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2014-09-03 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Fiji Says U.N. Negotiating Demands with Hostage Takers

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Posted by trailing wife 2014-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11128 views ] Top
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#1 The Philippine armed forces has ordered its officer acting as UNDOF's Chief of Staff to resign and report home.

Posted by Pappy 2014-09-03 07:01|| 2014-09-03 07:01|| Front Page Top

#2 And the nearest competent force to execute a rescue and recovery operation happens to be Israel. You know the people the UN has gone out of its way to alienate and disparage at every opportunity.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-09-03 08:39|| 2014-09-03 08:39|| Front Page Top

#3 Fiji for years has worked the perfect racket. It takes its young ethnic Fijian miscreants into the army. It fees them lots of ethnic propaganda, knocks the sass out of them, and then hopefully returns good citizens back into the community where they will be a dependable bloc against the increasingly contentious Indian community. They were never expected to fight. They were just a potemkin military used to suck dollars from the UN (and from the USA when they were members of the Multinational Force in the Sinai).

Posted by Beldar Sloque3832 2014-09-03 09:25|| 2014-09-03 09:25|| Front Page Top

#4 Didn't the U.N. order the Philippine soldiers to surrender when they were surrounded? And I believe the Philippine commander told them to essentially F-ck off and they didn't surrender. If they hadn't I'm sure they would also be hostages.

Posted by CrazyFool 2014-09-03 11:27|| 2014-09-03 11:27|| Front Page Top

#5 InterAksyon: MANILA - The Armed Forces of the Philippines said United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF) commander, Lt. Gen. Iqbal Singh Singha, has rejected the resignation of his chief-of-staff, Col. James Ezra Enriquez, in the aftermath of last weekend's Golan Heights standoff that ended with Filipino peacekeepers ignoring Singha's order for them to yield their arms to Syrian rebels who attacked the UN outpost.

Posted by mossomo 2014-09-03 13:58|| 2014-09-03 13:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Hell sounds like a plan for Detroit, Beldar.

Posted by Shipman 2014-09-03 18:14|| 2014-09-03 18:14|| Front Page Top

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