{"id":28,"date":"2012-10-01T01:28:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-30T22:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/azzaman.info\/wordpress\/2012\/10\/01\/us-africa-command-chief-in-mauritania\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T01:28:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-30T22:28:28","slug":"us-africa-command-chief-in-mauritania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"US Africa command chief in Mauritania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \t\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> \tNOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) &#8212; U.S. Africa command head Gen. Carter Ham met with Mauritania&#8217;s president and an official says the two are discussing a possible military intervention, likely West African-led, in north Mali against al-Qaida-linked group members and their allies.<\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p> \tTuareg rebels helped overtake Mali&#8217;s north earlier this year after a coup in Mali&#8217;s capital. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb and Islamist allies later took over the territory.<\/p>\n<p> \tThe official spoke Thursday on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the situation. No further details were available.<\/p>\n<p> \tMali&#8217;s interim government has asked for support to restructure its military. The European Union says it is considering requests to support West African-led military intervention.<\/p>\n<p> \tMauritania in August said it will not intervene militarily in the north Africa region, but it has conducted several operations against AQIM bases in response to threats to the country&#8217;s interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) &#8212; U.S. Africa command head Gen. Carter Ham met with Mauritania&#8217;s president and an official says the two are discussing a possible military intervention, likely West African-led, in north Mali against al-Qaida-linked group members and their allies. Tuareg rebels helped overtake Mali&#8217;s north earlier this year after a coup in Mali&#8217;s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-15"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azzaman.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}