23/10/2012
The importance of Mali
pMali! It?s a testament to the emphasis on terrorism in the foreign policy debate ? and the larger U.S. foreign policy conversation ? that Mitt Romney name-checked this land-locked West African state in his first answer. He cited the rise of ?al-Qaeda types? in the country as part of a warning that Islamist terrorists are, he says, on the rise. Ansar Dine, a violent extremist group, has taken over parts of Mali?s north as a consequence of the country?s larger political crisis./pa href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/blogpost/post/the-importance-of-mali/2012/10/22/9efa07f8-1cb6-11e2-8817-41b9a7aaabc7_blog.html?wprss=rss_world"Read full article #62;#62;/aimg width='1' height='1' src='http://feeds.washingtonpost.com/c/34656/f/636708/s/24c307da/mf.gif' border='0'/br/br/a href="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144545515897/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/24c307da/a2.htm"img src="http://da.feedsportal.com/r/144545515897/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/24c307da/a2.img" border="0"//aimg width="1" height="1" src="http://pi.feedsportal.com/r/144545515897/u/0/f/636708/c/34656/s/24c307da/a2t.img" border="0"/
