http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/29/mali-hundreds-of-british-troops-west-africa-france_n_2571840.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Mali: 'Hundreds' Of British Troops Could Assist France In Fight Against Islamists The people of this country should wake up to the reality of what is taking place in Mali. It has nothing to do with terrorism, rebels, insurgents, Islamist extremist, jihadists or any of the other emotive descriptions used by politicians and repeated parrot fashion by the media and television “pundits”. It has nothing to do, except indirectly, with the abundance of mineral resources in the country, which are currently only exploited to a fraction of their real worth. The situation in Mali today is about war. Not the war of nations as was the case in 1914 and 1939, or even the wars of the 1950's. This war in Mali, is at the same time new and almost as old as history. It is a war of religion. In exactly the same way as the Cru...
