France

A senior counterterrorism judge said the terrorist who masterminded the siege of the In Amenas gas field “tried to recruit many French citizens in the past to make bomb attacks in France.” The government has asked the US to provide refueling tankers as backup to support French warplanes in the Malian intervention. The foreign minister warned the Malian military to avoid human rights abuses.

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