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| France Offers Nigeria 'Special Team' in Hunt for Kidnapped Girls |
| 2014-05-08 |
| [An Nahar] La Belle France on Wednesday offered Nigeria a "special team" to look for more than 200 girls kidnapped by Islamist turban group Boko Haram ... not to be confused with Procol Harum, Harum Scarum, possibly to be confused with Helter Skelter. The Nigerian version of al-Qaeda and the Taliban rolled together and flavored with a smigeon of distinctly Subsaharan ignorance and brutality... in an incident that has triggered global shock and condemnation. The turbans seized a first batch of schoolgirls in Nigeria's restive northeast three weeks ago, saying they were holding them as "slaves" and threatening to sell them, and have since kidnapped other girls in the area. "A special team with all our resources in the region is at the disposal of Nigeria to help in the search and recovery of these maidens of tender years," French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told parliament. La Belle France already has troops on the ground in Mali not far away, where they continue to engage in intelligence gathering to further weaken armed Islamists in the north after driving them out of towns they had occupied for months. "The president gave the defense minister and myself the order... to put our (intelligence) services at the disposal of Nigeria and neighboring countries," Fabius said. Described as "heartbreaking" and "outrageous" by U.S. President Barack Obama Because I won... on Tuesday, the kidnappings have drawn several pledges of help from the international community. Washington has deployed military experts to Nigeria to help search for the girls and Britannia has offered unspecified practical help. Earlier Wednesday, French government front man Stephane Le Foll denounced the kidnappings as "one of the most atrocious forms of terrorism because it involves kidnapping and trafficking children." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 The legion is going into Nigeria, woohooo, that is going to be fun. For all of their liberal hand wringing over human rights in Iraq, the French have no qualms about the unbridled us of all means necessary to bring the enemy down. Someone should have nipped this thing in the bud instead of tutt tutting the rustics for their behavior. |
| Posted by: Bill Clinton 2014-05-08 10:44 |
| #1 Cherchez la femme? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-05-08 06:58 |