It sounds like something out of the BBC drama Spooks – but the Ministry of Defence’s secret command centre deep beneath Whitehall lacks the glamour of a TV set.
Designed to house the nation’s political and military leaders in a crisis, the bunker will become the operational hub of Government if Britain comes under attack. for more click here
A US navy flagship has steamed into a Georgian port where Russian troops are still stationed, stoking tensions once again in the tinderbox Caucasus region. for more click here
Nothing spawns conspiracy theories like war in a remote place. The latest one comes from a singularly well-placed source. In an interview with CNN last week, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin accused the U.S. of orchestrating the war in Georgia in order to benefit the candidacy of John McCain. for more click here
Aleksander Dugin, a popular theorist in hard-line circles, advocates an alliance between the former Soviet Union and the Middle East. He says Georgia crisis could be start of a real conflict with U.S. for more click here
ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN — American ground troops carried out a rare raid on Pakistani soil Wednesday, a cross-border attack from Afghanistan that left up to 20 people dead and provoked sharp condemnation from Pakistan’s government.
The raid, described by Pakistani officials as having been carried out by helicopter-borne commandos in a hamlet just on the Pakistani side of the frontier, is likely to inflame tensions at a time when Islamic militants are already threatening to attack Pakistani officials and installations in retaliation for recent strikes against them by government forces. for more click here
TEHRAN – Brigadier General Massud Jazayeri said on Saturday that any military invasion of Iran would trigger another world war. for more click here
MOSCOW: Russia is not afraid of a new Cold War taking hold and is ready for “anything,” Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday in a television interview. for more click here
SOCHI, Russia: President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia, defying pressure from the West, announced on Tuesday that Moscow had decided to recognize two rebel regions of Georgia as independent states.
“I have signed decrees on the recognition by the Russian Federation of the independence of South Ossetia and the independence of Abkhazia,” Medvedev said in a televised statement. for more click here
PAUL Keating has accused Tony Blair, Bill Clinton and George Bush of squandering the chance for peace and co-operation created by the Soviet Union’s collapse. for more click here
NEW YORK — He is the leader of a small country that, until recently, was not on the radar for most Americans. But it’s been hard to turn on a news channel this month without encountering the brooding glare of Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, railing against the Russian troops pouring across his country’s borders, doing his best to turn a military disaster into a media victory. for more click here