The main targets would be Taiwan's radars, command posts, airfields, ports, fuel depots and power plants.
Last week, Sarkozy had to send in riot police to reopen fuel depots blocked by strikes in several places.
In addition, the truckers' blockade of the country's fuel depots has begun to be felt the pumps.
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Refineries, fuel depots and ports have been blocked and intermittent clashes have broken out between demonstrators and the police.
"The explosions were big," Mr. Touré said, suggesting that the French were targeting rebel fuel depots and arms caches.
The strikes also hit arms and fuel depots from Saturday night into the early hours of Sunday, according to army spokesman Colonel Thierry Burkhard.
Among the targets struck were the main Taliban fuel depots near Kandahar, the officials said, part of an effort to starve the ability to move forces.
He mentions the violence that erupted in France over employment law reforms in May, which has seen lorry drivers block refineries and fuel depots, causing a widespread chaos.
As Pentagon military planners make destroying fuel depots a prime goal, diesel and gasoline continues to enter over well-worn smuggling routes from Pakistan.
The Ugandan AMISOM base was a dismal enclave of barriers, tents, and fuel depots, tucked into a labyrinth of weed-covered dunes just south of the airport.
