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Mali: “Particularly violent combat” between French troops and Islamic jihadists; one soldier killed

Oct 30, 2014 3:26 pm By Robert Spencer

French troops MaliRemember the jihad in Mali? The jihadists do. The conflict between the jihadis and Western forces is not actually a series of discrete, localized “clashes,” as it is portrayed in the mainstream media. It is actually a global defense against forces with a unified ideology and common goals. And it will be an endless war until some Western leader has the courage to confront the ideology that gives rise to it. So far, none do.

“French soldier killed in clash with Islamist militants in Mali,” Reuters, October 29, 2014 (thanks to Maxwell):

(Reuters) – France said on Wednesday a French soldier was killed during a fierce clash between its forces and Islamist militants in northern Mali earlier in the day.

The offices of President Francois Hollande and Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian both confirmed the death on Wednesday of Thomas Dupuy, a sergeant from a commando parachutist unit in the air force.

His death raised to 10 the number of French soldiers killed since France intervened militarily in Mali in January 2013 to help drive out Islamist insurgents who had seized control of the former French colony’s north.

Le Drian’s office said in a statement that French forces had battled a militant group of some 30 fighters in the Tigharghar valley, part of the mountainous Adrar des Ifoghas area.

“Particularly violent combat took place. Our soldier was mortally hurt and two of his comrades were wounded.” Operations will continue in the coming hours, the statement said….

Addressing a parliamentary hearing earlier in the day, Le Drian said the militants might be linked to al Qaeda’s North African wing, AQIM, which has thrived in a largely lawless and sparsely populated desert region.

France’s intervention in Mali was designed to retake control of northern towns that had been overrun by separatists and rebels linked to al Qaeda in 2012 after a coup in the capital Bamako. It has since evolved into a 3,000-strong counter-terrorism mission stretching from Mauritania to southern Libya….

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  1. bobm says

    Oct 30, 2014 at 4:00 pm

    vive la France.

    • JIMJFOX says

      Oct 31, 2014 at 11:50 pm

      seconded

  2. T. Snorrason says

    Oct 30, 2014 at 5:19 pm

    “And it will be an endless war, until some Western leader has the courage to confront the ideology that gives rise to it.”

    Correct.

    And the day will come, it is the only solution.

  3. manuel-rafael says

    Oct 30, 2014 at 5:28 pm

    OBVIOUSLY THE RECONQUEST OF THE MAGHREB IS TANTAMOUNT TO THE SUCCESS OF THE MODERATE REBELS OF ISIS //IL AS WELL AS THE SUPPORT JANISSARY THAT IS TRYING TO OVERTHROW SYRIA THE KURD AND YAZIDI RESISTANCE IN SYRIA’S KOBANI BORDERS, THE MALI // ALGERIAN MAGHREBI ACCESS TO THE MEDITERRANEAN IS KEY TO THE TOTAL ANNIHILATION OF THE STATE OF ISRAEL. THIS IS A DIRECTIVE OPERATIONAL STRATEGY FROM QATAR AND ITS TERROR HIGH COMMAND IN DOHA. THE OBAMA KHEDIVE IS COMPLICIT AND A COLLABORATOR IN THE GENOCIDAL ACTIONS OF THE CARNIVAL OF RELIGIOUS TYRANNY THAT IS THE COVER STORY TO ISLAMIST IMPERIALISM AND ITS COLONIAL ASPIRATIONS OF TOTAL GOVERNMENT TOTAL CONTROL THE ULTIMATE TYRANNY OF FASCISM AND GENOCIDE.

  4. gp says

    Oct 31, 2014 at 12:38 am

    War between civilized man versus savage…always support the civilized man.

    • Centurion_Cornelius says

      Oct 31, 2014 at 6:26 am

      10-4

      Roger that!

      What does humanity expect? A political ideology founded upon hatred, murder, rape, and pillage at it core, spoon fed to suckling infants who grow up living, breathing, and acting out all this pent-up violence.

      The genocidal maniac Adolph Hitler promised a “1,000 year Reich,” but his virulent politics lasted a mere 12 years, plunging the entire world in a cataclysm. The whole of the civilized world rose up against his barbarism.

      YET–1404 years after a crazed pedophile initiated a “religion” of warfare, slavery, rape, murder, and pillage, is not only alive and well, but referred to by mainstream media as a “religion of peace!” Their global violence continues unabated across the centuries.

      Plus, you have a US Secretary of State, Mr. Kerry, (oft described a s a”bad haircut in search of a brain” by fellow Democrats) promoting these barbarians.

      “Hitler-Bad, radical Islam-Good!” RUBBISH!

      Be prepared. This is all-out war. Which side are you on?

      “War means fighting, and fighting means killing.”

      – Nathan Bedford Forrest-

    • Keith says

      Oct 31, 2014 at 5:46 pm

      Well if you listen to Obama and Cameron they are supporting the civilized man, we are the savages. I can think of no other reason why they would be supporting Islam against the free world.

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