MOD: Has announced the names of the six UK Soldiers that were killed yesterday in Afghanistan, they were “ Sergeant Nigel Coupe of the 1st Battalion The Duke of Lancaster's Regiment and Corporal Jake Hartley, Private Anthony Frampton, Private Christopher Kershaw, Private Daniel Wade, Private Daniel Wilford, of the 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment ”. Our thoughts are with the families of these brave men.
Thursday, March 08, 2012
Greek Deal - Greek Crisis
Guardian: Reports the following on the talks between the Greek Government and its bond holders, “ edging towards a deal with its private-sector creditors as the hours ticked away towards Thursday's deadline ”. The tone is lot more supportive folks, this is no great surprise, as the left wing Guardian supports ALL things Euro. It will be interesting to see who is right on Thursday folks, what % of the bondholders will accept the hair cut and will it be enough to prevent Greece from defaulting. As they say in the movies, watch this space folks.
Greece Again - Greek Crisis
Telegraph: Reports that only about 40% of Greek bond holders have accepted a hair cut deal, as the article notes this “ tally was still far short of the 95pc needed to avoid being officially declared in default. ”. Even if Greece enforces a write off this will be seen as a default by those that insure the bond holders, in other words folks the watchman is waiting and he has a big knife to place Greece on the chopping block. The Markets fall this week is the market getting ready for a default, lets get it over with folks, its like water torture, but rather than sharp and fast, its slow and grinding and getting one ones nerves.
Government CRACKS in Syria - Syrian Crisis
BBC News: Has BREAKING NEWS, that the Deputy Syrian Oil Minister Abdo Hussameddin has resigned and joined the rebels. Are we starting to see Government insiders looking at the clock and figuring its time to get out, before the Regime falls, could be an important first defection, it will be interesting to find out if the Western Intelligence networks, CIA, MI6 or even the Mossad had some part to play in this resignation. Lets see if others in the Government or the Syria Army also defect, this will be interesting to watch folks.
The Taliban and Iran
BBC News: Reports that first report from the explosion that killed six UK Soldiers yesterday in Afghanistan suggests it was a big Taliban bomb. The question that has to be asked does the Taliban have that capability, or are the being helped by Iran, its not hard to connect the dots, Iran helped the insurgents in Iraq, now with the political and economic pressure on Iran this might be their way of showing how much they can hurt the UK and the US in Afghanistan, make it harder for these two Countries to get out by 2015. If this is Iran expect more such incidents, this could be the start of a nasty trend folks. Lets hope this was a fluke by the Taliban, otherwise this year could very costly folks.
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