Also diese Mail hier, damit kann ich ja so wirklich gar nichts anfangen, da war noch nicht mal ein Link bei?! So ein Schwachsinn kommt doch glatt mal in die “total Sinnbefreit” Rubrik!

The United States has repeatedly rejected Russian demands to freeze U.S. negotiations with Poland and the Czech Republic, and Rice did so again Friday, said three senior U.S. officials present at the sessions with Rice, Gates, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov.
The day got off to a rocky start when Putin kept Rice and Gates waiting for 40 minutes before meeting them and then began the session with a lengthy monologue detailing Russian complaints.
Initial reaction from Lavrov and Serdyukov, though, was less gracious.

The U.S. proposals are intended to ease fears that its missile defense plans threaten Russia’s nuclear deterrent and include the creation of a so-called joint regional missile defense architecture to protect the United States, NATO allies in Europe and Russia. Serdyukov agreed. In a series of meetings Friday, Rice and Gates failed to turn around Moscow’s opposition to the system and other strategic arms issues and got little more than a pledge to meet again.
As part of that plan, experts from all nations covered by the system would be based at missile defense facilities to try to improve coordination and transparency.

The recent rise in tensions between Turkey and the United States has led the military to increase its planning for alternatives, two military officials with direct knowledge of the ongoing assessment said.
The U.S. military said terrorists on Friday fired three mortar rounds into the southern Baghdad district of Dora, killing one civilian and wounding eight others — including four children under 10 years old.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) — The deputy police chief in the northern Iraqi town of Kirkuk escaped unharmed when a bomb exploded near his convoy Saturday in central Kirkuk, but one of his bodyguards was killed, police said.
Rice said the ideas that she and Gates presented are “conceptual at this point” and would be handed to experts to consider further.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says any treaty must be “universal in nature.”
U.S. military planners quietly have stepped up a review of alternatives in case the Turkish government restricts U.S. access to Turkish airspace or cuts off access to the air base at Incirlik, Turkey, CNN has learned.
Despite U.S. pledges of cooperation and new ideas on missile defense, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates were warned by President Vladimir Putin to back off on missile defense plans for the former Soviet sphere.
A spokesman for Putin, Dmitry Peskov, told reporters in a conference call that “some of them are quite interesting and the Russian side will start examining this proposal.”
The first explosion reportedly struck a house but no injuries were reported, while the second and third explosions “caused more damage to several houses and the casualties,” the military said.

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