Posted on 03/22/2015 2:35:11 PM PDT by wtd
Bamako (AFP) - Militants from Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) decapitated a Malian this week that they accused of aiding France's anti-jihadist operation in the region, security sources said Saturday.
"A Malian civilian accused of collaborating with French forces in the Barkhane operation was executed and decapitated by AQIM this week," a military source with the United Nations' MINUSMA mission in Mali said of Thursday's killing in the marketplace in Tichift, 120 kilometres (75 miles) north of Timbuktu.
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Sort of an oxymoron.
The French Army has been kicking some serious terrorist ass in Mali recently...
And their ROE - so much better than the Americans.
I wouldn't be so dismissive. The French military lost 90K men KIA over 40+ days of fighting during the Battle of France. It lost 75K men KIA during its Vietnam War. The French have always been staunch in the face of adversity. France's problems were its small size, being located next to Germany and not having a continent's worth of resources to supply its military, that was also out of range of enemy attack.
In WWI France lost 1.7 million men; that is more than we’ve lost in all of our wars since our country’s founding.
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