France pledged to triple size of its 750-strong force fighting an Al Qaeda-rebel
force threatening to overrun Mali after West African army chiefs failed to agree
on the deployment of the 3,300 troops promised by the region at a meeting in
Bamako Tuesday. The regional force was to have taken over from France. President
Francois Hollande accordingly ordered the French force to be increased to 2,500.
DEBKAfile: This number is a drop in the sand for contending with well-trained,
highly mobile al Qaeda and rebel forces equipped with high quality weaponry in
he vast desert state of Mali.
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