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France declares war against al-Qaida
Breitbart.com/AP ^ | Jul 27 05:01 PM US/Eastern | ELAINE GANLEY

Posted on 07/27/2010 2:56:37 PM PDT by Mad Dawgg

PARIS (AP) - France has declared war on al-Qaida, and matched its fighting words with a first attack on a base camp of the terror network's North African branch, after the terror network killed a French aid worker it took hostage in April.

The declaration and attack marked a shift in strategy for France, usually discrete about its behind-the-scenes battle against terrorism.

"We are at war with al-Qaida," Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday, a day after President Nicolas Sarkozy announced the death of 78-year-old hostage Michel Germaneau.

The humanitarian worker had been abducted April 20 or 22 in Niger by al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, and was later taken to Mali, officials said.

The killers will "not go unpunished," Sarkozy said in unusually strong language, given France's habit of employing quiet cooperation with its regional allies—Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Algeria—in which the al-Qaida franchise was spawned amid an Islamist insurgency.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: africa; algeria; aqim; france; francoisfillon; freedomfries; frencharmy; gwot; maghreb; mali; mauritania; michelgermaneau; nicolassarkozy; niger; northafrica; whiteflag; wot
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To: Mad Dawgg

Shit, at least they “declared war”...


61 posted on 07/27/2010 5:56:10 PM PDT by Michael Barnes (Call me when the bullets start flying.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

WHO would have thunk it on September 12, 2001: Hussein surrendering to terrorists, while the Frogs start whackin’ ‘em. I don’t know whether to cry or laugh.


62 posted on 07/27/2010 5:59:54 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Mad Dawgg

Hmmm...I haven’t seen this on FoxNews today...?

If this is true, then they have at least 8 million Muslim foot soldiers surrounding Paris they’ll have to deal with. And those foot soldiers have been rioting and burning cars for years already.

War? Really? They’d better get serious at home before they worry about Al Queda elsewhere...


63 posted on 07/27/2010 6:26:56 PM PDT by patriot preacher (To be a good American Citizen and a Christian IS NOT a contradiction. (www.mygration.blogspot.com))
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To: Dacula

64 posted on 07/27/2010 6:51:45 PM PDT by NCjim ("You can't pick up a turd by the clean end", Bob Lonsberry on Obamacare)
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To: Mad Dawgg
You know the world has gone to hell when even the French declare war on Al Qaeda but the POTUS bans the use of the phrase WOT and Islamo terrorist.

Get me out of this rabbit hole.

65 posted on 07/27/2010 7:01:34 PM PDT by caper gal 1 (2010 . . . America's last chance for survival. .)
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To: Mad Dawgg; All

Wow....I thought the French always skipped the fighting part and went straight to surrender. It has been said they no longer fire canons on Bastille Day because the French Army instictively surrendered.

Anyway, talk is cheap. Let us see some serious and lasting action France.


66 posted on 07/27/2010 7:05:58 PM PDT by Sola Veritas (Trying to speak truth - not always with the best grammar or spelling)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Maybe we could get Sarko to come over here and have France, uh...lend us a hand...again.


67 posted on 07/27/2010 7:08:50 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate: Republicans freed the slaves Month.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Viva la France. Welcome to war, compatriots.


68 posted on 07/27/2010 7:10:28 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Mad Dawgg

Even the French have more guts than Obasturd.


69 posted on 07/27/2010 7:22:20 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The US will not die with a whimper. It will die with thundering applause from the left.)
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To: DariusBane

Yeah, I like a good “Frog” joke as much as the next guy myself, and the French can be pretty irritating.

But it gets old after a while, especially when people (like many of the other posters on this thread) display shocking ignorance of military history. People have no idea what France endured in WWI, as your post pointed out. NOTHING in the US military experience remotely resembles the horror of Verdun, for example.

Also, even the pst-war French can be pretty ruthless and violent when it suits them.

When Qadaffi invaded Chad in the 1980s, French air strikes crushed the Libyan air force, and they then provided the Chadians with Milan anti-tank missiles, which they mounted in the flatbeds of Toyota pickup trucks and used to rather amusingly completely massacre large Libyan tank formations (hence the “Toyota War”.)


70 posted on 07/27/2010 7:41:15 PM PDT by Strategerist
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To: Mad Dawgg

What are the American Leftists going to do?

The Europeans they so idolize are moving to the right.


71 posted on 07/27/2010 7:43:31 PM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Prepare for survival.)
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To: Tzimisce
How bad is it in 2010?

The French think we’re gutless pussies....

And the Mexicans know we are!

72 posted on 07/27/2010 7:51:34 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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To: Mad Dawgg

When the USS Cole got hit, it was the FRENCH who came to our aid and kept our sailors alive. The French are not the enemy.

73 posted on 07/27/2010 7:52:00 PM PDT by killjoy (Life sucks, wear a helmet.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Vive la France!....and good hunting!


74 posted on 07/27/2010 7:53:30 PM PDT by stboz
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To: OldNavyVet
"If only our own President had such guts ... we’d be a respected nation ... again. "

I think that that sentiment should apply more to the spineless congress, but I heartily agree!

75 posted on 07/27/2010 7:56:18 PM PDT by matthew fuller (2012: Bachman, Bolton, Brewer, Liz Cheney, Coburn, DeMint, Inhofe, Jindal, Palin and Pence.)
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To: DariusBane
The French military is not to be despised.

Ils ne passeront pas.

76 posted on 07/27/2010 8:04:32 PM PDT by Colonel_Flagg (No apologies.)
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To: Mad Dawgg

Alright, that makes it. It really is the end of the world.


77 posted on 07/27/2010 8:07:09 PM PDT by Moose Burger
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To: Mad Dawgg

Vive la France!


78 posted on 07/27/2010 8:13:35 PM PDT by cammie
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To: Mad Dawgg
I always say;"Any country that loves Jerry Lewis can't be all bad...."


79 posted on 07/27/2010 8:16:20 PM PDT by massmike (...So this is what happens when OJ's jury elects the president....)
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To: umgud

We are at war with al-Qaida,”

Well at least somebody has the ballz to be. Good for them!


80 posted on 07/27/2010 9:21:43 PM PDT by kelly4c
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