François Hollande va prêcher la concorde à Bamako

Dioncounda Traore et François Hollande, samedi à Sévaré. Crédits photo : PASCAL GUYOT/AFP

Après trois semaines d’une guerre éclair, l’avenir du Mali dépend du dialogue entre Noirs et Touaregs. Le chef de l’État français est arrivé sur place ce samedi matin.

Accompagné par un fort parfum de communication présidentielle, François Hollande vient présenter samedi à Bamako sa feuille de route politique aux autorités maliennes. L’armée française a conduit en trois semaines une guerre éclair. Le nord du pays est libéré de l’emprise des islamistes. Maintenant s’ouvre une nouvelle phase, qui garde sa dimension militaire, car les opérations vont durer contre les groupes terroristes encore vivaces le long de la frontière avec l’Algérie. Mais la dimension politique va de plus en plus s’imposer, l’issue du conflit dépendant de la qualité du dialogue que pourront nouer les autorités maliennes de Bamako et les Touaregs qui continuent de défendre leur particularisme au nord.François Hollande garde le tempo, très rapide, imprimé par les militaires. L’opération «Serval» n’est pas terminée qu’il débarque déjà sur le terrain, flanqué de Laurent Fabius, son ministre des Affaires étrangères, de Jean-Yves Le Drian, en charge de la Défense, et du ministre du Développement, Pascal Canfin. La visite, annoncée vendredi et entamée à Sévaré, passe par Bamako, la capitale, et aussi par Tombouctou. Cette dernière ville avait été prise en avril 2012 par les Touaregs «laïques» et indépendantistes du Mouvement national de libération de l’Azawad (MNLA), supplantés par les groupes armés liés à al-Qaida en juin, avant d’être libérée par les troupes franco-maliennes.

La voie d’une Entité régionale touareg

L’arrivée à Tombouctou du chef de l’État français et de son homologue malien, Dioncounda Traoré, symbolise la victoire des troupes françaises et maliennes que les deux présidents se promettent de féliciter. La ville mériterait également d’être choisie pour lancer un message de réconciliation. L’imam de la grande mosquée Djingareyber, que les deux chefs d’État ont visité, a lancé vendredi un appel à «la retenue» et à «l’arrêt des pillages», dans son premier prêche depuis la fuite des djihadistes, qui a libéré les frustrations des populations noires à l’endroit des Arabes et Touaregs.

Pour les citoyens français, cette tournée présidentielle rappellera celle effectuée par Nicolas Sarkozy à Benghazi, le 15 septembre 2011. Chef de guerre ayant triomphé de Mouammar Kadhafi, Nicolas Sarkozy n’avait pas attendu la libération totale de la Libye pour s’en venir dans la ville symbolisant son action déterminée. «Nous croyons à une Libye unie, pas à une Libye divisée», avait lancé Nicolas Sarkozy, déclenchant les vivats de la foule se pressant sur la place de la Liberté de Benghazi. François Hollande devrait également invoquer la réconciliation nationale, mais en engageant les autorités maliennes à dialoguer avec les indépendantistes touaregs du MNLA. «Je vais au Mali aussi pour qu’il y ait un dialogue politique qui puisse permettre que le Mali, après avoir chassé les terroristes, puisse retrouver la stabilité et l’esprit de concorde», a-t-il indiqué vendredi. Quel que soit le mot choisi, la voie d’une entité régionale touareg au nord, plus ou moins autonome de Bamako, paraît la seule possible.

Conforter l’autorité du président malien

La communication politique n’existerait pas, l’empressement du président français à se rendre au Mali n’en aurait pas moins sa justification. La ville de Kidal, aux alentours de laquelle l’armée française a pris position, s’est «libérée» toute seule, par l’action revendiquée des combattants du MNLA et du Mouvement islamique de l’Azawad (MIA), dissidence du groupe islamiste Ansar Dine, essentiellement touareg. Ce sont des unités de l’armée tchadienne participant à la force africaine dépêchée au Mali qui ont depuis fait route vers Kidal. À Bamako, un haut gradé de cette armée malienne qui devait demeurer en réserve pour éviter toute friction avec les combattants touaregs, n’en a pas moins annoncé l’arrivée jeudi de ses soldats à Kidal. Une information semble-t-il fausse, qui traduisait surtout la volonté d’une partie de l’état-major de l’armée malienne d’en découdre avec les Touaregs, dans leur fief de Kidal.

