President Barack Obama and Republican presidential candidate and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt ... more >A statement called for planning for “a potential military mission … to be pursued and deepened urgently.”
A military coup in Mali’s capital of Bamako in March ousted the president. The northern and eastern part of the country is not in the hands of militias linked to al Qaeda.
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Bill Gertz is a national security columnist for The Washington Times and senior editor at The Washington Free Beacon (www.freebeacon.com). He has been with The Times since 1985.
He is the author of six books, four of them national best-sellers. His latest book, “The Failure Factory,” on government bureaucracy and national security, was published in September 2008.
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