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NATO Off the Wire
3 May 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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3 May 2007
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| NATO's Next War |
| The real, protracted, war is about to start. NATO and the international peacekeeping force against an unholy - and, until recently, improbable - alliance. Milosevic (or post-Milosevic Serbia) and the KLA against the occupying forces. It is going to be ferocious. It is going to be bloody. And it is going to be a Somali nightmare. |
| Published on 3 May 2007 - Global Politician, New York, USA |
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| Afghan civilian toll eroding NATO support, leader says |
| KABUL, Afghanistan - Aerial bombing of a valley in western Afghanistan several days ago by the American military killed at least 42 civilians, including women and children, and wounded 50 more, an Afghan government investigation found Wednesday. A provincial council member who visited the site independently put the figure at 50 civilians killed. |
| Published on 3 May 2007 - Los Angeles Daily News, CA, USA |
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| Afghan offensive sees 75 dead |
| Carrying bundles and driving donkeys, villagers trickled back to damaged farmsteads after a lightning NATO attack estimated to have killed 75 suspected Taliban - including some local men. |
| Published on 3 May 2007 - Canberra Times, Australia |
2 May 2007
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| Putin cancels CFE until NATO countries properly “adhere” to its provisions |
| The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty of 1990 has been in trouble for many years, but last week it became apparent that its long illness maybe terminal. During talks on Monday, April 23, in Moscow, Russian Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov told U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates that CFE was "ineffective" (RIA-Novosti, April 23). |
| Published on 2 May 2007 - Euroasia Daily Monitor, DC, USA |
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| Afghan president criticizes civilian deaths at the hands of NATO forces |
| KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - A remote-control bomb hit an Afghan army bus in the capital Thursday, killing the driver and wounding 29 people, including 22 soldiers, officials said. |
| Published on 2 May 2007 - Winnipeg Free Press, Canada |
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| Implementation of NATO Plan for Individual Partnership with Azerbaijan Appraised at a High Level in Brussels |
| Azerbaijan’s Foreign Minister, has discussed issues connected with the implementation of the NATO Plan for Individual Partnership with Azerbaijan in Brussels today, say the Press-Service of the Foreign Office of the Country. |
| Published on 2 May 2007 - Trend News Agency, Azerbaija |
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| NATO financesTechnion research to protect water supplies |
| NATO is financing research at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa on protecting water supply systems against biological and chemical terrorism. |
| Published on 2 May 2007 - Jerusalem Post, Israel |
1 May 2007
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| NATO Afghanistan Chief Says Taliban Is Waning |
| The head of NATO's southern command in Afghanistan told Pentagon reporters that the influence of Taliban extremists in the region has diminished and that some 10,000 Afghan families have returned to their homes as the operations of the 11,500 NATO troops in the region continue. |
| Published on 1 May 2007 - US News, USA |
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| NATO Gen says cooperation with Pakistan becoming more and more effective on Afghan border |
| (APP): A top NATO commander in southern Afghanistan, Major General Ton van Loon Monday said the international forces have "very good cooperation" with Pakistan in ensuring security along Pakistan-Afghanistan border. |
| Published on 1 May 2007 - Associated Press of Pakistan |
30 April 2007
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| NATO's Afghanistan effort at risk: officials |
| Allegations of torture, abuse and execution within the Afghan prison system will be investigated by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Afghanistan government, the head of NATO said. |
| Published on 30 April 2007 - The Pak Tribune., Pakistan |
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| NATO, Afghan troops launch major offensive in S. province |
| The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and Afghan troops launched a major offensive dubbed Operation Silicon against Taliban militants in the southern Helmand province on Monday, an ISAF spokeswoman Angela Billings told Xinhua. |
| Published on 30 April 2007 - People’s Daily Online, China |
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| NATO begins new offensive in southern Afghanistan |
| (AP) More than 2,000 NATO and Afghan troops began an operation before dawn Monday to drive Taliban fighters from another swath of their opium-producing heartland in southern Afghanistan. |
| Published on 30 April 2007 - Associated Press |
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| Will NATO and Russia once again count tanks and aircraft in Europe? |
| (RIA Novosti) - The 1990 Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) established equal quotas for NATO and the Warsaw Pact in the number of tanks, artillery (weapons with a caliber over 100 mm), armored combat vehicles, aircraft and attack helicopters. |
| Published on 30 April 2007 - RIA Novost, Russia |
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| More than 130 Taliban militants killed in Afghan operations |
| British troops swept into a Taliban stronghold lush with opium poppy fields Monday, launching a new NATO operation in southern Afghanistan just as U.S.-led forces reported killing 136 militants in the west. |
| Published on 30 April 2007 - Herald Tribune., France |
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| Major NATO operation in Afghan poppy fields |
| (AP) -- British troops have drawn hostile fire during a NATO operation to expel the Taliban from lush poppy fields in southern Afghanistan. |
| Published on 30 April 2007 - CBS News, USA |
29 April 2007
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‘Deterioration’ in Karzai govt’s popularity: ‘NATO risks losing Afghan war’ Canada says fate of NATO operation ‘hangs by thread’
* NATO chief says defeat will affect all nations |
| BRUSSELS: NATO risks losing the war in Afghanistan because of a “tremendous deterioration” in the popularity of the government of US-backed President Hamid Karzai, former US ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke said on Saturday. |
| Published on 29 April 2007 - The Daily Times, Pakistan |
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| NATO supports probe into Afghan prisoner abuse allegations |
| NATO said Saturday it was supporting an Afghanistan government investigation into mistreatment of detainees, as Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer pointed out the alliance was in the country to defend "universal values." |
| Published on 29 April 2007 - Canada.com., Canada |
28 April 2007
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| NATO resists Moscow's pressure over arms control treaty |
| NATO resists Russia pressure over arms control treaty. NATO will not be swayed by Moscow's threat to suspend a key arms control treaty unless the western alliance drops its demands for Russia to pull troops out of Georgia and Moldova, the alliance's Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Friday. |
| Published on 28 April 2007 - Turkish Weekly, Turkey |
27 April 2007
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| NATO urges prompt UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo |
| NATO foreign ministers want a prompt UN Security Council resolution on the final status of Kosovo based on UN envoy Martti Ahtisaari's proposals, said NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer on Friday. |
| Published on 27 April 2007 - Xinhua, China |
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| NATO Tests Putin With Talks on Expansion |
| (AP) After tempestuous talks with their Russian counterpart on missile defenses, NATO foreign ministers on Friday turned to other issues that risk upsetting Moscow Kosovo, the further expansion of the Western alliance and a drive to build closer relations with Ukraine. |
| Published on 27 April 2007 - International Business Times, New York, USA |
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| NATO frets over Russia's "rising rhetoric" on missiles, CFE treaty |
| Oslo (dpa) - NATO officials Friday voiced concern at Russia's increasingly tough line on vital European security issues, including President Vladimir Putin's threat to freeze a key arms control pact and Moscow's opposition to US plans missile defence plans. |
| Published on 27 April 2007 - EUX TV, Netherlands |
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| Anti-missile zone must cover all NATO states |
| Greece believes that an anti-missile defence shield proposed by Washington should cover all of Europe and all NATO countries, Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis stressed on Friday after an informal meeting of NATO foreign minister held in Oslo. |
| Published on 27 April 2007 - Athens News Agency., Greece |
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