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Titolo: Mali loses North, Ecowas adds sanctions

<< The rebellion began in January, after Tuareg fighters who had been on 
the payroll of ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi returned to Mali, 
bristling with arms. >>
 
Bene, mettiamo anche questa responsabilità a carico dei sostenitori 
della guerra "umanitaria" in Libia.
 
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Mali loses North, Ecowas adds sanctions
2012-04-02 21:18
 
Bamako - Just 12 days after they stormed the presidential palace, the 
young officers that seized control of Mali in a coup were slapped on 
Monday with harsh financial sanctions that could cause the country to 
run out of petrol.
 
The body representing nations in West Africa announced on Monday that 
starting immediately they are closing the land borders with Mali. The 
landlocked nation of over 15 million imports nearly all its petroleum 
products from neighbouring Ivory Coast, and economists say petrol 
stations could run dry within weeks.
 
The country's account at the regional central bank has also been frozen, 
meaning that the junta will struggle to pay the salaries of government 
employees, including the very soldiers whose loyalty they need to retain 
power.
 
"All of the measures are applicable starting today and until the 
constitutional order is restored," said Alassane Ouattara, the president 
of Ivory Coast who is the chair of the Economic Community of West 
African States, after an emergency summit in Senegal. "The measures 
taken by the junta are in the right direction, but are not sufficient," 
he said.
 
The regional body representing 15 nations in West Africa had issued a 
72-hour ultimatum to the soldiers that grabbed power, which expired on 
Monday. In an effort to stave off the sanctions, the captain who led the 
coup held a press conference on Sunday to say he was reinstating the 
constitution and planning to hold elections.
 
Captain Amadou Haya Sanogo refused to give a time line on when the 
elections would be held, however, and dodged questions on whether he 
would continue to be president during the period leading to the election.
 
Meanwhile, the government on Monday also lost control of the northern 
half of the nation, as rebel flags were hoisted over the last three 
major towns still under government control. In just three days, the 
Tuareg rebels swept across the north, taking the regional capital of 
Kidal on Friday, the largest city of Gao on Saturday and the fabled 
desert outpost of Timbuktu on Sunday.
 
Commentators on television are already talking about the possible 
partition of Mali, which has weathered numerous rebellions by the 
lighter-skinned Tuaregs who have long felt marginalized by the 
darker-skinned Bambaras, who dominate the south where the seat of 
government is located.
 
At no time in the past did either of the three towns fall, indicating 
how much ground the rebels have been able to cover in the wake of a 
12-day-old coup in the distant capital, which has left both the military 
and the government in disarray.
 
Azawad
 
"The north is 100% in the hands of the rebels. There's no resistance, 
there's nothing... They have taken all the strategic points. In all the 
towns," said an official in the mayor's office in Kidal, who requested 
anonymity because he feared for his safety.
 
"There is no Malian state left."
 
Even before the coup, the government struggled to control the distant 
north, both due to the country's enormous geography and because of the 
age-old discord with the Tuaregs. In recent years, the lack of 
government in the north has created a sanctuary for drug traffickers and 
al-Qaeda terrorists, who have set up bases in the forlorn dunes.
 
With the government in post-coup disarray, even the garrison towns like 
Gao and Kidal proved no match for the rebels. Soldiers were seen dumping 
their uniforms and running. A resident of a town on the road leaving Gao 
saw a convoy of 14 military trucks speeding away, beating a panicked 
retreat.
 
Unlike in previous years, the rebels are no longer a unified movement 
fighting for an independent Tuareg homeland, called Azawad in the 
Tamashek language. The National Movement for the Liberation of the 
Azawad, or NMLA, is fighting for an independent Tuareg homeland, known 
as the Azawad. In addition, an Islamist group called Ansar Dine is 
fighting to impose shari'ah law in northern Mali.
 
Residents of Timbuktu on Monday awoke to find the ominous black flag of 
the Islamist faction flying over their ancient city, a worrying 
development in a city that used to rely on tourism for the bulk of its 
economy.
 
Contacted by telephone, Timbuktu Mayor Ousmane Halle said that he had 
received phone calls from three imams of local mosques, worried because 
they had been contacted by Ansar Dine.
 
The rebel group is asking to see all the imams of the city, and Halle 
says they are worried that the group wants to apply shari'ah, a form of 
Islamic law that does not jive with the moderate interpretation of the 
religion practised by most of Timbuktu's mosques.
 
Ansar Dine
 
"They called us to this meeting," said the imam of the Grand Mosque of 
Timbuktu, Abderrahmane Ben Essayouti. "We will see what the future 
brings. We practice a tolerant Islam. For them, it's sharia that we 
should be practicing."
 
The mayor of Timbuktu said that it's unclear which of the rebel 
movements has the upper hand. He said that he has requested a meeting 
with the spiritual head of Ansar Dine in order to complain about the 
proliferation of weapons.
 
"The rebels completely control the city. But there are several movements 
among them," said Halle. "What worries me is the weapons. The army has 
deserted the military camps. And the rebels, as well as others have 
raided their munitions. You now see 13-, 14- and 15-year-old boys with 
machine guns in the streets.
 
If I told you I wasn't scared, I'd be lying. What I reproach is that 
these people have occupied a territory. But they should at least secure 
it. I've asked to see them, but they have not yet responded."
 
In Kidal and Gao, shopkeepers reported that the Islamist rebels went 
from business to business telling merchants to take down pictures of 
unveiled women, including a hairdresser's posters showing photographs of 
different hairstyles.
 
