FEARS of a military coup were mounting last night as Greece grappled with financial meltdown.
The crisis saw shares in London fall yesterday and the euro hit a three-week low as banks, including RBS and Barclays, were threatened with having their credit ratings downgraded.
Former Chancellor Lord Lamont warned that Greece was the canary in the mine...a warning of dangers to come. The appearance of several high-ranking army officers sitting next to Greek president Karolos Papoulias at a meeting on Wednesday, when he criticised Germany, fuelled speculation of a military takeover.
Mr Papoulias said ominously: The politicians should take an example from our soldiers. They always stayed true to the native country. It would not be the first time Greece has succumbed to military rule. A brutal junta led the country from 1967 to 1974.
Former German general Harald Kujat yesterday expressed his fears of a coup. And after the riots in Athens earlier this week, there were calls for tanks to be deployed to protect banks.
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FEARS of a military coup were mounting last night as Greece grappled with financial meltdown.
The crisis saw shares in London fall yesterday and the euro hit a three-week low as banks, including RBS and Barclays, were threatened with having their credit ratings downgraded.
Former Chancellor Lord Lamont warned that Greece was "the canary in the mine...a warning of dangers to come." The appearance of several high-ranking army officers sitting next to Greek president Karolos Papoulias at a meeting on Wednesday, when he criticised Germany, fuelled speculation of a military takeover.
Mr Papoulias said ominously: "The politicians should take an example from our soldiers. They always stayed true to the native country." It would not be the first time Greece has succumbed to military rule. A brutal junta led the country from 1967 to 1974.
Former German general Harald Kujat yesterday expressed his fears of a coup. And after the riots in Athens earlier this week, there were calls for tanks to be deployed to protect banks.
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#2
I remember the junta but didn't really pay that much attention do to my own personal concerns.
One thing I don't recall is that it was what I would call brutal. Daffy and Pencilneck are brutal but I don't remember citizens being machine gunned in the streets whole sale.
Authoritarian sure, undemocratic, definitely, but brutal? I'm just not sure.
Is this a faulty memory on my part or lefty/communist propaganda?
#3
Brutal or not, the coup of the Colonels was blamed on the US - you'd have gone deaf, listening to the Greeks go on and on and on and on and on about the brutality of the Colonels and how the US government was behind it all.
IIRC, I think we just sat back and watched it happen, but apparently that was just exactly the same as issuing detailed marching orders.
#4
In December the PM asked for and recieved resignations from several senior officers. The current military leadership is personally beholden to the PM for their positions. Presumably to defuse any potential issues
#5
A good way to bring on a coup would be to threaten military pay or pensions. A good rule of thumb for the Greek government: mess with the military last - they have guns.
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#6
FOX NEWS AM showed video news footage of many homeless kitchens + vendors being set up outside in Greek streets - IIRC, it was repor that 1-in-4 Greeks are unemployed now???
Not many Vehicles, Private or Govt., seen driving around in the video segment - LOTS OF UNCOLLECTED TRASH, THOUGH.
Doctor accused of slandering Paleostinian who claimed he was injured by IDF acquitted by French Supreme Court
The French Supreme Court on Wednesday acquitted an Israeli doctor accused of slandering a Paleostinian man who claimed he was injured by the IDF during the second intifada.
The Paleostinian man, Jamal al-Dura, and his 12-year-old son Muhammad, became the symbol of the Al-Aqsa Intifada, when the two were caught in a fire exchange in the Netzarim Junction. The boy was killed in the incident,
It may or may not be true that the boy is dead. It has been proven beyond reasonable doubt that, if he was indeed actually shot, it could not have been by the Israelis. Ynet has no business spreading a blood libel that has resulted in the deaths of many Jews and Israelis, including Judah Daniel Pearl, whose head was cut off for it. Google "Al Dura hoax" for the vicious details.
. triggering a blame game: The Paleostinians accused Israel for Muhammad's death, while Israeli officials claimed he was hit by Paleostinian fire.
The father, who survived the ordeal, relayed his version before the media, showing the scars that he incurred in the incident. The claim prompted Dr. Yehuda David of Tel Hashomer Hospital to reveal that the scars were actually a result of a surgery the father had performed years earlier, after al-Dura was attacked by Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason, operatives who suspected him of collaborating with Israel.
Al-Dura decided to sue David, and last year a Gay Paree court ruled against the doctor due to the fact he released information from al-Dura's medical records. He was ordered to compensate al-Dura with 13,000, but decided to appeal the ruling at the French Supreme Court.
"It couldn't have turned out better," David told Ynet after the ruling was overturned. "It means that I spoke the truth, and the father just lied.
"We managed to deconstruct their false statements. All the scientific evidence that we collected for the past 12 years proves that the incident was staged and fake. They made up the father's injury, and the IDF troops never shot the boy."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke to Dr. David on Wednesday and praised him for his determination. "You are an example for the battle for the State of Israel's truth and to sticking to the righteousness of our people's way," the prime minister told him.
On Sunday, the Ministerial Committee on Legislative Affairs will discuss a bill proposing that the State fund Dr. David's legal expenses. The bill was initiated by Vice Premier Moshe Ya'alon, who had served alongside Dr. David in the army.
David has recently begun raising funds to fight what he calls the "Paleostinian's false anti-Israel propaganda," and said that Ya'alon has joined the effort.
"I recently opened a Facebook page in order to collect funding for the fight against the Paleostinians' mendacious propaganda," David said. "I got a phone call from Ya'alon, and on Sunday he will put a proposal on the justice minister's desk to allocate funds, and then we will take this venture on the road... This will put an end to the lies."
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#4
I still strongly suspect that Daniel Pearl, WSJ reporter, was an Israeli agent. His job as a reporter would have been a very useful cover, and he was widely traveled, having visited the Soviet Union, China, the Balkans, and other places of interest, before moving to the South Asia bureau. He investigated several international incidents of high intelligence value.
The stories he wrote were of serious investigative value, punctuated by a few fluff pieces that could have been written by anyone.
Basically, if he wasn't an Israeli agent, he should have been.
Likely he was killed by the Pak ISI, pretending to be a terrorist organization. Their demands were nonsensical, including the freeing of all Pakistani terror detainees, and the release of a halted U.S. shipment of F-16 fighter jets to the Pakistani government.
This, by a 'terrorist' organization that hasn't been heard from before or since.
#5
Anonymoose, Mr. Wife's Uncle Peter, who fought two tours in Viet Nam as a Marine, is convinced my husband is a CIA agent. Mr. Wife did, after all have to get a new passport five years early, after the fourth extension fell out, and there was the year he spent over two hundred days in the Arab world starting up factories. The thing is, my husband was perfectly typical of his type, the factory start-up engineer for an international manufacturing company. And later he was perfectly typical of the department/division head with people reporting to him from the major world geographies, going round the world each quarter to check in on them.
I see nothing to indicate that Mr. Pearl was anythng more than the kind of really good investigative reporter the Wall Street Journal pays pots of money to keep on the payroll. And anyway, Mr. Pearl was not killed for being CIA; he was killed for being a Jew.
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FEARS of a military coup were mounting last night as Greece grappled with financial meltdown.
Doctor accused of slandering Paleostinian who claimed he was injured by IDF acquitted by French Supreme Court
