[darkwing104]

[Sacajaweau]

IIC, Obama sent OUR SOLDIERS into this region...maybe 6 or 8 months ago.

[Sacajaweau]

IIRC, Obama sent OUR SOLDIERS into this region...maybe 6 or 8 months ago.

[Sacajaweau]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/world/africa/us-sees-hazy-threat-from-mali-militants.html?_r=0

[onedoug]

What’s in a name? Any obamite sheethead would be as much the terroristic thing to be destroyed.

[alloysteel]

The Muslim Brotherhood (and its paramilitary branch, al Qaeda) may be involved.

What, a surprise.

For years, France has sought to integrate the Muslim immigrants from their African territories, and even, for a while, had attempted to make Algeria part of “Metropolitan” France. That, of course, fell apart rather abruptly when the Algerian Muslims raised an insurrection, successfully declaring independence in 1962. Ethnic French settlers in Algeria (”pieds-noirs”) were forcibly expelled and returned to France, and the dictatorship of Ben Bella was asserted everywhere in that tormented land. Ben Bella was himself deposed in 1965, by Boumedienne, who ruled with an equally lopsided authoritarian control until the revolts of the 1990’s, again senting the country into near-endless turmoil.

[Moltke]

Fishing a main source of income in a landlocked desert country? Even Wikipedia doesn’t mention fishing at all.