Sunday 13 January 2013

French early strike shakes up Mali intervention plan

A still image from video released by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) on January 12, 2013 shows French Mirage 3000 aircrafts in flight. French forces carried out a second day of air strikes against Islamist rebels in Mali on Saturday and sent troops to protect the capital Bamako in an operation involving several hundred soldiers, Defence Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said. REUTERS-ECPAD via Reuters Tv-Handout The United States and United Nations have stressed the internationally backed Mali mission should be "African-led, African-owned", and accompanied by a political process to pacify the split Sahel state, once a beacon of democracy and stability.
But with French special forces and aircraft taking the fight to the Islamists, and French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian declaring France "at war against terrorism wherever it is found", the Mali operation is a French-led show for the moment.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/13/us-mali-intervention-risks-idUSBRE90C0F520130113
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