Later in 2010, Mr. Merah made another bid to join the army, this time applying to the Foreign Legion.
Kahn's mother survived a Nazi death camp, his father the French Foreign Legion.
But where the Londoners drew a blank United's deadly Dwight Yorke sent the foreign legion crashing out of the cup.
Only a few old fogeys seem to worry that the English team is now as cosmopolitan as the French foreign legion.
It's easy to forget he played French Foreign Legion soldier Rick' O'Connell.
The second time, in July 2010, he attempted to sign up for the Foreign Legion in Toulouse, but left during the first round of testing, the ministry said.
He said the soldier from the French Foreign Legion was killed as special forces hunted militants hiding in the Ifoghas Massif - a remote mountain region in the Sahara.
Raised in a strict Prussian family, he went to sea at age 14 and spent time in the French Foreign Legion in Africa before arriving in Port Lincoln in 1961 aboard a Swedish merchant ship.
His first attempt was in the northern city of Lille, where he was refused because of prior convictions, and his second, in July 2010, was in Toulouse, where he sought to join the Foreign Legion but left during the first round of tests.
"If back in the 1930s or '40s the French objected to portraying the Foreign Legion as being overly harsh on Africans, or the British were unhappy that they were being shown as too colonialistic, then Hollywood would make the edits it needed to market its product, " he said.
"I salute the Italian boy who came to Paris to earn his living and chose to become French, first in August 1914 when he lied about his age to sign up at 16 for the Foreign Legion to defend his adopted homeland, " the French president said in a statement.
French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner awarded him the Legion of Honor in 2008, on a visit to Poland marking the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
The failure to make even basic investments in foreign policy has been pervasive, and the examples are legion.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars favor opening an embassy to help with the MIA accounting, while the American Legion is against it.
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