according to an al-jazeera report, bin laden did some trash talking to france earlier today. associated press via yahoo news is reporting that an audio recording played on al-jazeera
questioned why the French would consider the resistance against Nazi German troops occupying their nation in World War II to be heroic while the fight against French and other foreign troops in Afghanistan is labeled terrorism
france has approximately 3,500 troops in afghanistan.
bin laden had some hard words for france
bin laden called france “a hireling of the united states” and about france’s ability to fight a war on terrorism he told the french
The size of your debts and the weakness of your budget will not allow you to open a new front
was the message in arabic translated directly to english or did it pass through french first? i don’t know, but hireling is not a commonly used word.
the headline for the story uses a word i talked about a few months ago on richyrocks english
Bin Laden demands France withdraw from Afghanistan
withdraw means take out or remove
the principal function of an atm is to allow bank customers to withdraw money from their accounts
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