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2005-12-22 Africa Subsaharan

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Posted by Steve 2005-12-22 08:37|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Popcorn.

Posted by gromgoru 2005-12-22 08:42|| 2005-12-22 08:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Gunfire and killing in the Congo. A performance thats been running for well over 50 years now.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-22 08:45|| 2005-12-22 08:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Well over 100. The Congolese have much to thank their Belgian masters for. And the Arab pretenders.

Posted by Whavitch Speretle9993 2005-12-22 08:47|| 2005-12-22 08:47|| Front Page Top

#4 Belgies have been gone for decades, or tried to be gone. Lets not blame failed African colonization (colonization er the "F" word). It's either something in the water, or it's in the bloody genes.

Posted by Besoeker 2005-12-22 09:37|| 2005-12-22 09:37|| Front Page Top

#5 About 15,000 fighters in the region have already disarmed, but several thousand are believed to be still the bush, Reuters reports.

Can someone inform me just WTF this means? Is it a mis-interpretation from AFP? To be still the bush....do they mean this is the Prez's fault too?

Posted by BA 2005-12-22 10:25|| 2005-12-22 10:25|| Front Page Top

#6
BA, It should have said: "...believed to be still in the bush...".

Writin' be hard and all.

HTH

Posted by Doitnow 2005-12-22 13:31|| 2005-12-22 13:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Ah, much clearer, DIN! thanks. I thought that at first, but you never know if it's some Rooters-speak that I need to learn.

Posted by BA 2005-12-22 13:41|| 2005-12-22 13:41|| Front Page Top

#8 I believe the UN troops in this area were Pakistani and Bangladeshi, unless they've rotated out.

The Gunships are Indian Air Force Mi-35 Hinds

Posted by john 2005-12-22 19:04|| 2005-12-22 19:04|| Front Page Top

#9 Last IAF action in the Congo was December 1961 when IAF Canberras took out several Katangan Air Force planes on the ground

Posted by john 2005-12-22 19:08|| 2005-12-22 19:08|| Front Page Top

#10 Correction - Mi-25s
In March this year, the IAF Hinds killed 60 Congo militiamen.

Posted by john 2005-12-22 19:13|| 2005-12-22 19:13|| Front Page Top

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