Bosnia’s IMF tightrope

Ian Bancroft in Belgrade
 
 
Business New Europe   |   September 18, 2009
 
 
Despite being initially agreed back in May after often-fraught negotiations, the three-year €1.2bn stand-by arrangement reached between the International Monetary Fund and Bosnia-Herzegovina remains beset by a host of impediments that delayed payment of the first tranche and threatens to curtail future financial assistance.
Gripped by political [...]

US could shift Afghanistan focus eastwards

Daily Times Monitor | Sept. 15, 2009
 
 
LONDON: The US could shift its focus on Afghanistan towards the eastern provinces, the Guardian has suggested. Senior military officials are said to believe that the Taliban’s ability to find sanctuary across the border with Pakistan may have however, prompted this change of tact. The primary focus of the [...]

German general takes over KFOR command in Kosovo

German Lieutenant General Markus Bentler took over Tuesday the command of NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo (KFOR). In a ceremony held in KFOR main headquarters in Pristina, Bentler took over the office from his processor Italian general Giuseppe Emilio Gay, becoming the 14th commander of KFOR ever since the international forces took over control in [...]

Fourteen Centuries of War Against European Civilization

Global Politician 03 September 2009
 
By Fjordman
 
The following essay is an amalgam of my previous online essays, among them Who Are We, Who Are Our Enemies — The Cost of Historical Amnesia, Why We Should Oppose an Independent Kosovo, Refuting God’s Crucible and The Truth About Islam in Europe.
 
 
“The Jihad, the Islamic so-called Holy War, has [...]

NATO to cut troops in Kosovo despite unrest – Rasmussen

Reuters
NATO will stick to plans to scale down its military presence in Kosovo, despite recent unrest there, alliance Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Wednesday.
On Aug 25, seven people were wounded in northern Kosovo when minority Serbs and Albanians clashed in the ethnically divided city of Kosovska Mitrovica.
A hand grenade was detonated and the two [...]