Did they?
"Mali Islamists cut off suspected thief’s hand; The man's hand was chopped off for stealing a sheep" ASSOCIATED PRESS, August 10, 2012
BAMAKO, Mali — Officials in Mali condemned Islamist militants on Friday for chopping off a man’s hand for allegedly stealing sheep, the punishment underscoring hardliners’ tightening control over northern Mali....
“After the Islamists cut off the young man’s hand, they put his arm in
boiling oil,” said a witness at the scene who spoke on condition of
anonymity for fear of reprisals.
That's to cauterize the wound, right?
Authorities expressed outrage over the latest punishments the Islamists have said are in accordance with strict Shariah law. Late last month, they stoned an adulterous couple to death.
Also see: Mali Goes Islamist
That's to cauterize the wound, right?
Authorities expressed outrage over the latest punishments the Islamists have said are in accordance with strict Shariah law. Late last month, they stoned an adulterous couple to death.
Also see: Mali Goes Islamist
“It’s a horror what is happening in our cities,” said El Hadj Baba Haidara, a member of the Malian parliament.
The Malian government issued a statement condemning the amputation,
calling it a “a new horrible act to add their long list.” The statement
said the government is open to accelerating plans with neighboring
nations to recapture the north from rebel hands.
Mali’s north was overrun by a mix of armed groups — including several
allied with al-Qaida — following a coup in Mali’s capital, Bamako, in
March. Since June, Islamists have exerted full control of the northern
half of the country and have imposed Shariah law.
Also see: Wild West Africa
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon this week warned of worsening security and humanitarian crises in Mali and asked the Security Council to consider financial and travel sanctions on rebels and Islamist fighters, including several allied with al-Qaida.
Also see: Wild West Africa
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon this week warned of worsening security and humanitarian crises in Mali and asked the Security Council to consider financial and travel sanctions on rebels and Islamist fighters, including several allied with al-Qaida.
A 3,000-member military intervention force assembled by the Economic
Community of West African States is awaiting a formal request for
intervention from Mali’s interim president, who recently returned from
exile, an ECOWAS official said Wednesday....
Resistance by Mali’s military has hindered the deployment of the ECOWAS force.
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Related: Islamists conduct amputations in Mali
North Mali robber describes Shariah amputation
Maybe the Mali way could be employed against banksters.
"Man lashed 100 times in Timbuktu rape case" by Baba Ahmed |
Associated Press, September 01, 2012
BAMAKO, Mali — A man accused of rape in the Malian city of Timbuktu
received 100 lashes Friday, according to witnesses, as a radical Islamic
group controlling the country’s northern half continued its campaign of
applying strict Islamic law known as Sharia.
The latest punishment after a visit to Mali by investigators from the
International Criminal Court who are studying whether the country’s
armed groups have committed crimes against humanity.
The man who was whipped, identified as a Burkina Faso citizen named
Boubacar El-Bourkinabiyoune, was brought into Timbuktu’s public square
Friday morning, witnesses said. Members of the radical Ansar Dine group,
which seized control of the city in April, said that if the accused had
been married, they would have stoned him to death, said resident
Aboubacrine Yattara.
Contacted by phone, a second witness Mohamed Toure confirmed that he had also seen the lashing.
Northern Mali fell into the hands of a mixture of Islamic groups in
March and April, after a coup in the capital, Bamako, 700 miles away.
About 30,000 people have fled fighting in northern Mali and are
desperately in need of food aid, according to Valerie Amos, United
Nations undersecretary and emergency relief coordinator.
She was in Mali two days and said that in addition to those who fled
the north, there are 4.6 million people who are affected by food
shortages. She said the United Nations sought $213 million in relief
aid, but less than half that amount has been provided.
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That sure is a switch from the misogynistic Muslims we have been told about.
