African leaders met Saturday in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire to approve a regional African mission for replacing France’s week-long mission to stop the Al Qaeda-rebel expansion of their grip on northern Mali to the south. Present too was French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius. French troops are still arriving in Mali.
The Algerian hostage crisis forced the African governments to bring forward their pledge to send 5,000 troops to Mali. So far only Nigeria and Togo have started their deployment.
International security experts warn that after Islamists overcame a tough Algerian security force at a major gas field, West African nations with ill-equipped and inexperienced troops feel more vulnerable than ever to expanding international hardly up to taking over the Mali mission from France. Senegal and Nigeria fear they will follow Mauritanian and Niger as hosts for al Qaeda cells.
Algerian security sources report that the gas field hostage siege, which targeted foreign workers from ten nations, was carried out by a multinational group that included Algerians, Egyptians, Tunisians, Libyans, a Frenchman and a Malian. Al Qaeda in North Africa (AQIM) threatens fresh strikes against regional powers and Western interests.
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WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN NORTH AFRICA. BECAUSE THE US AND OTHER WESTERN NATIONS DO NOT HAVE THE POLITICAL WILL TO PROTECT THEIR OWN CITIZENS IN AFRICA AND THEY DO NOT WANT TO GET INVOLVED THEMSELVES THEY ARE TRYING TO GET SOME OF THE AFRICAN STATES TO FIGHT AS PROXIES. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THESE STATES ARE ILL EQUIPT TO FIGHT THESE TERRORISTS. SO WE WILL HAVE TO POUR ARMS AND TRAIN THEM ON TACTICS TO FIGHT THESE TERRORIST. AFTER SENDING TONS OF WEAPONS AND TRAINING THEM TO BE ADEQUATE FIGHTERS WHEN TIS IS OVER WE WILL HAVE A RELATIVELY PEACEFUL NORTH AFRICA A HOT BED OF ARMS AND WELL TRAINED FIGHTERS. WHO WILL THEY EVENTUALLY TURN ON------US. THIS HAS HAPPENED OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, LIBYA,EQYPT ETC. DON'T WE EVER LEARN
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