did reverse what otherwise looks like was going to be a complete take over of that country and they took back timbuktu and they took back all the territory radical groups had been controlling. in terms of geographic control, that french assault in 2013, it works. but it's never that simple. while that successful military campaign was underway, one of these terrorist groups launched a horrific terrorist attack right next door to mali in aljeeria. you probably remember because of the scale of the attack. the same month the french military assault is happening. what they attacked was a remote, gas processing facility and it