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NATO Off the Wire
20 February 2007
A look at news and commentary regarding NATO
on the Web
The spokesman's perspective:
Continuing our new series of video commentary, NATO Spokesman James Appathurai gives his personal perspective on recent articles discussing NATO. He invites you to write in with your own comments and opinions, which could be featured in the next installment.
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20 February 2007
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| Taliban Seize Rural District in Southwest as Police Flee |
| KABUL, Afghanistan, Feb. 19 — Taliban insurgents seized control of a district in southwestern Afghanistan on Monday as the Afghan police abandoned their post and fled, officials said. |
| Published on 20 February 2007 - New York Times, NY |
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| NATO raids homes of Karadzic's children |
| NATO troops in Bosnia-Herzegovina have carried out early morning raids on the homes of the children of the indicted war criminal Radovan Karadzic. |
| Published on 20 February 2007 - RTE.ie, Ireland
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19 February 2007
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| The Rewards Of a Larger NATO |
| Russian President Vladimir Putin's bellicose speech at the Munich security conference on Feb. 10 has caused some to revive their arguments against enlarging NATO. |
| Published on 19 February 2007 - Washington Post, DC
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| Bush calls on NATO to increase troops in Afghanistan |
| WASHINGTON (CNN) -- NATO nations need to increase the number of troops they send to Afghanistan, President Bush said in a speech Thursday. |
| Published on 19 February 2007 - CNN International - USA
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| Afghan civilian mistakenly killed by NATO troops |
| The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) shot dead a civilian Afghan, who was suspected of being a suicide bomber, in the southern Kandahar province, an ISAF statement said Sunday. |
| Published on 19 February 2007 - People's Daily Online - Beijing,China
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Georgia's Separatist Conflicts 'No Obstacle' To NATO |
| February 19, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said today that Georgia's unresolved conflicts with the separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia should not be an obstacle to the country's entry into NATO, RFE/RL's Georgian Service reports. |
| Published on 19 February 2007 - RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Prague,Czech Republic
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17 February 2007
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| Nato soldiers fearing suicide attack kill Afghan |
| Kabul, Feb 17: Nato soldiers fearing a suicide attack shot and killed an Afghan civilian early Saturday when he ran between vehicles in a convoy in southern Afghanistan, the alliance's military said. |
| Published on 17 February 2007 - Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK |
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| NATO Chief Says Russia Has Nothing to Fear From U.S. Missile Shield in Europe |
| According NATO Supreme Allied Commander John Craddock Russia has “absolutely” nothing to fear from a planned U.S. anti-missile system in central Europe, Reuters news agency reported. |
| Published on 17 February 2007 - MOSNEWS - Russia
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| US ambassador to Afghanistan optimistic despite NATO |
| KABUL: The failure of NATO allies to meet a shortfall in troops needed to end the Taliban insurgency will not sink the effort, which should "do better this year," the US ambassador here told AFP. |
| Published on 16 February 2007 - PakTribune.com - Pakistan
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| NATO strongly backs Kosovo''s independence proposal |
| SARAJEVO, Feb 16 (KUNA) -- North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Chief Jaap De Hoop Scheffer said on Friday that the 26-nation alliance was strongly behind UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari's Kosovo proposals. |
| Published on 16 February 2007 - Kuwait News Agency - Kuwait
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| Bolster the Afghan National Army |
| KABUL: Media coverage of the fighting in Afghanistan fuels perceptions in the West that NATO forces are facing an eventual debacle, but in reality the situation on the ground is not quite so grim. Indeed, the war against the Taliban is winnable, provided NATO reconsiders its current military strategy and grooms the Afghan National Army to take over the fight. |
| Published on 16 February 2007 - International Herald Tribune - France
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15 February 2007
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| War crimes prosecutor criticizes EU, NATO for softening sanctions against Serbia |
| BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) - The chief prosecutor of the UN war crimes tribunal criticized the EU and NATO on Monday for allowing Serbia to edge closer to membership despite its failure to apprehend suspects responsible for the bloodshed in former Yugoslavia. |
| Published on 15 February 2007 - Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
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| Harnessing the power of the poppy |
| KANDAHAR -- There has been much debate in Canada regarding the dramatic increase in violence in Kandahar, the southern Afghan province where Canadian troops are stationed. |
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on 15 February 2007 - National Post - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
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| NATO Must Calm Putin Missile Shield Fears, Jung Says |
| Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- NATO must do more to allay concerns expressed by Russian President Vladimir Putin over U.S. plans to build a missile-defense shield in Eastern Europe, German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung said. |
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on 15 January 2007 - Bloomberg - USA |
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| Afghan general says Canadian who shot convoy driver should be punished |
| KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (CP) — A Canadian soldier who opened fire on an Afghan National Army convoy wounding a military driver should face some kind of discipline in his own country, a senior Afghan commander said Thursday. |
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on 15 January 2007 - Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
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| NATO chief warns against violence in Kosovo |
| PRISTINA, Serbia-NATO's secretary-general warned Thursday the alliance will not tolerate violence in Kosovo after clashes between police and ethnic Albanians protesting a U.N. plan for the province left two dead. |
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on 15 January 2007 - Serbianna.com - MI,USA
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14 February 2007
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| Implementation of IPAP between NATO and Azerbaijan not delayed |
| NATO assessment group visited Azerbaijan on February 12 will assess Azerbaijan's fulfillment of commitments in the framework of Individual Partnership Action Plan (IPAP) signed between NATO and Azerbaijan, First Vice-Speaker, chairman of the standing commission on Defence and Security issues Ziyafat Askerov said. |
| Published on 14 February 2007 - Today.Az - Azerbaijan |
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| Report: Russia-NATO maneuvers postponed over legal dispute |
| MOSCOW (AP) - Joint Russia-NATO anti-terror exercises scheduled to take place last autumn will be postponed until next year because of a legal dispute, a Russian news agency reported Wednesday. |
| Published on 14 February 2007 - Kyiv Post - Kyiv,Ukraine
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| Troop deficit in Afghanistan endangering soldiers: NATO |
| Mons, Belgium, Feb 13: NATO nations are putting the lives of their soldiers in danger in Afghanistan by refusing to provide enough troops to fight off the Taliban, the alliance's military chief warned today. |
| Published on 14 February 2007 - Zee News - Noida,India |
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