Photo: AFPAFP/The Local · 12 Sep 2016, 08:50Published: 12 Sep 2016 08:50 GMT+02:00France has been a victim of the chaos caused by the US response to the 9/11 attacks, the French president said on the 15th anniversary of the terror attack. America's response to the 9/11 attacks augmented rather than defeated the jihadist threat, with the consequences of the Iraq war now being felt in terror-scarred France, President Francois Hollande said Sunday. In a Facebook post commemorating the victims of the attacks Hollande echoed a famous front-page headline from Le Monde newspaper on the day after the suicide plane strikes. "And even though France, through (ex-president) Jacques Chirac, rightly refused to join the intervention (in Iraq) which it condemned, it has nonetheless been a victim of the consequences of the chaos it caused." Story continues below…That lead to criticism in some quarters that France too was only exacerbating the terror threat it was facing.

Source: The Local September 12, 2016 07:07 UTC