A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
Posted on 11/12/2011 10:50:49 AM PST by tobyhill
Weapons smuggled from Libya after the collapse of Muammar Qaddafi's government are flowing through the surrounding region, the president of neighboring Niger said, a development that threatens to destabilize a swath of the continent already struggling against ethnic unrest and a regional branch of Al Qaeda.
"Arms were stolen in Libya and are being disseminated all over the region," Niger's president Mahamadou Issoufou said following a meeting with South African president Jacob Zuma. "Saharan countries are facing terrorist threats, arms and criminal trafficking. The Libya crisis is amplifying those crises."
Issoufou's remarks came days after Niger's military clashed with arms smugglers traveling from Libya. Six smugglers and one soldier died in Sunday's battle, he said.
Niger's foreign minister Mohamed Bazoum said the battle was the fourth such incident since February, the beginning of the uprising in Libya that resulted in Qaddafi's overthrow and the widespread looting of his vast armories.
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...Seems that the grammatical modifier is associated with a word other than the one intended. In other words your participle is dangling. (-;)
...That said, point taken. BHO, SSDD. Guess he's canceled any vacations in that vicinity.
< /sarc>
“You break it, you own it.”
“Air power alone never won a war”
“There was no follow-up game plan following defeat of the government.”
How many time did the libs mindlessly repeat this dogma following the invasion of Iraq?
They did 9-11 on the cheap think what they can do now.
A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
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