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| Thousands March in Mali to Urge Armed Intervention against Islamists |
| 2012-10-12 |
| [An Nahar] Several thousand people marched Thursday in Mali's capital Bamako to call for armed intervention by a west African force to help wrest back the vast north from armed Islamist groups. The demonstrators carried banners and placards expressing support for the Malian army, Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), which is preparing to send troops if it gets the backing of the United Nations ...what started out as a a diplomatic initiative, now trying to edge its way into legislative, judicial, and executive areas... and western countries. One of the banners read: "Captain Sanogo, all soldiers to the front." Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo was behind a March 22 coup that toppled president Amadou Toumani Toumani Toure and caused chaos, opening the way for the Islamists, including Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), who are applying hardline Islamic sharia law in northern cities under their control. Sanago stepped down from power last April, but remains influential in Bamako, where his men are accused of many human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... abuses. Other slogans and banners targeted Tuareg rebels of the separatist National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad (MNLA), which launched an offensive in the north in January. At first allied to the Islamists, the MNLA was swiftly overpowered and sidelined by them. A draft resolution drawn up by La Belle France and its partners on the U.N. Security Council urges ECOWAS and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... to make clear within 30 days what means they would use to reconquer the north of Mali. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 See also MEMRI.ORG > [Video] FRENCH AL-QAEDA-IN ISLAMIC-MAGHREB OPERATIVE TO FRENCH, US PRESIDENTS AND UN: INTERVENTION IN NORTHERN MALI WILL FACE RESISTANCE SIMILAR TO THAT OF AFGHANISTAN AND PALESTINE. The Battle/Jihad for Africa. versus * WORLD NEWS > FRENCH PROSECUTER RAISES ALARM: WE'RE [France] FACING THE BIGGEST [domestic = home-grown] TERROR THREAT SINCE 1996, + bombings, etc. carried out then by ALgeria-based GIA = ARMED ISLAMIC GROUP. As per 1990's Net, how will the UK-NATO back up Les Francais wid a much-reduced-n-getting-smaller Royal Everything, + NOW IN 2012 OR SO IFF SCOTLAND GOES INDEPENDENT + FUTURE MIGHTY IRANIAN NAVY IN BOTH THE MED + ATLANTIC, i.e. between England + Amerika??? Wid America = Amerika, the OWG Mighty USSA versus OWG Weak USRoA Global SSR, also under intensified threat of Conventional + poten Nuclear Jihad by Caliphate-happy Hard Boyz??? [PLA GENERAL LI YUAN = CHINA MAY NEED 1/2 OR MORE OF CONUS-NORAM TO HANDLE ITS EXCESSIVE POPULATION here]. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2012-10-12 22:54 |