re: #3 Dark_Falcon

Moreover, this had less to do with Libya than Mali. If Mali’s army had not staged a coup then abdicated its responsibility to its citizens then Al Qaeda would not have been able to take over.

The article like most western articles that deal in foreign policy get their facts wrong.

The coup happened AFTER The Mali rebels, freshly armed with Libyan arms (either looted or handed over by Qaddafi to Taureg rebels) defeated the regular Mali army. In anger that the Malian army was being neglected they staged a coup (or more than likely the generals fearing being fired for failing to stop the rebel advance chose to take out the president before hand).

I always wonder if such western news disinfo is on purpose or due to incompetence.