France still bombing the hell out of Mali militants
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Re: France Bombs Mali rebels
More than one venue for propaganda is good ..Don't you know?
More than one venue for propaganda is good ..Don't you know?
And I am sure the French and the Govt will find some allies within the Taureg tribes. After the Islamists took control the Tauregs were tossed aside.
Imagine they are more then pissed about this.
They want equal treatment to some form of autonomy to independence. Oh deals will be cut.
Dude, we got planes. Who do you think bombed the hell out of Libya? One of Canada's prouder moments.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...adians-Frenchman-bodies-gas-plant-gunmen.html
Who was the white jihadi? Algerian forces find 'two Canadians and at least one Frenchman' among bodies of gas plant gunmen
PUBLISHED: 19:35 GMT, 20 January 2013 | UPDATED: 16:23 GMT, 21 January 2013
A couple of suspects, the guy in the suit is an ugly piece of work eh. What alien spy service has a long history of using Canadian passports? William Hague is an idiot.
Who was the white jihadi? Algerian forces find 'two Canadians and at least one Frenchman' among bodies of gas plant gunmen
- Canadian passports found on badly burned bodies of two insurgents
- One Frenchman among the terrorists, say Algerian judicial sources
- Algerian PM says 37 foreign hostages from eight countries had died
- Total death toll of captives and hostage-takers has risen to 89
- Cameron says repatriation of dead Brits 'top priority' but may take time
- Some of the gunmen 'given short-term contracts by the oil and gas giant'
- Attackers 'arrived in cars painted in colours of Algerian state energy firm'
- Group threatens further attacks unless France ends assault on Mali rebels
- William Hague denies intervention in Libya had fuelled extremism in region
PUBLISHED: 19:35 GMT, 20 January 2013 | UPDATED: 16:23 GMT, 21 January 2013
A couple of suspects, the guy in the suit is an ugly piece of work eh. What alien spy service has a long history of using Canadian passports? William Hague is an idiot.
We're gathered here, with a cross to bear, the bravest men anywhere,
that this great land will remain free.
God bless the men of the 303.
Side by side, we know no fear, our minds are sharp, our eyes are clear.
In the air, on land, or on the sea we're the fightin' men of the 303.
Give us this day our daily bread, and leopard skin for our head,
that we may fight
Years from now, when we are gone, our childrens kids will hear this song.
Think how strong and proud they'll be.
Grampa fought for the 303.
God bless the men of the 303.
Ten-Hutt!"
that this great land will remain free.
God bless the men of the 303.
Side by side, we know no fear, our minds are sharp, our eyes are clear.
In the air, on land, or on the sea we're the fightin' men of the 303.
Give us this day our daily bread, and leopard skin for our head,
that we may fight
Years from now, when we are gone, our childrens kids will hear this song.
Think how strong and proud they'll be.
Grampa fought for the 303.
God bless the men of the 303.
Ten-Hutt!"
They really should check out all those 707 cargo flights flying from SA across to Africa. Not in normal flight paths.
Algeria crisis: Algerian forces find 'two Canadians and at least one Frenchman' among bodies of gas plant gunmen | Mail Online
A couple of suspects, the guy in the suit is an ugly piece of work eh. What alien spy service has a long history of using Canadian passports? William Hague is an idiot.
No. David Cameron is not a jihadi, and neither is Hague, so stop being silly.
Cameron has been in Britain whilst the hostage crisis was in process.
And the Yanks it would seem... looks like we're involved again.
I smell another Nobel Peace Prize for Obama!
I smell another Nobel Peace Prize for Obama!
So are you aiding and abetting these two fugitives from common sense? Perhaps you are in league with these notorious characters. Neither of the fugitives would be suitable for any kind of useful hands on work. You lot do have cell phones over there don't you? Why not do UK a favour and arrest them anyway.
Anyone who owes Germany gold is involved.
Seems the Guys that got pushed aside by the Nutbars are willing to deal. As predicted. These extremists rperesent a small portion of the countries populace. Used the rebel Tuareg movement. Then sent them on their way.
A Mali Islamists split emerges as Africans prepare assault - The Globe and Mail
A split emerged on Thursday in the alliance of Islamist militant groups occupying northern Mali, as French and African troops prepared an offensive aimed at driving them from their safe haven in the Sahara.
A senior negotiator from the Ansar Dine rebels, who helped seize the north from Mali’s government last year, said he was now part of a faction that wanted talks and rejected the group’s alliance with al-Qaeda’s North African franchise AQIM.
It was unclear how many fighters had joined the new Islamic Movement of Azawad (MIA) faction. But the announcement will encourage international negotiators who have long sought to prise apart the Islamist alliance, seen as a major threat by Washington and other Western and regional powers.
“There has to be a ceasefire so there can be talks,” Alghabass Ag Intallah, an ethnic Tuareg, said from the Ansar Dine stronghold of Kidal in northeast Mali. The new MIA would focus its efforts on seeking autonomy for the northern homeland of the desert Tuaregs, he said.
For nearly two weeks, French aircraft have bombarded rebel positions, vehicles and stores in the centre and north of Mali as a ground force of African troops assembles to launch a U.N.-backed military intervention.
The strikes halted a rebel advance further south. French and Malian ground troops have also retaken several towns after the insurgents avoided a head-on fight, abandoning vehicles and slipping away into the scrubland.
On Thursday, a Reuters correspondent saw around 160 troops from Burkina Faso deployed in the dusty central Malian town of Markala – the first West African troops to link up with French and Malian forces. They replaced French soldiers protecting a bridge over the Niger River.
Malian women pounding millet by the roadside stopped to wave as French armoured vehicles, trucks and jeeps rumbled north from Segou – some 30 km from Markala – heading for the town of Diabaly, recently recaptured from the rebels.
News of the French and African advances has been overshadowed by allegations from residents and rights groups that Malian government soldiers have executed Tuaregs and Arabs accused of collaborating with the rebels.