With Germany’s G8 Summit and rotating EU presidency over, the controversial Bundeswehr mission in Afghanistan has returned to the top of the political agenda in Berlin. On Tuesday this week, Germany’s highest court rejected a suit filed by the populist, post-Communist Left party, which claimed that the recent deployment of six Tornado reconnaissance aircraft to Southern Afghanistan to support the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) had gone beyond NATO’s initial raison d’être as a collective defensive organization and was therefore a violation of the German constitution.
The German Tornado aircraft will carry cameras
but no bombs or missiles.
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