"Sixteen moderate Muslim clerics killed" Associated press, September 10, 2012
BAMAKO, Mali — Sixteen Muslim clerics from a moderate sect were
fatally shot in central Mali as they traveled to a religious conference,
the Malian and Mauritanian governments said Sunday. Early reports said
the men’s beards aroused the suspicion of Mali’s military, which
confused them with extremists who have taken control of the north. They were executed.
And no one lost any sleep over it, either.
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Who are the "terrorists" again?
"Mali militants say they will not give up harsh law" by BRAHIMA OUEDRAOGO
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI |
Associated Press, November 15, 2012
OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso — One of the three Al Qaeda-linked groups
controlling northern Mali said Wednesday it would not give up its harsh
form of Islamic law, appearing to offer little ground in last-ditch
talks meant to avert a military intervention to take back the region.
Well, when you consider that "Al-CIA-Duh" exists to advance the empire's agenda it's not surprising at all, is it?
Members of Ansar Dine said they are willing to allow the rest of Mali
to be governed by a different set of rules, but spokesman Mohamed Ag
Aharib told reporters that asking his group to relinquish Sharia law in
the area under their control is like asking them to give up being
Muslim.
Ansar Dine is believed to be the most moderate of the three groups.
Representatives have been meeting with Burkina Faso President Blaise
Compaore, who has been appointed as a mediator, but the group’s
unbending stance on Sharia casts doubt on whether the effort can make
headway.
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And what do the Malians think of all this?
"Malians rally for unity government" Associated Press, August 13, 2012
BAMAKO, Mali — A member of the Islamic High Council in Mali said about 50,000 people are marching in the capital to pressure the government to form a transitional unity government.
Bamako resident Mahamane Maiga said he participated in the march because the government is losing time to regain the north, which has been taken over by Islamist groups trying to impose Shariah law.
A 3,000-member military intervention force assembled by the West African regional bloc is awaiting a formal request for intervention from Mali’s interim president, Dioncounda Traore, who will make the request once the unity government is formed, according to officials.
The bloc gave the country until Aug. 10 to form a unity government.
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And since that didn't happen....
"France to send drones to Mali region" Associated Press, October 23, 2012
PARIS — France will move surveillance drones to West Africa and is holding secretive talks with US officials in Paris this week as it seeks to steer international military action to help Mali’s feeble government win back the northern part of the country from Al Qaeda-linked rebels.
I'm sorry, readers, but I've got to go the the crapper after seeing that term so much.
France and the United Nations insist that any invasion of Mali’s north be led by African troops.
But France, which has six hostages in Mali and has citizens who have joined Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, is playing an increasing role behind the scenes.
Related: Militants say hostages imperiled in Mali
Many in the West fear that northeast Mali and the arid Sahel region could become a no-man’s-land where extremists can train, impose hard-line Islamic law, and plot terror attacks abroad.
That's what it will become once the drones start dropping missiles.
As for the plotting and plans, pfffft.
And France, former colonial ruler to countries across the Sahel, is a prime target.
Yes, EMPIRES NEVER FORGIVE or FORGET!
‘‘This is actually a major threat — to French interests in the region, and to France itself,’’ said Francois Heisbourg, an expert at the Foundation for Strategic Research, a partially state-funded think tank in Paris.
Translation: If a FALSE FLAG occurs in FRANCE it will be blamed on Mali!
Cui bono?
‘‘This is like Afghanistan 1996. This is like when [Osama] bin Laden found a place that was larger than France in which he could organize training camps, in which he could provide stable preparations for organizing far-flung terror attacks.’’
I wonder if the Eiffel Tower will drop into it's own footprint like the WTC.
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Related:
"Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sought Algeria’s assistance on Monday for any future military intervention in Mali, pressing the North African nation to provide intelligence — if not boots on the ground — to help rout the Al Qaeda-linked militants across its southern border."
Just building up to it.
"Prime Minister Cheick Modibo Diarra's resignation comes as the United States, European countries, and regional powers are readying a military force to intervene in Mali’s north, where radical Islamists have created a jihadist haven for Al Qaeda militants and other extremists."
