This was a case of an officer who was penalized and demoted, in fact, for refusing to perform some duties that had the effect of supporting operations in Iraq - this is operations of the Germanarmedforces - and that went against his strongly held views.
Katharina von Knop, a data-mining expert at the University of German Federal ArmedForces in Munich, says many systems remotely analyse the content of web pages people visit.
The reality is that, unless the Soviet armedforces and their attendant KGB and GRU security apparatuses are entirely removed from German soil, there can be no effective integration of a united Germany into NATO.
But with German troops already in Congo, and warships now on the way to Lebanon, some pundits are arguing that the armedforces cannot be stretched indefinitely.