Down in Mali

[manas]

It's sad that Timbuktu's historic sites were destroyed. Even worse for the people of Mali who now have to deal with such BS.

I believe France was supposed to send drones at one point. Maybe things will get more heated there once they NATO works out all the politics.

 

[Marauder06]

It's sad that Timbuktu's historic sites were destroyed. Even worse for the people of Mali who now have to deal with such BS.

I believe France was supposed to send drones at one point. Maybe things will get more heated there once they NATO the US works out all the politics.

 

[manas]

Haha, I see what you did there. We just need to commit instead of being half in and half out.

The United States has periodically flown Global Hawk surveillance drones and some reconnaissance planes over northern Mali and the wider Sahel region, but has so far limited Predator surveillance drones to missions in nearby Libya. State Department officials have expressed strong reservations about introducing armed drones in any missions in Mali.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/w...ws-in-a-divided-mali.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

 

[SkrewzLoose]

Haha, I see what you did there. We just need to commit instead of being half in and half out.



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/24/w...ws-in-a-divided-mali.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

That's what...he said?

 

[racing_kitty]

Not everyone in Mali is happy about their new fundamentalist overlords. Link to article here. It would seem that some folks in Gao said "enough," and lynched the police commissioner after a journo was killed earlier in the day.

 

[Chopstick]

He gained notoriety when he was reported to have cut off his own brother's hand as fighters imposed a strict form of Islamic law across northern Mali.

racing_kitty, sounds like the police commish wasnt exactly a "people person".

 

[RackMaster]

When the dust clears I'd be curious to see what kind of "foreign fighter" numbers will be in the dead pile.