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March 29th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Members of his entourage said Mr Toure was under protection of his elite
paratrooper “Red Beret” guard and coup leader Captain Amadou
Sanogo said he was safe in a secret location, raising concerns he was being
detained.
On Tuesday, France announced its Ambassador Christian Rouyer had spoken to Mr
Toure who “reassured him over his fate.”
Several thousand people marched in Bamako on Wednesday brandishing banners
reading “Down with ATT”, “Down with France”, and “Down
with the international community”, while shouting their support for
Sanogo.
The putschists have been shunned by the international community and on Tuesday
were suspended by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),
which followed the footsteps of the African Union.
A delegation of army chiefs arrived in Bamako Wednesday to prepare a venue for
a mediation team of six heads of state led by regional strongman Blaise
Compaore, president of Burkina Faso, expected to arrive Thursday.
In an interview with French international radio RFI, Burkinabe Foreign
Minister Djibril Bassole said ECOWAS leaders were gunning for a transition
government led by parliamentary speaker Dioncounda Traore.
West African leaders have warned that the region’s troops were on standby if
the junta failed to engage in dialogue.
In mid-January the Tuareg launched a decades-old fight for independence in the
north and the soldiers have been no match for the desert warriors who
recently returned from Libya, heavily-armed and battle-hardened.
Mali’s
military has long been on the back foot coming up against al-Qaeda in the
Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and Tuareg rebels over recent years in the vast
desert north, where trafficking of drugs, weapons and western hostages is
rife.
“Running on fumes: Mali’s soldiers exposed in the desert,” is the
title of a US diplomatic cable published in 2009, revealed on WikiLeaks,
which outlines how 200 soldiers chasing AQIM elements were stranded for a
week without gas and supplies.
“Soldiers posted to duty in the desert north are sent to either Gao,
Kidal, or Tessalit for three to six month tours without any training to
introduce them to fighting – or surviving – in the harsh desert terrain.”
These are the northern towns that have come under attack in the fresh
offensive which has also seen more than 200,000 people flee their homes.
During the last rebellion “some Malian soldiers were placed on duty in
the north never even having fired a weapon, due to lack of resources,
notably ammunition, during training,” read the dispatch.
The putschists on Tuesday announced a new constitution that rules its members
out of forthcoming elections, lifted its night-time curfew and reopened the
borders in an attempt to show the country was returning to normal.
The European Union, the United States and other Western powers have cut off
hundreds of millions of dollars of support to Mali – except for emergency
aid to drought-hit regions of the country suffering food shortages.
Source: AFP
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