For more on the region and the issues at play:
"Political Islam in West Africa and the Sahel,"
Military Review, January-February 2006,
http://usacac.leavenworth.army.mil/C...6/Laremont.pdf
"EUCOM Leader Calls Africa Global Strategic Imperative,"
American Forces Information Service, March 8, 2006,
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Mar2...0308_4428.html
GEN Jones' prepared statement referred to in the article above:
http://armed-services.senate.gov/sta...2003-07-06.pdf
"New Counterterrorism Initiative to Focus on Saharan Africa,"
American Forces Information Service, May 16, 2005,
http://www.defenselink.mil/news/May2...0516_1126.html