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| French Commando Dies in Helicopter Accident in Burkina Faso |
| 2014-12-01 |
| [AnNahar] A French special forces commando has died in Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... during what the French defense ministry said was a training flight in the politically volatile African nation. The ministry identified the man as a 38-year-old army master sergeant, Samir Bajja, and said he was on board a Caracal tactical troop transport helicopter that crashed Saturday night. Two members of the crew were seriously hurt. La Belle France has played a role in calming a political crisis that erupted late October in Burkina Faso -- a former French colony -- when mass street demonstrations toppled president Blaise Compaore. French President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... has acknowledged that his country ensured Compaore's evacuation to neighboring Ivory Coast. French forces are also conducting an "anti-terrorist" operation in the region, based out of Chad. |
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