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2012-08-21 Africa North

Special Military Units Established To Target Al-Qaeda in the Sahel

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Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-21 09:40|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Presumably, the Sahel countries involved will be asked permission beforehand, until the first op is burned. I mean the first burned op. No, I guess I mean the first op, which will be burned.
And do we restrict the ops to the NA countries with borders on the Med, or do we see ops further south in Chad, Mali, etc?

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-08-21 10:52|| 2012-08-21 10:52|| Front Page Top

#2 In other news regarding Special Military units and tactics, iIt has emerged from some experts in COIN (Counter Insurgency) that the tactics employed by the police at the South African Lonmin mine were classical Apartheid era SADF Special Forces tactics:

After having spilt the strikers up into smaller groups, they concentrated on the most vocal group that hid in a small group of bushes close to the final police barriers.

This group was then completely surrounded by Nyala APCs ....with the main police force stopper group forming a skirmish line at the funnel of the only channel left `open`!. Tear gas was then shot at the base of the funnel.....forcing the strikers to run straight into the main police stopper group! Classic 32Bn TEINOPS tactics! .....The last tactical move by the police was the classic closing of the funnel/bottleneck....as can be seen on the video footage where the Nyala APC was on standby, on the left of the original video footage, and how it immediately moved to the right to in order to close the bottleneck after the miners were slaughtered like dogs!

Still no UN or MSM outrage.

Posted by Besoeker 2012-08-21 11:11|| 2012-08-21 11:11|| Front Page Top

#3 I suspect there is no side with clean hands in the SA riots. Don't forget that 2 police were captured then hacked to death a day or two previous. And the rioters were armed. They weren't pothead hippies.

Posted by tipover 2012-08-21 12:26|| 2012-08-21 12:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Presuming the term "sahel" is taken literally, almost none of it is in Algeria or any of the other nations named. However, it does include large portions of nations to the south not named in the report.
It is a poor presumption that the troops involved will stop at the southern border of, say, Algeria when looking at al Q

Posted by Richard Aubrey 2012-08-21 12:59|| 2012-08-21 12:59|| Front Page Top

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