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February 6, 2011

Belize: A Culturally Rich and Diverse Land

Belize is a small country in Northeastern Central America bordered by Mexico to the north, Guatamala to the south and west, and to the east by the Caribbean Sea, with a population of about 333,000. It is the only country in the region where the official language is English, though Spanish and Creole are also spoken.

February 12, 2010

Israeli Defense Industry Expands Sale of Drones

The Jerusalem Post reports that "while Israeli soldiers can't fight in the war in Afghanistan, Israeli drones can." At the end of January, NATO members: Australia, Germany, Spain, France and Canada began "operating unmanned aerial vehicles [UAVs] produced in the Jewish state in anti-Taliban operations in the Central Asian country," wrote JP's Yaakov Katz.

January 10, 2010

Germany Investigating Report on CIA Hit Team

According to the report in Vanity Fair's January issue, a team was sent to target Mahmoun Darkazanli, a German-Syrian businessman. Darkazanli has been accused in Spain of being an al-Qaida figure and was close to the Sept. 11 hijackers who lived and studied in Hamburg.

BERLIN (AP) -- German authorities are looking into allegations raised in an American magazine that a CIA hit team targeted an al-Qaida suspect in Hamburg in a post-Sept. 11 operation that was never carried out, officials said Wednesday.

According to the report in Vanity Fair's January issue, the team was sent to target Mahmoun Darkazanli, a German-Syrian businessman. Darkazanli has been accused in Spain of being an al-Qaida figure and was close to the Sept. 11 hijackers who lived and studied in Hamburg.

December 1, 2009

Ecuador’s Unique Idea: Pay Us Not To Drill Amazon Oil

President Rafael Correa of Ecuador has put forward a novel idea known as the Yasuni-ITT Initiative. He proposed not to touch the estimated 900million barrel oil reserve under the Amazon Rain Forest if the international community will compensate Ecuador. The president is asking for $350 million annually- half the estimated revenue that crude oil from the remote Yasuni National Park would be expected to generate for the next 12 years. So far, Germany and Spain have expressed an interest in the plan. Mr.