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Mali To Host 3,000 Foreign Troops For War Against North
Malian President Dioncounda Traore has endorsed a new plan to construct a military base that will host some 3,000 foreign troops from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in the capital city of Bamako, along with an unspecified number of foreign police.
The move comes after weeks of negotiation, with Traore and others endorsing military aid but until now stopping short of foreign ground troops, with an eye toward reclaiming the northern half of the country.
The Malians lost the northern half of the country, called Azawad, to Tuareg secessionists earlier this year, and the Tuaregs were themselves routed by the Ansar Dine movement, an al-Qaeda-style group hoping to establish a theocracy in the region.
Read more here: http://news.antiwar.com/2012/09/24/mali-to-host-3000-foreign-troops-for-war-against-north/
This is a war that probably should be fought because not only is the heritage and freedom of people being attacked but the place is a huge base for more Muslim fundies to gain steam and spread their disease all over northern Africa. -Mort
