French Defense Minister Jeans-Yves Le Drian has offered military support to the Libyan government to help the nation secure its southern border with Mali, saying it was up to Libya to decide on the scope of that aid.
After the NATO-imposed regime change in Libya, large quantities of looted weapons sparked a civil war in Mali. After the French military invaded Mali in January, many of the Islamist fighters in that area fled north, into Libya.
Libya had no shortage of internal problems already since the regime change, but the influx of Islamists, many of them linked to al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), has left the southern deserts of Libya a mish-mash of different factions, none of whom particularly like one another and all of them, thanks to the French and the rest of NATO, armed to the teeth.
Le Drian reiterated pledges that France would not unilaterally deploy troops to southern Libya, but insisted that they would do so either with Libyan government permission or UN backing. He added that France was committed to “curbing terror” in North Africa, though he appeared not to notice how much of the heavy armament of militants in the region is a direct result of their past operations.
Curbing terror in North Africa.., meanwhile stealing people's of North Africa wealth by militarizing North Africa via French military. That's a good deal for the French social democrats.., in the other that's how the modernized version of SD works.
One problem: Libya has no border with Mali. Algeria, Niger and Chad line the south. As for the arms, those were mostly US arms given to Ghadafi that were then stolen by AQIM fighters. France did a good job of locating caches of those arms in Mali and neutralising them.
All going according to plan, we wanted chaos and we get it, including Ditz's offensive and wrongheaded 'offer' euphemism: it's not 'offer'
It's occupation – how delicate we are, despite our words of condemnation!!