http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/11/28/mortar-attack-on-un-base-in-mali-kills-at-least-three.html
Why aren't terrorist groups in Northern and Western Africa like Libya or Mali focused on as much as those in Syria or Iraq?
Cuz they didn't 9/11
They're less of a threat towards the west. Not to mention that strategically The ME is more important than West Africa.
>>19
>Why aren't terrorist groups in Northern and Western Africa like Libya or Mali focused on as much as those in Syria or Iraq?
Because nobody gives a crap about Africa, and we expect it to be a violent shithole, so no one is surprised when it turns out to actually be a violent shithole.
>>27
I understand that but al-Qaeda and other insurgents were funded by Western groups to take down Qaddafi in Libya and offshoots have received help from Saudi businessmen with ties to the West.
If Western politicians feel they have some responsibility for Syria, it's disingenuous to commit the same actions there and ignore it.
>>19
BECAUSE THEY ARE TOWEL PEOPLE
>>19
Far bit of Oil comes from the middle east. So any disruption to the middle east will have some effect on oil supply which is more important to the west.
>>50
:)
>>61
Then why was it important for them to intervene in Libya and other places in Africa? Those regions still have mineral resources that were taken as part of colonialist ventures in the past.
You could say Qaddafi was anti-western but after Saddam's fall, he became much more neutral to the West in policy.
I get it has to do with personal security for those nations but it's still insincere when you pitch Syria as a humanitarian crisis that the West is responsible in part for when these areas are like that as well.
>>61
But there is a ton of oil in Nigeria that we could take over.
>>19
Because our Saudi overlords don't want us to meddle with Libya or Mali.
>>274
If the Britain never supported the Saudi royal family in the first place, the ME would be so much better.
>>19
I'm honestly worried about us importing so many muslims in Europe. The Paris attacks prove that mass immigration makes integration impossible, and these attacks prove furthermore that most terrorists of today are of islamic root
>>475
I hope this is bait.
Read
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/abdelhamid-abaaoud-everything-we-know-about-the-paris-attacks-mastermind-a6738776.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/18/world/europe/paris-attacks-abdelhamid-abaaoud-an-isis-militant-from-belgium-whose-own-family-wanted-him-dead.html
http://time.com/4113864/paris-attacks-isis-homegrown-terrorism/
>>489
Just report it and move on
>>489
Exactly. The terrorist in Paris was a foreigner born in Belgium. The problem is that we couldn't integrate him because there were too many and we are forced to ignore them. They get radicalized and join terrorist cells.
My other point is that one of the terrorists was posing as a refugee with a fake Syrian passport, yet he was let in.
We need to have more border controls to avoid new attacks.
Isis themselves said they'd send terrorists along with the refugees.
You have no idea of how scared I am. I have a friend who leaves near the stadium
>>497
Why? Isn't this the board to discuss news? Sorry I'm kind of new to the place
>>19
No one cares about Africa generally, they don't have oil and they're much less effective since the Saudis etc are less interested in funding them.
>>285
If Britain and France had never divided up the Middle East between them, promised the same land to competing groups, and propped up dictators who were on their side, the ME would be so much better.
>>616
It would probably still be pretty hellish to live in but it wouldn't cause so many problems as long as they were willing to sell their oil and we were willing to ignore their culture.
>>27
Well, kind of. They were enough of a threat that the Malian government essentially threatened Paris in front of the UN saying that they needed help, and it'd be smart to deal with AQIM and MUJAO while they're still in Mali, and not on their way to French land.
>>37
The goal of Libya was to smash their leader's ideas of getting to the gold standard for oil. The Tuareg populations leaving and causing trouble further west after emptying munition supply depots and stealing trucks wasn't exactly planned for. It was forecasted though: Niger's gov't pissed and moaned for months after 2011's bombings
>>73
There is a major humanitarian crisis in Mali. The U.S. state department says Malian citiziens are walking 7 kilometers a turn for water. Food shortages continue, and desertification is spreading south faster and faster.
Its expected that the French, Irish, and British troops can handle it. Sure as hell won't be Mali's 7,000 man army dealing with it.
Mali has a lot of problems, most stemming from their shift to large scale agricultural operations during French rule. Their increase in populations of their own people, influx of minority groups (Tuareg) and neighboring states' refugees only compounds the problems. Bamako's lack of leadership and general awfulness toward citizens doesn't help; the African-Brazilian Narco nexus is a great show case for this. ALl the money gifted to Mali and other West African states to combat terrorism for the last decade and a half is wasted, as Bamako's leaders (ATT or Sanago) are in line with the drug movers and al Qaeda.
Cool thread. Hope more people post in it.