Romanian gendarmes guard a path leading to the crash site. An open source intelligence report says the Israeli military helicopter that crashed in Romania last week was simulating a military attack on Iran. On Monday, six Israeli soldiers and a Romanian flight captain aboard a CH-53 transport helicopter were killed when the chopper crashed in a mountainous region of central Romania. The Jerusalem-based... 

The Netherlands became the first NATO country to end its combat mission in Afghanistan, drawing the curtain Sunday on a four-year operation that was deeply unpopular at home and even brought down a Dutch government. The departure of the small force of nearly 1,900 Dutch troops is not expected to affect conditions on the ground. But it is politically significant because it comes at a time of rising... 

It is possible (but not certain) that the US will nuke the Gulf of Mexico in an attempt to stop the oil spill but the question remains: is this the best solution? New reports circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for Prime Minister Putin by the foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) state that NATO’s Chairman of the Military Committee Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola has ordered 2,400 Canadian... 

A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today prepared for President Medvedev by the foreign military intelligence directorate (GRU) warns that Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola, North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s (NATO) current Chairman of the Military Committee, has ordered all “critical assets” of the Western alliance to be moved “at least” 100 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico oil... 

This “story” is a confirmed HOAX by disinformation agent David Booth who likes to go by the fictional name “Sorcha Faal”. Source: http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1378.htm  Read More »

WikiLeaks has just published video of US Military killing 12 individuals in Iraq, two of whom were later revealed to be staff members of the Reuters news organization. Wikileaks has previously been labeled a “muckraking” website by some in the press, and indeed the graphic video is presented by the site as an “indiscriminate” killing, when it clearly appears to be a grave and horrible mistake... 

Europe has demilitarized too much since the end of the Cold War and its underfunded defense budgets are undermining shared security goals, U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Tuesday. Gates, addressing a NATO seminar in Washington, said too few helicopters and cargo aircraft for the NATO mission in Afghanistan were “directly impacting operations.” NATO also needed more aerial refueling... 

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Russia’s new military doctrine does not identify NATO as its major threat but Moscow is disturbed by the alliance’s “endless enlargement”, President Dmitry Medvedev said in an interview published on Thursday. Russia has made future NATO membership for Ukraine and Georgia, two former Soviet republics, a ‘red line’ in its relations... 

Russia will have to respond as it is concerned by NATO’s active eastward expansion and the U.S. plans to deploy elements of a missile defense system in Europe, Russia’s top military officer said on Wednesday. “If we say that we should tackle possible threats together, we should respect each other and trust each other instead of strengthening military blocs near the Russian border,”... 

Nikolai Makarov Russia’s top general said on Tuesday that plans for a U.S. missile shield are directed against his country. “The development and establishment of the (U.S.) missile shield is directed against the Russian Federation,” Interfax news agency quoted Russian armed forces chief of staff, Nikolai Makarov, as saying. Source  Read More »

Dealing Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates a diplomatic slap, France announced Monday it will sell at least one amphibious assault warship to Russia. The sale, the first by a NATO member to Russia, comes despite objections from U.S. and other NATO members and was disclosed while Mr. Gates was visiting Paris. The French sale will help Moscow to begin modernizing its aging armed forces at a time when... 

Viktor Yanukovych Opposition Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych has a more than 10% lead over his closest rival Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko in Ukraine’s Sunday presidential election with 99.5% of the ballots counted. Viktor Yanukovych is a slavic patriot and pro Russia unlike Tymoshenko wich has been accused by some Ukrainian politicians to be Jewish. It is unclear if Tymoshenko is... 

Germany is trying to counter U.S. and NATO pressure to send more troops to Afghanistan by offering to deploy more police trainers, the Financial Times Deutschland said, citing German government officials it didn’t identify. Germany is leading international efforts to train Afghan police and has as many as 120 trainers in the country, the newspaper reported today. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government... 

Germany plans to send up to 2,000 more soldiers to Afghanistan in response to requests from the United States and other NATO partners, a German newspaper reported on Wednesday. Citing NATO and German Defence Ministry sources, the Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung reported that the United States and NATO members had already received signals to this effect. A ministry spokesman declined to confirm the... 

Western powers send tough message; Russian minister responds. NATO allies warned Russia on Tuesday that the alliance’s cooperation with Moscow would depend on the pullout of troops from Georgia. They insisted Georgia remained on track to join NATO despite Moscow’s opposition. The emergency meeting in Brussels highlighted a rift within the 27-nation bloc between former Soviet satellite...