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mali special forces involved, the u.s. special forces have been training mali special forces for a number of years now. there are 26 u.s. troops in mali. i mention that, it shows the issue has been on the radar screen of the u.s. and western governments for some time. why mali? christiane, talk about this place and why it would get this kind of attention? well, in terms of this particular attack, we don t really know, but in terms of that number of u.s. special forces, that number of splintering islamist groups and about 1,000 french forces who are remaining there after their quite lengthy, it started two years ago attempt, and successful attempt to push out what they called then al qaeda, aqim based in africa. at the time was considered one of these other affiliate offchutes of al qaeda. now spreading boo al qaeda, et cetera. it s long been an area where, you know, in the post-arab spring craziness and sort of failed states and borders that

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