Bulgarians Protest Base Deal With U.S.

[Judi Lynn]

Bulgarians Protest Base Deal With U.S.
By VESELIN TOSHKOV
Associated Press Writer

April 27, 2006, 8:37 AM EDT


SOFIA, Bulgaria -- Thousands of Bulgarians demonstrated Thursday against a deal to allow U.S. troops to use military facilities in the country.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was expected to arrive in Bulgaria later Thursday for a meeting of NATO foreign ministers, is to sign the agreement Friday with her Bulgarian counterpart, Ivailo Kalfin.

Under the deal, seen as part of a broader U.S. military strategy of shifting troops based in Europe farther east, up to 2,500 U.S. troops would be deployed in the Balkan country on a rotational basis.

The rally against the plan was organized by an ultranationalist party called Attack and drew several thousand people to a park a few hundred meters (yards) from the venue for the NATO meeting.

The protesters shouted, "Yankees Go Home," and waved banners that read, "Condi, ask the Bulgarian people" and "U.S. bases War."
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[Demeter]

1. How To Win Friends And Influence People

Or in the BFEE/BushCo World:

How to LOSE friends and Influence People to hate you and kill your citizens.

[YOY]

2. Hardly the Bulgaria I remember

and not the Bulgaria I want to return to when I visit my inlaws...

Thanks Shrubco!

[Robbien]

3. 60% of Bulgarians don't want this. They think the CIA

uses these bases in Romania, as well as in Poland and other European states, as secret CIA jails.