A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
Posted on 04/11/2012 6:58:21 PM PDT by Duke of Qin
But though the MNLA has a secular nationalist bent, the rebellion in the north is helping Islamist extremists expand their foothold in the country. The MNLA has been in a loose partnership with Ansar Dine, an Islamist group led by Iyad ag Ghali, a Tuareg who led a major rebellion in the 1990s. Ag Ghali's career is a testament to the tangled web of alliances in the region: His most recent gig was in Libya, where, according to reports, Libya's transitional government encouraged him to lead a large-scale defection of Tuareg fighters from Muammar al-Qadaffi's security forces.
Ag Ghali obliged, but the Libyan rebels' gain was the Malian government's loss when he brought several dozen men in arms into a situation in which a rebellion was already simmering in the Malian Sahara. Since then, he's fallen in with the MNLA, and he seems to have a productive working relationship with al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). The warriors of Ansar Dine care less about an independent Azawad than they do about an extreme Islamist program. Ansar Dine doesn't communicate much — theirs is not a media operation — but it's their black flag that now flies over the northern towns of Timbuktu and Gao.
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Spreading democracy, rights, freedoms and liberty were the objectives of other administrations.
This administrations sought a new path, blaming the ills of the islamic world on Bush and previous adminstrations and has thus thought to do the opposite,
It is now about spreading islam and sharia. That is the NEW AMERICAN administration’s policy.
Spreading democracy, rights, freedoms and liberty were the objectives of other administrations.
This administrations sought a new path, blaming the ills of the islamic world on Bush and previous adminstrations and has thus thought to do the opposite,
It is now about spreading islam and sharia. That is the NEW AMERICAN administration’s policy.
Spreading democracy, rights, freedoms and liberty were the objectives of other administrations.
This administrations sought a new path, blaming the ills of the islamic world on Bush and previous administrations and has thus thought to do the opposite,
It is now about spreading islam and sharia. That is the NEW AMERICAN administration’s policy.
Just because he quotes the 'holy' (as he calls it) koran, prays in Arabic and thinks the sound of Muslim evening prayer is "the most beautiful sound on Earth". He can't be a Muslim. How could this be?
(ps. i'm getting really tired of this idiotic liberal fantasy-land game)
A map of the Sahel region showing where Al Qaeda operates (AFP/Graphic)
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