[eleni121]

Mr. Ousmane Kassé (a decorated veteran of the French army and a Muslim) as a "phoney."

Je m'en fous...And who's to say he is not a "phoney" ---you post from an obscure French website and you hardly deem us worthy to elaborate on this character. Furthermore he is a single person of who knows what background.

C'mon...tell us about all those thousands of muslim conscripts again?

[zimdog]

i gave you the scheck article. here are some more things you can read:

"colonial conscripts" by myron echenberg

"la france et ses tirailleurs" by charles onana

"des tranchées de verdun à l'église saint-bernard" by bakari kamian

[zimdog]

Je m'en fous...And who's to say he is not a "phoney"

if you care to try to prove how that got those military medals by means other than military service, be my guest. i won't stop you from a wild goose chase.

[zimdog]

http://www.rfi.fr/actufr/images/056/senegal_tirailleurs.jpg

[zimdog]

http://nono.hautetfort.com/images/medium_ds_indigenes.jpg

[zimdog]

A cemetery, in the style of a West African mosque, where rest 188 West African troops killed defending France from the Nazis.

http://www.mairie-chasselay.fr/esprit_village/histoire/tata.jpg