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The Muş massacre was a massacre committed by the Turkish Armed Forces on October 3, 1993, in the town of Vartinis in the province of Muş, Turkey. In total 9 people (7 of them children) were killed.

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Q: sed: joining lines depending on the second one I have a file that, occasionally, has split lines. The split is signaled by the fact that the line starts with '+' (possibly preceeded by spaces).
line 1
line 2
  + continue 2
line 3
...

I'd like join the split line back:
line 1
line 2 continue 2
line 3
...

using sed. I'm not clear how to join a line with the preceeding one.
Any suggestion?

A: Doing this in sed is certainly a good exercise, but it's pretty trivial in perl:
perl -0777 -pe 's/\n\s*\+//g' input

A: I'm not partial to sed so this was a nice challenge for me.
sed -n '1{h;n};/^ *+ */{s// /;H;n};{x;s/\n//g;p};${x;p}'

In awk this is approximately:
awk '
    NR == 1 {hold = $0; next}
    /^ *\+/ {$1 = ""; hold=hold $0; next}
    {print hold; hold = $0}
    END {if (hold) print hold}
'

If the last line is a "+" line, the sed version will print a trailing blank line. Couldn't figure out how to suppress it.

A: You can use Vim in Ex mode:
ex -sc g/+/-j -cx file

*

*g global search

*- select previous line

*j join with next line

*x save and close

A: Different use of hold space with POSIX sed... to load the entire file into the hold space before merging lines.
sed -n '1x;1!H;${g;s/\n\s*+//g;p}'

*

*1x on the first line, swap the line into the empty hold space

*1!H on non-first lines, append to the hold space

*$ on the last line:

*

*g get the hold space (the entire file)

*s/\n\s*+//g replace newlines preceeding +

*p print everything

Input:
line 1
line 2
  + continue 2
  + continue 2 even more
line 3
+ continued

becomes
line 1
line 2 continue 2 continue 2 even more
line 3 continued

This (or potong's answer) might be more interesting than a sed -z implementation if other commands were desired for other manipulations of the data you can simply stick them in before 1!H, while sed -z is immediately loading the entire file into the pattern space.  That means you aren't manipulating single lines at any point.   Same for perl -0777.
In other words, if you want to also eliminate comment lines starting with *, add in /^\s*\*/d to delete the line
sed -n '1x;/^\s*\*/d;1!H;${g;s/\n\s*+//g;p}'
versus:
sed -z 's/\n\s*+//g;s/\n\s*\*[^\n]*\n/\n/g'
The former's accumulation in the hold space line by line keeps you in classic sed line processing land, while the latter's sed -z dumps you into what could be some painful substring regexes.
But that's sort of an edge case, and you could always just pipe sed -z back into sed.  So +1 for that.
Footnote for internet searches:  This is SPICE netlist syntax.

A: This might work for you:
sed 'N;s/\n\s*+//;P;D' file

These are actually four commands:

*

*N
Append line from the input file to the pattern space

*s/\n\s*+//
Remove newline, following whitespace and the plus

*P
print line from the pattern space until the first newline

*D
delete line from the pattern space until the first newline, e.g. the part which was just printed

The relevant manual page parts are

*

*Selecting lines by numbers

*Addresses overview

*Multiline techniques - using D,G,H,N,P to process multiple lines

A: A solution for versions of sed that can read NUL separated data, like here GNU Sed's -z:
sed -z 's/\n\s*+//g'

Compared to potong's solution this has the advantage of being able to join multiple lines that start with +. For example:
line 1
line 2
  + continue 2
  + continue 2 even more
line 3

