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But as insurgents swept through the desert last year, commanders of this
nation’s elite army units, the fruit of years of careful American
training, defected when they were needed most — taking troops, guns,
trucks and their newfound skills to the enemy in the heat of battle,
according to senior Malian military officials.«
»According to one senior officer, the Tuareg commanders of three of the
four Malian units fighting in the north at the time defected to the
insurrection “at the crucial moment,” taking fighters, weapons and
scarce equipment with them. He said they were joined by about 1,600
other defectors from within the Malian Army, crippling the government’s
hope of resisting the onslaught."
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/14/world/africa/french-jets-strike-deep-inside-islamist-held-mali.html?pagewanted=2&ref=africa
et là on a seulement quelques indiscrétions, on n’a pas encore découvert le pot au rose