Mali mainly, 2012 coup, drugs & more

[davidbfpo]

I mentioned the crashed jet with cocaine aboard and now this BBC report: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8422010.stm

A court in the US has for the first time charged suspected members of al-Qaeda with plotting to traffic cocaine in order to fund terrorism. (later on)..The informant claimed in secretly taped conversations that the FARC were looking for a secure means of smuggling drugs through western and northern Africa on the way to Europe.

The crime-terror nexus so beloved by some analysts. There are US newspaper reports too, on today's SWJ news round up.