When Sarkozy burned politeness to the British, in Benghazi March 2011

(BRUXELLES2) We knew that the air operation in Libya had been started at the quarter turn. And that the British and the French weren't really on the same wavelength. It is now confirmed in a very official way, at least in London. It is an episode that will go down in political and military annals. Barely had the Security Council resolution been ratified and the Paris summit met, when French helicopters went on the attack near Benghzai, destroying several vehicles of Colonel Gaddafi's Libyan army. A solo maneuver that irritated more than one in London in particular. Where parliamentarians and officials make no secret of having been heckled by the French president...