Clare Daly (Dublin North, Socialist Party) | Oireachtas source

I am glad my view of the world is not the same as the Minister's. My opinion is shared by people such as Jeremy Keenan, who is an acknowledged expert on the Saharan peoples and has written many articles on Algerian state terrorism and atrocities in northern Mali. He has shown how Washington helped to foster the Islamist uprising in Mali, and so on. We know atrocities have been carried out against civilians but the idea that the French are in Mali to protect civilians and that their real goal is not to exploit mineral resources is laughable, and we should not have anything to do with it.

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