Last week French officials were openly courting Gulf nations to get involved with, or at least bankroll, their invasion of Mali. The United Arab Emirates and Qatar were the focus of the recruitment drive.
Today, French officials have turned entirely on Qatar and are openly accusing them of being the funding behind the Mali Islamist factions, pointing to the presence of the Qatari Red Crescent in the area.
The exiled mayor of the rebel-held city of Gao pointed to the aid group’s provision of food and medicine to his town, even after he had been chased out by rebel fighters, as proof that they are backing the rebels.
The speculation is that Qatar is keen to see a seceded northern Mali because they would be in a good position to forge close business ties with the new nation, which is believed to have significant oil resources. France, on the other hand, is determined to see the southern junta rule the entire nation.
And this guy just find that out that Qatar and Saudis illegitimate sons are all over what is going on in Libya, Syria and now Mali…, I wonder if French or English or for that matter the US government were not waiting for such time to invade Mali and later Algeria or Niger to complete their "Vision" for Africa conquering the entire northern Africa. We said that when NATO started their involvement in Libya.., that all this is about Africa.., the Libyan project have nothing to do with freedom nor democracy.., but it dose everything to do with the unity among African nations for west wanting to brake it.., as they do in Syria.., these wars are the sneaky wars.., the real wars is yet to come…, look: it was the Bush sr. hand in hand with Saudis which created the present terrorism called Al Qaeda or jihadists and etc. the very same creation is reacting to the west action in what it was promised to them when they were helping to defeat red army in Afghanistan, now the very same terrorism that was created by the west is going after those that created them without keeping their promises letting these imbeciles to keep,Afghanistan as their religious sanctuary.., yet.., once again they are used to for fill the EU and us interests in Middle East and northern Africa.
I'd love to see Qatar and France come to blows and then maybe if the world is lucky the Arab country get help from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the other Gulf countries and France getting help from Britain, the US, a nd so on. This way the wolves would tear each other.
Oh the French MPs! Everybody knows what to think of them.
So if the mayor flees the town, then the Red Crescent should not give aid to the people of his town? And if they do, they're supporting the rebels?
Anyway, when France decided to intervene, they tried to get Qatar to fund them – but why would Qatar have to obey France?