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Kinshasa, Congo - U.N. launches military operation to rescue diplomats
AP News Alert
| August 21, 2006
Posted on 08/21/2006 10:43:53 AM PDT by HAL9000
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- The U.N. said Monday it had launched a military operation to rescue foreign diplomats inside the besieged home of a Congo presidential candidate.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2006; 200608; africa; bemba; congo; diplomats; drc; drcongo; evacuation; geopolitics; kabila; kinshasa; monuc; rescue; swing; un; unitednations; williamswing
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08/21/2006 10:43:54 AM PDT
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HAL9000
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posted on
08/21/2006 10:46:38 AM PDT
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HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
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08/21/2006 10:47:17 AM PDT
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Uriah_lost
(M.I.E. Mainer In Exile I'll come back when the Massholes go home.)
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08/21/2006 10:48:20 AM PDT
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HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: HAL9000
The UN running a military operation with who's troops?
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08/21/2006 10:49:37 AM PDT
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sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
To: Uriah_lost
Got it, thanks.
Looks like my dream job maybe going down the tubes.....
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08/21/2006 10:50:15 AM PDT
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Uriah_lost
(M.I.E. Mainer In Exile I'll come back when the Massholes go home.)
To: HAL9000
The U.N. said Monday it had launched a military operation to rescue foreign diplomats inside the besieged home The UN? They're doomed.
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08/21/2006 10:51:04 AM PDT
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Kenton
To: sgtbono2002
MONUC - 17,500 UN peacekeeping troops.
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posted on
08/21/2006 10:52:30 AM PDT
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HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: HAL9000
KINSHASA, I'm thinking I remember this place from reading about ebola. That is one nasty disease.
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08/21/2006 10:52:55 AM PDT
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BipolarBob
(Yes I backed over the vampire, but I swear I looked in my rearview mirror.)
To: HAL9000
To: HAL9000
French UN peacekeeping troops?
Yep, they are doomed.
To: HAL9000
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) -- The U.N. says its peacekeepers have safely evacuated foreign diplomats from the besieged home of a Congo presidential candidate.
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08/21/2006 1:35:24 PM PDT
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HAL9000
(Happy 10th Anniversary FreeRepublic.com - Est. Sept. 23, 1996 - Thanks Jim!)
To: HAL9000; nuconvert
update on Bembe:
Prosecutor: ex-Congo VP used rape as weapon
yahoo/AP
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2163082/posts
Posted by nuconvert
THE HAGUE, Netherlands – War crimes prosecutors accused former Congolese vice president Jean-Pierre Bemba on Monday of using systematic rape....
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02/26/2016 7:23:07 PM PST
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piasa
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02/26/2016 7:39:20 PM PST
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nuconvert
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