L’objet premier de la présence de François Hollande aux côtés de Dioncounda Traoré est de réaffirmer au plus vite l’autorité du président malien par intérim sur son armée. Le capitaine Amadou Haya Sanogo, auteur du coup d’État du 22 mars 2012, a toujours des partisans.

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nadine pocreauil est content car au mali on l apprécie , ça le change de la France ou sa cote est très très basse

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:34 Alerter Répondre

Electeur GAULLLLOIS« La France est intervenue militairement au Mali le 11 janvier 2013, officiellement «afin de stopper l’avancée des islamistes armés vers le sud, menaçant Bamako» et de mettre un terme au terrorisme islamiste au Mali. Nous, organisations et citoyens Français-Amazighs, de culture laïque et profondément attachés aux valeurs de justice, de liberté et de respect des droits humains, avons applaudi l’initiative française … ».Nous tenons à leur dire et à leur préciser que les vrais citoyens amazighs, des hommes et femmes libres, ne pourront jamais soutenir une colonisation à Tamazgha de n’importe quel type et sous aucun prétexte possible comme il vient de le faire l’Etat français en violant les résolutions des Nations Unies et en appuyant un état putschiste qu’est la dictature militaire de Mali.”http://www.kabyle.com/fr/articles/non-la-colonisation-francaise-en-azawad-et-en-afrique-21428-02022013

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:18 Alerter Répondre

RantanplanPendant que le chef des guerres musulmanes se promotionne:L’alliance biblique au Mali (ABM) dont le secrétaire général, Jacques Dembélé, explique : « Pourchassés, beaucoup de chrétiens trouvent refuge à Bamako, dans le sud du pays. Mais nombre d’entre eux se sont sauvés dans le plus total dénuement. Nous ne pouvons rester sans rien faire. » L’ABM agit concrètement par des distributions de céréales et de bibles aux réfugiés chrétiens du nord. Pour le moment, elle peut venir en aide à quelque 2 000 personnes autour de Bamako. Mais près de 10 000 personnes, dont 6 700 enfants, ont besoin d’être aidées dans les régions de Kayes, Koulikoro, Ségou et Mopti. L’ABF s’est donc donné pour objectif d’informer les chrétiens de France des épreuves des chrétiens du Mali et d’inviter à prier pour-eux. Mais aussi à les soutenir matériellement grâce à des collectes individuelles ou des dons de diaconats. Cet argent permettra à l’Alliance biblique au Mali de poursuivre son assistance aux personnes déplacées. Elle propose des aides concrètes : 27 EUR pour un sac de 50 kg de riz, qui représente 12,5 jours de nourriture pour une famille de 8 personnes ou 31,50 EUR pour un sac de 100 kg de maïs soit 25 jours de nourriture. Avec un don collectif de 460 EUR, une paroisse assure un an de céréales à une famille entière… N. L.
http://www.alliancebiblique.fr 01 39 94 50 51

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:18 Alerter Répondre

Electeur GAULLLLOISLe Nord Mali sera-t’il le prochain Fort Saganne pour François II le Normal …?

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:15 Alerter Répondre

EucalyptusLa concorde ?? qu’il s’en occupe déjà en France Hollande le Diviseur.

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:13 Alerter Répondre

ppp r.FH va se marier en pur gay avec le président dictateur du Mali. La vie en rose.

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:12 Alerter Répondre

gerard LECOCQ 1chers amis Maliens,
vous nous feriez grand plaisir si vous pouviez garder notre Président normal chez vous.

