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Topic: Nationalists or Islamists?

Posted By: abuayisha
Subject: Nationalists or Islamists?
Date Posted: 16 January 2013 at 8:26am

WESTERN powers were taken by surprise by the sudden emergence of an Islamist regime in northern Mali, and are scrambling to understand what has transpired there. Increasingly, the narrative is one of militant Islam. But the core of the conflict is the nationalist secession movement of the Tuareg people � one that in recent months has been hijacked by Islamist radicals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/opinion/global/nationalists-or-islamists.html?utm_source=Africa+Center+for+Strategic+Studies+-+Media+Review+for+January+16%2C+2013&utm_campaign=01%2F16%2F2013&utm_medium=email&_r=0 - http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/16/opinion/global/nationalists-or-islamists.html?utm_source=Africa+Center+for+Strategic+Studies+-+Media+Review+for+January+16%2C+2013&utm_campaign=01%2F16%2F2013&utm_medium=email&_r=0