Oh, he's cute. Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling. He's hugging his pillow like a sloth on a branch.

He couldn't sleep before. Now listen to him. Sounds like an elephant with a chest infection.

Well, they call him a dreamer. And now they're right.

All aboard, Mr. I can never sleep when I'm traveling.

Find all the comfort you need in the quiet lounge.

Piento Ferries, there is another way.

This is John Bachelor, conversation with Bill Rajo, my colleague at the Foundation for

the Defense of Democracy's about the ambush launched by the Tuareg of Mali and working in coordination with JNI am, Al-Qaeda in the Maghreb.

We're looking at a sophisticated attack, Bill describes it, but the scale of this, and also they were attacking

the Africa Corps. That's the old Wagner group. These are Russian mercenaries working for the government

of Mali or Burkina Faso Nijer.

There are many twists and turns here, but this is the beginning of a campaign, murderous

campaign across the Sahel in Central Africa.

Jihad, local peoples, the Tuare, the very powerful people of Northern Mali, the three nations that have left ECOWAS, Burkina Faso Nizier and Mali,

the exiting of the U.S. and its allies from the region, all of West Africa now watching a war break out between

locals, regionals, mercenaries, and the jihad.

More of this tonight.

Thank you.

Good evening, John.

Yes, this is a very interesting development.

So the Malayan Army and Wagner group were operating in the very northern part of Mali, which is a very remote region, desert region.

And they were operating in an area where they were primarily supported by air.

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