Matt Dillon (06-18-2021)
EUROPE AND THE SAHEL-MAGHREB CRISIS
https://www.sciencespo.fr/ceri/sites...el-maghreb.pdf
Libya is MENTIONED in the OP as "regional instability" ( the Bardo museum shooting Tunis/2015 as well)
You say Libya (Maghreb) doesnt matter - but Libya has weaponized and has been occupied by ISIS-
so you cant disregard Libya as the cause ( or as Biden called Libya Syria ..ROFL)
It may leak out, much like the Taliban's Afghanistan became a sanctuary for Al Qaeda. A lot of things are possible, but you are more likely to be right, it will not become a problem for us.
The problem keeps being that France is forced to prop up some very corrupt governments in Africa. That being said, I doubt the people fighting the French would create better governments. Colonization created a real mess in Africa, and it is taking a long time to work it out.
lol French national are supposed to be replaced by international forces..
does that make you less squishy about counter-terrorism in Africa?
France killed this guy:
Mr. Marlboro’: The veteran jihadist behind the attack in Algeria
https://www.cnn.com/2013/01/17/world...tar/index.html
Born in 1972, Belmoktar grew up on the edge of the desert in southern Algeria.
He traveled to Afghanistan in 1991 in his late teens to fight its then Communist government. He returned to Algeria as a hardened fighter with a new nickname “Belaouar” – the “one-eyed” – after a battlefield injury, and joined forces with the Armed Islamic Group (GIA) in its brutal campaign against the Algerian regime and civilians deemed to be its supporters.
Belmoktar later claimed he met al Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden in the Sudan in the mid 1990s.
According to Jean-Pierre Filiu, a French scholar who has extensively studied AQIM, Belmoktar rose steadily through the ranks to become the GIA commander for the Sahara.
After a popular backlash against the terrorist group in Algeria, Belmoktar switched allegiance to a spin-off group – the GSPC – in 2000, and continued to operate in the sub-Saharan region.
The GIA was the forerunner of AQIM, which still counts many Algerians in its leadership. Belmoktar remains associated with this fissiparous group – but is very much his own man.
To make money, “Belmoktar increasingly engaged in smuggling, earning the popular nickname ‘Mr. Marlboro’ … he also was involved in the smuggling of drugs, weapons, and illegal immigrants,” Jean-Pierre Filiu in a 2010 Carnegie Paper.
ORLY? I assume you have some proof? Dumbass?
There were never that many to begin with, cupcake.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,000,000,000
https://www.worldometers.info/world-...us-population/
As for what the Bushes did there, I abhor it. I cannot change it, though.
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