Verifying earlier reports, France troops in Afghanistan will begin an early withdrawal in July and complete it by the end of this year, French President Francois Hollande has said.
The confirmed early withdrawal date comes just hours after four French soldiers were killed and five others wounded in a Taliban suicide attack.
“It was an unfortunate incident. There was a patrol of coalition soldiers in a small bazaar and they were attacked by a suicide bomber wearing a burqa,” Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqqi told Reuters.
France is currently the fifth largest contributor to NATO’s training force, with nearly 3,300 soldiers. These latest deaths bring the total number of French fatalities in the entire Afghan war to 87.
In January, four other French soldiers were killed, prompting then-President Nicolas Sarkozy to announce a withdrawal by the end of 2013. Pulling out by the end of 2012 was one of newly elected President Hollande’s campaign promises.
Virtually all those involved in the NATO effort in Afghanistan don’t want to be involved and see no constructive end to the war. France has been the only one other than Australia to announce an early withdrawal.
Obama needs to do the same and tell Hillary Stop supporting the states sponsored terrorism like Saudi Arabia and UAE, stop helping and supporting these barbarians that are operating in Syria and elsewhere, give the peace a chance for peace sake in middle east by going after Israel and its apartheid regime, not those who are for peace and prosperity of the people of middle east, stop giving US tax dollars to dictatorial regimes around the world, start creating jobs by bringing jobs back to US and throw away the robots and put the people back to work, eliminating the hunger and homelessness in US must be the priority of any US government not the vulture capitalism social economic rules, stop blaming Europe economic crises relating it to what capitalism doing to peoples life in US, stop the US militarism industrial complex by eliminating its power over government and people.
mojo
“US militarism… its power over government and people”
Our wars of aggression, with all their glory and brutal imperialism, they are the best money maker our voting majority has ever known, for our 51% most wealthy now hoard a forth of all the wealth on earth.
So, down with the Occupy Wall Street movement and its counter-Revolution propaganda that a 1% rich enslaves society. And so, up with a true Revolution, one that give the lower half of society a full half of the political power and an equal half of the wealth.