Posted on 06/26/2010 5:11:22 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Militants linked to Al Qaeda are building fortified bun-kers in the Algeria and Mali areas of the Sahara desert to shelter militants from air attacks, security experts claim.
The members of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb have hidden themselves in the desert without any notion of national boundaries, according to the experts. “We have different verifiable reports which enable us to state that AQIM is currently in the process of building shelters, or bunkers, in which to hide against attacks in the desert shared by Mali and Algeria,” a Malian source told Middle East Online, reported AKI.
“There is no doubt these people are giving themsel-ves a means to their ends,” the highly-placed official in Mali’s northern operational command, added. An official from one of Mali’s neighbours confirmed the reports, saying, “The terrorists are building fortified bu-nkers in mountain areas bec-ause they fear coming under air attack. Some have alr-eady been constructed in Mali and Algeria, and others have been started along the Niger border.”
Well-organised and highly mobile, the local Al Qaeda group is considered by ma-ny to be unassailable in the Sahara, but the countries where they operate have recently been offered assistance from France and the US. Experts stress that aircraft are vital to track them down. “I think they are worried at the prospect of every country in the region joining in a widespread conflict, hence their decision to take counter measures,” former Malian defence minister and intelligence chief Soumeylou Boubeye Maiga said.
the local Al Qaeda group is considered by ma-ny to be unassailable in the Sahara
The B-52s could never carpet bomb them there.
Islam is at war with the world and the world don’t know it.
Like that will protect them from a JDAM hit LOL
I hope they are that stu-pid.
Pray for rain!
Perfect! Bunkers are the ideal thing for Al Qaeda, it’s exactly what we want. Get them all together in one central location, and we suddenly have a new test target to evaluate the operation of the bunker busters!
So nice of them to volunteer to be test subjects...
It's curious that they come to me - obviously they are not traveling on orders - perhaps they are going for the waters?
If bunkers didn’t work for the Japs 60+ years ago, how they gonna work for you now, Achmed?
FADM Halsey is no longer with us. Neither is Gen LeMay.
Nothing worked for the Japs because we would stop at nothing.
That is no longer true.
Right! Let all the roaches gather in one spot so we only have to use 1 JDAM.
I have trouble believing they would be so stupid. If they are in the desert, with no civilian area surrounding them, then there is no limit to what we could do to them without worry of collateral damage.
Right you are. Now we stop immediately if CAIR screams “foul” or “racism.”
Pat-hological hyp-henati-on ale-rt!
“Going of the waters?”
Are you crazy?!
There is very little in the way of potable (drinkable) water in the Magreb. Are these very healthy young men with short haricuts and Ray-Bans Americans, or some sub-species?
About the only thing we won’t stop doing are drones or guided munitions. Should be enough to blast these “bunkers” to smithereens.
May they cluster up so we can cluster F them.
in the Algeria and Mali areas of the Sahara desert to shelter militants from air attacksMuzzie bunkers plus UAVs equals traditional unmarked Muzzie graves. Thanks LibWhacker.
The Arabs will kill them long before we have time to get there. This is probably the point of this public article.
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