[Red Badger]

I suppose the French are still down south pretending to defend Lebanon from Israel?

They are hiding in their bunkers, cleaning their underwear.......

[Gideon Reader]

WRONG!!!
The French NEVER clean their underwear.
When it becomes too stiff to wear, it is recycled and becomes body armor.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Easy on the French....

France Backs Army Crackdown on Fatah al-Islam

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France Backs Army Crackdown on Fatah al-Islam
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said on Friday that a Lebanese army decision to crush armed Islamist extremists holed in a camp in northern Lebanon in a military action would be "fair."
"We back the government and the army, let them take their decision. The decision is up to them, and if they take such a decision it would be fair," he said at a press conference before ending a two-day trip to Lebanon.

But he warned that "the consequences are always difficult to calculate."

"I hope that if they take this decision, to attack the camp, let this happen after the evacuation of as many civilians as possible, which is absolutely necessary and is already taking place," he said.

His visit comes at a time when the country's army and a tiny Islamist militant group are facing off at a refugee camp in the north of the country after three days of fighting that killed at least 78 people.

Since the clashes started on Sunday, more than half of the Nahr al-Bared camp residents have fled the shantytown to seek safe haven in nearby areas.

Kouchner, on his first trip abroad since being appointed less than a week ago, met Prime Minister Fouad Saniora, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and other political and religious officials during his stay in Lebanon.
(AFP-Naharnet)

Beirut, 25 May 07, 18:27