This is what the D-Day was for...

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
I'll have to do some checking. Would this be the first time the French
have managed to shoot down any plane, anywhere? :-)

The French Government announced today that in light of the Madrid bombing,
France has raised its terror alert level from "run" to "hide." The only two
higher levels in France are "surrender" and "collaborate."

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"HECTOP" wrote in message
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I know this is gonna start a riot, but...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-dday31.html

France pledges to shoot down private pilots in D-Day air space
May 31, 2004

Well, they will have to do a lot better than the Allies did on the original
D-Day. :-)

Two German planes managed to strafe the whole beach and get away unscathed,
despite what was probably the most massive air cover in the history of
warfare.

HECTOP wrote :

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
I'll have to do some checking. Would this be the first time the
French have managed to shoot down any plane, anywhere? :-)

The French Government announced today that in light of the Madrid
bombing, France has raised its terror alert level from "run" to
"hide." The only two higher levels in France are "surrender" and
"collaborate."

One (between others) thing France has managed to do :
http://www.specialoperations.com/Cou...rism/gign.html

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"Skysurfer" wrote in message
One (between others) thing France has managed to do :
http://www.specialoperations.com/Cou...rism/gign.html

France has done a lot of things throughout the history, including supporting
this nation through the Revolutionary War (for their own reasons of course),
but that does mean we can't but their chops every now and then ;-)

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Will the French surrender to the GA pilot before or after they botch their
attempt at launching a missile?

"HECTOP" wrote in message
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I know this is gonna start a riot, but...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-dday31.html

France pledges to shoot down private pilots in D-Day air space
May 31, 2004
BY BEN FENTON [Ad]

ARROMANCHES, France -- Private pilots who stray into Normandy air space
during the 60th anniversary of D-Day next weekend will be shot down,
French
officials said Sunday.
With at least 16 heads of state, including President Bush, attending the
ceremonies, organizers are guarding particularly against an al-Qaida
attack
from the air.
It is one of the biggest security exercises in Europe since the war.
An enormous network of radar equipment has been stretched between
Deauville
and Cherbourg, with early warning aircraft already in the skies.
The aircraft will be joined this week by small, remote-controlled drones.
Advanced Crotale anti-aircraft missiles have been primed, and two
squadrons
of Mirage 2000 fighters are stationed nearby.
The French ministry of defense has spared no expense. It has established a
temporary air base at Carpiquet, outside the city of Caen, as the hub of
its
defenses.
There, more than 800 soldiers will maintain round-the-clock surveillance,
backed by more than 50 military helicopters.
A spokesman for the 120-acre camp said: "The dangers are multiple, from a
hijacked airliner being crashed into the stands at the main international
ceremony at Arromanches to a tiny bomb being detonated remotely.
"But we are stretching an impenetrable fabric of protection above
Normandy."
At sea, fishermen and pleasure craft have been banned from the Seine Bay
that stretches along the beaches code named Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and
Sword on June 6, 1944.
A French carrier, Charles de Gaulle, and an American carrier, George
Washington, will be patrolling the bay, which will also be swept for
mines.
On land, more than 9,000 French troops are arriving this week,
supplementing
the 6,300 gendarmes and 2,300 police officers already on duty.
Arromanches' 534 residents have been told that they must either stay
indoors
throughout next Sunday or leave the area.

Daily Telegraph


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Skysurfer writes:

One (between others) thing France has managed to do :
http://www.specialoperations.com/Cou...rism/gign.html

And another thing the French managed to do recently is avoid helping
to create another terrorist state in the Middle East.

It's sad that we need more military power to protect our historic sites from
the terrorists than what it took to secure them in the first place...

"HECTOP" wrote in
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I know this is gonna start a riot, but...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-dday31.html

France pledges to shoot down private pilots in D-Day air space

"Bob Fry" wrote

And another thing the French managed to do recently is avoid helping
to create another terrorist state in the Middle East.

?????????????


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"Morgans" wrote in message
...

"Bob Fry" wrote

And another thing the French managed to do recently is avoid helping
to create another terrorist state in the Middle East.

?????????????

The reference is obviously to Iraq, where many people expect that, since the
Shiite faction comprise a majority of Iraqis, a fundamentalist Islamic nation
will eventually evolve from our ill-considered efforts to create a democratic
form of government in the Middle East.

George Z.

"John Gaquin" wrote in message
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"HECTOP" wrote in message news:KrLuc.23209

France pledges to shoot down private pilots in D-Day air space

I'll have to do some checking. Would this be the first time the French
have managed to shoot down any plane, anywhere? :-)

An odd thing for someone with a last name like Gaquin to be saying.

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