[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Eurotwit for the ping, interesting essay.

Thanks Ernest for these, or at least pings to most of 'em:.

• On Belmokhtar's group: 'They believe the West is one great Sodom and Gomorrah' (Al-Queda in Mali)
• Second raid underway to free foreign workers at Algerian gas facility
• Algeria in Jihadi Flames
• Do You Know What is Happening in Mali?
• Al-Qaida Resurgent As Terror Spreads Across N. Africa
• 'Battalion of Blood' gang offers to SWAP two U.S. hostages seized in gas field siege for two terrori
• Foreigners still caught in Sahara hostage crisis (20 foreigh missing or held)
• Report: Al Qaeda group demands release of two well-known jihadists ( Algeria attack Hostage ...)
• Malian and French forces retakes key town from rebels
• Al-Qaida in the Heart of Africa
• Thirty hostages reported killed in Algeria assault (12 minutes ago)
• 'Thirty-five hostages killed in Algerian helicopter attack on BP gas plant siege': Two Brits feared
• Watching from above (UN request for drones)
• Yet another mess in the making in Mali? [Op-Ed]
• Mali conflict: France to increase troop numbers
• FYI Mali is Africa's third largest gold producer after South Africa and Ghana.
• Mali Islamists 'enter' Konna after clashes with army ('Mujao' risin'?)
• Islamists' Harsh Justice Is on the Rise in North Mali
• (Documenting today's Arab slavery) Film "Stolen" exposes modern-day slavery in Polisario camps

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for the ping. Very interesting....more should read it.