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US helping but hesitant on Mali intervention

US helping but hesitant on Mali intervention
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 17th
By BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration has declared it cannot accept new terrorist sanctuaries in Mali or anywhere else and has promised to support French and African efforts to restore security. Yet after almost a year of disorder in the West African nation,

US helping but hesitant on Mali intervention

US helping but hesitant on Mali intervention
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 17th
By BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration has declared it cannot accept new terrorist sanctuaries in Mali or anywhere else and has promised to support French and African efforts to restore security. Yet after almost a year of disorder in the West African nation,

US helping but hesitant on Mali intervention

US helping but hesitant on Mali intervention
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 17th
By BRADLEY KLAPPERAssociated Press WASHINGTON (AP) - The Obama administration has declared it cannot accept new terrorist sanctuaries in Mali or anywhere else and has promised to support French and African efforts to restore security. Yet after almost a year of disorder in the West African nation,

Panetta: US helping French forces with intel

Panetta: US helping French forces with intel
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 14th
By LOLITA C. BALDORAssociated Press ABOARD A US MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Monday that the U.S. is already providing intelligence-gathering assistance to the French in their assault on Islamist extremists in Mali, and that officials would not rule out having

Obama: US assisted in failed Somalia rescue

Obama: US assisted in failed Somalia rescue
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 13th
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama says U.S. forces assisted in a failed attempt to rescue a French citizen in Somalia on Friday. Obama says the U.S. forces provided limited technical support to French forces leading the operation. The president says the Americans had no direct role in the

Captors kill hostage in Somalia during French raid

Captors kill hostage in Somalia during French raid
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 12th
By ABDI GULED and JAMEY KEATEN MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - The Islamist captors of a French military agent killed him during a French commando raid in Somalia, the French Defense Ministry said Saturday. An additional two French commando and 17 Islamists also died in the fighting, it said. Gen. Martin

French commando killed in Somalia hostage raid

French commando killed in Somalia hostage raid
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 12th
By JAMEY KEATEN and ABDI GULEDAssociated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A raid to free a French intelligence agent held captive in Somalia for three years went horribly wrong, leaving 17 Islamists and at least one French commando dead in a mud-caked farming town deep in militant territory. In the

Captors kill hostage in Somalia during French raid

Captors kill hostage in Somalia during French raid
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 12th
By ABDI GULED and JAMEY KEATEN MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - The Islamist captors of a French military agent killed him during a French commando raid in Somalia, the French Defense Ministry said Saturday. An additional two French commando and 17 Islamists also died in the fighting, it said. Gen. Martin

French commando killed in Somalia hostage raid

French commando killed in Somalia hostage raid
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 12th
By JAMEY KEATEN and ABDI GULEDAssociated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) - A raid to free a French intelligence agent held captive in Somalia for three years went horribly wrong, leaving 17 Islamists and at least one French commando dead in a mud-caked farming town deep in militant territory. In the

Obama's CIA pick chose spycraft over priesthood

Obama's CIA pick chose spycraft over priesthood
Submitted by Fox First at Ten on January 7th
By LARA JAKESAP National Security Writer WASHINGTON (AP) - John Brennan was headed for the priesthood when, while sitting idly on a bus as a student at Fordham University in the 1970s, he stumbled on a recruiting ad for the CIA. Now, after years of poring through intelligence, trekking with Mideast