“A spokesperson for the Tuareg rebels speaks to journalists.”
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*Fallout of West’s military intervention in Libya: Mali plunges into chaos
When Gathafi’s regime fell to a popular uprising backed by NATO warplanes, his Tuareg hired guns fled south across the Sahara to their former homes in Mali and Niger in heavily-armed convoys of off-road pick-up trucks.
“At first, these veterans of the Libyan militia had nothing against Mali, but nature abhors a vacuum, and they needed to find something to do. So they allied with local groups, and now look where we are,” he said. (Eric Denece, director of the French Centre for Intelligence Research (CF2R), a think tank.)
*Mali coup leader calls for West intervention against rebels
“If the great powers are able to cross oceans to battle fundamentalist structures in Afghanistan, what’s stopping them coming to us? Our committee wants the best for the country,” said coup leader Amadou Sanogo on Thursday.
“The enemy is known and it is not in Bamako [capital of Mali]. If a force was to intervene it would have to do so in the north,” said Sanogo.