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:12 Alerter Répondre

Electeur GAULLLLOISLe boulot de nos soldats n’est pas encore terminé, voir à peine commencé, qu’il s’empresse déjà d’aller récolter les médailles.L’enlisement au Mali sera avant tout politique…les Touaregs et leur MNLA , après le nettoyage en Azawad, n’accepteront pas la domination de Bamako….tant leur espoir en la France est grand !Notre Normal 1er a du souci à se faire… le revers de la médaille n’est pas loin pour lui !

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:07 Alerter Répondre

japotteIl ferait mieux de s’occuper de la faillite de la France.

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:05 Alerter Répondre

marie jose teychonneauFrançois Hollande” prêche” à Bamako ? Mais n’est ce pas aux portes du désert …..

Le 02/02/2013 à 14:02 Alerter Répondre

paul 56-22à Reynaud. voyez vous Hollande m’indiffère totalement mais , a côté de lui il y a un tas de gens qui connaissent l’Afrique et la Guérilla africaine , mais posez donc votre candidature les véritables experts sont les bien venu partout et a vous lire vous en êtes un .

Le 01/02/2013 à 20:37 Alerter Répondre

francelapaul 56-22 , je partage totalement l’avis de Reynaud .
pour avoir fait la guerre en Algérie durant trente mois ,
je peux vous dire, que vous vous trompez sérieusement
je vous donne rendez-vous dans quelques mois !
je ne partage pas les choix de Mr Hollande , même si vous pensez qu’il est bien entouré .

Le 01/02/2013 à 21:27 Alerter Répondre

paul 56-22@ francela . voyez vous c’est la en Algérie que j’ai commencé en1960 j’ai fais mon instruction a Saïda et ensuite en régiment, Kabylie, Aures a Bouhamama a côté dans les Némencha , bec de canard sur la Frontière Tunisienne etc ..nous étions de la réserve général donc nous bougions sans arrêt . et ailleurs après ça

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French leader makes jubilant trip to Mali to thank his troops battling militants

France: Troops control key Mali airport

(CNN) — French President Francois Hollande visited the Malian town of Timbuktu on Saturday, a jubilant trip days after his nation’s forces freed the fabled city from the iron grip of Islamist militants.

France launched the offensive against militants in its former colony three weeks ago. The ground and air campaign has sent Islamist fighters who had seized the northern region fleeing into the vast deserts.

“We are serving a cause defined within the United Nations’ framework … to bring the entire Malian territory under the legitimate authority of the Malian president and then the leaders who will be elected by the Malians,” Hollande said in Timbuktu.

French troops, he said, are not in Mali to venture into politics.

“I have enough to do with French politics,” he said. “So we are at the service of a mission which was defined from the call of the Malian president and within the framework of the Security Council resolutions.”

Hollande landed in Sevare accompanied by his defense and foreign ministers, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported.

From there, he joined Malian interim President Dioncounda Traore for the Timbuktu visit. French-led forces liberated the historical city this week after Islamist militants took control of it last year.

In Timbuktu, residents bestowed him with a camel while others danced.

The trip comes as troops from both nations make major gains in the battle against militants.

French-led troops now control Timbuktu and Gao cities, along with a swath in between that was an Islamist stronghold for almost a year, the French Defense Ministry said.

France sent troops at Mali’s request after radical Islamists seized the strategic town of Konna on January 10. The town is now back under Malian control.

Islamic extremists carved out a large portion of the north last year, taking advantage of a chaotic situation after a military coup.

They banned music, smoking, drinking and watching sports on television, and destroyed historic tombs and shrines in the region. World leaders feared that the al Qaeda-linked militants would turn the area into a terrorist haven.

But with the offensive sending the fighters scattering, residents are once again roaming the streets without fear.

France has 2,150 soldiers in Mali and 1,000 more troops supporting the operation from elsewhere.

Hollande’s visit comes a day after a rights group accused Malian troops of extrajudicial killings and abuses during the offensive.