Also see: UN OK’s military action to oust Al Qaeda cohort in Mali
You know, I have had enough of war propaganda from an intelligence agency asset we call a newspaper. Time to put on the sunglasses and get a different view:
[Re: UN Security Council approves Mali intervention force]
After witnessing the same deadly, hypocritical scenario unfold over and over, I am just now beginning to see the real genius that went into the Pentagon’s “Take-over-the-World Plan.” This is how you manage to wage war upon the entire world, more or less simultaneously, with nothing more than an all-volunteer force and implied threats. When Pentagon/CIA agents, or their corporate counterparts control all news, then it becomes possible to hide entire real wars, or to “simulate” non-existent conflict. It is no wonder that the world has become accustomed to the idea of universal conflagration, when we think that we see new Pentagon fires rising all around us on a daily basis. The Pentagon loves to play with fire, especially when it has so many playmates. It is these playmates that the Pentagon relies upon whenever the time seems ripe to seek UN authorization for another “Just War” against another imaginary “Islamist threat.” There is no limit to the depravity of American “Warfighters,” who will do anything, or kill anyone, to advance their glorious mission to establish a new Global Reich–Hoo-Rah!
This latest playing of the “Islamist” card in Mali occurred just when Russian moves in the Mediterranean had made it obvious that we were flirting with Armegeddon in Syria. The Pentagon/CIA’s “Islamist” pals always manage to pop-up in some obscure corner of the world like Mali whenever one of the Pentagon’s major limited conflicts like Syria, or Afghanistan threaten to turn into real war. (You remember when the Pentagon wasn’t afraid to fight real armies, don’t you?) Whenever these Islamists manage to stir-up enough trouble that they successfully ignite some sort of real conflict, they give the State Dept. goons what they need to go to the UN for “humanitarian” relief. If the rest of the American people only knew the cold truth, which most of us in the alternative media already understand, that ALL ISLAMIST TERROR is American created terrorism, then the hypocritical self-blindness would be stripped-away, and we would recognize our Fascist government for what it is, the new Nazi Reich reincarnated.
After all, the essence of all American government mind-manipulation science is a continuation of the illegal Nazi concentration camp studies, which have been merged with the infamous Strategic Bombing Survey made by the Brits and American sociologists at the end of WWII. Where the Nazi scientists were perfecting a primitive mind-control science, the British and Americans were perfecting the art of mass-terror as the basis for mass mind-manipulation. They perfected the art of strategic bombing as the basis of a new kind of political terrorism, giving them the capability to move huge “herds” of terrorized human beings as a primary instrument of Western foreign policy. World planners now understand that it is far easier and cheaper to immobilize vital targets and strategic connections by overwhelming transportation grids using masses of refugees, instead of massive carpet-bombing and siege tactics. Just look to the case of Pakistan in its simulated warfare in the tribal region, by flushing entire tribes upon the roadways before announced offensives, they have created the impression of real war, even though the actual campaigns are made impossible, or obscured by the masses of frightened refugees (internally displaced persons) clogging the limited roadways.
The merger of the two streams of the outlawed pseudo-sciences has empowered American political and social scientists with a working ability to effect limited mind-control through mass-suggestion over broad segments of the human race, even giving them the ability to pursue multiple separate streams of auto-suggestion in different war theaters, simultaneously. The combined American-Nazi black arts are an unwelcome reality, but they are a new, artificial form of reality.
This brings us back to the point of this particular commentary, the Pentagon’s self-labelled “whack-a-mole strategy,” aptly describes the new “Warfighting” strategy, which underwent its trial run in Afghanistan and Iraq, before going live globally with the strategy, such as we are witnessing today. The name of the new game is “incrementalism,” a game at which Obama has proven to be a master player. Pump-up the fear level in one outbreak, while backing it off a bit in another conflict (such as Pakistan’s tribal region) which threatened to boil over. The concept of “conflict management” requires that the manager never allow any conflict to escalate out of control, while the corresponding “strategy of tension” requires the apparent escalation of conflict, in order to achieve the proper level of terror.
