State of Emergency declared in Mali

[Pete]

The remote mountains of northern Mali - perfect for guerrillas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21326831

"Journalist Andy Morgan describes the remote mountains in the deserts of northern Mali, where Islamist rebels are believed to have fled after French-led forces chased them out of the region's main towns, possibly taking several French hostages with them.

Lost in the middle of Tegharghar mountains in the far north-east of Mali, Esel is a an eerie and magical place.

It is dominated by a vast, smooth boulder, as high as a five-storey building and as long as 10 double-decker buses, that sits on top of a warren of caves................."

Nice little story that should be slipped into somebody's area study folder.

[Richard]

Here's an add-on to that one I was just reading...

Military Information Support Operations in the Tran-Sahel
Special Warfare Magazine, Jan-Feb 2013
(Atchd pdf)

The current issue of SWMag is titled "Waging Special Warfare In Africa"
http://www.dvidshub.net/publication/issues/11420

Richard

[Team Sergeant]

Originally Posted by Pete

The remote mountains of northern Mali - perfect for guerrillas

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21326831

"Journalist Andy Morgan describes the remote mountains in the deserts of northern Mali, where Islamist rebels are believed to have fled after French-led forces chased them out of the region's main towns, possibly taking several French hostages with them.

Lost in the middle of Tegharghar mountains in the far north-east of Mali, Esel is a an eerie and magical place.

It is dominated by a vast, smooth boulder, as high as a five-storey building and as long as 10 double-decker buses, that sits on top of a warren of caves................."

Nice little story that should be slipped into somebody's area study folder.

WOW DEJA VU!

Are we (the USA) going to have to rescue the French, again? The French better pray that the islamists are NOT reading the history books on their involvment in Vietnam.......