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  • Australian MP lashes out at France: France was helping prop up a psychotic dictator with opposition

    03/18/2003 2:36:20 PM PST · by knighthawk · 40 replies · 375+ views
    The Australian ^ | March 18 2003
    FRANCE was helping prop up a psychotic dictator with its trenchant opposition to an American-led war on Iraq, government backbencher Cameron Thompson said tonight. France, along with Russia, Germany and China, helped sink a new resolution in the United Nations Security Council which would have paved the way for a UN-backed war in Iraq. Instead, France was pushing for UN arms inspectors to be given more time to scour Iraq for weapons of mass destruction. French President Jacques Chirac today condemned plans by the US, Britain and Australia to launch a unilateral strike to disarm Iraq, warning the decision ran...
  • Nigergate: the dangerous relations between Democrat Senators and ex spies

    11/15/2005 10:52:47 AM PST · by parnasokan · 54 replies · 2,034+ views
    november 15, 2005
    Nigergate: the dangerous relations between Democrat Senators and ex spies Here follows an interesting article from the Italian newspaper Il Giornale. I make no comment at all other than ‘read it’. Very soon, under the title “The Rockefeller Connection”, I will post something revealing, something important that until now passed completely under the Radar Screen. Stay tuned .. Nigergate: the dangerous relations between Democrat Senators and ex spies Il GIORNALE 13 November 2005 By Gian Marco Chiocci and Mario Sechi October 9 2002, Rome. Elisabetta Burba, journalist with Panorama magazine, crosses Via Veneto. At the American Embassy someone is waiting...
  • France-Iraq Link In CIA Report (possible illegal missles to Iraq - WAKE up AMERICANS this is news

    10/11/2004 3:00:20 PM PDT · by Former Military Chick · 35 replies · 1,449+ views
    New York Daily News ^ | October 10, 2004 | Bob Port
    A major French arms maker was offering to refurbish surface-to-air missiles for Iraq - possibly illegally - just weeks before America went to war with Saddam Hussein, according to the report made public last week on Iraq's weapons. The massive U.S. Iraq Survey Group report - some 966 pages - is still being studied by the press and defense experts. But it describes shadowy meetings between Iraqi defense officials and a Lebanese woman, who in turn met with "the French Thompson Company." The woman, identified as Majda Khasem Al-Khalil, began negotiating with Iraqis in December 2002, according to meeting logs...
  • Journalist Lambasts French War Coverage [and Gets Fired]

    12/30/2003 3:26:30 AM PST · by GeneD · 17 replies · 135+ views
    PARIS (AP) -- Reporter Alain Hertoghe's book accused the French press of not being objective in its coverage of the U.S.-led war in Iraq. His newspaper fired him. The book, ``La Guerre a Outrances'' (The War of Outrages), criticizes the French reporting for continually predicting the war would end badly for the U.S.-led coalition. ``Readers can't understand why the Americans won the war,'' Hertoghe said in a telephone interview. ``The French press wasn't neutral.'' The book, published Oct. 15, charges French reporters were more patriotic than journalistic and what was written amounted to disinformation. It examines daily coverage by five...
  • France colluded with Iraqi secret service Against Human Rights Groups

    04/27/2003 9:24:58 PM PDT · by Kay Soze · 4 replies · 165+ views
    Yahoo and AFP ^ | April 27, 2003 | AFP
    France colluded with Iraqi secret service: report LONDON (AFP) - France colluded with the Iraqi secret service to undermine a Paris conference held in April 2000 by the human rights group Indict, the Daily Telegraph reported citing documents found in the foreign ministry in Baghdad. The right-wing daily quoted a letter from the Iraqi secret service dated March 28 saying that "one of our sources" had met the deputy spokesman for the French foreign ministry "with whom he has good relations." The letter added that no French visas would be given to Iraqi opposition leaders who wanted to attend the...
  • France Urges US, UK to Ensure Iraqis' Security ("French Don't Get It" Alert)

    04/12/2003 8:22:28 AM PDT · by tuna_battle_slight_return · 7 replies · 192+ views
    Reuters ^ | 4/12/03 | Paul Taylor
    de Villepin uses the word "responsibility" in his message. What about the (pathetic) irresponsibility involved in doing everything to protect a tyrant? CAIRO (Reuters) - France urged the United States and Britain on Saturday to ensure security for the Iraqi people after scenes of looting and lawlessness following the fall of President Saddam Hussein. "It is important that everything be done for the security of the population. Coalition forces present on the ground have a particular responsibility," French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepin told a news conference after talks with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Starting a tour of Arab Middle...
  • With Saddam's Ouster, France Appears To Change Its Mind About War

    04/11/2003 8:54:07 PM PDT · by tuna_battle_slight_return · 12 replies · 164+ views
    WHTM ^ | 4/11/03
    Will the French ever "get it"??? Paris (AP) - With Saddam Hussein vanquished, the French appear to have undergone an attitude adjustment about the U.S.-led war. No one is cheering the U.S. government, but there's support for the fall of Saddam and the swift manner in which it was accomplished. "The Americans have won the war - in only three weeks," Le Figaro newspaper wrote in an editorial. "It is a victory for George Bush." Absent now is the criticism that prevailed during France's bitter pre-war arguments with the United States and Britain. French leaders said Thursday they "rejoiced" in...
  • "They had Russian,French stuff,Belgian stuff,& guess who's been the most vocal against this war?"

