When Western forces helped topple Libya's Moamer Kadhafi they forced hundreds of well-armed Tuareg fighters to flee home to Mali, tipping another fragile African state into chaos, experts say. And for some observers, the Western powers' role in helping trigger the crisis now gives them a responsibility to help try to end it. "It must be said and said again that the factor that unleashed all of this is the Western intervention in Libya," said Eric Denece, director of the French Centre for Intelligence Research (CF2R), a think tank. When Kadhafi's regime fell to a popular uprising backed by...
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West's intervention in Libya tipped Mali into chaos: experts
05.04.2012 18:37 
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