Attack in front of US Istanbul Consulate
Gunmen attacked policemen in duty in front of American consulate in Istanbul....According to NTV, 3 policemen were killed:( 3 attackers are also killed... No more details yet...
Three die in US consulate attack in Istanbul
Three police officers were killed in a shooting outside the United States consulate in Istanbul, CNN Turk television said
first photos here.
Attack at US Istanbul consulate
Three Turkish policemen and three gunmen are killed in an attack near the US consulate in Istanbul, officials say.
Armed Men Open Fire on U.S. Consulate in Turkey
Gunmen attacked a police guard post this morning outside the heavily fortified U.S. Consulate in Istanbul, killing three Turkish police officers in what Ambassador Ross Wilson called "an obvious act of terrorism."
Obama’s One and Only “Muslim Problem”
I tried to publish this as feedback to the post Obama’s Other Muslim Problem. Something failed when I tried to do so, so, I thought I would post it normally and then expand on it a bit.
Obama, McCain spar over immigration
American Time Use Survey — 2007 Results
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Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
US Foreign Policy From 11/9 to 9/11
As part of a media partnership with Blogactiv, we are cross-posting this book review by Stanley Crossick:
"America Between the Wars: From 11/9 to 9/11", by Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier, is an interesting read, in particular in highlighting the continuities of policies of the Clinton and George W Bush Administrations.
Why the US is destined to remain a 'European power'
Despite the current crisis and the deteriorating state of the relationship between the US and the EU, their partnership is set to continue, argues Bertel Heurlin, a professor of European security and integration at the University of Copenhagen, in the summer edition of Europe's World.Bush Meets With New Russian President for First Time
RUSUTSU, Japan, July 7--President Bush sat down with Dmitry Medvedev today for the first time since the protégé of Vladimir Putin became president of Russia. And while Bush did not claim to get a sense of Medvedev's soul--as he did after his initial meeting with Putin--he did say he found the new...How Not to Appoint American Ambassadors
By Patricia H. Kushlis
If anyone thinks a two week how-to-be-an-Ambassador course at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute is adequate preparation for becoming a US Ambassador, he (or she) must be smoking something far stronger than tobacco. But that – according to the august American Academy of Diplomacy (AAD) which counts all former Secretaries of State and various other American foreign policy luminaries as members – is what newly appointed ambassadors get. I could add whether they need it or not – but that seems unnecessarily gratuitous.
