France Invades Mali

[mongers]

Reports from one of the recently recaptured towns say some of the Malian 'troops' have run amok and executed several dozen people, those suspected of co-operating with the Jihadist or for simple being Tuareg, bodies thrown down wells. 

All told, given they left the local populations defenceless and ran away from the insurgents, they sound utterly useless; perhaps the French will have to reconstruct their military as well as fighting the islamists ? 

[Admiral Yi]

Boan shantz France.

[Phillip V]

France Sends Troops To Niger

"As its troops fight Islamist rebels in Mali, the country is sending special forces to protect uranium sites in Niger. France gets about 75 percent of its electricity from nuclear reactors, and much of the uranium used for fuel is mined in Niger by Areva, the French nuclear company."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/25/world/europe/france-is-increasing-security-at-uranium-sites-in-niger.html

France has enhanced security at home as well, where the Mali engagement was quickly followed by a ramping up of the police and army presence at government buildings, prominent tourist sites, and subway and railway stations. Armed French soldiers in uniform are patrolling inside the subway, riding trains and watching main streets like the Champs-Élysées.

Security has also been tightened around President François Hollande, a Socialist who came into office last May vowing to reduce the symbolism of an imperial presidency.

[Ed Anger]

The French took Gao. Plus they are getting the tankers they want and the African forces are getting rides on US planes.

Plus I read that Reapers are in action too. Hot drone action.

[CountDeMoney]

Nice to see the gendarmes are sporting diaphragm berets this season.

[Admiral Yi]

They ripped off the Druze head gear.

[Ed Anger]

It is extra crepe storage.

[Razgovory]

I have only eaten a crepe once.  It was in middle school for a French class.  It was like an angel crapped in my mouth.

[garbon]

France has enhanced security at home as well, where the Mali engagement was quickly followed by a ramping up of the police and army presence at government buildings, prominent tourist sites, and subway and railway stations. Armed French soldiers in uniform are patrolling inside the subway, riding trains and watching main streets like the Champs-Élysées.

Yeah I got to see this. Soldiers were present when I saw Notre Dame, Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe. My anti-cop senses were tingling and confused.

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah I got to see this. Soldiers were present when I saw Notre Dame, Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe. My anti-cop senses were tingling and confused.

Bet they were, as you were getting eyeballed pretty hard with your looks of indeterminate origin.

[Ed Anger]

Yeah I got to see this. Soldiers were present when I saw Notre Dame, Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe. My anti-cop senses were tingling and confused.

Bet they were, as you were getting eyeballed pretty hard with your looks of indeterminate origin.

In Greece, he would have been Rodney King'ed.

[CountDeMoney]

In Greece, he would have been Rodney King'ed.

In Egypt, he would've been recruited at gunpoint and fitted for a suicide vest, at which point he would've bitched about how vests are still not back in style, dammit.

[Ed Anger]

I have only eaten a crepe once.  It was in middle school for a French class.  It was like an angel crapped in my mouth.

Creeps are fantastic. It is like Jessica alba sitting on your face.

[Phillip V]

Yeah I got to see this. Soldiers were present when I saw Notre Dame, Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe. My anti-cop senses were tingling and confused.

Bet they were, as you were getting eyeballed pretty hard with your looks of indeterminate origin.

What physical traits does he have?

[garbon]

Yeah I got to see this. Soldiers were present when I saw Notre Dame, Champs-Élysées and Arc de Triomphe. My anti-cop senses were tingling and confused.

Bet they were, as you were getting eyeballed pretty hard with your looks of indeterminate origin.

A man asked me in the Hamburg airport if I spoke Arabic and then proceeded in broken English to try and find where his flight was by showing me his boarding pass.  Only after did I think that it could have been a trap!