...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling
Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) Lion of Islams.
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...
announced on Sept. 7 that La Belle France would begin reconnaissance flights over Syria on Sept. 8 that would subsequently enable it to consider air strikes.
La Belle France until now has only taken part in air strikes against ISIL in Iraq because it feared strikes against the group in Syria could strengthen Syrian
Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad
Terror of Aleppo ...
.
An official at the French Ministry of Defence said Tuesday's mission was designed to gather intelligence on ISIL and strengthen La Belle France's own ability to assess the situation in Syria.
"Similar missions could be carried out in the coming days," the official said.