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Obama's 'Beast' Creates Stir at NATO Green Summit
By Lisa Holewa - AOL News
(Nov. 20) -- World leaders attending the NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal, zipped around in zero-emission electric vehicles. Journalists covering the event hopped aboard electric buses to get from venue to venue. And President Barack Obama's eight-ton, diesel-fueled armored limousine dubbed "the Beast" drew even more attention than usual. Lisbon newspapers dedicated pages of coverage to the vehicle, with charts featuring every detail that the Secret Service is willing to divulge -- like the special foam in the gas tank to extinguish any fire from a direct hit, and the supply of presidential ...
NATO, US Differ on Ending Afghan Combat Role
By not in system - AOL News
LISBON, Portugal (Nov. 20) -- NATO nations formally agreed Saturday to start turning over Afghanistan's security to its military next year and give local forces full control by 2014. President Barack Obama said for the first time that his goal is to end U.S. combat missions in Afghanistan by that year. But Obama cautioned it's "hard to anticipate" the exact American role in Afghanistan four years from now. "There may still be extensive cooperation with the Afghan armed services to consolidate the security environment," Obama told reporters at NATO's summit in the Portuguese capital. He ...
Obama: NATO to Erect Missile Shield for Europe
By not in system - AOL NewsLISBON, Portugal (Nov. 19) -- President Barack Obama won NATO summit agreement Friday to build a missile shield over Europe, an ambitious commitment to protect against Iranian attack while demonstrating the alliance's continuing relevance - but at the risk of further aggravating Russia. On another major issue, Obama and the allies are expected to announce plans on Saturday to begin handing off security responsibility in Afghanistan to local forces next year and to complete the transition by the end of 2014. That end date is three years beyond the time that Obama has said he will start ...
NATO's Combat Role in Afghan War to End by 2014
By not in system - AOL News
LISBON, Portugal (Nov. 19) -- NATO will start drawing down its troops in Afghanistan next July and its combat role in the war-torn nation will end by 2014 or earlier so security can be turned over to the Afghans, a top alliance official said Friday. "We think that goal is realistic, and we have made plans to achieve it, but of course if circumstances agree, it could be sooner, absolutely," said Mark Sedwill, NATO's top civilian representative in Afghanistan. Sedwill said the troop withdrawal starting next year will be "shallow" and eventually accelerate but did not elaborate. The escalating ...
NATO Summit to Focus on Afghanistan, Iran
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Nov. 16) -- The official goal of the NATO summit President Barack Obama attends this weekend in Portugal is a remodeling of the military alliance for the 21st century, but the biggest news out of Lisbon is likely to focus on Afghanistan and Iran. For more than a year, NATO leaders, senior American defense and diplomatic officials and their counterparts from the other 27 member countries have been working on a new strategic concept, a "guide" for the alliance over the next decade that will make it more relevant not only to the post-Cold War world but to the post-9/11 world as well. It will ...
NATO Chief Sees More Big Missions in the Future
By Joseph Schuman - AOL News
(Oct. 8) -- Despite flagging support within NATO for its mission to pacify Afghanistan, the military bloc's leader said today he expects the alliance to take on similarly ambitious missions in the future. Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen, outlining his hopes for a new strategy document NATO leaders will debate next month, told an audience in Brussels, Belgium, that updating the alliance's crisis management ability is crucial because the war in Afghanistan has shown that "no other organization can marshal, deploy and sustain NATO's military power." "Which is why I am totally ...
Obama Skips Visit to Normandy, American Cemetery
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyReports out of London indicate that President Barack Obama declined an inviation from French President Nicholas Sarkozy to visit Normandy's Omaha Beach and the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-mer on his way to Strasbourg for the NATO summit last week. The Daily Telegraph reports that White House officials travelled to France last month to discuss the visit with their counterparts on Sarkozy's staff. But one American official familiar with the negotiations said that President Obama never had any intention of making the stop over."It wasn't going to happen. We went through the motions to ...
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