Is Germany at ‘war’ in …
By Erik Kirschbaum
Public opinion is nevertheless overwhelmingly against Germany’s involvement
in the NATO mission in Afghanistan — even though West Germany was a prime
beneficiary of NATO’s unyielding support during the Cold War. …
blogs.reuters.com/global/2009/06/25/is-germany
-at-war-in-afghanistan-defence-minister-says-no/
NATO Entering New Stage in Afghanistan
Voice of America – USA
By Meredith Buel A NATO commander in southern Afghanistan says military
operations there are entering a completely new stage, focused on bringing
security …
www.voanews.com/english/2009-06-25-voa45.cfm
25 June, 2009
NATO on the offensive in Afghanistan: Dutch general
AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP) — NATO-led forces are seizing the initiative against
insurgents in southern Afghanistan as thousands of US reinforcements move
into the …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5iJ7icrN-BLkO4kmacRvl-r0LKHtA
Turkish Army holds Seminar for NATO Members and Partners
Jamestown Foundation – Washington,DC,USA
The theme of this year’s seminar was cooperation between NATO and its
partners. However, the Turkish media preferred to highlight the Chief of
the Staff …
www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1&tx_ttnews%5Btt_news
%5D=35178&tx_ttnews%5BbackPid%5D=7&cHash=b2c8f46042
NATO to start offensive soon in south Afghanistan
Washington Post – United States
By Andrew Gray WASHINGTON (Reuters) – NATO forces in southern Afghanistan,
boosted by a big influx of US troops, will step up operations in Helmand
province …
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/
article/2009/06/25/AR2009062502722.html
Canada’s Afghan ‘model village’ praised by US general
CBC.ca – Toronto,Ontario,Canada
(Colin Perkel/Canadian Press)A four-star US general in charge of American
and NATO troops in Afghanistan praised Canada’s model village approach
Thursday as …
www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/25/mcch
rystal-afghanistan-canadian-village025.html
Leavenworth Strategist: NATO on The Boardwalk: Allies Chill Out At …
By James Cricks
June 25, 2009 By REUTERS KANDAHAR AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – Down
on the boardwalk, a knot of Romanian soldiers are sitting under the
umbrellas at the French patisserie, sipping non-alcoholic Becks beer in the
shade.
leavenworthstrategist.typepad.com/leavenworth_strategist/2009
/06/nato-on-the-boardwalk-allies-chill-out-at-afghan-base.html
AFGHANISTAN: ‘Shift needed’ in Afghan combat “ War Victims Monitor
By warvictims
Speaking during a visit to a new US marine base in southern Helmand
province, Gen McChrystal said that US and Nato troops must make a“cultural shift” from conventional warfare to protecting Afghan
civilians. …
warvictims.wordpress.com/2009/06/25/
afghanistan-shift-needed-in-afghan-combat/
News | The Independent UK – More US troops to end Afghan stalemate
By The Independent
The “security”, provided by NATO in Afghanistan, is doublespeak. It is to
secure that country for our benefit that NATO is operational. The civilians
there are bombed, herded into camps and subject to brutal military law (by
NATO). …
news.independentminds.livejournal.com/3238490.html
cryptogon.com “ Archives “ Full Spectrum Dominance: Totalitarian …
By Kevin
Methods included control of propaganda, use of NGOs for regime change,
Color Revolutions to advance NATO eastwards, and a vast array of
psychological and economic warfare techniques. They even used ‘save the
gorilla’ organizations in …
cryptogon.com/?p=9445
US sharpens focus on Afghanistan
Boston Globe – United States
By Farah Stockman ISAF HEADQUARTERS, KABUL – US Army General John Craddock,
NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander, is leaving his post in an upbeat mood: …
www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/
articles/2009/06/25/us_sharpens_focus_on_afghanistan
NATO Gains Weight
The National Interest Online – Washington,DC,USA
NATO has become the worst example of America’s junior-high foreign policy.
Washington and its more traditional allies have welcomed a succession of
new …
www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=21746
NATO Tweets Too
Fast Company – USA
But did you know that NATO, the global military machine, Twitters too?