    03/31/2003 10:13:37 AM PST · by Kay Soze · 34 replies · 203+ views
    Los Angeles Times ^ | March 31, 2003 | Geoffrey Mohan
    UPDATE U.S. Hits Republican Guard Near Euphrates By Geoffrey Mohan Times Staff Writer 8:49 AM PST, March 31, 2003 ALBU AZIZ, Iraq -- In its first offensive move since arriving in central Iraq last week, the second brigade of the U.S. Army's third infantry division swept into this village on the west bank of the Euphrates River today, killing about 26 soldiers, most of them from the Republican Guard. Led by the infantry and tank elements of the 4th Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment, the column encountered small-arms fire, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades from Iraqi forces in this town across the...
  • French Can't Wait for the Dust to Settle (Arrogant France Barf Alert)

    03/28/2003 12:37:31 PM PST · by tuna_battle_slight_return · 11 replies · 178+ views
    Asia Times | March 28, 2003 | Julio Godoy
    PARIS - French and United States companies have entered battle over the potentially lucrative business of reconstruction of Iraq after the assumed victory for coalition troops. Senior officials from the French Ministry of Economics and Finance this week met representatives of the Mouvement des Enterprises de France (MEDEF), the main lobbying group for industry, "to analyze how French enterprises can do business in Baghdad after the war is over", said a source at the ministry. France is keen to make up for lost business. Its annual trade with Iraq has been worth about US$1.5 billion a year. Estimates of the...
  • France Said to Be Working on Saddam Exile Deal

    03/22/2003 5:50:40 AM PST · by tuna_battle_slight_return · 20 replies · 117+ views
    http://www.kfab.com
    France will do ANYTHING to keep Saddam alive. Amazing... France Said to Be Working on Saddam Exile Deal American officials have told ABCNEWS that even with today's bombing, secret talks have continued behind the scenes about a Saddam Hussein surrender and exile to, among other places, the country of Mauritania in west Africa. Secretary of State Colin Powell hinted at the possibility of ongoing talks, saying: "There are a number of channels open to Baghdad. There are a number of individuals in countries around the world who have been conveying the message to the Iraqi regime that it is now...
  • French Medal Returned in Protest (More Info Than Yahoo! Story)

    03/22/2003 5:20:13 AM PST · by tuna_battle_slight_return · 9 replies · 101+ views
    L.A. Times ^ | March 22, 2003
    From Associated Press "I did my share, my part, to liberate the country from Hitler, and this is the way that they repay me," said George Wilson, 80". Full story: French Medal Returned in Protest (More Info Than Yahoo! Story)
  • INDECENCY

    02/18/2003 5:32:10 PM PST · by Kay Soze · 6 replies · 130+ views
    The National Review ^ | Feb 18, 2003 | Dave Frum
    FEB. 18, 2003: INDECENCY L’Unilateralisme Just try to imagine President Bush talking to America’s dissenting allies the way Jacques Chirac spoke about the pro-American European states at a press conference yesterday: “They missed a good chance to keep quiet.” And imagine – imagine! – if President Bush threatened France and Germany the way President Chirac threatened the candidate-members of the European Union: “Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible to [sign the letter] when their position is really delicate. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.” As I read that,...
  • Wither Nato?

    02/17/2003 2:53:00 PM PST · by Kay Soze · 5 replies · 152+ views
    The New Republic On line ^ | 2-13-03 | by the Editors
    Wither Nato? http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030224&s=editorial022403 by the Editors Post date: 02.13.03 Issue date: 02.24.03 Tout se complique. The strident obstructionism of France and Germany, and their attempt to lead an insurrection within NATO against the use of Western force against Saddam Hussein, even to the point of violating the treaty commitments of the alliance to the security of its own members (in this case, Turkey)--this is a genuinely momentous turn of events that should not be understood merely as a comedy of national character. The petulance of these European states seems farcical, but in fact it is the expression of a profound...
  • France Is Not a Pacifist Country - 'Would Create A Large Number of Little Bin Ladens'...

    02/16/2003 9:32:09 AM PST · by elfman2 · 21 replies · 554+ views
    Time (via Drudge) ^ | 2/16/03 | JAMES GRAFF AND BRUCE CRUMLEY
    Sunday, Feb. 16, 2003 On the question of Iraq, America's oldest ally has turned into one of its principal adversaries, as Paris and Washington disagree about whether United Nations inspectors should be given more time to do their job. The French President doesn't feel isolated. In fact, he told TIME in an exclusive interview in the Elysee Palace, he's ready to offer some "friendly advice" to President Bush on how the American Chief Executive might honorably back away from the brink of war. Excerpts: Do last week's U.N. inspectors' reports mark a turning point in the debate over Iraq? In...