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A terror attack on U.S. soldiers in Germany has killed two people. The casualties have not been identified and it is unknown if they are American. On Thursday, the US Department of Defense identified one of the casualites as “Senior Airman Nicholas J. Alden, 25, of Williamston, S.C.” Alden “died as a result of the [...]
The Republican National Committee (RNC) has released a video that it says is a parody of what an Obama TV ad in Berlin, Germany might look like. Watch:
Nein! That was German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s response to Barack Obama’s planned election rally at Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate. Jacob Heilbrunn at National Interest Online wrote in response: “Good for Merkel. Obama’s desire to speak before the Brandenburg Gate, as did Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, is the equivalent of his bungled appearance before a faux [...]
China has been accused of hacking into German government computers: Times Online—China has hacked into the computers of Angela Merkel’s Chancellery and three other German ministries in an extraordinary economic espionage operation that threatens to blight the German leader’s already delicate trip to Beijing this week. …
Tension between Poland and Germany is growing over a topless montage of Chancellor Angela Merkel in the current issue of Wprost: BBC—German politicians have condemned a computer generated photo of Poland’s leaders sucking the German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s bare breasts. … Zowie Batman, that was over the top.
Germany has jailed Lutheran Pastor Johannes Lerle for comparing abortion to the Nazi Holocaust. Life Site—A city court in Erlangen, Bavaria, gave Lutheran Pastor Johannes Lerle a one year jail sentence for the “crime” of comparing abortion to the Nazi holocaust. In response, Jim Hughes, Vice President of International Right to Life Federation has called [...]
Three Germans are said to have been abducted in Baghdad. Source: Der Spiegel
Absolutely fascinating article in Der Spiegel this morning. The story looks at Rommel’s Middle East campaign and how it almost brought holocaust to the region: Der Spiegel—Behind the front line of Rommel’s Afrikakorps, a special unit was created in July 1942 to to plan the murder of Jews in the region. It was led by [...]
ABC News has a story this afternoon about a terrorist threat to American military personnel and Germans in Germany: The Blotter: ABC News—U.S. and German officials fear terrorists are in the advanced planning stages of an attack on U.S. military personnel or tourists in Germany. Law enforcement officials tell the Blotter on ABCNews.com that U.S. [...]
A German judge, citing verses from the Qur’an, denied a Muslim woman’s request for a quick divorce from her abusive husband. And Judge Christa Datz-Winter is getting hammered over the ruling from both the German side and the Muslim side of the case. Germany’s Muslims are denying that the verse allows wife beating. Hmmm: FOX [...]
