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  • AT CHRISTMAS, REMEMBERING THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE

    12/25/2019 3:07:56 PM PST · by DFG · 18 replies
    Powerline ^ | 12/25/2019 | John Hinderaker
    snip The Battle of the Bulge has a special resonance for me, because my father almost died in it. He was a college student when World War II broke out. He graduated, then enlisted in the Army. He was sent to one of the big Army bases in the South for basic training. In those days, they gave every enlistee an IQ test; maybe they still do. My father’s performance on the test was good enough that he was pulled out of the ranks and sent to graduate school to become an engineer. (Drill Sergeant, with privates lined up: “Hinderaker!...
  • Germany, France sign treaty to counter 'populism'

    01/24/2019 3:08:27 PM PST · by TheTimeOfMan · 53 replies
    youtube.com ^ | 22 JAN 2019 | Vlad Tepesblog
    YouTube video of a news story about France and Germany signing a treaty, that, ostensibly, will tie the two countries very closely together. The commentator seems hyperbolic but given Merkel's and Macron's history - is it? Do any FReepers have additional information regarding this agreement?
  • EU Army ‘Already Taking Shape’ Brags German Defence Minister

    01/12/2019 8:17:46 AM PST · by KC_Lion · 68 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 12 January 2019 | Victoria Friedman
    Germany’s defence minister has confirmed that “a united EU military is becoming a reality,” after her ally and Chancellor Angela Merkel backed Emmanuel Macron’s call for a “real European army.” “Europe’s army is already taking shape,” Ursula von der Leyen wrote in an opinion piece for Handelsblatt on Thursday. “Germany and France are the driving forces in defense,” Ms von der Leyen boasted, adding that “We’re moving even further ahead with our close partner France” after the two countries agreed to sign a “new Elysèe Treaty” which, amongst other efforts to, in effect, merge aspects of the two countries, includes...
  • Roman road discovered during digging in German city Aachen

    11/09/2017 11:37:48 PM PST · by SunkenCiv · 11 replies
    Wichita Eagle ^ | November 07, 2017 | AP
    Aachen city archaeologist Andreas Schaub told the dpa news agency Tuesday the road is about six meters (yards) wide and is thought to possibly date back to the second century. Schaub says the road could have connected the important settlement in Aachen to what is today the Dutch city of Maastricht.
  • The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe

    03/09/2005 6:58:35 AM PST · by Traianus · 10 replies · 1,078+ views
    Middle East Forum ^ | 03.09.2005 | Lorenzo Vidino
    The Muslim Brotherhood's Conquest of Europe by Lorenzo Vidino Middle East Quarterly Winter 2005 Since its founding in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood (Hizb al-Ikhwan al-Muslimun) has profoundly influenced the political life of the Middle East. Its motto is telling: "Allah is our objective. The Prophet is our leader. The Qur'an is our law. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."[1] While the Brotherhood's radical ideas have shaped the beliefs of generations of Islamists, over the past two decades, it has lost some of its power and appeal in the Middle East, crushed by...
  • German police arrest five people in operation linked to Paris attack

    11/17/2015 7:29:09 AM PST · by 11th_VA · 41 replies
    Police in the western German city of Aachen arrested five people, at least three of them foreign citizens, on Tuesday in an operation linked to the militant attacks last Friday in Paris that killed 129 people. A special police response unit overpowered two women and one man outside a job centre in Alsdorf, a small town near Aachen close to Germany's border with Belgium and the Netherlands. "After the terror attacks last Friday in Paris and the search for the perpetrators and the people pulling the strings, police in Aachen got a lead to suspicious individuals in Alsdorf," a police...
  • Five arrested in Aachen linked to Paris attacks

    11/17/2015 7:22:10 AM PST · by csvset · 3 replies
    The Local ^ | 17 Nov 2015 | AFP/DPA/The Local
    Five people have been arrested in western Germany in a hunt for suspects in connection with the Paris terrorist attacks, but police caution they have not yet established a link to the jihadist violence. The interior ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia confirmed to The Local that two additional male suspects had been arrested in the early afternoon in Alsdorf, at town on the outskirts of Aachen. An eyewitness reported to DPA that special forces officers wearing masks and carrying submachine guns were seen blocking off a street in Alsdorf where the first three arrested were reportedly living. The two arrests in...