Next....there is very little information...
Originally Posted by WTF
Nonsense... the information has been out there if you looked for it. John McCain should read the fucking newspapers. There is an al-queda group known as Al-Queda in the Maghreb active in the Sahara. A few years ago, they took over the northern half of Mali, including the town of Timbuktu. The French sent in a few thousand legionnaires to drive them out with U.S. logistical support. That's when we started operating drones out of a base in western Niger to track and kill the cockroaches.
I'm sure there is a wikipedia page on this. The NYT covered it well at the time. Do some fucking homework. This is why you are so clueless on foreign policy.