[Moroccan American Center for Policy]Washington, DC -It would have been nice if Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), its offshoot the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO), and Ansar Dine had given the international community the long interregnum it had hoped for to organize an orderly, first-things-first action plan to displace them from northern Mali, beginning with an effort to help sort out the still-confused political mess in that nation's capital. But alas, it was not to be.