Monday, April 11, 2011

The French Win a War!

April 11: In this image made from television, Laurent Gbagbo is seen after his arrest at the Golf Hotel in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. After a week of heavy fighting, forces backing Ivory Coast's internationally recognized leader Alassane Ouattara on Monday arrested strongman Laurent Gbagbo who had refused to leave the presidency despite losing elections more than four months earlier. (AP/TCI via APTN)
Laurent Gbagbo

For the first time since Napoleon, the French have won a war. This time against their former colony, the Ivory Coast (That's Cote d'Ivoire for all you UC Santa Cruz Communtiy Studies majors. Sorry I don't have the diacritical mark over the o.)

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/04/11/french-troops-clash-gbagbo-forces-ivory-coast/?test=latestnews?test=latestnews

After bombing Laurent Gbagbo's house from the air, UN/French soldiers stormed the house, knocked down the "barricaded" bunker (no pun intended) and dragged the reluctant president/ex-president into custody and an uncertain future.

Well, maybe not so uncertain.



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2 comments:

  1. Siarlys JenkinsApril 12, 2011 at 7:59 PM

    Also noteworthy, Gary Fouse applauds the victory of a French-aided, predominantly Muslim, military force in an African nation wracked by civil war over the past ten years or so.

    Pulling tongue out of cheek, Gbagbo did lose an election fair and square, and the guy who won appears to be a decent prospect.

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  2. Bartender CabbieApril 20, 2011 at 7:23 PM

    Had to be the "Legion" involved in this. A Legion made of up American and Brit adventurers and Eastern European rogues.
    Always kind of found the Legion interesting.

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