Monday, November 22, 2004
French Terrorists Fighting U.S. in Iraq
Terrorists battling U.S. troops in places like Fallujah, Mosul and Ramadi include Abu Musab al Zarqawi's mass murderers, holdouts from Saddam's Baathist regime, Iranian sympathizers - and a handful of French nationals.
"Authorities estimate that around a dozen Frenchmen of North African or Arab background have traveled to Iraq to join the insurgency," reports the BBC.
While the French army has yet to spill a drop of blood in the cause of liberating Iraq, three Frenchmen have been killed in recent months while fighting side-by-side with terrorists against the U.S.
Officials told the BBC that the men probably traveled to Iraq via Syria. but that there is no proof of an organized recruitment network. A recent report in the French newspaper Le Figaro, however, claims otherwise, suggesting that the pro-terrorist French fighters were helped to cross into Iraq by contacts in Syria.
In a related development, French President Jacques Chirac said last week that the U.S.'s decision to topple Saddam has made the world more dangerous.
"Is the world any safer [after Saddam's removal]? I'm not so sure," Chirac told the BBC. "To a certain extent Saddam Hussein's departure was a positive thing, but it also provoked reactions, such as the mobilization in a number of countries of men and women of Islam, which has made the world more dangerous."
Terrorists battling U.S. troops in places like Fallujah, Mosul and Ramadi include Abu Musab al Zarqawi's mass murderers, holdouts from Saddam's Baathist regime, Iranian sympathizers - and a handful of French nationals.
"Authorities estimate that around a dozen Frenchmen of North African or Arab background have traveled to Iraq to join the insurgency," reports the BBC.
While the French army has yet to spill a drop of blood in the cause of liberating Iraq, three Frenchmen have been killed in recent months while fighting side-by-side with terrorists against the U.S.
Officials told the BBC that the men probably traveled to Iraq via Syria. but that there is no proof of an organized recruitment network. A recent report in the French newspaper Le Figaro, however, claims otherwise, suggesting that the pro-terrorist French fighters were helped to cross into Iraq by contacts in Syria.
In a related development, French President Jacques Chirac said last week that the U.S.'s decision to topple Saddam has made the world more dangerous.
"Is the world any safer [after Saddam's removal]? I'm not so sure," Chirac told the BBC. "To a certain extent Saddam Hussein's departure was a positive thing, but it also provoked reactions, such as the mobilization in a number of countries of men and women of Islam, which has made the world more dangerous."
