Palin hit by internet rumours over fifth child
Bertrand Delanoë - "The openly gay Mayor of Paris has announced that he will run for the leadership of the French Socialist Party, setting the stage for a showdown with former presidential candidate Ségolène Royal. An able manager who has delighted Parisians with his self-service bicycles and artificial beaches, Mr Delanoë, 58, wants to make the left-wing party electable by embracing the free market." - The Agenda: Five names to watch
"Highly illuminating testimony about the excessive identification of American experts with Israel ... can be found in the memoirs of General Donald Bennett, who headed the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency from 1969 to 1972... In 1969...Bennett met with five research officers from the Middle East desk. Toward the end of the conversation, he chastised his interlocutors, because when they talked about Egypt they said 'they,' but when talking about Israel, they said 'we.'" - The CIA's Arab revolution
"In an interview with the news agency The Associated Press, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said that his country did not have a functioning government yet and that corruption was rampant. He neglected to mention that his brother is a known drug dealer and that his regime relies heavily on American security forces, because the Afghan army is unreliable. He does command over some 75,000 soldiers armed with advanced weapons financed by the U.S. government, but this year it emerged that a 22-year-old arms dealer named Efraim Diveroli was supplying the Afghan army with weapons, in accordance with a U.S. contract." - Nearly 7 years after 9/11, success in Afghanistan still far off
Venezuela Recognizes South Ossetia and Abkhazia Independence
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