[jmc1969]

Cowards

[mainepatsfan]

"In Arab countries it could make us look as if we're the handmaidens of the United States and Israel,"

A German not wanting to be associated with Israel? I'm stunned. /s

[dighton]

Am I the only one who had to work at making sense of the headline?

[weegee]

Germany had intelligence agents inside of Iraq BECAUSE??? I thought there were no WMD programs and that there was no threat posed. Why spy on them then?

[steel_resolve]

How dare we throw a monkey wrench into their well-oiled appeasement racket. BUSH FAULT!

[MikeA]

"In Arab countries it could make us look as if we're the handmaidens of the United States and Israel," Ernst Uhrlau, the head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency said.



But being "handmaidens" of Saddam Hussein and Hamas, that's a-okay to the Germans. Good job guys. Maybe you need to tell the Arabs it was America, not the Arabs, that liberated your country in the 40s and spent our precious national treasure rebuilding Germany.

[L98Fiero]

"In Arab countries it could make us look as if we're the handmaidens of the United States and Israel," Ernst Uhrlau, the head of Germany's BND foreign intelligence agency said.

They always trow Israel in there, don't they? As far as I know, Israel has had zero involvement in Iraq but that doesn't stop the Anti-Semites from trashing Israel everytime The US is brought up.

[Mike Darancette]

In the Arab world Germany's history with Jews puts them in pretty good stead.