African Union Chair Calls For NATO Intervention In Mali
Atlantic Council
January 8, 2013
Chairman of African Union calls on NATO to join Mali force
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From AFP: African Union chair Thomas Boni Yayi on Tuesday called for Nato troops to join African Union forces in a mission to stabilise Mali following a coup last year.
“Nato should play a part [in Mali], and the African force would lead the way as was done by Nato in Afghanistan,” Yayi, who is also Benin’s president, told a joint press conference with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper…
Harper said only that Ottawa would continue to provide humanitarian aid and work diplomatically with its Nato allies and “friends in Africa” to try to stabilise Mali…
…West African nations have put together a force of some 3,300 troops ready to go to Mali to help rebuild the country’s army and support a military operation, which is not expected to start before September next year.
Then-chairman of the African Union Jean Ping and NATO’s Anders Fogh Rasmussen in 2011
Cooperation with Stephen Harper’s Canada. Now we have the nadir of peaceful and just relationships among countries.
Yayi is not the African Union chairman and he’s nuts like a few other Francofone African leaders, if he’s calling for NATO to have anything to do with defeating the Western enabled terrorists in Mali.
Mali is the perfect target for a timid pseudo-military bluster-fest like NATO.
Mali can’t shoot back.
Attacking Mali might help re-inflate the increasingly limp delusion that NATO could/would/should attack Syria (if Syria couldn’t shoot back and didn’t have Russia on stand-by to augment Syria’s no-NATO zone).
As respite from all the prattle about well co-ordinated Grand Geo-political Strategies, it would be interesting to hear US-NATO explain how Israel’s bizarre 2007 pre-emptive warning to Syria – that Syria’s air defenses weren’t up to scratch – fitted into the (somewhat short of flawless) plan to ‘topple’ Assad and Iraqify Syria?