Posted on 02/17/2015 12:46:24 PM PST by barmag25
As ISIS makes inroads into Libya, officials in Rome are panicking about an Islamic State just across the seabut have no idea how to combat the crisis. ROME Last weekend in Italy, as the threat of ISIS in Libya hit home with a new video addressed to the nation signed with the blood of the cross and the warning, we are south of Rome, Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi shuttered up the Italian embassy in Tripoli and raised his fist with the threat of impending military action. Never mind that Italy has only 5,000 troops available that are even close to deployable, according to the defense ministry. Or that the military budget was cut by 40 percent two years ago, which has kept the acquisition of 90 F-35 fighter jets hanging in the balance and left the country combat-challenged to lead any missionespecially one against an enemy like the Islamic State.
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When ten French soldiers were killed last year in an ambush by Afghan insurgents in what had seemed a relatively peaceful area, the French public were horrified.
Their revulsion increased with the news that many of the dead soldiers had been mutilated and with the publication of photographs showing the militants triumphantly sporting their victims flak jackets and weapons. The French had been in charge of the Sarobi area, east of Kabul, for only a month, taking over from the Italians; it was one of the biggest single losses of life by Nato forces in Afghanistan.
What the grieving nation did not know was that in the months before the French soldiers arrived in mid-2008, the Italian secret service had been paying tens of thousands of dollars to Taleban commanders and local warlords to keep the area quiet, The Times has learnt. The clandestine payments, whose existence was hidden from the incoming French forces, were disclosed by Western military officials.
Rome panicking?
I don’t beliee that!
Didn’t the Pope say that the islamic call to prayer
is one of the most beautiful sounds on Earth?
LOL
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