Epstein Secrets

g sending "transport or refueling planes," according to The Washington Post. In the wake of the attack in Algeria, for which Al Qaeda of the Islamic Maghreb has taken responsibility, there will be pressure to do more. The outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary, Leon Panetta, has already raised the possibility t

. , Islamists have managed to gain ground, defeating Malian soldiers and opening a southern front just two hundred and fifty miles from the capital, Bamako, even with the French offensive. The French are saying that the Islamists are using child solders, which will pose a tactical and ethical quandary

lution and a worsening of the situation. The latter may well include the entrenchment of the regional franchise of Al Qaeda—Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb—in a new safe haven in northern Mali. Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): On December 9th negotiations finally started in Kampala between the M2

), ECOWAS, and the African Union were disappointed by the lack of outright support for a military mission. Instability in the interim government in Bamako is impeding regional and international efforts to reunite the divided country. On December 10th, the interim Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra was

nt in Bamako, the north has emerged as a haven for terrorists. It has been taken over by radical jihadi factions, including Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, who have imposed a brutal application of Shariah law that includes public whippings, beatings, amputations and stonings. Background The Tuareg ar

iew Mali, a former French colony, is a West African nation that had often been cited as a democratic model. But in March 2012, mutinous soldiers in Bamako, the capital, rose up in a coup, overthrowing the elected government of President Amadou Toumani Tour& The soldiers were angry over the government'