pThe Obama administration is contemplating broad military, political and humanitarian intervention a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/africa/in-mali-an-islamic-extremist-haven-takes-shape/2012/06/06/gJQAIKNlKV_story.html"to stop a slide/a toward a data-xslt="_http" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/white-house-secret-meetings-examine-al-qaeda-threat-in-north-africa/2012/10/01/f485b9d2-0bdc-11e2-bd1a-b868e65d57eb_story.html"chaos and Islamic extremism in Mali/a, the top State Department diplomat for Africa said Thursday./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-looks-to-effort-in-somalia-as-model-for-mali-solution/2012/10/11/0385b36e-13c7-11e2-bf18-a8a596df4bee_story.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/24634b04/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544766294/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/24634b04/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144544766294/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/24634b04/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144544766294/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/24634b04/a2t.img" border="0"/