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| French UN troops prepare guns against Israeli jets in Lebanon |
| 2006-11-19 |
| French UN anti-aircraft batteries have taken "preparatory steps" to respond to Israeli jets violating Lebanese airspace, despite global criticism of such incursions. "The anti-aircraft unit of the (French) battalion took initial preparatory steps to respond to these actions," Milos Strugar, spokesman for the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) told AFP on Friday. "UNIFIL observed and reported 14 Israeli air violations this morning, on November 17, 2006, and 11 of these violations occurred in the area of operation of the French battalion with UNIFIL." |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #9 Meeoowww! Meeowwww! |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2006-11-19 16:07 |
| #8 Guys come on we are talking about FRANCE HERE. France is not going to do a dam thing to Isreali warplances short of maybe paint them with radars at the MOST. All this is is France trying to buy favor with Lebanese by being the big brother. The French are hollow they talk good game but when it comes to doing the dam thing the p*ss out. |
| Posted by: C-Low 2006-11-19 10:31 |
| #7 According to the Metula news agency, both incidents where french troops were "2 seconds away from firing on israeli jets" are complete fabrications by the french gvt. Link in french. JFM may be right, sadly, yacoub ben shiraq is perhaps preparing the ground for an incident with Israel to be able to run for a third term, and hopefully win, riding on a wave of anti-israeli feelings from the left & muzzies. This is crazy, but french politics are getting crazier and crazier. The Nation is melting down, and those dwarves are jockeying up for power... wonder why? A new book confirms shiraq actually had that $60 millions secret bank account in Japan, the budget allowed for the Elysée presidentail palace has increased 9x since shiraq became president (officially 32 millions euros a year, but probably 90 millions),... and it's not new, during the mitterand reign, there were $500 millions of GWI compensations that got lost (not for everybody), the infamous Taiwan arms deal had $ BILLIONS of backschich, and was only the tip of the iceberg (arms deal with... soody arabia were the bulk of that). Truth is, for 30 years France has been systematically looted by a new nobility made of technocrats, and literally sold to foreign powers (Eurabia). Well, at least the enarchs got rich, good for them I guess... |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-11-19 09:16 |
| #6 Pull my finger! |
| Posted by: Cheating Angeaque9874 2006-11-19 08:50 |
| #5 Meanwhile, the missile redeployment that Froggie is obliged to prevent, goes on. |
| Posted by: Sneaze Shaiting3550 2006-11-19 04:51 |
| #4 "Say, Pierre, did you hear that we are supposed to shoot at Israeli planes flying over Lebanon and taking pictures?" "Jacques, stop talking and do your job. The driver of that truck full of Iran's latest missiles would like to know which road to take to get to the southern border." |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-11-19 01:18 |
| #3 They'll only do it once. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-11-19 00:49 |
| #2 ISRAEL has the right to use air recce to verify whether agreements or treaties are being followed. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-11-19 00:44 |
| #1 The IDF won't let harm visit its aircraft but it will bring HARM to Frog AD missiles. |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-11-19 00:43 |