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Gates allows Photos of Soldiers’ Coffins

Friday February 27th, 2009 06:39 PM No comments

  Soldiers' cascets (US Air Force)

US Defence Secretary Robert M. Gates allows picturing the coffins of dead US soldiers after their return to the USA at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, as long as their relatives agree. Thus, a decision made in February 1991 during the Gulf War has been revoked. Read more…

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Bundle of Soldiers

Monday January 12th, 2009 11:21 PM No comments

Recently, a good friend of mine sent me a link to the following picture by Toru Hanai (Reuters) on the website of the German news magazine SPIEGEL. It has already been published on January 1st with the almost dreamlike caption “Bundle of Soldiers” (German: “Soldatenbündel”). Read more…

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Window to Gaza

Thursday January 01st, 2009 12:31 PM No comments
Weiterhin keine Feuerpause in Sicht (tagesschau.de, 1.1.2009)

Still no cease fire in sight (tagesschau.de, 1.1.2009)

The Tagesschau acts creatively on the Gaza conflict: Read more…

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