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Top Stories - Reuters German Official: U.S. Acting Like 'Dictator'Sun Mar 9,11:07 AM ETBERLIN (Reuters) - A German junior minister said on Sunday the United States was behaving like a dictator over the Iraq (news - web sites) crisis, a statement likely to put relations between Washington and Berlin under further strain. "The Americans look more and more like dictators with their unilateral decisions," Walter Kolbow, junior minister in the Defense Ministry, was quoted as saying in the "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper. Kolbow confirmed to Reuters he had made the remarks and said they referred to the U.S. stance on...

Berlin (CNSNews.com) - Adding another sticking point to strained relations with the United States, Germany says its troops will not come to the rescue of American soldiers if they invade Iraq and face a chemical or biological attack there. German defense minister Peter Struck said Friday that his forces will only defend and assist American soldiers and civilians based in Kuwait, where some German troops are currently stationed. German soldiers in Kuwait possess equipment to detect contamination by biological and chemical weapons. But if the attack takes place in Iraq, German troops will not go forward to assist U.S....

WARNING - Indecent content below - From Bild.de - a Deutche Presse-Agentur photograph of a German parade float - Darf man Politiker so verarschen?(May one do politician so verarschen?) Böse! Angela Merkel schaut als Papp-Figur aus dem Papp-Popo(Badly! Angela Merkel looks as sticking figure from the stick Popo)