Ludovic Marin, AFP | A French Mirage 2000 aircraft takes off from an airbase in N'Djamena Dec. 2, 2018, in a Barkhane mission in Africa's Sahel region.
Posted on 02/04/2019 11:52:47 AM PST by csvset
French fighter jets struck targets in northern Chad on Sunday in support of local troops trying to repel a convoy of unidentified fighters that had crossed the border from Libya, France's military said in a statement.
"A Mirage 2000 patrol of the French armed forces intervened jointly with the Chadian army in northern Chad to strike a column of 40 pickups of an armed group from Libya infiltrating deep into Chadian territory," the armed forces said on Monday.
"This intervention at the request of Chadian authorities helped hinder this hostile advance and disperse the column."
The warplanes are based near N'Djamena, the Chadian capital, as part of France's Operation Barkhane counter-terrorism force in the Sahel.
"The column had been spotted at least 48 hours beforehand," armed forces spokesman Patrik Steiger told AFP.
The Chadian airforce carried out strikes to try to repel it before asking the French to intervene, he said.
On Sunday morning, French planes made low warning passes over the column but it continued to advance, triggering a decision to scramble more fighters, which carried out two strikes at around 6pm Paris time.
Steiger said the group had crossed 400 kilometres (250 miles) of Chadian territory before being halted "between Tibesti and Ennedi" in the northwest.
He did not identify which armed group they belonged to.
The Chadian military has carried out several air strikes recently in the arid north against Libya-based rebels.
France committed to anti-terror fight in Africa
The French statement did not say who was behind the incursion, but it was the first time French forces have hit targets in support of Chadian troops since a fledgling rebel movement based in southern Libya increased its activities last year.
The rebel movement, the Military Command Council for the Salvation of the Republic (CCMSR), was founded in 2016 and has fought Chadian forces several times near the Libyan border since August.
The group, which claims to have several thousand fighters, says its goal is to overthrow President Idriss Déby. Déby took control of Chad in 1990 in a rebellion that toppled then president Hissène Habré.
French President Emmanuel Macron visited Chad in December and reaffirmed French backing for African anti-extremist forces amid growing international concern about the chaos in Libya.
“French President Emmanuel Macron visited Chad in December and reaffirmed French backing for African anti-extremist forces amid growing international concern about the chaos in Libya.”
While his own country burns...
So, they were hanging up in Chad?...................
“French fighter jets struck targets in northern Chad on Sunday in support of local troops.......... who promptly surrendered”
The Chad was great.
“We just wanted to scare them, so we dropped canisters filled with snails.”
........................
“Call The UN! The French are bombing us with escargot again! And they never pack those little forks with them so you can pry that slimy deliciousness apart from its shell. That has to be violating some UN rule.”
[unidentified fighters that had crossed the border from Libya]
Libya will be participating in the Ezekiel 38 war.
In many Bibles it is Put or Phut.
Ezekiel 38:5
King James Bible
Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:
International Standard Version
Persia, Cush, and Libya will be accompanying them, all of them equipped with shields and helmets.
American Standard Version
Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
Darby Bible Translation
Persia, Cush, and Phut with them, all of them with shield and helmet;
Young’s Literal Translation
Persia, Cush, and Phut, with them, All of them with shield and helmet.
New International Version
Persia, Cush and Put will be with them, all with shields and helmets,
Maranatha!
I expect more out of Libya in the days ahead.
Another Barack / Hillary operation there....
The French and the British suckered Obama into Libya when we had zero national security interest there. Left the place a mess. Now the French can deal with it on their own because the man currently in the White House cannot be suckered.
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