German Town Wary of U.S. Troop Pullout
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Hans Seitz has sold engraved pewter plates and cuckoo clocks to U.S. soldiers for years. Now he fears some of his best customers may be going if two U.S. divisions pull out of Germany.
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With the United States turning up pressure on European allies to stump up more troops for Afghanistan, reports here suggested Germany is considering sending reinforcements.
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Germany will not bow to terrorist threats demanding the withdrawal of its troops from Afghanistan, Interior Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Monday.
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The decision, aimed at freeing up US manpower for an all-out assault on the lawless city of Fallujah, is generating deep disquiet here, where a public, at best skeptical about the war, is nervous of "mission ...
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BERLIN - A senior German minister &#39;s comments, which appeared to soften Berlin&#39;s hardline opposition to sending troops to Iraq sparked a round of diplomatic activity across the Atlantic.
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The United States plans to station a new  Stryker armored vehicle brigade in southeastern Germany as  early as 2006, just as it starts withdrawing some 30,000 troops  from the country as part of a major force realignment.
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Tensions are rising between Washington and allies such as Germany over the deployment of troops in Afghanistan
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A senior German minister has said that the country, which staunchly opposed the US-led war to oust Saddam Hussein, could eventually send troops to Iraq, although he ruled out any such move for now.
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A US commander in Iraq warns against early troop withdrawals, despite growing calls for a pullout.
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Germany fears further attacks on its troops in northern Afghanistan like the one that killed three of its soldiers on May 19, according to a foreign office report seen by a German newspaper.
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Germany's interior minister said it was time to put aside differences with the United States over Iraq and look to the future as President Bush won a second term, but another senior official reiterated Wednesday that German troops will not join the coalition there.
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A senior German minister said on  Wednesday that the country, which staunchly opposed the  U.S.-led war to oust Saddam Hussein, could eventually send  troops to Iraq, although he ruled out any such move for now.
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German officials voiced concern Monday that their country has the most to lose with President Bush's announcement that tens of thousands of troops will return to the United States over the next decade.
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"We must take into account that there will be more violent assaults once winter is over with the additional goal of killing civilians via suicide attacks"  By Markus WacketBERLIN  - Germany rejected on Friday a call from the United States to send combat soldiers to dangerous parts of southern Afghanistan and said there were no plans to change its deployment in the less violent north.Following a strongly worded letter from U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung said he did not envisage a change to the mandate allowing Germany to send 3,500 troops to northern Afghanistan."We have agreed on a clear division of labor," Jung told reporters on Friday. "I think that we really must keep our focus on the North." Read more
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SPANGDAHLEM, Germany  - A U.S. air base in western Germany received a bomb threat on Monday evening, prompting a large operation by local police and American forces to secure the site, the U.S. military and German police said.
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German officials voiced concern Monday that their country has the most to lose with President Bush 's announcement that tens of thousands of troops will return to the United States over the next decade.
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Iraq's military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick U.S. military pullout as a senior American official warned that the Bush administration may reconsider its support if Iraqi leaders don't make major reforms by fall