The latest in the Jack Ryan movies nearly comes to life: A mysterious night-time telephone call last week brought nuclear-armed India and Pakistan close to the brink of war at the height of the crisis over the Mumbai terror attacks, Pakistani officials said Sunday. They said the “threatening” call was made, ostensibly by Indian Foreign […]
And this is not coming from the New York Times or the Washington Post. This story is coming from the Marine Corps Times: A key aide says Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s relations with U.S. commander Gen. David Petraeus are so poor the Iraqi leader may ask Washington the withdraw the well-regarded U.S. military leader from […]
And how is this supposed to work in a “compromise”? President Bush will not support a war spending bill that punishes the Iraqi government for failing to meet benchmarks for progress, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday. Rice’s comments cast fresh doubt on a potential compromise between the Democratic-led Congress and the White House […]
Chavez: U.S. Detained Foreign Minister President Hugo Chavez said his foreign minister was detained by U.S. authorities at a New York airport Saturday for more than hour as he tried to return to the South American country. Chavez told Venezuela’s state TV broadcaster that U.S. officials alleged that Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro had links to […]
Well considering the this mornings news of the US denying reports of Iraq nearing civil war, here is something else to offer a little contradicition: Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said insurgents are trying “everything” to foment civil war as reprisal attacks followed yesterday’s bombing of the Golden Mosque in Samarra, sacred to Shiite Muslims. […]