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Afghanistan: Sarkozy affirms support for French troops
2008-08-20
(AKI) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced plans to leave for Afghanistan on Tuesday after 10 French soldiers were killed in fierce conflict with the Taliban overnight.

The attack, which left another 21 French troops wounded, took place on Monday night, 60 kilometres east of the capital, Kabul. Around 100 insurgents attacked a patrol containing French and Afghan troops, said NATO's International Security Assistance Force.

In a statement released by the president's office on Tuesday, Sarkozy said he wanted to reassure the troops that France was behind them. He also pledged to maintain support for the multinational force in Afghanistan. "France is committed to continue its fight in the war against terrorism, for democracy and freedom," he said.

The French troop fatalities were the heaviest suffered by the French military since 58 paratroopers were killed in Beirut in 1983. Most of the 3,000 French troops in the multinational International Security Assistance Force are in Kabul province which includes the district of Sarobi.
Posted by:Fred

#7  Pretentiously dorky? It was 1982,and all the rage among the liberated young professional women at the Fortune 500 company that had hired Mr. Wife straight out of college. But at the time I had only three publications under my name -- all as the very juniormost author, a kindness of my mother, the senior author -- I was only 20, and anyway I didn't think I was ever going to need to reestablish my professional identity after a divorce. Besides, Ohio in those days automatically gave the wife her husband's patronym, and required filing for a legal name change to get one's maiden name back, let alone a hyphenated monstrosity such as we contemplated. After a bit of intense conversation conducted in forte tones, Mr. Wife realized I was not amenable to persuasion, the clever man.
Posted by: trailing wife   2008-08-20 23:57  

#6  I tried to get my sister to hyphenate when she married. "Hagmaier-Nedeljkovic" just makes me giggle.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2008-08-20 16:17  

#5  TW, if I may; i just think hyphenated names just look pretentiously dorky.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2008-08-20 14:15  

#4  Goodness, lotp. To think I refused to hyphenate my name on the grounds that it was too long for a total of twelve letters.
Posted by: trailing wife    2008-08-20 13:23  

#3  ;-)

His family were Hungarian, actually. Nicolas Paul Stéphane Sárkozy de Nagy-Bocsa
Posted by: lotp   2008-08-20 12:26  

#2  Sarkozy, good Polish name, good French president.
Posted by: Richard of Oregon   2008-08-20 12:17  

#1  The difference between the left and the right is that the right actually supports its nations soldiers, but the left despises them.
Posted by: Anonymoose   2008-08-20 11:37  

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