To: Dog
It may get worse - I was looking through Agence France Presse for further information:
French defense minister to travel to the Gulf ATHENS (AFP) French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said she would travel to the Gulf region on Saturday and Sunday to hand over a message from President Jacques Chirac to three regional leaders.
Alliot-Marie is to go to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
Regards, Ivan
33 posted on
03/14/2003 4:02:56 PM PST by
MadIvan
(Learn the power of the Dark Side, www.thedarkside.net)
To: MadIvan
What is he up to now...
36 posted on
03/14/2003 4:04:07 PM PST by
Dog
( Groundhog Day II -- the Sequel.....America held hostage by the UN.......where everyday is the same)
To: MadIvan
Good to see the French are still stupid enough to send a woman to these Islamic countries.
To: MadIvan; All
Alliot-Marie is to go to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia. Look where she is headed....
39 posted on
03/14/2003 4:05:13 PM PST by
Dog
( Groundhog Day II -- the Sequel.....America held hostage by the UN.......where everyday is the same)
To: MadIvan; marron
http://sg.news.yahoo.com/030314/1/38z2c.html
French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie said she would travel to the Gulf region on Saturday and Sunday to hand over a message from President Jacques Chirac to three regional leaders.
Alliot-Marie is to go to the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia.
She said she would take Chirac's personal message "to the highest authorities of these countries to express our solidarity in these difficult times and our intention to implement defense agreements (that exist between France and the three countries) if they have any concerns and wish to do so."
More at link.
The US/UK defends Qatar and the UAE because they're scared of their big neighbors Saudi and Iran. You think the French are offering to substitute themselves? I can only imagine the Arabs would laugh at them.
77 posted on
03/14/2003 4:18:02 PM PST by
Shermy
To: MadIvan
The hell with the French. That plane of hers needs to be "escorted" to Diego Garcia and kept there for a week.
126 posted on
03/14/2003 5:29:20 PM PST by
Maeve
(Siobhan's daughter and sometime banshee.)
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