French Perfidy

Two French reporters were present when anti-American terrorists fired a SAM at a DHL cargo plane. As Den Beste remarks:

One has to wonder what Paris Match would have done if their reporters had been invited to Africa to visit an insurgent group fighting against French forces. Would they have passively watched an attack which might have killed French pilots? Would Paris Match have published the pictures?

I suppose one could compare this with the embedded reporters in the American campaign. But wait, the French keep saying they’re allies.