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?
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.
Pat-hological hyp-henati-on ale-rt!
May they cluster up so we can cluster F them.
The Arabs will kill them long before we have time to get there. This is probably the point of this public article.
Your url went 404, so I’m adding another.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.1.589665671
“Terrorism: Al-Qaeda ‘building bunkers’ in the Sahara”
SNIPPET: “Timbuctu, 24 June (AKI) - Militants linked to Al-Qaeda are building fortified bunkers in the Sahara desert of Algeria and Mali to shelter militants from air attacks, security experts have claimed. 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 the news site, Middle East Online.”
SNIPPET: “Experts stress that aircraft are vital to track them down and attack them.”
SNIPPET: “Hamed Maiga said the fighters had already laid minefields around their desert hideouts to guard against assaults overland.”
SNIPPET - quote:
https://www.osac.gov/Reports/report.cfm?contentID=120653
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Warden Message: Segou (Mali) Kidnapping Threat
CONSULAR AFFAIRS BULLETINS
Sub-Saharan Africa - Mali
13 Aug 2010
U.S. Embassy Bamako released the following Warden Message on August 13, 2010:
The U.S. Embassy in Bamako is issuing this Warden Message to warn U.S. citizens of reports of a kidnapping threat against Westerners in Segou from the Islamic extremist group Al-Qaeda in the Lands of the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Accordingly, the Embassy recommends that U.S. citizens defer non-essential travel to Segou.
U.S. citizens who are currently in Segou should maintain good personal security practices and remain aware of their surroundings at all times, including always locking their homes and cars, varying routes and time of travel, and avoiding drawing attention to themselves. When going out, they should avoid being part of large, highly visible groups of Westerners, and should be particularly alert when frequenting locales associated with Westerners.