Next please : Mali (en nieuwe militaire acties in Libië)

[Carnivore]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Frankenstein

Idem hoe ik erover dacht.

Die pest waarover je hebt, kiemt heel toevallig wel goed in de woestijn.

Bwaaa... In onze steden doet 'm 't niet veel slechter zenne.
't is eigenlijk meer een kanker.
Je moet snijden om er vanaf te geraken.

[meneer]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Carnivore

Bwaaa... In onze steden doet 'm 't niet veel slechter zenne.
't is eigenlijk meer een kanker.
Je moet snijden om er vanaf te geraken.

Snijden of kappen.

[zonbron]

Frankrijk vreest terroristische aanslagen op eigen grondgebied en zet het leger in, activatie van het programma 'Vigipirate'

AP - France girds for new threats after Mali operation
15 januari 2013

PARIS (AP) -- Armed soldiers are on guard in Paris' subways, train stations and some of the world's most recognizable monuments to head off terror attacks after France's military launched an operation to push back al-Qaida-linked insurgents in Mali.

Since the operation in Mali began on Friday, the soldiers have reinforced already tight security with a far more visible presence, patrolling in small groups at malls, beneath the Eiffel Tower and outside the Louvre. Security forces stand in twos and threes on subway platforms, patrolling through the pedestrian tunnels and airports in black or camouflage, as part of the national "Vigipirate" program.

Interior Minister Manuel Valls said France is well aware of the dangers of attacks from terrorists angry over the intervention. But he said he believed the long-term threat posed by the advance of militant Islamist fighters in Mali was far greater, because the country could become a potential training ground for terrorists.

Declaring France had "opened the gates of hell" with its assault, the rebels from the Sahel desert region that includes Mali threatened retribution on Monday.

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"The Malian Islamists currently have other priorities than carrying out a terrorist attack in France," he told Le Parisien newspaper. But long term, he said, the threat is very real, especially given how easy it is to travel between France and Mali. "With this military intervention, we're on the front lines. Suddenly, France is a priority target."

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[zonbron]

Hollande is op staatsbezoek in de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten.
Vanuit dat land laat hij weten dat Frankrijk 2500 soldaten naar Mali zal sturen.

Bron : France 24 - France plans troop surge in Mali as offensive continues

[zonbron]

Het United States Africa Command (Africom) zit reeds lang te azen op Afrika. Nu Kadaffi en zijn United States of Africa-project netjes opgeruimd zijn, kan het veroveren van Afrika beginnen. Ik herinner me trouwens nog steeds levendig het gedoe rondom KONY 2012...


Enige info...

Why Is Mali Spiraling Out of Control?
5 augustus 2012

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The tragic reality is that Mali - a large but sparsely populated country, with around 15.5 million inhabitants - was until a few months ago paraded as a model of stability and fledgling democracy in west Africa.

What happened to make it a hotbed for terrorism, ethnic cleansing and a civil war which could destabilize the entire region?

On March 22 US-trained army captain Amadou Sanogo led a coup against the now-exiled president Amadou Toumani Toure, accusing him of not doing enough to challenge separatist threats in the country's north.

There was widespread condemnation of Sanogo's coup, though the US was more forgiving than African media, most of which saw the takeover as a violent end to two decades of democratization. US-owned news outlets claimed the coup was "a surprise to Sanogo himself" and even termed it "accidental," an inane assessment that flies in the face of the evidence.

Whatever Sanogo's motives the coup did nothing to halt the separatists - quite the opposite. The Tuaregs' National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) used the political vacuum to declare independence in the north just two weeks later.

The declaration followed a succession of quick military victories which included the capture of Gao and other major towns.

These developments emboldened Islamist and other militant groups to seize cities across the country. A power struggle soon erupted, in which the Islamist Ansar Dine ("protectors of the faith") gained the upper hand, ousting the MNLA from a number of areas including the historic city of Timbuktu.