In Gao, the largest city in the north which fell on Saturday, residents 
said that they no longer know who is in charge.
 
"It's chaos. We don't even know who controls the city, and who is doing 
what," said student Ahmed Ould Fneiny. "We see Ansar Dine with their 
flag. We see the MNLA... There are people in military uniforms who have 
stolen all the cars. We can't leave the city. One litre of petrol is now 
$2 whereas it was $1.3 yesterday."
 
The rebellion began in January, after Tuareg fighters who had been on 
the payroll of ex-Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi returned to Mali, 
bristling with arms. For the first two months, the insurgency advanced 
into the remote north, taking a dozen small towns, though failing to 
capture any of the major population centres.
- SAPA
 
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Niente paura: con non più di 5 Rafale, 100 legionari, e qualche
milizia arrabattata a bordo di pick-up... i mangiarane ai tuareg gli
fanno il culo.

 bristling with arms. >>
 
ma la storia che Gheddafi pagava mercenari stranieri per ammazzare il
suo stesso popolo non era una balla di al Jazeera?

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La balla era che fossero stati reclutati mercenari di colore da altri 
paesi.  Diceria che è stata usata come pretesto dai ribelli per qualche 
bella pulizia etnica contro i lavoratori immigrati.
 
Quanto ai tuareg inquadrati nell'esercito libico vedi la carta seguente:
 
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Libya_ethnic_%28it%29.svg
 
 
Come sempre in malafede, eh?

 paesi.
 
Si parla di "Tuareg RETURNED to Mali".
 
Sai cosa significa RETURNED?

Shylock ha scritto:
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Una delle tante, in compenso il dittatore del Qatar paga mercenari libici
in Siria e comunque pure in Mali le cose non sono così semplici visto che
a Timbuctu, una dlel cittadine conquistate dai rivoltosi, sembra sia stata
imposta la Sharia e che quindi abbiano preso il potere gruppi di armati
fondamentalisti, e di certo in libia (se da lì provengono) non erano al
soldo di Gheddafi.
Chissà, magari al dittatore del Qatar che sta finanziando la
reislamizzazione fondamentalista, non basta la conquista (e regalia) della
Libia
 
Ciao!
 
 
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 soldo di Gheddafi.
 
Gheddafi ha introdotto la sharia (con tanto di amputazioni & co. che,
fra parentesi, in Qatar non esistono) come legge fondamentale del
paese dopo aver cacciato il Re, che aveva invece mantenuto i codici
italiani.
 

 Libia
 
Che non gli basti è sicuro: basti vedere come sta spendendo le sue ampie 
risorse per tentare di togliere di mezzo anche Assad: un altro leader 
autoritario ma di ispirazione laica.
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 tenere a distanza l'integralismo islamico.
 
P.S.: allora, Gheddafi arruolava all'estero o no?

 tenere a distanza l'integralismo islamico.
 
Falso.
 
P.S.: allor

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1. Chi ha scritto RETURNED è tutt'altro che un papa in cattedra
2. I tuareg sono una popolazione tradizionalmente nomade, parte della 
quale stanziata in Libia
3. Chi ha servito nell'esercito di Gheddafi non se la passa bene nella 
Libia di oggi
4. La Libia è percorsa da odi etnici e tribali che provocano spostamenti 
di popolazione
 
Tutto questo fornisce a ciò che è avvenuto motivazioni molto più 
credibili e fondate  rispetto alle tue illazioni.
 
E' dunque probabile che parte dei cittadini libici di etnia tuareg che 
erano inquadrati nell'esercito, dopo la caduta di Gheddafi si siano 
spostati nel territorio del Mali in seno alla loro comunità, portandosi 
appresso le armi e l'addestramento sufficienti a sbaragliare le ffaa del 
Mali.
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 italiani.
 
Sì, come no.
Quante mogli aveva Gheddafi e quante ne ha il dittatore del Qatar?
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 1. Chi ha scritto RETURNED è tutt'altro che un papa in cattedra
 
rotfl, patetico backpedaling

 Quante mogl
 
Gheddafi ha reintrodotto la sharia abolendo il diritto italiano in
Libia.
 
E` un fatto. Stacci.

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cioè fascista, visto che quelli erano i codici italiani mantenuti dal
tuo amato re.

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Definisci sempre in questo modo (un po' provinciale peraltro) le tue 
figure di merda?
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 E` un fatto. Stacci.
 
L'unico fatto, anzi i due fatti sono che 
1) stai a svicolare e non rispondi
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"Shylock"  ha scritto nel messaggio 
news:540ac136-56aa-466d...@fw28g2000vbb.googlegroups.com...
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Però è vero che parlare di "andare" o "tornare" per i membri di una 
etnia nomade abituata a muoversi continuamente attraverso frontiere 
peraltro mal definite e mal controllate come quelle che si trovano nel 
Sahara non ha molto senso.
Non ci sono Uffici Anagrafe nel Sahara.
 
Carlo "Jurassic Park"
 
 

 Definisci sem
 
allora, i mercenari africani di Gheddafi esistono o no?

 tuo amato re.
 
cioe` quelli attualmente in vigore in Italia.

 C'erano articoli che
 
Allora, i mercenari Tuareg esistono o no?

guerra "umanitaria" in Libia.
 
mah, di Tuareg in rivolta se ne parla dalla notte dei tempi :-) Comunque già 
Parigi sta intervenendo in un paese già infiltrato dall'integralismo 
islamico e, tutto sommato, da interessi di varia natura...