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Iraq

Hollande: French Artillery to Join Iraqi Army in Fight against ISIL

2016-07-23

[ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] La Belle France will send Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to assist US-led anti-ISIS coalition in Iraq and Syria in September, French President Francois Hollande
...the Socialist president of La Belle France, an economic bad joke for la Belle France but seemingly a foreign policy realist...
was quoted by Sputnik news agency as saying.

La Belle France will also send artillery to Iraq in August to help the Iraqi army fight ISIS terrorists, the President added.

"The Defense Council and I made a decision this morning to provide Iraqi forces with artillery as a part of anti-ISIS efforts. The artillery will be delivered in August," Hollande said.

The French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle will be sent to the region in September, the President added.

"The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will arrive in the region by the end of September. It and our Rafale aircraft will allow to intensify our strikes against ISIS positions in Syria and Iraq," Hollande said in a televised statement.

However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
La Belle France "will not deploy ground troops," Hollande said.

"We support the operations in Syria and Iraq, but will not send our troops. We have advice to give, training to provide, but we will not deploy men on the ground," Hollande stressed.

Iraqi forces are carrying out operations in Nineveh in preparation for an assault on djinn-infested Mosul
... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
, Iraq's second-largest city that has been under ISIS control since 2014.

Posted by:Fred

#5 AFAIK C de G has been operational with no major issues for a few years now - give the French a break; thsy will be the first Western Europeans to have that Road To Damascus Epiphany - coz they will have to.

Posted by: Bov Flimbers 2016-07-23 22:23

#4 Still, isn't it the only CATOBAR carrier outside the U.S.? It also operates the E-2C which is always handy

Posted by: Shipman 2016-07-23 18:32

#3 We are not advertising the Dassault Rafale or soliciting investment in Dassault Aviation! Of course if you should the French government has liberal trade incentives....

Posted by: magpie 2016-07-23 18:24

#2 The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will arrive in the region by the end of September.

Of which year?

Posted by: AlanC 2016-07-23 16:37

#1 "The Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier will arrive in the region by the end of September."

"And three tugboats!"

Posted by: Pappy 2016-07-23 10:43

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