France - Funding Iraqi Terrorists

That's where the millions France paid to terrorists in Iraq went.

Paris - France paid millions of dollars for the release of three journalists kidnapped in Iraq and its foreign intelligence service now knows the identity of the abductors, a reporter who was himself held hostage in Lebanon in 1987 said on Monday in a magazine interview.

Roger Auque told the August-September issue of Afrique Magazine that - despite official denials - the French government had paid $6m to free Liberation newspaper correspondent Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi interpreter in June.

Two other French journalists who had been released last December, Christian Chesnot and Georges Malbrunot, were handed over in exchange for $2m, Auque said, relying on what he described as "a reliable source" for his information.

$8 million buys a lot of IED's and weapons. How many of our troops have killed with explosives and guns bought with this blood money?

First they steal millions from the oil for food program, then block all efforts to oust Saddam and now this.

The French should be so proud.
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