“Malian government forces summarily executed at least 13 suspected Islamist supporters and forcibly disappeared five others from the Garrison town of Sevare and Konna” in January, Human Rights Watch said.

The United Nations also warned that the Tuareg and Arab civilians in Timbuktu, Kidal and Gao regions are at risk of reprisal attacks.

Malian and French military officials have repeatedly called for respect of international law and human rights.

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  SiDevilIam • a few seconds ago

  François Hollande, “a close friend of Mali”@elcidharth.com

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  oliverlang • 3 hours ago

  Well done Hollande!

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    disqus_B2rbNA5XAm oliverlang • 44 minutes ago

    Holland? Well done France!

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  vincent68 • 4 hours ago

  Funny images to see Hollande receiving an angry camel as a gift !

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  antgo3 • 3 hours ago

  I support France’s military action in Mali. But the media’s reaction to it — when contrasted with coverage of Israel’s military actions in Gaza — reveals flagrant double standards. More on that after my reasons for supporting France’s Mali operation.

  Islamists – like those who overran Mali last March – reverse human progress and bring misery to those they subjugate: women, religious minorities, moderate Muslims, secularists, gays, and anyone else who doesn’t accept their primitive worldview. Islamists vitiate Islam, twisting its meaning and practice to advance their real aim: brute power. To that end, they break whatever Islamic and non-Islamic laws they please, engaging in drug smuggling, kidnapping, human trafficking, victimizing perceived opponents, and murdering innocents.

  They viciously disregard life, property, and culture. Al-Queda destroyed 3,000 American souls and the Twin Towers on 9/11. The Taliban pour acid on the faces of girls seeking an education. Ansar Dine, the Islamists in Mali, last summer ruined much of Timbuktu’s archeological treasures after deeming them “idolatrous.” They also imposed sharia “law,” flogging music listeners and women caught showing their hair, amputating hands of accused thieves, and stoning to death fornicators.

  Islamists conquer and rule by terror, not virtue. They destroy ruthlessly but build nothing.

  So any force with the moral clarity and courage to oppose such evil deserves plaudits. In the case of Mali, that force is the French.

  Fortunately, these judgments are obvious to the world press. Maybe that explains the scant reports of civilian casualties and absent images of bloody devastation produced by French airstrikes in Operation Serval. The alternative explanation – that there are no civilian casualties for the media to report because French military intelligence and technology are perfectly precise – seems farfetched.

  Yet when it comes to Islamists in Gaza, suddenly all moral clarity disappears in an avalanche of clichéd images and headlines ignoring the most basic truths. France can launch military attacks about 2,000 miles south of its border in response to an Islamist threat that endangers nobody in France, but Israel is vilified if it responds militarily to deadly rocket attacks targeting its civilians from two miles to its south.

  Like their Islamist brethren in Afghanistan and Africa, the Hamas rulers of Gaza have no program for the future other than expanding their barbaric domain by force — first to the West Bank (which Islamists don’t yet control) and eventually to Israel. Consider how Hamas came to rule Gaza in 2007 (by a bloody putsch against Fatah), and what it has done with its power since then (repress Gazans and attack Israel).

  Human rights groups have accused Hamas of abysmal judicial abuses, replete with arbitrary arrests, torture, and unfair trials. Hamas mistreats journalists, terrorizes political opponents, restricts press freedoms, outlaws homosexuality, persecutes Christians, and condones honor killings against women – all practices that would delight Ansar Dine.

  Hamas apologists blame Israel for Gaza’s woes, even though Egypt controls Gaza’s southern border, and Israel, which completely left Gaza in 2005, would much rather be developing trade with Gaza than defense systems to intercept thousands of unprovoked rocket attacks from there. But Hamas’ charter seeks Israel’s destruction, so how can Hamas lead its people or neighborhood towards anything positive?

  Incidentally, Palestinian extremists have as little respect for non-Muslim holy sites as the Taliban had for the Bamiyan Buddhas: in 2002, they used the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem for military cover despite the obvious risk this posed to the Christian site. Last week (and in 2000), Palestinians desecrated Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus – hateful vandalism overlooked by every major news organization. Again, the double standard.

