“Now an ordinary American working in Afghanistan today doesn’t know whether he should expect a bullet from Afghan Taliban or from an Afghan policeman whom he might have trained earlier.”-Ahmed Quraishi, analyst
USMC General John Allen says U.S. led military advisers are being withdrawn from the Interior Ministry, and other government locations “for obvious force […] Continue Reading…
February 25, 2012, day five of riots and two U.S. officers were killed after a firefight between Afghan government forces and U.S. forces, inside the Afghan Interior Ministry.
One of the U.S. officers was a Colonel, the other a Major. One report says they were shot in the head. The Interior Ministry compound was filled […] Continue Reading…
Heading into day five of Afghan riots, and German troops were forced to withdraw and shut down their base.
German forces announced they closed their Talokan base, in northern Afghanistan, several weeks earlier than planned because of the riots over the U.S. burning of Qur’ans.
Germany controls the Regional Command North, in Afghanistan. They said more […] Continue Reading…
The Japanese Labor Ministry has ruled that Tokyo Electric Power Company, and contractor Toshiba, caused a 60 year old worker to die by overworking him! The authorities are ordering compensation for the family.
The man worked only one day at the General Electric designed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant! The investigation showed TEPCo and Toshiba forced […] Continue Reading…
“Obama apologizes for inadvertent Koran burning; now the US trained & protected Afghan Army can apologize for killing our soldiers yesterday.”-Sarah Palin
“It is Hamid Karzai who owes the American people an apology, not the other way around.”-Newt Gingrich
Fact: Not one Afghan has ever been directly linked to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the […] Continue Reading…
Day four of Afghan riots over the U.S. burnings of dozens of Qur’ans, and USMC General John Allen is pleading for calm: “I call on everyone…to exercise patience and restraint as we continue to gather the facts surrounding Sunday night’s incident.”
In western Afghanistan people stormed the U.S. consultative, at least seven were killed and […] Continue Reading…
“Starting from Monday, we will take new strong measures, notably a freezing of the assets of the Syrian Central Bank.”-Alan Juppe, Foreign Minister of France
Another “unbiased” announcement made as the Friends of Syria conference commenced: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, is calling on all countries to steal Syrian assets and boycott oil from the […] Continue Reading…
Right before the Friends of Syria conference began, Britain’s Foreign Secretary, William Hague, said they will recognize the U.S. created Syrian National Council as a “….legitimate representative of the Syrian people.”
This supports yesterday’s claim by Russia, that the Friends of Syria conference is biased and therefore not legitimate.
Hague went on to imply a threat of […] Continue Reading…
“…officials are working hard in order to win a waiver from the sanctions by the end of this month.”-Osamu Fujimura, Chief Cabinet Secretary for Japan’s Prime Minister
Since January, 2012, Japan has been trying to get an exemption from the U.S. oil sanctions against Iran. Japan’s economy depends on it.
“We have not yet reached an […] Continue Reading…
Frontier Airlines has ended its Boise to Denver route. In the past two years the airline temporarily stopped service due to a seasonal drop in passengers, but they officially announced they will not restart service, for 2012.
For the past two years, the seasonal drop in business happens in winter, and Frontier restarts flights in […] Continue Reading…