Six Reasons Events in Mali Matter

Published January 25, 2013

Six reasons events in Mali matter

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At one point, drug traffickers from South America were flying aging jets packed with cocaine into a remote desert airstrip in Mali, for shipment to Europe. So vast and … A U.S. diplomatic cable from 2009 quoted a senior Algerian official, Abdelmalek …
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Mali, Algeria Violence Stokes Fear Of New Terrorist Haven

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The Brussels-based European Geopolitical Forum, an independent think tanks, says that since AQIM's formation in 2007, the terrorist threat in North Africa has "taken on an increasingly regional dimension." A February 2010 report released by the …
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