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To: blam
About 100 of France's elite troops and a small contingent from the RAF, the advanced party of a UN-approved European combat force, flew into the ramshackle airport at the small town of Bunia, receiving a tumultuous welcome from war-weary residents.

The Democratic Republic of Congo has been wracked by a civil war for the past five years. Aid agencies estimate at least three million people have died in the fighting and from hunger and disease. The UN mandate is unclear on the geographical boundaries of the operation but does specify the mission must end in three months.

Blam, this doesn't add up, unless one could cynically guess that France has manipulated the U.N. in a three month little PR trip. God help the Congolese.

4 posted on 06/06/2003 5:55:43 PM PDT by xJones
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To: xJones
"Blam, this doesn't add up, unless one could cynically guess that France has manipulated the U.N. in a three month little PR trip"

It'll be extended.

5 posted on 06/06/2003 6:16:06 PM PDT by blam
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