Sarkozy: France to Pull 100s of Troops from Afghanistan This Year
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President Nicolas Sarkozy announced Friday that "several hundred" French troops will be withdrawn from Afghanistan before the end of 2011.
"Between now and the end of the year, early next year, several hundred French soldiers will return to France in full agreement with the decision taken by the American president," Sarkozy told a news conference at the close of a two-day European Union summit.
His office had said Thursday that France would carry out a progressive pullback of its 4,000 troops "in a proportional manner and in a timeframe similar to the pullback of the American reinforcements."
U.S. President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered all 33,000 U.S. surge troops home from Afghanistan by next summer and declared the beginning of the end of the war, saying the withdrawal would begin this July.
Sarkozy said he shared Obama's belief that security had improved since the death of Osama bin Laden and that the handover to Afghan troops and police was taking smoothly.
Should the situation improve, the pullout of all Western combat troops in 2014 might be "brought forward", he said.
24 June 2011, 18:19
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France should leave Afghanistan , and bring back home its troops . Why are they diying there and for what ? The same troops should do the job inside France , because the same Islamic Sunni Sakafi Wahhaby terrorists , are inside France converting the French population and terrorising the whole country .
The sooner the French will stop welcoming Arab Islamic immigration , the better for France and it's culture and civilisation , that is in real danger today .
If not , there is a serious change of civilisation that will happen in Europe within maximum 15 years , starting with France and Belgium , where Arab Muslims and Muslim Africans will become the majority ... then in Germany , England , Amsterdam , etc etc etc all over Europe except Russia .
KSA is behind all that , they are all of them SUNNIS financed and equiped by the Saudis and UAE . Not one single Shiia or any Iranian finance in international terrorism or conversions to Islam .
24 June 2011, 19:03
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"are inside France converting the French population and terrorising the whole country ."
pure extremist propaganda...
whereas iran not financing international terrorism very comic!
a phenician defending persians! the world has gone crazy!
when we see that in iran christians are under strict watch, harrassed by the mollahs dogs , their number diminished, they cannot even discuss their faith with shiia iranians or they go to jail etc....