This terror can theoretically be maintained indefinitely, unless credible resistance (like the Russian Navy) arises to challenge the Manager’s control, such as in the case in Syria. When the war on Syria began to fall apart, due primarily to Russian resistance, the Western media employed its usual sleight of hand, diverting our attention with an announcement to the court of world opinion that an army of ”Islamists” was poised to takeover northern Mali. While harping on our “humanitarian” obligations to prevent another domino from falling to the “Islamist menace,” the controlled Western news leaders have stuck to their government-approved scripts and assiduously avoided any mention of the obvious fact that Western governments were empowering the same “Islamists/Al-Qaeda” everywhere else.
The Pentagon’s secret private armies were perfectly suited for producing justification for “whacking” the latest “moles” (even though the “moles” were all Pentagon/CIA-trained terrorists), but they had zero capabilities for actually destabilizing or overthrowing any government on their own. The Pentagon was very successful at parlaying its Saudi/Qatari petrodollars into a “global war on on terrorism,” all they had to do to set their plan for total global domination into motion was to kill 3,000 Americans, or facilitate their murder, while their controlled news cameras maintained a steady broadcast of their manufactured horrors into every American home. That is the ultimate bottom line in all of this, anyway, the Pentagon has slaughtered thousands of men, women and children in order to become the center of world Fascism, and there are no limits as to how far these evil killers will go, to finalize their long-term plans to subjugate every single human mind.
The scariest and possibly the most disheartening of all of this, is that every government on earth is playing along with these evil bastards, hoping for their own piece of the pie, even Russia. The new Mali Security Council initiative was approved unanimously–no Russian or Chinese veto on this one. I guess that if Putin is really the world’s best hope for resistance to Imperial aggression, that he doesn’t give a shit if we slaughter another few hundred thousand black Africans." -- UN Security Council Unanimously Approves Another Armed Intervention Against Another American “Islamist” Terror
[Re: UN Security Council approves Mali intervention force]
After witnessing the same deadly, hypocritical scenario unfold over and over, I am just now beginning to see the real genius that went into the Pentagon’s “Take-over-the-World Plan.” This is how you manage to wage war upon the entire world, more or less simultaneously, with nothing more than an all-volunteer force and implied threats. When Pentagon/CIA agents, or their corporate counterparts control all news, then it becomes possible to hide entire real wars, or to “simulate” non-existent conflict. It is no wonder that the world has become accustomed to the idea of universal conflagration, when we think that we see new Pentagon fires rising all around us on a daily basis. The Pentagon loves to play with fire, especially when it has so many playmates. It is these playmates that the Pentagon relies upon whenever the time seems ripe to seek UN authorization for another “Just War” against another imaginary “Islamist threat.” There is no limit to the depravity of American “Warfighters,” who will do anything, or kill anyone, to advance their glorious mission to establish a new Global Reich–Hoo-Rah!
This latest playing of the “Islamist” card in Mali occurred just when Russian moves in the Mediterranean had made it obvious that we were flirting with Armegeddon in Syria. The Pentagon/CIA’s “Islamist” pals always manage to pop-up in some obscure corner of the world like Mali whenever one of the Pentagon’s major limited conflicts like Syria, or Afghanistan threaten to turn into real war. (You remember when the Pentagon wasn’t afraid to fight real armies, don’t you?) Whenever these Islamists manage to stir-up enough trouble that they successfully ignite some sort of real conflict, they give the State Dept. goons what they need to go to the UN for “humanitarian” relief. If the rest of the American people only knew the cold truth, which most of us in the alternative media already understand, that ALL ISLAMIST TERROR is American created terrorism, then the hypocritical self-blindness would be stripped-away, and we would recognize our Fascist government for what it is, the new Nazi Reich reincarnated.
