ESTO SÍ QUE son tropas de pacificación como dios manda, y no como esos yanquis asesinos de inocentes que han tomado a sangre y fuego la anteriormente idílica Iraq, un verdadero Jardín del Edén hasta que el pérfido Bush decidió quedarse con su petróleo:

Twelve French soldiers on peacekeeping duties in Ivory Coast have been arrested in connection with a bank theft there last week.

The troops had been assigned to protect a branch of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO) and were charged with stealing $120,000 (100,000 euros).

French military spokesman Colonel Henry Aussavy said the accused soldiers were being sent home to face French justice.

More than 4,000 French troops are serving alongside UN peacekeepers.

The robbery came as banks throughout the eight countries of the Economic and Monetary Union of West Africa (UEMOA) were in the process of replacing a 1992 series of banknotes with more secure bills.

(via Glenn Reynolds)