Posted on 11/17/2004 2:23:00 AM PST by white trash redneck
"Israel mercenaries assisting the Ivory Coast army operated unmanned aircraft that aided aerial bombings of a French base in the country," claimed French television station TF1 on Wednesday morning.
Le Monde newspaper also reported Wednesday that a group of 46 Israeli advisors operated an eavesdropping and intelligence center for the Ivory Coast military.
An Israeli defense source quoted Wednesday morning on Israel Radio said there is no truth to the French reports that Israelis assisted the Ivory Coast in its attacks on French military installations.
According to the source, the Israeli unmanned aircraft confiscated by the French in the Abidjan airport, had been legally sold to the Ivory Coast by a private company not connected to Israeli military industries.
Following the confiscation of the unmanned aircraft, France asked Israel to clarify the circumstances of their presence in the West African state and Israel promised to stop supplying the Ivory Coast with military equipment.
Nevertheless, the Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem said in response that "Israel is unaware of the matter."
The United Nations Security Council on Monday imposed an immediate arms embargo on Ivory Coast to spur the African country to end anti-foreigner rampages, while France concluded the evacuation of more than 5,000 westerners fleeing the violence.
The Security Council's resolution Monday also said that further sanctions, including a travel ban and an asset freeze, could be imposed if the peace process with northern rebels isn't back on track within a month.
Israel halts arms sales at French request Israel decided to suspend arms sales to Ivory Coast in response to a French request, the Defense Ministry announced on November 9.
The request came in the wake of recent turmoil in the West African country. Ivory Coast warplanes killed nine French peacekeepers and an American aid worker in an airstrike on the rebel-held north.
France, Ivory Coast's former colonial ruler, wiped out the nation's air force on the tarmac in retaliation, sparking massive anti-French rampages by mobs of thousands in the fiercely nationalist south.
France had already requested two months ago that both the Israeli government and private Israeli arms merchants stop exporting weapons to the Ivory Coast, since this endangered French soldiers.
Over the past year, the Defense Ministry has continued to grant export permits to Israeli arms traders doing business with Ivory Coast.
Aeronautics Defense Systems, which is based in Yavneh, is one of the Israeli companies that has sold military-related goods - including drones and riot-dispersal equipment - to Ivory Coast. In addition, arms dealer Moshe Rothschild has sold Ivory Coast ammunition and light weapons made in Eastern Europe.
France is American's enemy and is headed for Islamic rule just like the northern part of the country where it has already happened.
Too...Too much! Great pictures of those stinking frogs, but please stop before I bust a gut laughing.
The evil Joos strike again!
With all of the arms sales to Iraq, Syria and Iran for money and the hope of destroy Israel, the slimey Frogs again show their true nature here.
"First France should stop sending subs to Israel, then it may talk about Israeli sells to Ivory Coast, if there were such sells."
Did Israel officially identify the sub as a slimey Frog U Boat?
They could tell by the white flag on the periscope.
Must of happened while I was sleeping?!? /sarcasm
"They could tell by the white flag on the periscope.'
Then when the French Uboat was seen, it retreated!
Now they know how we felt when we discovered all that French military junk in Iraq.
Israel vs. France, the military equivalent of Oklahoma vs. SMU in college football.
The French have all they can handle with the rag-tag bunch at the Ivory Coast.
similar:
French media: Israel helped Ivory Coast attack French soldiers (translation)
Israeli News Portal ^ | Nov. 17 2004
Posted on 11/16/2004 7:25:51 PM PST by yonif
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1281699/posts
me too
It was the JOOZ! I knew the French media wouldn't lie.
These women must be french.
Wish I could've helped the Israelis do it!
I hope it is true, the frogs are very anti-semitic anyway, also Israel is one of our allies, Frogland is not, and with the head Frog Chirac, keeping on adding more logs to the fire, I say Screw France.They will be the ones to relent and come back begging us to help them, after their own Islamoragheads, turn on them, ala Holland.
And these are their elite crack troops, you don't want to see their enlistees.
You guys that do this kind of tech. stuff are amazing, I marvel at expertise. ps it is also very funny.
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