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..

[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

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.