View Full Version : French SF frees hostages in Burkina Faso
Condolences to France for losing those two troops:
"Four foreign hostages have been freed by French forces in the West African country of Burkina Faso, France says.
Commanders launched the operation to rescue two French tourists snatched in neighbouring Benin earlier this month, before they could be handed over to militants in Mali.
During the raid special forces found the kidnappers were also holding a US woman and a South Korean woman.
Two French soldiers and four kidnappers were killed. Two kidnappers escaped."
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-48228353
Don't go to these s h i t hole places and you won't get taken hostages.
platoonDaddy
05-10-19, 18:35
Don't go to these s h i t hole places and you won't get taken hostages.
Didn't Trump get in trouble for the reference to the S H I T hole places. ;)
I don't consider telling the truth, trouble!!!
Don't go to these s h i t hole places and you won't get taken hostages.
They wanted to experience the culture there and then they did.
They wanted to experience the culture there and then they did.
I mean no disrespect but Otto Warmbier is in the same category. I certainly don't wish the guy dead or injured but WTF??? Why the hell would you want to go to North Korea (outside of being a State Department employee or such)? And then try to steal a Nork political poster.....this ain't Berkley dude. You're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy.
sundance435
05-13-19, 15:36
I get to some extent saying that if people didn't travel to these places, then this wouldn't happen, but that's a pretty dense blanket dismissal. You don't have to go too far for this kind of shit to happen, 1st, 2nd, or 3rd world. If you think seeing other places/cultures isn't worth the risk, that's fine, but I'm glad we have a president who really does seem to care about getting Americans back. I wouldn't expect anything less of our brothers in France, either. Godspeed to them.
Diamondback
05-13-19, 18:13
Condolences to France, and congrats on extracting the hostages. Never thought I'd be praising French military action, but we live in weird times...
RIP to the Frogs (frogmen), studs both.
Don't go to these s h i t hole places and you won't get taken hostages.
My wife lived in BF around 2002-4 for Peace Corps. Wasn't a shithole then, just poor as all hell.
She felt pretty safe, said the bus drivers would tell her if she should skip the bus trip.... amazingly those times the bus got robbed.
Sad it's gotten worse.
My wife lived in BF around 2002-4 for Peace Corps. Wasn't a shithole then, just poor as all hell.
She felt pretty safe, said the bus drivers would tell her if she should skip the bus trip.... amazingly those times the bus got robbed.
Sad it's gotten worse.
That doesn't exactly sound safe, but more like she had a rapport with the drivers who apparently paid more attention to things going on.
Impoverished doesn't mean everyone there is bad, but it often does mean upper echelon corruption along more peons saying to hell with civil behavior than would normally happen sans the former.
Condolences to France, and congrats on extracting the hostages. Never thought I'd be praising French military action, but we live in weird times...
My thoughts exactly. I only wish they raped ass without any personal losses.
Yes it sucks when some dippity dipshit goes wandering in dangerous places and gets snatched, but if done successfully, an absolutely brutal - no consideration for anyone involved with terrorists - prisoner snatch can pay dividends for a long time.
Sadly it doesn't always go that way because there are too many considerations for people we shouldn't care about. Burkina Faso shouldn't even be permitted to exist except as the target of training exercises for various SF groups to dispose of in large numbers.
That doesn't exactly sound safe, but more like she had a rapport with the drivers who apparently paid more attention to things going on.
Impoverished doesn't mean everyone there is bad, but it often does mean upper echelon corruption along more peons saying to hell with civil behavior than would normally happen sans the former.
reckon like Central America the bus driver was in on it :)
I have lived in some fun places BUT I was single and no kids etc.. anyone who is married has kids and is traveling outside of work knowing what's up is insane :)
educated ready to walk away places sometimes are OK like some who have vacation places in other countries I see no issues but often those are safe now places and again reckon most would not go back if it was going insane or if things are getting hot stay away
some places are just insane to start with and are a no go for living
this place kinda sounds like the latter :)
Don't go to these s h i t hole places and you won't get taken hostages.
You just won the internet.
Don't go to these s h i t hole places and you won't get taken hostages.
But YOLO....
My wife lived in BF around 2002-4 for Peace Corps. Wasn't a shithole then, just poor as all hell.
She felt pretty safe, said the bus drivers would tell her if she should skip the bus trip.... amazingly those times the bus got robbed.
Sad it's gotten worse.
I remember a hippie chick who joined the Peace Corps and got sent to Africa. When she came back her hair was like crew cut short, she dropped N bombs like it was cool, smoked three packs a day, and just reminded me of a Nam vet with shell shock.
The moral is ‘don’t help people’
Condolences to France, and congrats on extracting the hostages. Never thought I'd be praising French military action, but we live in weird times...
I can't speak to all French military, but the ones I've been around, FFL and 1st RPIMa, we're locked tight and excellent. And their rations were yummy.
I remember a hippie chick who joined the Peace Corps and got sent to Africa. When she came back her hair was like crew cut short, she dropped N bombs like it was cool, smoked three packs a day, and just reminded me of a Nam vet with shell shock.
The moral is ‘don’t help people’
I don't mind helping "people", it's feral humans I dislike.
Five_Point_Five_Six
05-14-19, 21:50
My thoughts exactly. I only wish they raped ass without any personal losses.
Yes it sucks when some dippity dipshit goes wandering in dangerous places and gets snatched, but if done successfully, an absolutely brutal - no consideration for anyone involved with terrorists - prisoner snatch can pay dividends for a long time.
Sadly it doesn't always go that way because there are too many considerations for people we shouldn't care about. Burkina Faso shouldn't even be permitted to exist except as the target of training exercises for various SF groups to dispose of in large numbers.
Other than providing good filming locations and story lines for Strike Back episodes, I fail to see why anyone would want to go to 99.9% of the places in Africa.
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