George.... Ooh George!
Chirac a war criminal?! Are you kiddin'?
France has been Serbia's best crypto-ally during all this Kosovo mess --just remember the intelligence/spying affairs that involved two French field officers last year (Cdt Henri Bunel and Major Hervé Gourmelon). And why do you think the Northern part of Kosovo, bordering Serbia, has been handed over to France? Because in order to achieve a ''frictionless'' occupation in that sensitive region the French are the best shot.
Regarding NATO's air strikes, I recommend you to go to French daily Libération's website. You might stumble on an (April/May?) interview of a French General who admitted that French aircrafts aboard the Foch (France's nuclear-powered aircraft carrier) were not ''fine-tuned'' as far as their bomb-guidance gear was concerned.... The consequence was that most French aircrafts were just buzzing round Serbia as in a lap of honour --without dropping a single bomb. Now, for safety measures, no airplane is allowed to land on its carrier with its full bomb-load, so the pilots had to jettison the bombs on their return flight --right in the Adriatic sea.... Just ask the pissed-off Italian fishermen.
Anyway, that's the official, technical explanation provided by a military source but, personally, I suspect that such a technological fault served France's fondness for appeasement as well.
Regards,
Gustave. |
