Mali: Friends and Enemies

The London Telegraph: “The French are under no illusion that they face a capable enemy equipped and trained by the late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.”

Straight out of the Goebbels School of Journalism.
Just slip in a lie and let people digest it into their consciousness.
The Telegraph writer is trying to make out that the Islamist/Salafi/Al Qaeda fighters in Mali were equipped and trained by ‘our’ enemy, Colonel Gaddafi.
On the contrary, this international network of terrorists and mercenaries, financed by the Arabian dictatorships, are the friends of the NATO military bureaucratic complex, whereas the Libyan regime of Colonel Gaddafi was ‘our’ enemy.
Gaddafi had wanted to come in from the cold, and he was fooled into believing that he had been forgiven.
Sadly for him, Colonel Gaddafi believed that he could maintain an independent source of power in Libya.
He believed he could remain friends with ‘ourselves’ and with China and Russia too.
He tried to finance the African Union. He hoped to introduce a Pan African currency, a sort of African Euro.
Libya was sitting on vast deposits of ‘our’ oil and ‘our’ water amongst many other natural resources.
Gaddafi and his allies were naïve. The invasion of Africa has begun.
NATO provides the bombs, but the ‘Arab Fighters’ are the shock troops.
Al Qaeda are the friends of our masters, in Afghanistan fighting the Russians, in Bosnia destroying the independence of non aligned Yugoslavia, in Chechnya fighting the Russians, in Iraq spreading terror amongst the pro Iranian Shia majority, in Syria destroying thousands of lives, wreaking havoc, destabilizing the regime, in Libya providing the hard core of the rebellion, giving a casus belli for NATO intervention.
Again, in Mali, they are providing the excuse for the NATO military occupation.
Al Qaeda has its own objectives of course, and no doubt they believe they are using NATO, and sometimes NATO has to have them put down, but most of the time they are just extremely nasty and useful idiots.
Islamists are simply the patsies of the West.