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2004-10-04 Europe

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Posted by Anonymoose 2004-10-04 12:00:37 AM|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Just finished reading it. When are we going to have an operation on Chirac?

Posted by 3dc 2004-10-04 12:21:32 AM|| 2004-10-04 12:21:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 It's Debka; salt to taste.

Posted by Pappy 2004-10-04 2:13:43 AM|| 2004-10-04 2:13:43 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 I would love to believe it but I am on a salt restriced diet.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2004-10-04 2:33:16 AM|| [http://www.slhess.com] 2004-10-04 2:33:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 WTF? US-Syrian military cooperation?

Posted by Spot 2004-10-04 9:33:42 AM|| 2004-10-04 9:33:42 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 US-Syrian military cooperation?

Parallel units patrolling along the Syria-Iraq border, perhaps.

Posted by trailing wife 2004-10-04 10:13:25 AM|| 2004-10-04 10:13:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 I just read articles in Le Monde and Liberation re the trip by Julia and his entourage. He's a French MP of the UMP, which I believe is Chirac's party. According to the papers, he went on his own, thinking his contacts with syrian intel would be more productive than the official operation cell at the French embassy in Amman.

Long story short, apparently his private diplomacy has made everything a hash, and the hostage holders and French officialdom are perturbed. Nothing about the convoy.

Posted by Chicago Mike 2004-10-04 1:58:03 PM|| 2004-10-04 1:58:03 PM|| Front Page Top

#7 Re-post of a posting by TGA yesterday:
#3 Oh THAT Philip Brett. A rather shady figure of French intelligence. He created the Office franÃ§ais pour le dÃ©veloppement de l'industrie et la culture (Ofdic) which served as a pompous cover for introducing medium sized French companies in Iraq and all sorts of intelligence operations there. He seemed to have got along very well with Saddam's intelligence. He is a key figure in French-Iraqi relations, even during the embargo.

Something's VERY fishy here
Posted by: True German Ally 2004-10-03 3:40:59 PM

Posted by lex 2004-10-04 2:13:25 PM|| 2004-10-04 2:13:25 PM|| Front Page Top

#8 This is more than meddling; it's pretty clear that Chirac is on the other side. Probably hoping for a ba'athist restoration and a humiliating US withdrawal. In other words, a Kerry victory

Posted by lex 2004-10-04 2:15:09 PM|| 2004-10-04 2:15:09 PM|| Front Page Top

#9 Deep laid plots indeed...
Nothing is murkier than French intelligence operations.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-04 2:16:57 PM|| 2004-10-04 2:16:57 PM|| Front Page Top

#10 TGA, any good online sources (not French media but blogs etc) for french intelligence doings?

Posted by lex 2004-10-04 2:18:34 PM|| 2004-10-04 2:18:34 PM|| Front Page Top

#11 Not much... this is offline and Hushmail territory.

Posted by True German Ally 2004-10-04 3:35:48 PM|| 2004-10-04 3:35:48 PM|| Front Page Top

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