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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Baitman on August 19, 2008, 11:43:48 AM
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Just read this and though I would share
:salute The soldiers that gave their lives :salute
French paratroopers ambushed near Kabul; 10 killed, 21 wounded
Amir Shah, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SUROBI, Afghanistan - Insurgents have ambushed French paratroopers in a deadly battled close to Kabul, killing 10 soldiers and wounding 21 in what officials said Tuesday was the biggest single combat loss by international forces in Afghanistan in more than three years.
In a separate co-ordinated attack Tuesday, a team of suicide bombers tried unsuccessfully to storm a U.S. base near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
Military spokesman said the French soldiers were on a reconnaissance mission Monday in the Surobi district, about 50 kilometres east of the Afghan capital, when they were attacked by about 100 insurgents.
NATO sent in backup forces and claimed a "large number" of the attackers had been killed a the three-hour gunbattle.
An Afghan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said four of the French soldiers were killed after having being captured by the insurgents.
The death toll could heighten domestic opposition in France to President Nicloas Sarkozy's plan to increase the French contingent in Afghanistan by some 700 troops by the end of this month to a total of 2,600.
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:salute to the Frenchmen. I do hope people in the U.S. quit reffering to them as "cheese-eating surrender monkey's" after this.
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:salute
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:salute to the Frenchmen. I do hope people in the U.S. quit reffering to them as "cheese-eating surrender monkey's" after this.
:salute Brave soldiers who gave all. (And I refer to them as rifle-droppers)
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(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44939000/gif/_44939840_98adc6ff-b235-40c1-b5aa-e9942f79ac08.gif)
KIA #
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(http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44939000/gif/_44939840_98adc6ff-b235-40c1-b5aa-e9942f79ac08.gif)
KIA #
What's the timeframe of that chart?
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That's the most recent chart, which included the 10 new KIA from the French force. I'm guessing this would be since the Afgan war started.
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:( :salute
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This is the part that bothers me
An Afghan official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said four of the French soldiers were killed after having being captured by the insurgents.
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never surrender to a brutal enemy.
<S> France!
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Kipling wrote it long ago but it's still true:
"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier. "
<S> The French paras
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:salute
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Be interested to find out if they were French regulars or Foreign Legion.
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Be interested to find out if they were French regulars or Foreign Legion.
Does it really matters though?
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Just read that 9 of them were regular French Army and 1 from the Legion. :salute
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Does it really matters though?
If it mattered I would have written that. I said that I'd be interested to see the makeup of the units over there in the action.
Thanks Hornet.
Looking more, looks to be a mix of French Marines (airborne), French Marines (mechanized) and Foreign Legion (airborne).
I'd be surprised if any of the Legionnaires allowed themselves to be captured.
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I doubt they surrendered. Probably wounded. They were fighting for 24 hours.
A sad day.
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:salute to the Frenchmen. I do hope people in the U.S. quit reffering to them as "cheese-eating surrender monkey's" after this.
Honestly, their new president has given me quite a bit more respect to the French than before.
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I doubt they surrendered. Probably wounded. They were fighting for 24 hours.
A sad day.
Amen.
:salute
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:salute to the Frenchmen. I do hope people in the U.S. quit reffering to them as "cheese-eating surrender monkey's" after this.
Troop deaths feed French doubts over Afghan mission.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7572612.stm
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Troop deaths feed French doubts over Afghan mission.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7572612.stm
I would point out that we have some opposition here to our invovlments' in Iraq and Afghanistan both; It tends' to get highlighted whenever there are casualty reports.
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To the fallen, RIP.
:salute