Intervention means moving into Mali
Michael Petrou on why this war may be unavoidable
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Michael Petrou
Senior writer Michael Petrou has covered conflict across the Middle East, Africa, and Central Asia. He is the author of ’Renegades: Canadians in the Spanish Civil War’, which was shortlisted for the Ottawa Book Award, and ’Is This Your First War? Travels Through the Post-9/11 Islamic World’, which won it. He has a DPhil from the University of Oxford.
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... and why the rest of the world is keeping its distance
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But the quasi-judicial process has no legal standing
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