Tue Feb 5, 2013, 10:14 PM

France: Hundreds of Islamist militants killed in Mali [View all]

Source: BBC News

"Several hundred" Islamist militants have been killed since France launched an offensive in Mali last month, the French defence minister has said.

Jean-Yves Le Drian said they had been killed in airstrikes and direct combat with French troops.

The militants died in French airstrikes on vehicles carrying fighters and materials, or in ground fighting in the town of Konna at the start of the campaign and later in the town of Gao, Mr Le Drian said.

He said French troops had inflicted "great damage on the jihadist terrorist groups", saying "several hundred, a significant number" of Islamist fighters had been killed.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21343473

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France: Hundreds of Islamist militants killed in Mali [View all]	UnrepentantLiberal	Feb 2013	OP
this war criminal is actually bragging about his body count?	Alamuti Lotus	Feb 2013	#1
Why is he a war criminal?	dbackjon	Feb 2013	#2
Apparently yes.	Archae	Feb 2013	#4
Some DUers are impossible to reason with.	cosmicone	Feb 2013	#14
And some people recognize that life is more complicated than your simplistic worldview.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#20
Please educate me about what is simplistic	cosmicone	Feb 2013	#28
Oh lord....	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#30
ahhhh .... I get it .....	cosmicone	Feb 2013	#42
lol. that is quite some logic you have there.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#43
Many things cannot be precisely defined in legal terms	cosmicone	Feb 2013	#44
now you are accusing me of being for something which you cannot define.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#45
You don't have to say it in so many words.	cosmicone	Feb 2013	#46
Ah. Anyone who doesn't like your attitude is a terrorist supporter. I get it.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#47
France has rained good deal of terror on Mali	Ash_F	Feb 2013	#58
Disgusting cheap shot.	Comrade Grumpy	Feb 2013	#50
So have you reversed it.	LiberalLovinLug	Feb 2013	#55
is that how this proud mass murderer conducts his press conferences, also?	Alamuti Lotus	Feb 2013	#5
Lame attempt at dodging the question.	Archae	Feb 2013	#6
Lame attempt at asking the question in the first place	Alamuti Lotus	Feb 2013	#7
Except here the stuation is far different.	Archae	Feb 2013	#9
reads just like a press release from the French government	Alamuti Lotus	Feb 2013	#11
I'm going to mark that down as a 'yes' answer to Dbackjon's question.	Lasher	Feb 2013	#8
+1,000,000 n/t	cosmicone	Feb 2013	#15
Amen	leftynyc	Feb 2013	#29
Anyone who believes a narrative without doing their own research	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#34
Shoo	leftynyc	Feb 2013	#35
Hey look, we are un-ironically calling posters "ANTI-WESTERN"	Ash_F	Feb 2013	#37
If you've got another way	leftynyc	Feb 2013	#40
This post was hidden by jury decision.	dbackjon	Feb 2013	#10
This post was hidden by jury decision.	Alamuti Lotus	Feb 2013	#12
No, it is not nonsense	dbackjon	Feb 2013	#13
Do you have any actual thoughts of your own on the subject?	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#18
Do you?	UnrepentantLiberal	Feb 2013	#21
I'm not the one who claims to know what is going on.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#22
So you have no knowledge of Mali whatsoever?	UnrepentantLiberal	Feb 2013	#23
I have superficial knowledge, like most people here.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#24
All knowledge is suspect.	UnrepentantLiberal	Feb 2013	#25
That is sort of my point.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#26
How do you know these independent sources aren't actually propaganda?	UnrepentantLiberal	Feb 2013	#27
You don't initially. That is why you need many.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#32
So, apparently, do the vast majority of Mali's citizens	cali	Feb 2013	#39
The Tuaregs, however, are a bit nervous.	Comrade Grumpy	Feb 2013	#51
Lol, but you have all the clues yes?	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#19
As opposed to the narrative	leftynyc	Feb 2013	#31
You are the one putting out a narrative.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#33
al queda	leftynyc	Feb 2013	#36
I was just wondering where on the .net I could go to get the Pro Islamist viewpoint	jzodda	Feb 2013	#16
lol n/t	cosmicone	Feb 2013	#52
+1000 n/t	Catherina	Feb 2013	#3
Go France !!!!! n/t	cosmicone	Feb 2013	#17
The French are terrorists	onwardsand upwards	Feb 2013	#38
The issue here is not one of anyone apparently supporting the jihadists	dipsydoodle	Feb 2013	#41
Forget it. Learning about background is soo pro-terrorist of you.	redgreenandblue	Feb 2013	#48
Irony /sarcasm noted	dipsydoodle	Feb 2013	#49
Unbelievable that any DU'ers would prefer AQIM to French intervention	independentpiney	Feb 2013	#53
Hacking off people's hands and feet is a bad thing.	Lasher	Feb 2013	#54
In some ways just as bad as	dipsydoodle	Feb 2013	#56
3 strikes is bad law but there is no equivalency	independentpiney	Feb 2013	#57