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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
150 French soldiers arrive in Lebanon to join UNIFIL
2006-08-26
(KUNA) -- Some 150 French soldiers arrived in Naqoura Port on board a French carrier to join the UNIFIL in implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701, said a Lebanese security source on Friday. The source told KUNA that international forces and the French Navy ensured the safe delivery of machinery to the UNIFIL headquarters. The first 50 French soldiers had arrived in Lebanon on August 19.

Resolution 1701 stipulated that Lebanese forces and UNIFIL soldiers be deployed simultaneously in South Lebanon as Israel withdraws its forces from the area. EU foreign ministers are scheduled to meet in Brussels later today to discuss the forces they will send as part of the UNIFIL
Posted by:Fred

#6  Bad Grom, Bad TW. Let's give the French armed formces just the tiniest bit of credit for a fairly quick move.

A gift: an IMI cell-phone?
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-08-26 19:52  

#5  The first 50 French soldiers had arrived in Lebanon on August 19.

Let's give the French armed formces just the tiniest bit of credit for a fairly quick move.

Quick for the French, perhaps.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-08-26 14:49  

#4  Note that if they're FFL, stereotypical love interest from french folklore is the isolated desert outpost's goat... of course, in the Real World(tm) it's rather those famous djibouti prostitutes whose name I forgot.
Posted by: anonymous5089   2006-08-26 14:41  

#3  Bad Grom, Bad TW. Let's give the French armed formces just the tiniest bit of credit for a fairly quick move.
Posted by: 6   2006-08-26 14:09  

#2  Quite, gromgoru. The lovely boys are safe until the Malaysian troops arrive.
Posted by: trailing wife   2006-08-26 12:17  

#1  Hide all the nubile girls.
Posted by: gromgoru   2006-08-26 10:27  

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