Wait, the msg was cut in half by the forum's messy editor :/
There was more
TheMoorNextDoor updated his info re the attacks this July against Tigarghar mtns.
An Algerian source says that the Mauri attack was a decoy and the real attack to liberate Germenau was done by French + Algs using Alg helicopters.
Update RE: Raids against AQIM in Mali � The Moor Next Door
Here confusion starts.
The other source for this was Menas
Menas Associates: Menas Reports > Focus Monthly Reports > Algeria Focus > Newsroom
and then it gets Keenanesquely foggy, since Menas expert adviser on Algeria/Sahel is none other Keenan himself.
e.g. - The DRS pulled the French into this to make them look bad??
Algeria is in charge of the southern desert by controlling water and fuel supply (ancient desert strategy, I reckon).
Applied to Mali that would mean taking control of Araouane - Tessalit - Aguelhoc - Kidal (there may be a few more reliable waterholes) and not worrying too much about the rest of the territory - correct?
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