France and Israel are on a collision course in south Lebanon following incidents involving Israeli warplanes flying over the positions of the French military contingent serving with the UN peacekeeping force there.
In the most serious confrontation, French troops were said by sources in Paris to have been "just two seconds" from launching an anti- aircraft missile at two Israeli F-15 fighters carrying out mock low-level attack runs over one outpost.
As this was happening, a pair of Israeli reconnaissance aircraft circled over the headquarters of the French battalion in the Jabal Maroun area, possibly taking aerial photographs there.
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* So I guess the question is .. Why didn't they fire?
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