France Invades Mali

[mongers]

People with Ivy/Oxbridge educations who want to show it off?

Strangely enough for a Brit journalist he didn't go to Oxbridge, didn't even finish a degree! :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Snow

[Admiral Yi]

Pop quiz: why is the 1er regiment etranger de parachutistes not being used in Mali?

[mongers]

Pop quiz: why is the 1er regiment etranger de parachutistes not being used in Mali?

Too easy a question for this board, because it was disbanded for it's mutiny in the 61 Algerian Putsch ?

[Grey Fox]

Pop quiz: why is the 1er regiment etranger de parachutistes not being used in Mali?

I know why but I think it's too easy for a Francophone to answer.

[Admiral Yi]

Too easy a question for this board, because it was disbanded for it's mutiny in the 61 Algerian Putsch ?

Yup.

[Darth Wagtaros]

Wonder how the world would have gone had de Gaul been wacked that day?

[mongers]

Wonder how the world would have gone had de Gaul been wacked that day?

Principally no 'Day of the Jackal' book or film. 

[Ed Anger]

US secures immunity treaty in Niger.

[Duque de Bragança]

Too easy a question for this board, because it was disbanded for it's mutiny in the 61 Algerian Putsch ?

Yup.

Fun fact: Jean-Marie Le Pen served in that unit though he started earlier when it was still the BEP

[mongers]

Liked this tweet from reporter on the ground:

Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum    11h
#heightofmadness: Teaching the kids outside our compound in #Gao #Mali how to dance, Gangnam-style.

'Western' 'culture' triumphs over jihadists.

[alfred russel]

Liked this tweet from reporter on the ground:

Lindsey Hilsum @lindseyhilsum    11h
#heightofmadness: Teaching the kids outside our compound in #Gao #Mali how to dance, Gangnam-style.

'Western' 'culture' triumphs over jihadists.

I saw that some of Timbuktu was trashed by the rebels on their way out. The Jihadist mark there will probably be more lasting than gangnam style dance moves.

[Ed Anger]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqvIZYc6nx0&feature=youtu.be

Tigre helos in action. Needs a rock soundtrack.

[Valmy]

Gangnam Style is Western Culture?

[mongers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqvIZYc6nx0&feature=youtu.be

Tigre helos in action. Needs a rock soundtrack.

When did Darth Vader start working with the French ?

[mongers]

Last night French troops landed and took the airport at Kidal, though a sanstorm is stopping them securing the town:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21267285