"Worked with French Foreign Legion in Afghanistan, good guys (they were Frenchmen mostly)."
French worked in Kabul Province...E. of the city down to the dam and up into the Uzbin Valley. Not a good place. They lost 14 people in an ambush in 2011? They are all over the Sahel now fighting ISIS even if Francois Hollande is a nerd's nerd.
And I remember the Libyan claim of the Ouzo strip and their occupation of N. Chad. My wife and I landed in N'Djamena (Fort Lamy) in 1981 on an Air Afrique plane going to Brazzaville...it taxied to the dusty terminal. made a U-turn and ran for the runway. Libyan armored cars appeared on each side of the plane. It stopped. Someone in 1st class was taken off. Well...it was Africa...Angola going on..the Savimbi revolt against the MPLA...Soviet transports on the long haul...60,000 Cuban troops..South Africans. Somehow the world is less interesting since the Wall fell.
Last edited by Argo44; 06/27/16 11:49 PM.
