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2006-09-29 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Report: IDF clashes with French UNIFIL troops

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Posted by Fred 2006-09-29 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11125 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 WTF? Why would the IDF do this? Seems like BS.

Posted by gorb 2006-09-29 01:26|| 2006-09-29 01:26|| Front Page Top

#2 hopefully they killed some french

Posted by sinse 2006-09-29 07:53|| 2006-09-29 07:53|| Front Page Top

#3 "Clash" could mean anything from harsh words and spitting to a bayonet charge. Somehow, from the lack of detail here, I suspect the former.

Posted by Mitch H.">Mitch H. 2006-09-29 08:43|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/]">[http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/] 2006-09-29 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 Details here

Posted by gromgoru 2006-09-29 09:24|| 2006-09-29 09:24|| Front Page Top

#5 Standing some 50 meters from each other, the tanks were locked in a 20-minute face-off, the first between the Israeli army and the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), which has been boosted to oversee the current truce.
The French tanks then withdrew from the area, as observers of the UN Truce Supervision Organisation deployed in the area.

Oooooooooooh!
I'd consider that a stare down contest not a "clash".
And surprise, surprise, look who won...

Posted by tu3031 2006-09-29 10:24|| 2006-09-29 10:24|| Front Page Top

#6 One thing will happen. The French are going to be in the crossfire when shooting resumes. UN thinks their presence prohits Israeli retaliation. Think again. I really like the part about running photogs off. They need to be prohibited from areas of action. Or elimintaed if they do not obey commands.

Posted by SOP35/Rat 2006-09-29 11:14|| 2006-09-29 11:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Another Victory for the Phrench and Hizbullah! Did Paris surrender?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-09-29 11:27|| 2006-09-29 11:27|| Front Page Top

#8 Summation: The French tanks then withdrew from the area

Posted by RD 2006-09-29 12:58|| 2006-09-29 12:58|| Front Page Top

#9 The French were merely trying to protect their Hez-ebola allies.

Posted by DMFD 2006-09-29 18:17|| 2006-09-29 18:17|| Front Page Top

#10 Sounds like the usual snafu when neutral forces get into friction over an area. Outnumbering the opposition by 2 to 1, The french ran away, funnny that.

Posted by pihkalbadger 2006-09-29 19:09|| 2006-09-29 19:09|| Front Page Top

#11 french running away , i don't believe it (SARCASM)

Posted by sinse 2006-09-29 21:06|| 2006-09-29 21:06|| Front Page Top

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