Intervening once again without the consent of the people who pay for the intervention and without even a hint from elected officials. So the U.S. is on the same side as al Qaeda in Syria (as it was Libya and the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt) but against them in Mali? via France: US helping support Mali operation – Yahoo! News.
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — France claimed new
successes in its campaign to oust Islamist extremists from northern Mali
on Sunday, bombarding the major city of Gao with airstrikes targeting
the airport and training camps used by the al-Qaida-linked rebel group
controlling the city.
France’s foreign minister also said the 3-day-old intervention is gaining international support, with communications and transport help from the United States and backing from Britain, Denmark and other European countries.
The French-led effort to take back Mali’s
north from the extremists occupying it has included airstrikes by jets
and combat helicopters on at least four northern towns, of which Gao is
the largest. Some 400 French troops have been deployed to the country in
the all-out effort to win back the territory from the well-armed
rebels, who seized control of an area larger than France itself
following a coup in Mali nine months ago.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius
said the military effort succeeded in blocking the advance that had
prompted the intervention. “The Islamist offensive has been stopped,”
Fabius said on RTL radio Sunday. “Blocking the terrorists … we’ve done
it.”
He
sought to stress that the operation is gaining international backing,
despite concern about the risks of the mission in a stretch of lawless
desert in weakly governed country. “We have the support of the Americans for communications and transport,” Fabius said, but gave no details.
U.S. officials have said they had offered to send drones to Mali and were considering a broad range of options for assistance, including information-sharing and possibly allowing limited use of refueling tankers.
Transport and drones, and of course the operators that have been on the ground for months. The sheeple will remain silent as long as it’s just their taxes being plundered. Interestingly, the same media that regularly defend, if not promote, Islam and boldly claim there is no threat of sharia in the U.S., report on the obvious and deadly plague of sharia-implementing Muslims in Mali as if it were an isolated incident.
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