BRUTAL DICTATORSHIPS FROM (SAHEL, NORTH AFRICA REGION) BACKED AND ARMED BY WEST,MEET IN WASHINGTON TO DISCUSS SECURITY MEASURES!!! (MILITARY CONTRACTS AND CONTINUAL SUPPORT FOR REPRESSION IN ORDER TO STAY IN POWER) http://www.magharebia.com/cocoon/awi/xhtml1/en_GB/features/awi/features/2011/11/11/feature-01  Government ministers from Algeria, Mauritania, Mali and Niger met in Washington this week to further their new multilateral approach to Sahel security.The two-day meeting, which wrapped up on Tuesday (March 9th), was a "qualitative step" in establishing the regional counter-terror partnership proposed at the Sahel security summit in Algiers, Algerian Minister for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel said.Messahel and the foreign ministers of Mali, Mauritania and Niger met with several senior US officials, including President Barack Obama's chief counter-terror advisor John Brennan.International partners now consider the four Sahel states as one party in talks, Messahel noted Monday.This week's meeting in Washington complemented several recent political, military and intelligence conferences held by regional governments, including the Bamako summit that led to new intelligence-sharing measures.In addition to the Sahel summits, there has been a flurry of diplomatic activity over terrorism concerns and fallout from the Libyan revolution. US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for the Maghreb, Raymond Maxwell, recently visited Algiers where he said that the US was exploring ways to "sell military equipment to Algeria in the framework of combating terrorism".
[NOW WAIT A MINUTE,SELLING MILITARY ARMS TO  REGIMES WITH GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS RECORDS?TORTURE STATES?UNDER THE GUISE OF COMBATTING TERRORISM?HMMM HOW IRONIC..FOR EXAMPLE LETS START W/ ALGERIA..SEE.. Bouteflika, US official discuss counter-terror effortshttp://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/04/bouteflika-us-official-discuss-counter.html Algeria: A new Model of a "Democratic" Torture State (BACKED BY US) http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/04/bouteflika-us-official-discuss-counter.html US general backs Algeria counter-terror(US BACKS STATE TERRORISM UNDER GUISE OF COMBATTING TERRORISM) efforts http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/06/us-general-backs-algeria-counter.html    MAURITANIA TORTURE STATE Mauritania et La torture - YouTube 
Torture in Mauritania 'routine' // Current TV   Mauritania: Mauritania: torture, ill-treatment and imprisonment of Haratine people http://www.omct.org/urgent-campaigns/urgent-interventions/mauritania/2000/08/d14775/