Mali coup

[rgrokelley]

The last time I was in Mali was 13 years ago doing the ACRI mission. One of the reasons I retired from the Army was because I had spent more time in Africa during the last three years of my life, than I spent in Fort Bragg. Not to complain about the deployments, it is just part of what we do, but this ACRI thing was Clinton's thing and all I could see us doing was training the local African thugs on how to be better and more lethal thugs. Corruption was rampant and not a lot would get done. All they pretty much wanted was our money. When we gave them the equipment about a third of it would come up missing within a a few months, sold on the black market. The Mali infrastructure was dominated by the Bombara tribe, and then to the Foolani and Dogons. On the bottom of the heap were the Tuaregs.

The Tuaregs were the Irish of Mali. Descended from the Barbary pirates, they were the lighter skinned muslim tribesmen... the "blue men" of the desert. They fought the Mali government to a standstill in the Sahara, and got them to allow them into the government, but to a lesser role. When we trained the Mali soldiers, the Tuaregs stayed off to themselves, and took in all we taught them with a different intensity than the "black" Malians. You could see then, they were just biding their time.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wir ... s-16048062

Too bad that it looks like they have turned to the dark side and gotten involved with the Muslim Brotherhood.

One more country falls to the ever growing caliphate.

[colt1rgr]

I think what they REALLY need is a "new dictator". I vote we give them "ours"