Russia threat to use force over Kosovo
http://www.presstv.ir has become one of my favorite news sites ;)
I'm glad, since it gives Iran a "voice"... something that is missing in Lamestream Media.
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Russia threat to use force over Kosovo
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:49:35
Moscow's ambassador to NATO says Russia could resort to "Brute force" if NATO or the European Union challenge the UN on Kosovo.
According to Interfax news agency, Dmitry Rogozin in a video link-up from Brussels said, "If the European Union works out a common position, or if NATO breaches its mandate in Kosovo, these organizations will be in conflict with the United Nations."
"We too will have to proceed from the view that in order to be respected we must use Brute force, in other words armed force."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3509269,00.html
Ashkenazi warns Israel may face conflict in near future
Prime minister, chief of staff speak at ceremony marking completion of officer's training course, discuss military's future 18 months after Second Lebanon War
Roni Sofer
Published: 02.20.08, 19:41 / Israel News
"I cannot promise we will not find ourselves facing a difficult trial in the near future," IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi said on Wednesday at a ceremony for cadets graduating from the officers' training course.
"Our hands are outstretched in peace, but they are also ready for battle," said Ashkenazi.
Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who spoke before Ashkenazi, said that "even when many of the young officers here today enlisted after the echoes of the war fell silent, I know without a shadow of a doubt that if we are once again called on to face another conflict in that region or any other, you will embody the noble and tangible essence of the spirit of the IDF and serve as Israel's defensive shield.
"We have learned much from the Second Lebanon War. For the past year-and-a-half now we have been moving forward with a process that at its core aims to change and improve the decision making process and security assessments made on the national and political levels."
Olmert said that even the officers' training course has been modified following the war. "We are investing unprecedented resources to allow the IDF to train more, to prepare itself and provide its soldiers with the best possible training on every command level to face any scenario," he said.
"In its 60th year the State of Israel is a strong nation with a powerful military and a level of deterrence
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known well to all those who need to know it," said Olmert, alluding to Israel's covert operations. "We are confident in ourselves and in our might, we march ahead down a road of peace and security."
The prime minister closed his speech with a prayer and said that on this day of celebration "we remember our deep obligation to the IDF's missing and captive soldiers and we pray for their quick return to the embrace of their families."