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France rescues Japanese ambassador in Ivory Coast
Yahoo/AP ^

Posted on 04/07/2011 7:33:48 AM PDT by nuconvert

ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast – French forces wearing night vision goggles rappelled from a helicopter to rescue the Japanese ambassador and seven others, France's foreign minister said Thursday, as Ivory Coast's strongman leader remained in an underground bunker amid the fighting.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cotedivoire; france; gbagbo; ivorycoast; japan; japaneseambassador; ouattara; yoshifumiokamura

1 posted on 04/07/2011 7:33:52 AM PDT by nuconvert
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To: nuconvert
"as Ivory Coast's strongman leader remained in an underground bunker amid the fighting"

See how they manipulate people. So they've told you who your enemy is - some nasty "strongman".

This is Christian vs. muslim, and France is helping the muslim side. 1000 Christians were SLAUGHTERED recently by the muslim side that France is supporting. COMPLETELY UNREPORTED by US media. Way worse than anything even Gadaffi did.
2 posted on 04/07/2011 7:37:45 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
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To: nuconvert

Some years ago France rescued American missionaries from the Ivory Coast.

Seems turmoil is a constant in the area.


3 posted on 04/07/2011 7:40:10 AM PDT by Carley (UNION AGITATORS, NO DIFFERENT THAN THE ARAB STREET. UGLY AND VIOLENT)
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

Wonder what the Japanese guy did to get posted to Ivory Coast? Must have been bad.


4 posted on 04/07/2011 7:50:11 AM PDT by super7man
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still might be safer there than in Japan, though.


5 posted on 04/07/2011 7:57:10 AM PDT by Rio
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Yeah, maybe for now, but things will get better in Japan, they will not in Ivory Coast.


6 posted on 04/07/2011 7:58:56 AM PDT by super7man
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To: Christian Engineer Mass

You are absolutely right.

Gbagbo is no George Washington, but at least he is legitimate. Ouattara is a Muslim immigrant who was “elected” by the votes of other Muslim immigrants.

Imagine if millions of Mexicans illegally poured into our country and voted for a Mexican president - and they were all Muslim, too.


7 posted on 04/07/2011 9:01:38 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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Sounds like you know more about it than I do. All I know is Ouattara & followers are muslim, his people slaughtered 1000 Christians last week, and the leftist media are cheering Ouattara, and not reporting the Christians slaughtered even though it makes what Gadaffi did seem like peanuts.

That’s all I need to know.


8 posted on 04/07/2011 9:19:19 AM PDT by Christian Engineer Mass (25ish Cambridge MA grad student. Many younger conservative Christians out there? __ Click my name)
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You are exactly right. Muslim immigrants from Mali and Burkina Faso elected their guy. Both sides have blood on their hands, but Muslims are slaughtering Christians now to take power, and Obama, the French and U.N. are siding with the Muslims.


9 posted on 04/07/2011 9:55:27 AM PDT by Retired Greyhound
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>>Imagine if millions of Mexicans illegally poured into our country and voted for a Mexican president - and they were all Muslim, too.<<

If “we the people” will stand up for every other two bit muslum country in the world and won’t stand up for our own then we deserve whatever happens.


10 posted on 04/07/2011 10:06:46 AM PDT by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are .)
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