These militants alleged that the Islamic history of the city was not consistent with their interpretation of the religion and immediately set about dismantling buildings, burning Islamic manuscripts and essentially destroying a Unesco world heritage site.

Another group soon moved in, thickening the plot. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim) has been used by Washington to rationalize the establishment of the United States Africa Command (Africom), set up in 2008 with a brief covering the whole continent with the exception of Egypt. The US State Department claims that Africom "will play a supportive role as Africans build democratic institutions and establish good governance across the continent."

It doesn't explain how this process will be helped by Africom's own Special Operations Command.

Media leaks and authoritative analysts have been linking Africom to the mess in Mali. The security vacuum in this strategically located country could be the exact opening the US has been seeking to establish a lasting military presence in Africa. This, of course, is part and parcel of the US's recent reassessment of its military priorities across the world.

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The Guardian.uk - The imperial agenda of the US's 'Africa Command' marches on
14 juni 2012 - With mission accomplished in Libya, Africom now has few obstacles to its military ambitions on the continent

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It is a lesson that has been re-learned in recent years. The ever-rising western body counts in Iraq and Afghanistan have reminded politicians that colonial wars in which their own soldiers are killed do not win them popularity at home. The hope in both cases is that US and British soldiers can be safely extricated, leaving a proxy force of allies to kill opponents of the new regime on our behalf.

And so too in Africa.

To reassert its waning influence on the continent in the face of growing Chinese investment, the US established Africom – the "Africa Command" of the US military – in October 2008. Africom co-ordinates all US military activity in Africa and, according to its mission statement, "contributes to increasing security and stability in Africa – allowing African states and regional organizations to promote democracy, to expand development, to provide for their common defense, and to better serve their people".

However, in more unguarded moments, officials have been more straightforward: Vice Admiral Robert Moeller declared in a conference in 2008 that Africom was about preserving "the free flow of natural resources from Africa to the global market", and two years later, in a piece in Foreign policy magazine, wrote: "Let there be no mistake. Africom's job is to protect American lives and promote American interests." Through this body, western powers are resorting to the use of military power to win back the leverage once attained through financial monopoly.

The small number of US personnel actually working for Africom – approximately 2,000 – belies both the ambition of the project and the threat it poses to genuine African independence. The idea, once again, is that it will not be US or European forces fighting and dying for western interests in the coming colonial wars against Africa, but Africans. The US soldiers employed by Africom are not there to fight, but to direct; the great hope is that the African Union's forces can be subordinated to a chain of command headed by Africom.

Libya was a test case. The first war actually commanded by Africom, it proved remarkably successful – a significant regional power was destroyed without the loss of a single US or European soldier. But the significance of this war for Africom went much deeper than that for, in taking out Muammar Gaddafi, Africom had actually eliminated the project's fiercest adversary.

Gaddafi ended his political life as a dedicated pan-Africanist and, whatever one thought of the man, it is clear that his vision for African was very different from that of the subordinate supplier of cheap labour and raw materials that Africom was created to maintain. He was not only the driving force behind the creation of the African Union in 2002, but had also served as its elected head, and made Libya its biggest financial donor. To the dismay of some of his African colleagues, he used his time as leader to push for a "United States of Africa", with a single currency, single army and single passport. More concretely, Gaddafi's Libya had an estimated $150bn worth of investment in Africa – often in social infrastructure and development projects, and this largesse bought him many friends, particularly in the smaller nations. As long as Gaddafi retained this level of influence in Africa, Africom was going to founder.

Since his removal, however, the organisation has been rolling full steam ahead. It is no coincidence that within months of the fall of Tripoli – and in the same month as Gaddafi's execution – President Obama announced the deployment of 100 US special forces to four different African countries, including Uganda. Ostensibly to aid the "hunt for Joseph Kony", they are instead training Africans to fight the US's proxy war in Somalia – where 2,000 more Ugandan soldiers had been sent the previous month.

