AP – A four-star general says he never improperly received advice while bringing charges against a sergeant in the biggest criminal case against U.S. troops to arise from the Iraq war. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – White House staff are considering whether to hold international terrorism suspects at Bagram military base in Afghanistan, The Los Angeles Times reported. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende on Friday dismissed an ex-US general’s “disgraceful” claim that Dutch soldiers failed to prevent the 1995 Srebrenica massacre as their ranks included openly gay troops. Read the rest of this entry »
AFP – Facing mounting pressure from Washington, Japan’s centre-left Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama on Friday suggested a disputed US military base could stay on the southern island of Okinawa. Read the rest of this entry »
AP – The Dutch prime minister Friday denounced as “irresponsible” a claim by a retired U.S. general that gay Dutch soldiers were partly to blame for allowing Europe’s worst massacre since World War II. Read the rest of this entry »
Reuters – Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende attacked on Friday claims by a retired U.S. general that Dutch forces were overrun in Srebrenica in 1995 because of the presence of gay soldiers. Read the rest of this entry »