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France Declares War Against Al-Qaeda After Killing of Aid Worker
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyWith an attack on a terrorist camp in North Africa, France has officially declared war on al-Qaeda, seeking justice for the killing of a French aid worker taken hostage in April, The Associated Press reported. The killers of Michel Germaneau will "not go unpunished," President Nicolas Sarkozy said in announcing the death in Mali of the 78-year-old hostage. The war declaration and strike on the al-Qaeda camp in Mauritania marked a shift in strategy for France, which has mostly battled terrorism through behind-the-scenes cooperation with regional allies such as Mauritania, Mali, Niger and ...
France Brings the Fight to al-Qaida, With Mixed Results
By not in system - AOL News(July 28) -- Though France has quietly and inconsistently assisted U.S.-led efforts against al-Qaida, it's only now, after the terrorist group killed a French aid worker, that Paris has declared war on the international Sunni extremist group. "We are at war with al-Qaida," Prime Minister Francois Fillon said Tuesday, a day after the announcement of the death of 78-year-old hostage Michel Germaneau. The aid worker was abducted in Niger in April and taken to Mali, where he was reportedly beheaded by members of al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, a cell that seeks to overthrow the government of ...
Sarkozy Vows Revenge After al-Qaida Beheads Man
By Dana Kennedy - AOL NewsNICE, France (July 26) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed today to seek revenge on the North African wing of al-Qaida for beheading an elderly French aid worker after a joint Franco-Mauritanian raid to rescue him last week failed. Michel Germaneau, 78, a retired engineer who had been helping build a school for Tuareg nomads, was kidnapped April 19 in northern Niger. The area is in the volatile "Red Zone" on the southern rim of the Sahara desert. His captors told French officials on July 11 that they would kill him in two weeks unless France agreed to a prisoner exchange. Mairie de ...
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