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Waarom zouden de Fransen in Mali plotseling hebben ingegrepen, dit terwijl deze operatie gepland was voor eind 2013 ? De Africom-leider U.S. Army Gen. Carter Ham beweerde vorige maand nog dat te vroeg ingrijpen in Mali zou leiden tot het mislukken van de interventie. Hij gaf trouwens aan dat onderhandelingen zijn voorkeur genieten.

De Fransen zouden onmiddelijk hebben ingegrepen omdat de 'rebellen' Konna veroverd hadden, blijkbaar een belangrijk strategisch punt vanuit welke ze verder naar het zuiden kunnen 'toewerken'.

Army Times - AFRICOM chief: Intervention in Mali would fail
3 december 2013

WASHINGTON — The top U.S. military commander in Africa warned Monday against any premature military action in Mali, even as he said that al-Qaida linked extremists have strengthened their hold on the northern part of the country.

Army Gen. Carter Ham said that any military intervention done now would likely fail and would set the precarious situation there back “even farther than they are today.”

The African Union and United Nations are currently discussing the funding, troops and other assistance necessary to take back northern Mali from the extremists that took control there earlier this year.

“Negotiation is the best way,” Ham told an audience at George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute. “Military intervention may be a necessary component. But if there is to be military intervention it has to be successful, it cannot be done prematurely.”

He said the plans will begin to play out in the coming weeks.

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AQIM is the best financed al-Qaida affiliate and official have long said that it has been collaborating with Boko Haram. On Monday, Ham said that AQIM is providing financial support, training, and explosives to Boko Haram and “the relationship goes both ways.”

At the same time, Ham noted that Libyan mercenaries who left the country after Gadhafi’s ouster have been sending heavy weapons into Mali.

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[BonBon]

"Hoe erg zijn die islamisten in Mali eigenlijk?"
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/990/Bui...igenlijk.dhtml

Buitenlandse groeperingen blijken het ergst, dezelfde die ook in Syrië strijden?

[CLAESSENS Joris]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Frankenstein

Idem hoe ik erover dacht.

Die pest waarover je hebt, kiemt heel toevallig wel goed in de woestijn.

Ik zie hier in Molenbeek en anderlecht anders niet veel zandduinen...

[zonbron]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door BonBon

"Hoe erg zijn die islamisten in Mali eigenlijk?"
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/990/Bui...igenlijk.dhtml

Buitenlandse groeperingen blijken het ergst, dezelfde die ook in Syrië strijden?

AQIM, de Al-Qaeda afdeling die het best gefinancierd is, zitten van (west) Mali tot in (oost) Syrie. In Syrie zitten dan ook nog bvb. de jongens van al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).

Hollande zei dat de klus op een weekje geklaard zou zijn, geloof er niets van.

[zonbron]

Blijkbaar waren de Franse bombardementen in Konna vrijwel zinloos...

Integendeel tot wat we in de media konden lezen is Konna nog steeds in handen van de terroristen. Het Malinese leger heeft in Konna geen nuttig gebruik kunnen maken van de Franse bombardementen.

BBC - France military says Mali town Konna 'not recaptured'
15 januari 2013 - French military officials have denied an earlier claim by the Malian army that the central town of Konna has been recaptured by government forces. "at this time, the town of Konna has still not been recaptured by the Malian armed forces". BBC Paris correspondent Hugh Schofield says the significance is unclear, but it suggests that the Malian army on the ground does not have the capacity to take advantage of the air support offered by the French.

[Nr.10]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door zonbron

AQIM, de Al-Qaeda afdeling die het best gefinancierd is, zitten van (west) Mali tot in (oost) Syrie. In Syrie zitten dan ook nog bvb. de jongens van al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI).

Hollande zei dat de klus op een weekje geklaard zou zijn, geloof er niets van.

² Dit wordt een zeer harde noot. De withuiden vallen op in de massa, de zwarthuiden kunnen zich eender waar verbergen.

[Dixie]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door BonBon

"Hoe erg zijn die islamisten in Mali eigenlijk?"
http://www.demorgen.be/dm/nl/990/Bui...igenlijk.dhtml

en hun dhimmies hier op het forum?

