French Terrorists Fighting U.S. in Iraq

NewsMax ^ | 11/21/04 | Carl Limbacher

[wagglebee]

Terrorists battling U.S. troops in places like Fallujah, Mosul and Ramadi include Abu Musab al Zarqawi's mass murderers, holdouts from Saddam's Baathist regime, Iranian sympathizers - and a handful of French nationals.

"Authorities estimate that around a dozen Frenchmen of North African or Arab background have traveled to Iraq to join the insurgency," reports the BBC.

While the French army has yet to spill a drop of blood in the cause of liberating Iraq, three Frenchmen have been killed in recent months while fighting side-by-side with terrorists against the U.S.

Officials told the BBC that the men probably traveled to Iraq via Syria. but that there is no proof of an organized recruitment network. A recent report in the French newspaper Le Figaro, however, claims otherwise, suggesting that the pro-terrorist French fighters were helped to cross into Iraq by contacts in Syria.

In a related development, French President Jacques Chirac said last week that the U.S.'s decision to topple Saddam has made the world more dangerous.

"Is the world any safer [after Saddam's removal]? I'm not so sure," Chirac told the BBC. "To a certain extent Saddam Hussein's departure was a positive thing, but it also provoked reactions, such as the mobilization in a number of countries of men and women of Islam, which has made the world more dangerous."

[wagglebee]

In a related development, French President Jacques Chirac said last week that the U.S.'s decision to topple Saddam has made the world more dangerous.

No, Jacques, it just put a huge dent in your personal income.

[rodguy911]

Every french solider comes equipped with a bottle of whine,

a loaf of french bread and a huge white flag.

[Kurt_D]

They are not really French. They are Moroccan and Algerian inmigrants.

[wagglebee]

They have French passports, that makes them French in my book. Besides, Napoleon was a Corsican and look at the problems he created.

[Kurt_D]

Well... fair enough. The problem is, that these Moroccans and Algerians don't think "French", don't behave "French". They are fanatic arab-speaking Muslims. Of course the French government is responsible for them, as it has allowed their immigration.

[JasonC]

Why do you think fanatic Muslim implies not thinking or behaving French? Thinking French means screaming anti-Americanism. Behaving French means petty obscructionism, graft, proliferation to terrorists and providing them diplomatic cover.

The French are our enemies, not allies.

[angel-of-death]

poeple in france who think "french" are quickly becoming the minority compared to those who think "arabic".

but frankly i dont know which is worse ?

[WestVirginiaRebel]

One thing's for sure...the world would certainly be safer without France...

[wagglebee]

The problem is, that these Moroccans and Algerians don't think "French", don't behave "French".

You got that right! They prefer guns and bombs to cheese and white flags.

[Kurt_D]

I am not a big fan of France either, yet I differentiate between the real French - who are harmless obstructionists and arrogant moralists- and the Muslim immigrants.

In addition, let's not forget that the French government has been historically strongly corrupted and decadent.

[Kurt_D]

Which is worse? The one that reads the Qu'ran and blows himself up.

[ellery]

A dozen french jihadis vulnerable to our forces in Iraq -- who would otherwise be beyond reach in Paris, plotting terror. You're welcome, you effing french ingrates.

[Wiz]

In fact, if the world has become more dangerous, its easy to imagine France has contributed to increase the danger to the world by failing to control its French Islamists to be exported in Iraq. By the way, the soldiers who killed these French Islamists should be rewarded a bronze medal for their heroic deeds. Three French down and three less French to harass the United States and the world.

[JasonC]

They are not harmless, they are not mere obstructionists. They took billions, they sent arms, they run the diplomatic and public opinion politics side of the whole anti-American operation world wide. They are not misguided friends, they are not merely arrogant, they are enemies who want us to lose this war. They would rather see the Muslim terrorists win this war than see us win it, without their blessing. Believe it.

[bill1952]

>but it also provoked reactions, such as the mobilization in a number of countries of men and women of Islam, which has made the world more dangerous."


The man's an Idiot.

What he has to know, and not care one whit about in his mad dash to make a "multi-polar" world, is that many of those "poles" are against everything that Western values stand for.

Arrogant @sshole. France and the rest of the West would be better off if he was dead, but they aren't seeing anything like that through the fog of socialism.

[Mr. Lucky]

The "harmless French", as you refer to them, inflicted the first combat casualties on American forces in the European theater during the Second World War, during the Operation Torch landings in North Africa. The French had agreed that wouldn't oppose the allied landings, but, of course, they lied and opened fire on American troops.

They've grown only less trustworthy ever since.

[JasonC]

They don't just "fail to control" this or that. They actively support our enemies. The Baathists run their government in exile and publicity operations from Paris and Brussels. They bank there. So to the Palestinian terrorists. Leftist intellectuals in France are the leaders of the international anti-Americanist ideology. They applauded 9-11 as our comeuppance. They want to reduce American "hyperpower". I don't know why everyone pretends they don't mean what they say and should just be dismissed as misbehaving children; they are nothing of the kind. They are our enemies, indeed the intellectual and political leadership of our enemies.

[exnavychick]

They are not misguided friends, they are not merely arrogant, they are enemies who want us to lose this war. They would rather see the Muslim terrorists win this war than see us win it, without their blessing. Believe it.

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Preaching to the choir, here! :0) Too bad it doesn't apply to just the French, but idiots populating our own shores!

[Wiz]

I don't know why everyone pretends they don't mean what they say

That's the nature of those Frogs, playing with words so they can justify themselves to avoid embarrassment and always make illusions to make them look like winners by supporting both enemies and the allies. French are helpless when they are allies and very irritating when they are enemies. If you want to beat the French, you need to beat them by philosophy with very good facts. Showing your madness will only make them happy with an endless sarcasm.

[Unam Sanctam]

Remember during the height of the war when de Villepin went to England and was asked point blank whether he wanted the US and the Coalition to win or lose in Iraq, and he evaded the question? Perhaps this shows that there might have been something to his evasion.