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Hundreds of French troops drive back Mali rebels
Yahoo News ^ | January 12, 2013 | Rukmini Callimachi

Posted on 01/12/2013 10:43:25 AM PST by JerseyanExile

Edited on 01/12/2013 1:15:44 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

The battle to retake Mali's north from the al-Qaida-linked groups controlling it began in earnest Saturday, after hundreds of French forces deployed to the country and began aerial bombardments to drive back the Islamic extremists from a town seized earlier this week.


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1 posted on 01/12/2013 10:43:33 AM PST by JerseyanExile
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To: JerseyanExile
Turbaned fighters now control all the major northern cities, carrying out beatings, floggings and amputations in public squares just as the Taliban did.

Mali -- the next Afghanistan???

2 posted on 01/12/2013 10:53:03 AM PST by Uncle Chip
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To: JerseyanExile

If you are trading copters for pickup trucks, you aren’t using enough firepower.


3 posted on 01/12/2013 10:57:39 AM PST by PAR35
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To: Uncle Chip
The Islamist insurrection in Mali is a direct consequence of Obama's decision to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi.
4 posted on 01/12/2013 11:01:53 AM PST by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)
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To: Mr. Jeeves

The Ring of Fire = where ever Islam borders the sane world.


5 posted on 01/12/2013 11:03:18 AM PST by aimhigh ( Guns do not kill people. Planned Parenthood kills people.)
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To: JerseyanExile

So the French are getting tough even as we surrender?

Never thought I’d see the day...


6 posted on 01/12/2013 11:24:53 AM PST by Tzimisce (The American Revolution began when the British attempted to disarm the Colonists.)
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To: JerseyanExile

Nous vous saluons, la France!


7 posted on 01/12/2013 11:37:44 AM PST by stboz
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To: Tzimisce

“So the French are getting tough even as we surrender?”

The French have been getting tough in Africa for decades. It’s part of their colonial legacy and happen mostly in their old colonies to which they have banking and trade interests. Remember the French interventions in Ivory Coast, Chad, Djibouti and libya, not to mention Algeria, which is a different kind of animal. I think they’ve also rescued hostages in Somalia.

What makes this Mali intervention interesting to me is that it mirrors the fight against Al-Shabaab in Somalia on the other side of the continent, except that the French are intervening directly instead of supporting proxies. Things were crumbling pretty badly.


8 posted on 01/12/2013 12:28:32 PM PST by Owl558 ("Those who remember George Satayana are doomed to repeat him")
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It’s worth noting that the militia in Mali that is fighting the French obtained some of their weapons from the Steven’s operation at Benghazi.


9 posted on 01/12/2013 1:40:32 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: Southack

What does Hillary know, and when did she know it?


10 posted on 01/12/2013 2:15:58 PM PST by codder too
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To: JerseyanExile

Now to take back suburban Paris.


11 posted on 01/12/2013 2:16:13 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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I wonder what will be the direct consequences of whatever idiotic decision he makes with regards to Syria. Either way, it’ll be idiotic, and you’ll watch it on TV or the Internet. I’ll hear the explosions’ vibrations through the ground.


12 posted on 01/12/2013 2:20:30 PM PST by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: Owl558

It is also a strange contrast to France’s role in Syria, where they are supporting Islamist rebels to overthrow a government.


13 posted on 01/12/2013 2:20:59 PM PST by BlackVeil
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MrJ, they told us that the overthrow of Gaddafi was for freedom and democracy ... would they lie??? Those rebels aren’t murdering scum are they? ...


14 posted on 01/12/2013 2:25:03 PM PST by BlackVeil
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"It’s worth noting that the militia in Mali that is fighting the French obtained some of their weapons from the Steven’s operation at Benghazi."

That's my suspicion, as well. So, in a sense, the French are fighting Obama's effort to spread transnational Islamist rule throughout North Africa.

15 posted on 01/12/2013 3:46:51 PM PST by Truth29
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Not just *any* French...Hollande is a socialist.


16 posted on 01/12/2013 3:53:31 PM PST by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: JerseyanExile

Driving them back doesn’t cure the problem. They need the French version of the Roach Motel - Islamists go in, but they don’t come out.


17 posted on 01/12/2013 5:30:53 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Southack

And all the gun-control talk has driven Benghazi, along with all of Obama’s failures, out of the news cycle and out of the minds of the voters.


18 posted on 01/12/2013 5:49:59 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: JerseyanExile

Send in the FFL if France wants to win.


19 posted on 01/12/2013 6:35:08 PM PST by dynachrome (Vertrou in God en die Mauser)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks JerseyanExile.

African states ready troops as France bombs Mali rebels
By Bate Felix and John Irish
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre90912q-us-mali-rebels/

France continues Mali strikes, sends troops to Bamako
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http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre90b08n-us-mali-rebels-ledrian/

West Africa’s ECOWAS to send troops to retake north Mali
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre90b06w-us-mali-rebels-ecowas/

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20 posted on 01/12/2013 7:06:42 PM PST by SunkenCiv (Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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