French military action in Mali
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@AlArabiya_Eng: #BreakingNews: French troops expected to begin Mali withdrawal in March: Fabius
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Pepe's take:
All that pivots is gold
All that pivots is gold
Mali's gold reserves and China's frenetic buying spree of the shiny stuff as it tries to unseat the petrodollar likely motivated the United States to step up its AFRICOM project by building a drone base in nearby Niger. But shadow wars in Africa are just a sideshow, the real deal is a pivot to Asia that maintains the exorbitant Pentagon budget.
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French want UN Peacekeepers in Mali.
Guess they want someone else to clean the mess.
Most likely US will push for Pakis to keep the issue live just as they did in Somalia in 1992.
Guess they want someone else to clean the mess.
Most likely US will push for Pakis to keep the issue live just as they did in Somalia in 1992.
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ramana ji>> this waht I eluded in the Economic melt down about the shadow play regarding Dollar devaluation aka (hyper) inflation.
It is now truly In God we trust onlee rest is all paperLet's start with Beijing's official position; "We don't have enough gold". That leads to China's current, frenetic buying spree - which particularly in Hong Kong anyone can follow live, in real time. China is already the top gold producing and the top gold importing nation in the world.
Gold accounts for roughly 70% of reserves held by the US and
Germany - and more or less the same for France and Italy. Russia - also on a buying spree - is slightly over 10%. But China's percentage of gold among its whopping US$3.2 trillion reserves is only 2%.
Beijing is carefully following the current shenanigans of the New York Federal Reserve, which, asked by the German Bundesbank to return the German gold it is holding, replied it would take at least seven years.
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You mean Lakshmi!
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Mali op success depends on Algeria locking down its borders. AQIM still very much in-tact. Romanian intel service reckon that Belmokhtar was still with his men at the time they launched operation and they are using emissaries to communicate - no ability for TECHINT. (anyone wondering why romanian intel was there - several of the hostages were romanian).
AQIM still have a large number of vehicles and ZSU guns as well as men. They conducted a tactical withdrawal.
AQIM stockpiled lots of fuel - every drop of diesel, petrol was stock piled - taken from factories, houses and cars.
AQIM rear bases are in algeria - access to fuel etc are important for AQIM.
Algeria is saying border is hard to police - hence cameron's visit to give them drones etc to expand surveillance. We could see a TSP/Afg type situation.
AQIM still have a large number of vehicles and ZSU guns as well as men. They conducted a tactical withdrawal.
AQIM stockpiled lots of fuel - every drop of diesel, petrol was stock piled - taken from factories, houses and cars.
AQIM rear bases are in algeria - access to fuel etc are important for AQIM.
Algeria is saying border is hard to police - hence cameron's visit to give them drones etc to expand surveillance. We could see a TSP/Afg type situation.
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aqim have done what talibs did in afghania, they will wait and watch and strike when they are least expected
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Hideout hoax: Al Qaeda boss in #Mali fooled French by creating a decoy camp in the desert http://t.co/h46bKYBz #AQIM
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shyamd wrote:intel reports from mali indicate the AQIM have just conducted a strategic withdrawal
So its validated that their retreat is within Algeria and they tried to be the cat winning over the two warring otters in Mali (Northern Mali to be precise).shyamd wrote:AQIM still have a large number of vehicles and ZSU guns as well as men. They conducted a tactical withdrawal.
Having said that, this is not going to turn out like the Af-Pak. More likely, these constitute a set of moves to get the jehadi movement a foothold on the Atlantic coast of Western Sahara (which is already a failed state), while having a foothold on the Med in Algeria, Libya and Egypt.
AQIM's plan, would include de-stabilisation of parts of Mauritania as well.
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syrian jihadi leader today made statement to the effect that the jihad is now on from the atlantic coast of africa all the way to the levant...
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France Confirms Death of Al-Qaida Chief Abou Zeid
Profile: Abdelhamid Abou Zeid
Profile: Abdelhamid Abou Zeid
Abdelhamid Abou Zeid, whose death has been confirmed by the French government, was one of the most senior leaders of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).