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Karzai Meets Sarkozy After France Threatens Afghan Withdrawal

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF January 27, 2012 @ 12:50pm

Afghan President Hamid Karzai meets Friday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy Friday, a week after the French leader threatened to pull his troops out of Afghanistan early.

During talks in Paris, President Karzai is expected to sign a long-term strategic agreement outlining France's role in Afghanistan after all international troops leave the war-torn country in 2014.

 

Guatemala to Try Ex-Dictator for Genocide

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF January 27, 2012 @ 12:47pm

A judge in Guatemala has ruled that there is sufficient evidence to try former dictator Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide during his time in power from 1982 to 1983.

The judge ruled Thursday in Guatemala City that Montt should answer to charges of responsibility for mass killings of thousands of indigenous people in their villages. The killings were part of a counterinsurgency effort aimed at leftist rebels in Guatemala's 36-year civil war that ended in 1996.

 

Muslims Demand Resignation of New York’s Top Cop

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF January 27, 2012 @ 12:44pm

The screening of an anti-Muslim film for nearly 1,500 New York Police officers has sparked a call for the resignation of the city's police commissioner.

A coalition of Muslim groups is calling for Police Commissioner Ray Kelly's dismissal. Kelly appears in the controversial documentary The Third Jihad, widely available on Youtube. It portrays even ordinary Muslims as suspects in a radical Islamic quest to destroy Western civilization and take control of the United States.

US Economy Grew Faster in Late 2011

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF January 27, 2012 @ 12:27pm

The U.S. economy, the world’s largest, grew at its fastest pace in a year-and-a-half in late 2011, but questions remain whether the advance will continue in coming months.

The U.S. government said Friday the country’s national economic output increased 2.8 percent in the October-to-December period, a bit below the 3 percent estimate economists had projected. But the fourth quarter advance was the best of the year and the quickest pace since the April-to-June period in 2010.

Obama’s crony capitalism

By American Security Council Foundation ASCF January 27, 2012 @ 12:11pm

President Obama said in his State of the Union address that one of the American values that must be reclaimed is “an economy where everyone gets a fair shot, and everyone does their fair share, and everyone plays by the same set of rules.” For three years, he and his political allies have been undermining this vision. They see government as a means of rewarding their friends and punishing their enemies. For the Obama circle, rules apply only to other people.

Obamacare is a growing burden to American businesses, but not if you have friends in high places. Mr. Obama’s signature and highly unpopular legislative achievement was sold as a measure that would require shared sacrifice but bring lasting benefits to all Americans. Yet as soon as the law was implemented, hundreds of waivers were issued that allowed the recipients to duck under Obamacare requirements. The vast majority of recipients were labor-union chapters, large corporations, financial firms and local governments with strong Democratic connections. One in 5 waivers issued in April 2011 went to upscale nightclubs, bars and hotels in Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco district. Mr. Obama is not even covered by his own law.