Danish PM appointed NATO Sec. General

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Saturday April 04, 2009 · 12:13 PM PDT

2009/04/04 · 12:13

Saturday the Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen was appointed as the next Secretary General of the NATO alliance. NATO leaders agreed unanimously to appoint the Danish PM.

Mr. Anders Fogh Rasmussen is to succeed the current NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, who leaves office this coming August 1st.

Until the last minute NATO member country Turkey resisted the appointment of Mr. Rasmussen. Turkey considered Mr. Rasmussen as a controversial choice because of how he handled the 2006 Cartoon-crisis over caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad, printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten.

There could be other reasons to consider the appointment of Mr. Rasmussen as controversial, as the following article will show. Mr. Rasmussen was a close friend of former president George W. Bush and under Mr. Rasmussen, Denmark took part in the coalition of the willing that attacked Iraq in March 2003.

The lies of the war - the war of the lies
By Bo Elkjaer
Published in Denmark by Ekstra Bladet

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