[zonbron]

Daily Star - Mali Islamists much stronger than expected: France

[Johan Bollen]

Mali, het achtste moslimland in vier jaar tijd waar het westen moslims gaat doden.

[Dixie]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Johan Bollen

Mali, het achtste moslimland in vier jaar tijd waar het westen moslims gaat doden.

huilie huilie

[zonbron]

En zoals verwacht... Next please, Algerije ?

Een aanval van AQIM op een BP-gasveld in Algerije.

BBC - Foreigners held hostage by Islamist militants in Algeria
17 januari 2013 - Two foreign nationals, one of them British, have been killed and more than 20 taken hostage in an attack by Islamist militants on a gas facility in eastern Algeria, state media report.

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Earlier, a group known as the Khaled Abu al-Abbas Brigade told the AFP news agency that it had kidnapped the workers.

The Khaled Abu al-Abbas Brigade is believed to be led by Mokhtar Belmokhtar - also known as Abu al-Abbas - who was a senior commander of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) before late last year, when he set up his own armed group after apparently falling out with other leaders.

His new group is also known as the Signed-in Blood Battalion, a spokesman for whom told ANI that it had more than 40 hostages, including seven Americans, two French citizens and two British citizens.

"We are holding the Algerian and French governments, and the hostages' countries, entirely responsible for their slowness in satisfying our demands, foremost of which is an immediate halt to the aggression against our brothers in Mali," the spokesman added.

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[smiley]

Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Johan Bollen

Mali, het achtste moslimland in vier jaar tijd waar het westen moslims gaat doden.

Mogen ongelovigen zich misschien niet verdedigen tegen oorlogvoerende oprukkende moslims ? Moeten de ongelovigen zich misschien laten doen door uw 'vredelievende' moslims ?

[Frankenstein]

Alles wat onder de Sahara valt, wordt ontoegankelijk voor lelie witte mensen zoals de meeste op dit forum, en gele mensen als Koreanen, en Japaners.

Er is maar 1 of 2 manieren om deze oorlog te winnen, en dat is

1 iedereen in het gebied uitmoorden

Daarentegen een goede 2e kan zijn; ultiem vernederen

AQ strijders gevangen zetten, de ouderen worden omgebracht, de jongeren worden in een harem gezet, en geneukt door de oude bazen (van de tegenpartij), degeen die goed zijn in bed worden naar verloop van tijd vrijgelaten, de anderen gedood. Ik heb hieromtrent een docu over gezien in Afganistan, het schijnt zeer effectief te werken tegen die fundies, echter de Nederlandse politiek en media vonden het onethisch om zulk Taliban busters langer te steunen.

[zonbron]

Ondertussen (sinds gisteren) heeft Hollande de plannen reeds gewijzigd, het zal dus iets meer dan een weekje duren, ze blijven zolang als nodig is.

Ondertussen is Alain Juppe zeer bezorgd en roept de internationale gemeenschap op hun bij te staan. Frankrijk kan dit niet alleen aan.

Het Pentagon (AFRICOM) staat natuurlijk klaar...

[koppijn]

Dit is een oorlog die men kan winnen. Hier heeft men de steun van een groot deel van de Malinese bevolking, van de Malinese regering en van alle omringende buurlanden. French 'liberators' welcomed in Mali Absoluut niet te vergelijken met de Amerikanen in Irak en Afghanistan.

[zonbron]

Het westen heeft Libie vernietigd in samenerking met de woestijnratten (LIFG/AQIM) en als gevolg daarvan heeft Mali nu grootse problemen... 'collateral damage' ...

Kijk zelf :

BBC - Video Mali 'collateral damage' from Libya conflict, says Kofi Annan
18 januari 2013

Hij tracht het natuurlijk iets mooier te verwoorden dan het in werkelijkheid is.

Opmerkelijk is het feit dat groepen Malinese militairen zich bij AQIM zouden hebben aangesloten...