Thursday, September 2, 2010
This is just a quick link to follow -- an "aside." These are links to interesting things that, for one reason or another, I didn't place into a full posting. Click the link to visit the full article. Go to the blog index for a regular listing of posts.
US to shun military drills in Turkey: embassy official - 'The United States will not take part in upcoming air drills in Turkey, a US embassy official said Wednesday, as media reports said Washington had conditioned its presence on Israeli attendance. The US Air Force will not join the October exercises, the official told AFP, saying they had already taken part in the previous edition of the drills in June. The official would not comment on Turkish media reports that Washington had said it would shun the drills if Ankara failed to invite also Israel, excluded from the exercises amid bilateral tensions with Turkey, once a close ally...'
