Sarkozy warns against weak response to terror

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Source: AFP



WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Nicolas Sarkozy Monday warned against showing weakness to "barbaric" terrorists, after two Frenchmen died in a failed French bid to free them from Al-Qaeda-linked militants in Africa.

The French president accepted condolences from US President Barack Obama in Oval Office talks over the deaths of the hostages, who were kidnapped in Niger and killed by their captors in Mali during a rescue attempt Saturday.

Sarkozy, in Washington for talks focusing on the G20 and the G8 global economic groupings, which France is chairing this year, said the United States and France stood united against terrorism.

"I also want to thank President Obama for his expression of solidarity to the French people in light of the loss that we have felt at the cowardly killing of two young Frenchmen... in a barbaric fashion by terrorists." Sarkozy said both the United States and France believed "that any show of weakness would be culpable, and we have no choice but to go after these terrorists wherever they may be."

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[Downwinder]

1. Maybe we should define just what is terror.

Terror to me is losing my income, home, or medical coverage.