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...rule, do their best not to embarrass them. Seems the chief of the British army didn't get the memo. Last week General Richard Dannatt, Chief of the General Staff, gave interviews to [an error occurred while processing this directive] the London Daily Mail and the bbc that had 10 Downing Street scrambling. True, Dannatt pointed out that British troops had made enough progress to turn over control of two southern provinces to Iraqi forces. But he also said that "the mere fact that we are still in some places exacerbates violence from those who want to destabilize Iraqi democracy...
...involving about 80 countries. They work to interdict material and equipment they believe is headed for use in the production of weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. and its allies credit improved intelligence sharing and cooperation for successes like the October 2003 interdiction of the German-owned ship BBC China, which was intercepted carrying centrifuge components to Libya. But there are still huge gaps. The PSI relies on "actionable" intelligence, and Representative Pete Hoekstra, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, acknowledges that U.S. human-intelligence assets in "hard targets" like North Korea are sorely lacking. Says Derek Smith: "It really...
Sources: New York Times; BBC; Daily Mail...
...Gaza are more fundamental than one soldier. As for Moore’s claim that Hamas was reacting to Israel’s “kidnapping” of two Palestinians, these men were in the process of trying to execute an attack against Israel, according to the BBC article he cites as his source. Chronologically, it is impossible to assert that Hamas captured Shalit (June 25) in retaliation for Israel’s arrest of Hamas members (June 24). The Hamas kidnapping required careful planning and was conceived of at least several weeks in advance as it took...
...That's just what happened this week, though it took a British and not an American general to start the dialogue. The straight-talking chief of the British Army, Gen. Richard Dannatt, gave interviews to the London Daily Mail and the BBC that had 10 Downing Street scrambling. Though he pointed out that British troops had made enough progress to turn over control of two southern provinces to Iraqi forces, he also noted that they weren't invited in at the outset and are widely unpopular...