  From the attention and sympathy that the Palestinian cause attracts, one would think that millions have died, and that they must be paragons of innocent victimhood. Neither is true. The entire Arab-Israeli conflict – from the 1920 Arab riots until today, including all regional wars (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973, 1982, etc.) – has killed roughly 25,000 Jews and 95,000 Arabs. The maximum number of Palestinian Arabs killed during almost a century of conflict is probably about 20,000. Today’s Syrian regime kills that many people in under a year. But a Google search for “Palestine genocide” today produces about 10.7 million results while the term “Syria genocide” produces just 9.5 million results.

  Such disproportionate attention and sympathy is unfair to the victims of far deadlier conflicts and effectively whitewashes terrorism. But Palestinians are far from Tibetans in their preferred tactics: they have employed violent terrorism for decades.

  So why is Palestinian victimhood prioritized? And if Hamas is similar to Ansar Dine, why does it get a pass?

  Some might argue that — unlike Ansar Dine — Hamas represents its subjects. But Hamas represents only the power of its guns and its Iranian patron. Another argument: Mali’s government and people wanted French help in ousting the Islamists. But Hamas would never seek assistance in dethroning itself and who knows what Gazans want when they’re brutalized for speaking against Hamas?

  Unfortunately, the media’s double standard has a simple explanation: anti-Israel bias.

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    Laroye antgo3 • 2 hours ago

    ” France can launch military attacks about 2,000 miles south of its
    border in response to an Islamist threat that endangers nobody in
    France…”
    That is not correct, would the djihadist have taken Bamako they would have had 6000 French expats hostage as well as a thousand or two more foreigners (americans included). France couldn’t just sit back and watch the take over on the news, it would have been political suicide for Hollande. He had to intervene, there was no choice.

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    Robert177 antgo3 • 16 minutes ago

    Superbly written, well done. You are absolutely correct. Except, I’d go so far as to say that the media hates Israel. It’s not just so benign as “bias”.

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    Odo22 antgo3 • 2 hours ago

    CNN,BBC and other MSM media are often accused of anti-Israel bias the opposite is the case.They avoid mentioning the context and the history of the conflict they parrot Washingtons policy positions do not report the overwhelming global desire for a two state solution vetoed by the USA.The fact is Israel cannot defend itself while occupying Palestinian land at the same time.

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      Odo22 Odo22 • 2 hours ago

      The wider bias is even more glaring.Iran is held to standards the USA and Israel refuse to apply to themselves.Take Irans support of Hezbollah and Hamas ,how evil of Iran to give them weapons right? But how many weapons does the USA give Israel? Iran is threatenend with war if it develops the capability to produce nuclear weapons but Israel and the USA are the only ones who have nuclear weapons in the region.A possible solution the introduction of a nuclear weapon free zone in the Middle East is blocked by the USA and Israel.

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      antgo3 Odo22 • 2 hours ago

      If Israel can’t defend itself from Muslim terrorists, nobody can.

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        Odo22 antgo3 • 2 hours ago

        You occupy their country.It pisses them off to see Jews from god knows where coming over and living in the house and on lands there ancestors lived in for hundreds of years.Jews from Brooklyn and Paris claiming the land belongs to them because it is in the Bible.Bossing Palestinians around.You shouldnt be surprised they commit acts of terror.

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          vmik Odo22 • an hour ago

          You turned things upside down. It is Arabs are occupants of land of Israel. And despite of that they were proposed a lot of times to live in peace with Jews but refused and started war after war.

