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NATO must win the war in Afghanistan, expand ties with Russia, counter the threat posed by Iran's missiles, and assure the security of its 28 members, according to its new mission statement for the next decade. The draft document, released Monday, seeks to bridge a growing rift between the U.S., which favors a greater international role for NATO, and European nations that want it to retain its traditional defensive focus. "NATO must be versatile and efficient enough to operate far from home," said former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, head of the team of experts who wrote the document....

NATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Saturday urged "paper tiger" Europe to ramp up investment in a costly missile defence umbrella. The alliance chief's remarks at a security conference in Brussels were largely aimed at the likes of EU heavyweights Germany, Italy and Spain, who fall substantially short of NATO military spending targets. Britain and France, whose budgets are under ferocious pressure over the coming years having dug deep in a bid to insulate citizens from the worst economic slump since the 1930s, were also clearly in the Dane's sights. "The Lisbon treaty provides the EU with a stronger...

To become NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen will apologize for the Mohammed cartoons.

Weekend Talk Show *Preview* for Saturday, June 10th and Sunday, June 11th, 2006 (not the live thread)The main message is the Sunday Shows on 6/11/006.  Message 1 will be the Saturday Shows and message 2 will be the show guest links post.  Then I'll post the ping list.ABC This Week (George Stephanopoulos) Meme: Yeah, yeah, a minor annoyance was murdered by the ruthless US military and Bushitler.  So what?Did you get a look at the hunk, Al Gore, with Steponallofus last week?  Talk about Presidential! Topics: Amb. L. Paul Bremer on al-Zarqawi's death and the fight for IraqRep. Reynolds vs....

COPENHAGEN -- A musical about the Iraq war, Let's Kick Ass!, was to open in Copenhagen on Thursday, featuring a satirical depiction of US President George W. Bush and his faithful ally in Iraq, Danish Premier Anders Fogh Rasmussen. Let's Kick Ass!, a reference to a Bush quote, is an adaptation of British musical Follow My Leader by Alistair Beaton, which targets Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "Like 'Oh, What A Lovely War', which was a reaction to the madness of the First World War, this is an attempt to react to Denmark's participation in a war of...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's center-right Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen won a second term on Tuesday on the back of a popular crackdown on asylum-seekers and cuts in sky-high taxes, final results showed. Rasmussen's Liberal-Conservative coalition and their allies, who came to power in 2001, won 54 percent of the four million votes compared with 46 percent for the center-left opposition. "The political shift which began in 2001 is reaffirmed. The Social Democrats and left wing have lost further and a stronger government can continue its work," said Rasmussen, the first Liberal prime minister ever to be re-elected. The 52-year-old...

THE head of Denmark's largest opposition party, Mogens Lykketoft of the Social Democratic Party, today conceded defeat in the country's general election after projections gave the victory to the centre-right government. "I congratulate the Liberal Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on his victory," he told party supporters in Copenhagen. With 45.5 per cent of votes counted, election authorities projected that Rasmussen's Liberal party, coalition Conservatives and far-right Danish People's Party (DPP) would win 96 of 179 seats in parliament. Ninety seats are needed to form a majority. "It's a very unreasonable and unfair result and it pains me that we...

Just watching Danish Television. The conservative coalition seems to be winning the election in Denmark. Another member of the Iraq coalition wins their election. I'll post more news when more results come in. Cheers.

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Denmark's center-right Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen won a second term on Tuesday on the back of a popular crackdown on asylum-seekers and cuts in Denmark's high taxes, according to partial election results.Rasmussen's Liberal-Conservative coalition and their allies won 56 percent compared with 44 percent for the center-left opposition, with 56 percent of the 4 million votes counted. The 52-year-old becomes the first Liberal prime minister ever to be re-elected in Denmark. He called a snap election three weeks ago to capitalize on what he described as a "fairy tale" economic and social scenario in the country....

COPENHAGEN, January 28 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – Concerned their influence may draw voters’ support away from his party during the coming general elections, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen called on Muslim imams not to involve in the polls and to “stay out of politics”. “In Denmark, politics and religion are separate,” Rasmussen was quoted by Agence France Presse (AFP) as saying Friday, January 28. “Pastors do not use the church to push their parishioners to vote for specific parties. Imams should not do so either,” he added. Danish voters are due to head for polling stations February 8...

Danish PM calls on schools to root out Islamic extremism COPENHAGEN: Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen on Monday said he was determined to increase efforts in schools to root out Islamic extremism following the assassination of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by a suspected Islamic radical. “Let’s call the kettle black and admit that there are some young Muslims of immigrant origin who have not understood the principles (of democracy, tolerance and freedom of expression) on which Danish society is based. And there is something wrong when people leave school with such attitudes intact,” Rasmussen was quoted as saying...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush heard appeals from Russia and Denmark on Friday to allow full sovereignty to the interim Iraqi government and the White House said Bush was open to changes in the draft of a U.N. resolution on Iraq. European governments want strict guidelines on the status of U.S. forces in Iraq in the text of a U.N. resolution that is to endorse the new Iraqi government due to take power from the U.S.-led coalition on June 30. The concern of many is that U.S. forces would be operating outside the control of the Iraqi interim government. Washington...

COPENHAGEN -- The Danish government supports the U.S.-British Security Council draft resolution giving Iraq until March 17 to disarm or face a war, Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Tuesday. "It is positive that the weapons inspectors have signaled some progress, such as the destruction of missiles, but that does not resolve the international community's problem that Saddam Hussein does not respect the demands of the UN Security Council when it comes to disarming," Rasmussen told reporters. "Iraq is only cooperating a little, cooperating only under pressure and at the last minute," he added. He said it was essential...