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FarCenter

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3. Making sense of Mali's armed groups

Reply to redgreenandblue (Reply #1)

Tue Jan 15, 2013, 10:46 AM

Jan 2013

Al-Qaeda gets the most attention, but local groups and ethnic fighters are part of a complicated mix of instability.

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/01/20131139522812326.html

Ironically, the forces that the French are fighting include a large number of US trained fighters who defected to the Taureg side.

The main ethnic groups are Arab, Taureg, Songhai and Fulani.

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US Prepares Support for French Military Intervention in Mali [View all] xchrom Jan 2013 OP

Al Qaeda? Does it even exist? redgreenandblue Jan 2013 #1

Making sense of Mali's armed groups FarCenter Jan 2013 #3

I don't know what to think about this. I know we're sending TwilightGardener Jan 2013 #2

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