Check out NATO’s main feed at Twitter here. It’s a real mixture of news:
Job …
www.fastcompany.com/blog/kit-eaton/technomix
/nato-tweets-too-twitter-gets-really-serious
NATO’s Asian summit in Russia’s ‘back yard’
euronews – France
NATO is holding its first conference in Kazakhstan, a central Asian state
traditionally within Russia’s sphere of influence. …
www.euronews.net/2009/06/25/nato-s
-asian-summit-in-russia-s-back-yard/
EU-RussiaCentre.org
By Eugenia Vesanto
The EU-Russia Centre (EU-RC) is an independent information and expertise
resource for anyone interested in modern Russia and the future of EU-Russia
relations.
www.eu-russiacentre.org/news/nato-expan
sion-impossible-future-russian-envoy.html
THE TENSION: Rodriguez Assumes New Afghanistan Post
By Steven Moyer
He’ll serve in that capacity on an interim basis as NATO officials set up a
new intermediate command that Rodriguez will head in the alliance’s
International Security Assistance Force to oversee day-to-day military
operations. …
thetension.blogspot.com/2009/06/rodrig
uez-assumes-new-afghanistan-post.html
Thinking about rifles “ Gun Nuts Media
By Caleb
Now, what I’d really like would be for the gun to accept NATO magazines. A
bolt action .223 that feeds from standard AR style magazines would be the
berries for a defensive carry rifle. Since everyone seems to be talking
about how the …
gunnuts.net/2009/06/25/thinking-about-rifles/
World News: Half a thousand Georgian soldiers go to Afghanistan.
By refohobia
Georgia, like AFP, has experience in military cooperation with NATO – since
2003, two thousand Georgian troops were in the composition of the coalition
forces in Iraq, but were pulled back to Georgia during the conflict with
Russia in …
aworld-news.blogspot.com/2009/06/half
-thousand-georgian-soldiers-go-to.html
Scrap Book – Doco – Documentation – Media Snippets: CIA invovled …
By u2r2h
Palermo disclosed that large quantities of sophisticated NATO weaponry— including machine guns, Leopard tanks and U.S.-built Cobra assault
helicopters — were smuggled from Western Europe to countries in the Middle
East during the …
u2r2h-documents.blogspot.com/2009/06/
cia-invovled-in-pope-assassination.html
Afghanistan Conflict Monitor: Georgia To Join NATO Forces In …
By Human Security Report Project
‘Georgia To Send 500 Troops To Afghanistan In 2010', Reuters India, 23 June
2009 EXCERPT: “Georgia plans to send 500 peacekeeping troops to Afghanistan
in 2010 in addition to 100 it is dispatching this year to serve alongside
NATO-led …
www.afghanconflictmonitor.org/2009/06/
georgia-to-join-nato-forced-in-afghanistan.html
NATO on the boardwalk: allies chill out at Afghan base
Reuters India – Mumbai,India
Welcome to Kandahar Air Field, or KAF, the most cosmopolitan NATO base ever
assembled inside a combat zone, where troops from a host of countries relax…
in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-40595520090625
Kyrgyzstan Ratifies US Base Accord
New York Times – United States
… to allow the United States to maintain operations at an airport that
has become a key support base and transit hub for NATO forces in
Afghanistan. …
www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/world/europe/26base.html?ref=world
NATO chief says Central Asia must decide on ties
Reuters AlertNet – London,England,UK
ASTANA, June 25 (Reuters) – Central Asian countries must decide for
themselves how much cooperation they want with NATO, the Western military
alliance’s …
www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LP176671.htm
NATO, Russia look to improve ties after Georgia war
AFP
BRUSSELS (AFP) — NATO and Russia hold their highest-level talks this
weekend since relations broke down over last year’s war in Georgia, aiming
to focus on …
www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/
ALeqM5gnnIqo96QOiQ1d0unWoAPvYLs0PA
Kyrgyz parliament approves US base deal
Reuters – USA
In exchange, the United States agreed to pay $180 million to Kyrgyzstan for
the use of the Manas air base, a key refuelling point for US aircraft in
NATO …
www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSLP157909
NATO, Russia Tensions Flare At Security Summit
NASDAQ – New York,New York,USA
Russia’s ambassador to NATO, Dmitry Rogozin, stole the limelight at the
annual Euro Atlantic Partnership Conference, when he compared NATO to a man
courting …
www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=
200906250537dowjonesdjonline000456&title=natorussia-tensions
-flare-at-security-summit
Afghanistan – Afghan, Nato operation kills 23 militants: Afghan …
AP KABUL: Afghan soldiers backed by troops from the Nato-led international
force stormed a militant stronghold in southern Afghanistan, killing 23
insurgents, an Afghan army general said Wednesday. …
globalnewsblog.com/blog/2009/06/25/afghanistan-afghan
-nato-operation-kills-23-militants-afghan-general-dawn/
Taliban could move from Afghanistan: NATO chief – Pakistan Defence …
By abdulrafi
Taliban could move from Afghanistan: NATO chief * Experts concerned
violence in Afghanistan, Pakistan can spread to Central Asia ASTANA: NATO
forces.
