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Old 03-21-2011, 09:42 AM  
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I was thinking this same exact thing earlier this morning... why Britain and France were so jumpy on issuing a no-fly. Particularly France. I'm not very familiar with French politics but I was wondering if geography played a part in it. They are fairly close together, is France afraid of even more Africans flooding in?
Actually, there is a story in French newspaper about Qaddafi and supposedly money sent to Sarkozy in his 2008 Presidential campaign.
I don't think France is worried about Libyan flooding in, they are more concerned about Tunisians and Algerians. Plus Libya used to be Italians in the old days...



http://allafrica.com/stories/201103210015.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/1239...ance-libya.htm
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