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2006-12-19 Africa Subsaharan

France admits air raids on Darfur neighbours

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Posted by anonymous5089 2006-12-19 05:39|| || Front Page|| [12 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Memo to France:
You don't 'admit' to strike fighter raids... You get out in front of the story and say 'Look, we just wrecked your sh*t you no-air-force-having fools. Ya want us to do it again??'
Protests against such statements tend to fall a bit flat.

Posted by Free Radical">Free Radical 2006-12-19 07:21|| 2006-12-19 07:21|| Front Page Top

#2 French killing Muslim terrorist? The same French that will not fight back to save their own capital from the Muhamiadans?

Must be a french thingy cause I don't get it.

Posted by Icerigger 2006-12-19 07:41|| 2006-12-19 07:41|| Front Page Top

#3 You know france, if you had helped in Iraq, we would be able to help in making sure there was no "Somalisation" of the region." But since you helped bog us down, you are the ones killing civilians. And why are you helping the ARAB Muslim's

Posted by plainslow 2006-12-19 07:59|| 2006-12-19 07:59|| Front Page Top

#4 Did I miss the UN debate and resolution that France got before launching this unilateral strike against a country that has never threatened France?

What does Kofi have to say about this?

Posted by AlanC">AlanC 2006-12-19 08:22|| 2006-12-19 08:22|| Front Page Top

#5 France maintains the right to intervene in its former colonies at will. In fact, a significant portion of the French Army is stationed in these former colonies. The French Air Force has operated in the CAR for decades. I seem to recall they gave Libya a black eye some time ago.

France is the only existing rogue nuclear power.

Posted by Chuck Simmins">Chuck Simmins 2006-12-19 08:38|| http://northshorejournal.org]">[http://northshorejournal.org] 2006-12-19 08:38|| Front Page Top

#6 French killing Muslim terrorist?

No, France maintaining their colonies.

Posted by Rob Crawford">Rob Crawford 2006-12-19 08:39|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2006-12-19 08:39|| Front Page Top

#7 Such unilateral cowboy action!

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2006-12-19 12:04|| 2006-12-19 12:04|| Front Page Top

#8 France yesterday defended recent fighter jet raids on towns bordering Sudan's Darfur region by claiming the aggressive action was aimed at preventing regional chaos.

Has nobody told them that violence never solves anything?

Posted by Excalibur 2006-12-19 14:47|| 2006-12-19 14:47|| Front Page Top

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