After all, the essence of all American government mind-manipulation science is a continuation of the illegal Nazi concentration camp studies, which have been merged with the infamous Strategic Bombing Survey made by the Brits and American sociologists at the end of WWII. Where the Nazi scientists were perfecting a primitive mind-control science, the British and Americans were perfecting the art of mass-terror as the basis for mass mind-manipulation. They perfected the art of strategic bombing as the basis of a new kind of political terrorism, giving them the capability to move huge “herds” of terrorized human beings as a primary instrument of Western foreign policy. World planners now understand that it is far easier and cheaper to immobilize vital targets and strategic connections by overwhelming transportation grids using masses of refugees, instead of massive carpet-bombing and siege tactics. Just look to the case of Pakistan in its simulated warfare in the tribal region, by flushing entire tribes upon the roadways before announced offensives, they have created the impression of real war, even though the actual campaigns are made impossible, or obscured by the masses of frightened refugees (internally displaced persons) clogging the limited roadways.
The merger of the two streams of the outlawed pseudo-sciences has empowered American political and social scientists with a working ability to effect limited mind-control through mass-suggestion over broad segments of the human race, even giving them the ability to pursue multiple separate streams of auto-suggestion in different war theaters, simultaneously. The combined American-Nazi black arts are an unwelcome reality, but they are a new, artificial form of reality.
This brings us back to the point of this particular commentary, the Pentagon’s self-labelled “whack-a-mole strategy,” aptly describes the new “Warfighting” strategy, which underwent its trial run in Afghanistan and Iraq, before going live globally with the strategy, such as we are witnessing today. The name of the new game is “incrementalism,” a game at which Obama has proven to be a master player. Pump-up the fear level in one outbreak, while backing it off a bit in another conflict (such as Pakistan’s tribal region) which threatened to boil over. The concept of “conflict management” requires that the manager never allow any conflict to escalate out of control, while the corresponding “strategy of tension” requires the apparent escalation of conflict, in order to achieve the proper level of terror.
This terror can theoretically be maintained indefinitely, unless credible resistance (like the Russian Navy) arises to challenge the Manager’s control, such as in the case in Syria. When the war on Syria began to fall apart, due primarily to Russian resistance, the Western media employed its usual sleight of hand, diverting our attention with an announcement to the court of world opinion that an army of ”Islamists” was poised to takeover northern Mali. While harping on our “humanitarian” obligations to prevent another domino from falling to the “Islamist menace,” the controlled Western news leaders have stuck to their government-approved scripts and assiduously avoided any mention of the obvious fact that Western governments were empowering the same “Islamists/Al-Qaeda” everywhere else.
The Pentagon’s secret private armies were perfectly suited for producing justification for “whacking” the latest “moles” (even though the “moles” were all Pentagon/CIA-trained terrorists), but they had zero capabilities for actually destabilizing or overthrowing any government on their own. The Pentagon was very successful at parlaying its Saudi/Qatari petrodollars into a “global war on on terrorism,” all they had to do to set their plan for total global domination into motion was to kill 3,000 Americans, or facilitate their murder, while their controlled news cameras maintained a steady broadcast of their manufactured horrors into every American home. That is the ultimate bottom line in all of this, anyway, the Pentagon has slaughtered thousands of men, women and children in order to become the center of world Fascism, and there are no limits as to how far these evil killers will go, to finalize their long-term plans to subjugate every single human mind.
The scariest and possibly the most disheartening of all of this, is that every government on earth is playing along with these evil bastards, hoping for their own piece of the pie, even Russia. The new Mali Security Council initiative was approved unanimously–no Russian or Chinese veto on this one. I guess that if Putin is really the world’s best hope for resistance to Imperial aggression, that he doesn’t give a shit if we slaughter another few hundred thousand black Africans." -- UN Security Council Unanimously Approves Another Armed Intervention Against Another American “Islamist” Terror
Also see: Mali militants seek peace after UN backs force
That's a surprise.
UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said recently he does not expect a military operation to begin until September or October of next year.
The mayor of Timbuktu, which is controlled by the Islamist group Ansar Dine, has described conditions there as ‘‘a living hell.’’
That is not.
