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Subject Watch as it Develops - The Staged War Against Islamists in Northern Mali

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Last night the Telegraph had article about ethnic cleansing in Timbuktu.

They interviewed last Arab in town.  He was almost sympathetic until they introduced his 16 year old wife & their 2 year old daughter.  Do the math - gross.

Interesting tidbit - as MNLA (Tuareg group) had sided w/ French - there is real fear of Arab Tuareg civil war once French leave..

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/mali/9859300/Timbuktus-Arabs-flee-as-Mali-faces-challenge-to-create-lasting-peace.html

Completely OT for IFUN - Libyans were chatting on twitter about how many Tuaregs live in Libya.  One made this interesting observation (paraphrasing) when we talk re: number of Tuaregs in Ghadames or OBari - we are talking about number of nomads who live in area.  Most of the settled people who live in those towns are ethnically Tuareg, but we don't consider them to be Tuareg b/c they have settled... We count them as either Arabs or Arabized Amazigh.

So, how many "native" Tuaregs live in Libya (or lived in Libya before 2011) - small number because only the Tuaregs living in tents were counted as such.
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Original Message Background - About a year ago, I stumbled on a website run by a group of students in France. They represented an organization called the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA is its initials in French).

I kept up with their movement to establish an independent Taureg state in Northern Mali. As I followed their statements and the occasional MSM article, it became apparent that something was not quite right. These kids were being set up. I came to believe that I was watching Western intelligence operation to create the pretext for Western intervention in Africa (in other words, I was watching a "false flag" war in the making)...

By early October, the yellow journalism building the case for war was undeniable...So, I decided to create this thread. Using MSM news sources (with occasional commentary posts) I tried to give the background on what is happening in Mali & why it might be happening....

Thanks for reading - Here is my original post...

Who do I root for?

Foreign jihadists from Sudan and Western Sahara pour into northern Mali

HUNDREDS of jihadist fighters, mainly from Sudan and Western Sahara, arrived in northern Mali over the weekend to support the Islamist groups ahead of a threatened regional intervention, witnesses and a security source say.

[link to www.theaustralian.com.au]

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