01/10/2012
West Africa: U.S. Ties Libya Attack to 'Powder Keg' in Mali
[Moroccan American Center for Policy]United Nations/New York, NY -Mali has become an incubator for terrorist activity that demands urgent international attention, world leaders said Wednesday, as the U.S. drew its most explicit link between al Qaeda havens in such places and the recent attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. The political, economic and humanitarian crisis in Mali--and much of the broader North African region known as the Sahel--has turned the country into a "powder keg" for terrorist activity by al Qaeda's Saharan front, said Secretary of State
