Jihadists’ Surge in North Africa Reveals Grim Side of Arab Spring
By ROBERT F. WORTH - Published: January 19, 2013
WASHINGTON — As the uprising closed in around him, the Libyan dictator Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi warned that if he fell, chaos and holy war would overtake North Africa. “Bin Laden’s people would come to impose ransoms by land and sea,” he told reporters. “We will go back to the time of Redbeard, of pirates, of Ottomans imposing ransoms on boats.”
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If the rhetoric of the Islamic militants now fighting across North Africa is about holy war, the reality is often closer to a battle among competing gangsters in a region where government authority has long been paper-thin.
that one a related in yours .. as Bin Laden said .. as Gaddhafi said .. it will be tough on you Western infidels .. we all know invasion and killing breeds militant enemies, and we are doing one heck of a lot of killing .. yet?
Mali coup leader stresses national unity Martin Vogl and Michelle Faul March 25, 2012 - 1:54PM - AP
Mali's US-trained coup leader says he is in control of the country, has no fears of a counter-coup and wants peace talks with the rebels whose northern rebellion was the trigger that led him to oust a democratically-elected president.
Captain Amadou Sanogo, who appeared exhausted, his voice hoarse, stressed the importance of unity for the West African nation in an exclusive interview with The Associated Press at Kati garrison outside Bamako, the capital.
What started there on Wednesday as a mutiny of low-ranking officers and rank-and-file soldiers turned into a full-blown coup d'etat.
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