With a looming humanitarian disaster in Libya, Western nations are wringing their hands over what to do. Will Europeans take the lead?
So intervention in Libya, if it comes at all, will be up to the Europeans to lead. That's the implication to draw from Thursday's meetings in Brussels of Nato defense ministers and EU foreign ministers, and subsequent comments by American officials in Washington. It looks still more likely that any intervention would not be by a united Nato but by what former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once called "a coalition of the willing," led in this crisis by Britain and France.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Wanted: Humanitarians at Home
Let's review the state of play.
The Nato defense ministers broke up with nothing more agreed than stepped-up surveillance of the fighting in Libya; stepped-up monitoring of the U.N. arms embargo on Muammar Gaddafi's regime; and continued study of other options.
So intervention in Libya, if it comes at all, will be up to the Europeans to lead. That's the implication to draw from Thursday's meetings in Brussels of Nato defense ministers and EU foreign ministers, and subsequent comments by American officials in Washington. It looks still more likely that any intervention would not be by a united Nato but by what former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once called "a coalition of the willing," led in this crisis by Britain and France.
Related story on The Daily Beast: Wanted: Humanitarians at Home
Let's review the state of play.
The Nato defense ministers broke up with nothing more agreed than stepped-up surveillance of the fighting in Libya; stepped-up monitoring of the U.N. arms embargo on Muammar Gaddafi's regime; and continued study of other options.
- 3/11/2011
- by John Barry
- The Daily Beast
The Middle East continues to be a dangerous place, even on the Internet: Two regional powers have announced plans, including an army of "little hackers," to strengthen cyber-warfare capabilities.
A fresh cyberwar front is hitting the Middle East as both Israel and Turkey ramp up their military capabilities in dealing with hacker attacks and monitoring social media.
The Israeli military announced this week that they have benchmarked approximately $1.6 million to recruit 120 “new media fighters.” This news was released at the just-completed Herzliya Conference, an annual get-together of prominent international thinkers--primarily Israeli and American--that this year included Israeli President Shimon Peres, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Czech Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra, Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal, former CIA director R. James Woolsey, Italian Finance Minister Giullo Tremonti, and Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, which attended a panel entitled "New Media as a Strategic Weapon," claims that...
A fresh cyberwar front is hitting the Middle East as both Israel and Turkey ramp up their military capabilities in dealing with hacker attacks and monitoring social media.
The Israeli military announced this week that they have benchmarked approximately $1.6 million to recruit 120 “new media fighters.” This news was released at the just-completed Herzliya Conference, an annual get-together of prominent international thinkers--primarily Israeli and American--that this year included Israeli President Shimon Peres, former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Czech Defense Minister Alexandr Vondra, Dutch Foreign Minister Uri Rosenthal, former CIA director R. James Woolsey, Italian Finance Minister Giullo Tremonti, and Nato Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, which attended a panel entitled "New Media as a Strategic Weapon," claims that...
- 2/10/2011
- by Neal Ungerleider
- Fast Company
Crown Prince Frederik and Crown Princess Mary of Denmark are set to grace the European Film Awards 2008 with their presence. Also, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen and EU Commissioner Viviane Reding will be attending.
The event, which will be held on December 6 in Copenhagen's Forum, will be hosted by the country's own, anchorman Mikael Bertelsen. Popular jazz orchestra Danish Radio Big Band will be the house band for the evening.
Dame Judi Dench, who will receive the year's European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, is also expected to attend the event.
Danish Dogma brothers Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kristian Levring, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg will also be making an appearance to receive the European Achievement in World Cinema.
The event, which will be held on December 6 in Copenhagen's Forum, will be hosted by the country's own, anchorman Mikael Bertelsen. Popular jazz orchestra Danish Radio Big Band will be the house band for the evening.
Dame Judi Dench, who will receive the year's European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, is also expected to attend the event.
Danish Dogma brothers Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, Kristian Levring, Lars von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg will also be making an appearance to receive the European Achievement in World Cinema.
- 10/2/2008
- icelebz.com
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