[EXPRESS.CO.UK] French special operations troops are already in action in Libya, Syria and Iraq after President Francois Hollande...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
declared war on the jihadist group but there are calls growing for the legion of imported muscle to be sent to tackle ISIS.
The feared fighting force has a long history of battling Islamist murderous Moslems, including al-Qaeda and Taliban holy warriors in Afghanistan.
In 2013 they embarked on a two-year campaign - code-named Operation Serval against 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...
fanatics in the former African colony of Mali.
Five years earlier they fought alongside European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
troops in Chad and before that in the Ivory Coast during the country’s civi war.
It is unclear what role if the Legion is planning to play in the current war against ISIS but pressure is mounting on the French government to allow the infantry or airborne units of the force to contribute to the war on terror.
Dr Jean-Marc Rickli, a researcher in European security at Kings College London, said French troops were already heavily involved in anti-ISIS operations in Libya, Syria and Iraq as well as the thousands of soldiers on the streets of French cities after a spate of terror attacks rocked the country.