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| Report: France to Deploy Aircraft Carrier to Gulf in IS Fight |
| 2015-01-07 |
| [AnNahar] The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its fleet will be deployed to the Gulf to support operations 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.... group, a military news site reported on Tuesday. The deployment of the marine battle group is due to be announced by President Francois Hollande ...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist... when he gives his annual new year's speech to the armed forces onboard the Charles de Gaulle on January 14, according to the "Mer et Marine" news site. According to Mer et Marine, the Charles de Gaulle carrier will travel to the Gulf with its fleet of air and naval craft, including Rafale and Super Etendard fighter jets and an attack submarine, to take part in the U.S.-led bombing campaign against IS forces in Iraq. La Belle France currently has nine Rafale fighters engaged in the campaign -- based in the United Arab Emirates and Jordan -- as part of Operation Chammal launched in September, along with a C135 supply plane, E-3F surveillance and control plane and an Atlantique 2 maritime patrol aircraft. The president's office, navy and army did not respond to requests from Agence La Belle France-Presse for confirmation. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 gorb, I was thinking out riggers and training wheels. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-01-07 07:32 |
| #1 Hopefully the battle group includes tugs. |
| Posted by: gorb 2015-01-07 02:42 |