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Al-Qaeda says Ivory Coast attack was revenge against France
[Hurriyet Daily News] Al-Qaeda’s North African branch said its attack on a beach resort in Ivory Coast on March 13 that killed 18 people was Dire Revenge for a French offensive against Islamist holy warriors in the Sahel region... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... and called for its forces to withdraw. The raid in Grand Bassam claimed by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb was the first of its kind in Ivory Coast but the third in the region since November 2015. It was also a setback for La Belle France, who lost four of its nationals when gunnies opened fire on people eating lunch at restaurants and sunning themselves on the sand. "We repeat our call to all countries involved in the French invasion of Mali to withdraw," the group said in a statement. It named the attackers but gave no further details of their identities. La Belle France is a key player in security in West Africa with about 3,500 troops in the region. It has also joined a campaign against the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), which is based in Iraq and Syria. Gay Paree is to station a force of armed gendarmes in the capital of Burkina Faso ...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other... to react swiftly in the event of another attack in the region and to provide training, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on March 15. "The desire to position this [gendarmerie] team in Ouagadougou is to enable us to immediately dispense advice and coordinate other actions in the event of a terrorist crisis," Cazeneuve said. He was speaking during a visit with Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault to Ivory Coast that aims to reassure the large French community and boost the investigation into the attack in Grand Bassam. Posted by: Fred 2016-03-17 |
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