www.defence.pk/forums/world-affairs/28763-
taliban-could-move-afghanistan-nato-chief.html
The kinder, gentler occupation?
All of this explains why Afghan civilians, whose lives are worse now than
when the Taliban government was overthrown in 2001, are turning against the
NATO occupation at a quickening pace. NATO forces are concentrating more on
offensive …
rinf.com/alt-news/war-terrorism/the-kinder-gentler-occupation/5969/
‘Shift needed’ in Afghan combat
BBC News – UK
The new commander of US and Nato-led troops in Afghanistan has said troops
must shift from conventional warfare to protecting Afghan civilians. …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8118013.stm
NATO’s further expansion unlikely – Russia’s NATO envoy
ITAR-TASS – Moscow,Russia
ASTANA, June 25 (Itar-Tass) – Russia’s NATO envoy Dmitry Rogozin believes
that further expansion of the North-Atlantic Alliance is unlikely. …
www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=14087752&PageNum=0
US General Says Troops Need New View of Aghan War
ABC News – USA
Stanley McChrystal said that US and other NATO troops must make a “cultural
shift” away from being a force designed for high intensity combat and
instead …
www.abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7923764
Obama, Merkel to meet under cloud of disagreement
The Associated Press
The Germans probably will stand pat on their refusal to increase troop
strength significantly to the NATO mission in Afghanistan. …
www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i
kxI_ObUm2DtJ0fPVcWOl4ta9-ZgD991I4380
Kyrgyz parliament approves US base deal
Reuters – USA
The United States has agreed to pay $180 million to Kyrgyzstan to keep open
the Manas air base, a key refuelling point for US aircraft in NATO
operations …
www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55O1DP20090625
Helmand ‘not a losing campaign’
BBC News – UK
They will go to the southern province of Helmand, which has seen an
increase in insurgency and has the highest rate of attacks on Nato-led
forces anywhere …
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8117988.stm
Obama, Merkel to meet under cloud of disagreement, fence-mending …
By Steven R. Hurst
He said the United States did not consult its NATO partners when Obama
decided to replace Gen. David McKiernan with Gen. Stanley McChrystal as
commander of the U.S.-led NATO operation in Afghanistan. “The way the
McChrystal appointment …
blog.taragana.com/n/obama-merkel-to-meet-under-cloud-of-
disagreement-fence-mending-seen-as-outcome-91544/
Pakistan Politics: Q&A: Militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan
By noreply@blogger.com (Pakistan Pal)
Q&A: Militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan – For much of the last decade
Nato forces in Afghanistan and Pakistani troops in the north-west of their
country have been fighting Taliban and al-Qaeda mili… 18 hours ago …
pakistanpal.blogspot.com/2009/06/q-
militancy-in-afghanistan-and-pakistan.html
Carrots, Not Sticks, Can Stop Israel’s Settlement Growth …
By Mitchell Bard
3) Admit Israel to NATO. Israel’s army could contribute to the alliance and
the alliance could all but eliminate the Iranian threat because it would
force the Iranians to abandon the idea they can win a nuclear war with
Israel. …
www.britannica.com/blogs/2009/06/carrots-
not-sticks-can-stop-israels-settlement-growth/
Terrorism and Insurgency – Andy Worthington: Judge Orders Release …
Afghan soldiers backed by troops from the NATO-led international force
stormed a militant stronghold in southern Afghanistan, killing 23
insurgents, an Afghan army general said Wednesday. 23 rebels killed in
Afghan, NATO operation: …
globalnewsblog.com/blog/2009/06/24/terrorism-and-insurgency-
andy-worthington-judge-orders-release-from-guantanamo-of-al-
qaeda-torture-victim-the-huffington-post/