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            Ali Corleone vmik • an hour ago

            there is no peace with who believe and act accoridng to this
            this Torah:Deuteronomy 3:3-7 “God ordered Moses’ army to “utterly destroy” 60cities, killing all the women and children within!” ? and this Deuteronomy 7:12 God ordered the Israelites
            to kill all the people of seven nations.
            He even adds, “show no mercy unto them” Israedli are acting depending on these verses , they are killing kids day and night without mercy , because killing a part of their faith

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              Maurine Bonnevide Ali Corleone • 15 minutes ago

              You are also an ignorant because of stupidity like this people from both side suffer.Everybody need peace but some divide to rule.They are all semites and brothers.
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                Ali Corleone Maurine Bonnevide • 7 minutes ago

                are you seriouse ?? do u want people make peace with kids killers ? they are killing kids , women , and all what breaths , just for religiouse purposes

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            Maurine Bonnevide vmik • 19 minutes ago

            You are an ignorant get informed before talking.

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        Ali Corleone antgo3 • 2 hours ago

        Israel is killing kids don’t mix the facts and palestiniand are fighting for freedom

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          vmik Ali Corleone • an hour ago

          You are dirty liar. No one army in the world has so strict rules regarding open fire as Israeli army has and that despite of fact of permanent danger of Arab terror. No one army in the world takes so much measurements to prevent casualties in civil population even when Hamas put rocket launchers in school yard and cynically use Gazans as human shield. And in these unbelievable conditions Israeli army has lowest in the world of such casualties, of an order lower than that of US or GB troops wherever you take.

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        Ali Corleone antgo3 • 2 hours ago

        this is the real terrorisms , to believe and act according to this verses Numbers 31:17-18 God commands Moses to kill all the Medianite people including children and women. To top it off he commands that the virgins be saved for later raping by Moses’ soldiers.

        Deuteronomy 3:3-7 God ordered Moses’ army to “utterly destroy” 60 cities, killing all the women and children within! ISRAELI ARE KILLING KIDS ACCORDING TO THESE VERSES AND MaNY OTHERS

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    mushroomguy antgo3 • an hour ago

    Everybody is talking about a two state solution but disregard the fact that while Mahmud Abbas accepts it, the Hamas won’t.

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    Ali Corleone antgo3 • an hour ago

    Israel is the home of Statan the terrorism is to believe and act according to this verses Numbers 31:17-18 God commands Moses to kill all the Medianite people including children and women. To top it off he commands that the virgins be saved for later raping by Moses’ soldiers.

    Deuteronomy 3:3-7 God ordered Moses’ army to “utterly destroy” 60 cities, killing all the women and children within

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      Desalpages Ali Corleone • 40 minutes ago

      Au lieu de nous ennuyer avec tes imbécillités religieuses, tu ferais mieux de lire de vrais livres.

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  howdyfanz • 3 hours ago

  …..Well done, Mr. President…………

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  vincent de paul • 3 hours ago

  Good work and congration. To mr president u are heroe

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  VinceNY • 2 hours ago

  CNN as usual does not grow far the investigations. The French are 4000 on the ground now and not 2000. Hopeless!

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    chrisozman VinceNY • an hour ago

    Yes, I must say I am also confused about CNN, as a news service they are pathetic. Maybe they are a front for something else, they sure know zilch about news reporting, especially in a timely way.

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  hashaam ud din • 3 hours ago

  I wish it doesn’t turn out another Afghanistan or Iraq.

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    desertvoice hashaam ud din • 2 hours ago

    The lessons from Afghanistan are known to France, since French soldiers operate there. The largest mistake in Afghanistan was neglecting the lack of infrastructure early on! People were not willing to invest. This mistake the French must not repeat in Mali! I, in Mr. Hollande’s place, would be inviting the whole world to bring investments right now! When people are working and happy, there is less jihad on their mind! Don’t lose Mali, France!

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  OlivToulouse • 2 hours ago

  Congrats! I hope Mali does not become another Iraq or Afghanistan…

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  disqus_S6cbkGUqds • 2 hours ago

  France is leading the way and Hollande is what we need for global peace. Africa has been ruled by tyrants and it’s time for the world to stand with us. Kudos man!

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  Luis F. Estevez • an hour ago

  France wins.

