...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really 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 western pols talk they're not
reallyMoslems....
(ISIS/ISIS/IS/ISIS) terrorist group and to promote "freedom of navigation" in maritime areas that witnessed increased tension.
The carrier left the port of Toulon, southeastern La Belle France, last month on a new mission to the eastern Mediterranean and from there to the Indian Ocean later as part of the "North" operation, referring to the French contribution to the international coalition fighting ISIS.
"The mission includes showing that we are able to deploy the aircraft carrier strike group wherever we decide," said the commander of the Naval Air Group escorting the aircraft carrier, Mark Oceda.
"Within a towable distance"
He added that the message of this operation is to reaffirm "freedom of navigation," according to what the French Ministry of the Armies confirmed when announcing the mission.
The French general said in the UAE capital Abu Dhabi: "I can confirm with what we saw, that we did so without any hindrance."
This mission, which I called "Clemenceau 21", comes after a period of tension in the eastern Mediterranean, while the United States and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
repeatedly accuse Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for
spontaneouslytaking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet
militiasto extend the regime's influence. The word
Iranis a cognate form of
Aryan.The abbreviation
IRGCis the same idea as
Stürmabteilung (or SA).The term
Supreme Guideis a the modern version form of either
Duceor
Führeror maybe both. They hate
of impeding freedom of navigation in the Gulf.
In addition to two frigates, a supply ship and a French submarine, the aircraft carrier is accompanied by a Belgian frigate, a Greek frigate and an American destroyer.
The French Ministry of Armies had stated that the carrier’s crew of 1,200 sailors had received the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...vaccine, and that two-thirds of the crew had contracted the virus last year.
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