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  hashaam ud din • 2 hours ago

  these are strange wars. Islamists , if die is martyr and if survives become hero in the eyes of his people. Allies, if dies is….. and if survives faces unemployment back home in mostly soaring economies.very sad situation.

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  David Park • 2 hours ago

  Fight Islam!

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  Rod • 3 hours ago

  Always watch your own back. The place is just another Afghanistan.

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  Odo22 • 2 hours ago

  Is he going to fly in on a aircraft carrier wearing a flight suit with a big banner declaring mission accomplished?

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    OlivToulouse Odo22 • 2 hours ago

    That would be frowned upon in France! We were quite shocked to see Bush with the banner “mission accomplished” at the time. Actually going there so quickly seems odd even to us French!

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  middleright • 2 hours ago

  he went there to tax his soldiers

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  Le Ruscino • 3 hours ago

  The “Arab Sting” continues!

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  CTaft02 • 18 minutes ago

  Like George Bush and Mission Accomplished.

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  Ghai • 2 hours ago

  An African+ a uniform+ modern weapons of destruction = paradise

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  aggod • 4 minutes ago

  May Satan destroy Islam

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  a60b • 7 minutes ago

  Hollande is a true leader and he has proved to the world that he will fight terrorist,unlike Obama and Hague who has been supporting rebels to overthrow a government,may Allah bless Hollande and make him powerful.

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  Ali Corleone • an hour ago

  Quran : 5:32 “Because of that, We decreed upon the Children of Israel that
  whoever kills a soul unless for a soul or for corruption [done] in the land -
  it is as if he had slain mankind entirely. And whoever saves one – it is as if
  he had saved mankind entirely. And our messengers had certainly come to them
  with clear proofs. Then indeed many of them, [even] after that, throughout the
  land, were transgressors.” ……. your Torah book is forged , but you
  won’t to admit .all what you want to do is killing and disobeying God who
  created Arabs , Jews , christians , and all the universe . killing kids won’t prolong your lives .

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    Desalpages Ali Corleone • an hour ago

    Qu’est ce que vous nous emmerdez avec Israël et les juifs !!! Cela n’a aucun rapport avec le sujet.

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      vmik Desalpages • 11 minutes ago

      Unfortunately, to discuss with this guy is useless. There are two options only : 1) or he is on payroll of some propaganda department of hamas or hisbullah or saudis or whoever similar and receive cash by row or 2) he is just insane. Otherwise impossible to explain the amount and contents of his crap that he pours to the Internet…

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    Paxwax Ali Corleone • 27 minutes ago

    Religious bigotery, of any religion, leads nowhere. Citing some “holy” book allegedly written thousands of years ago by some lunatic, based on so-called teachings from a god nobody ever can understand, and we should follow this kind of guidance?

    I can understand why people would like to trust into some superior being. But I’ll never understand how they can surrender their lives to religions and rites created by other men, who merely pretend to be representants of god.

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  Rod • 2 hours ago

  If they plan to stay there for long, Hollande had better issue French troops with Gem of True sight. They can be bought in the shop called Cache of Quel’thelan. The Gem reveals invisible enemies. Some of them could be wearing Lothar’s Edge for invisibility, you know.

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  lewtwo • 3 hours ago

  I hope that they remember that the original stated goal was to exterminate the vermin not just scatter them.

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    Rod lewtwo • 3 hours ago

    So, if they catch an insurgent and he says he was coerced into joining the rebellion, hang him. Nobody coerce people then issue them weapons and ammunition.

    And then he speaks ill of his leaders. Oh, it’s probably prepared and scripted deception of enemies. Learn true from fake.

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  Rod • 3 hours ago

  You have not been in a contested war zone. People keep two flags. That’s one way non combatants and civilians survive. Don’t count too much on that guy licking your boots. Next time, he might be slitting your throat.

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François Hollande visits Timbuktu as Mali intervention declared successful

With the key phase of France’s campaign over, it is unclear whether lasting peace or a simmering guerrilla war will follow