becomes
line 1
line 2 continue 2 continue 2 even more
line 3

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The ethics of researching intimate partner violence in global health: a case study from global health research
Mannell J, Guta A. Glob. Public Health 2018; 13(8): 1035-1049.
School of Social Work , University of Windsor , Windsor , ON , Canada.
(Copyright © 2017, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)
There has been an increase in attention to intimate partner violence (IPV) as a health issue that contributes to the spread of HIV, physical and emotional stress, depression, substance use, serious injuries, and higher rates of mortality in low-income settings. This paper explores the ethical implications raised by research on IPV by global health scholars. Drawing on Hedgecoe's work on critical bioethics to analyse a qualitative study of IPV in Rwanda, this paper discusses the risks and benefits of conducting research on IPV as part of the global health agenda. We discuss ethical issues that have become evident through our work in this area, including: raising IPV as an issue of concern in women's lives in settings where economic support for women experiencing IPV may not exist; recording interviews and focus group discussions in contexts with significant government surveillance; ethical tensions in appropriating local voices in ways that position women as 'victims' of violence; and the risks associated with framing IPV as a global health issue separate from feminist advocacy. We recommend more tailored approaches to ethics in IPV research, which considers the specificity of the social, cultural and economic context.
Intimate partner violence; Rwanda; case study; critical bioethics; global health
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Q: Java Gstreamer streaming error I am trying to play this stream
http://217.144.16.204:1935/vod/definst/amlst:stv2/39512547_20180214210404/playlist.m3u8
though gstreamer-java bindings but there's a problem that it stops after 5-6
minutes even though it is supposed to continue for a much longer time. So I tried to play it via gst-launch and again got this error after
the same time:
/GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstInputSelector:inputselector0.GstSelectorPad:sink_0:
tags = taglist, video-codec=(string)"H.264\ \(High\ Profile\)",
minimum-bitrate=(uint)20000, maximum-bitrate=(uint)47352200,
bitrate=(uint)2999078, nominal-bitrate=(uint)3592604;
ERROR: from element
/GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstHLSDemux:hlsdemux0:
Internal data stream error.
Additional debug info:
gstadaptivedemux.c(2533): _src_chain ():
/GstPlayBin:playbin0/GstURIDecodeBin:uridecodebin0/GstDecodeBin:decodebin0/GstHLSDemux:hlsdemux0:
streaming stopped, reason error (-5)
 Execution ended after 0:06:00.482537774
 Setting pipeline to PAUSED ...
 Setting pipeline to READY ...

Do you have any idea how to fix this problem?
EDIT:
Here's how the error looks after setting GST_DEBUG=3
 0:06:03.753006934 10064 0000000005E7E500 ERROR           d3dvideosink d3dhelpers.c:1484:d3d_resize_swap_chain:<d3dvideosink0>  HRESULT: D3DERR_INVALIDCALL


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case class Likability(value: Double) extends Component

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Day 129 - Giorn
It had been ages since they'd been to north Tarnil. There wasn't much up there but the Waste and after seeing that the once even his wife's curiosity had been satisfied. Though most of it looked the same as ever, the mana was now incredibly different. He assumed it had to do with the vague hints the Grandmaster had dropped about Shayma, but he couldn't imagine what would cause such a drastic change.
He couldn't tell the Affinity either, which was a little worrying. There was just the feeling of the mana density increasing, without any of the effects on the plants or animals that came with Mana Springs or dungeons. Between the two of them, he and Sienne could usually puzzle out what the local mana was like and what they might be facing, but not here. His wife's void Affinity had left her paradoxically sensitive to mana flows, but even she was having trouble figuring out exactly what was going on.
"Anything yet, love?" He held his current weapon at the ready. All that mana with no beasts or monsters was putting him on edge, as if he weren't worried enough to know that Shayma was involved with some sort of Power.
"Nothing so far." Her eyes were narrowed and her ears twitched as she scanned the surroundings, fingers resting on the sword at her hip. Really she was absolutely breathtaking when she was serious like that, but he couldn't take the time to admire her. Not in potentially hostile territory. "No, wait," she corrected herself. "There was a shift in mana density up ahead just now."
"Then let's go check it out." He took the lead, the tree trunk he'd trimmed slung over his shoulder. Sienne leaped up to ride atop it, her weight barely anything to his Skills. Not only did that give them extra height, but he could literally hurl Sienne at a threat, making up for her lack of movement Skill.
It was surprisingly effective.
They didn't find a threat, though what they did find was stranger. A large archway stood in the middle of the woods with a clear portal in the middle, something that would normally take a mage an immense amount of work and mana to create and wouldn't simply be in a random spot in a forest. A strange forest, at that, far too regular and young to be natural.
As if that weren't enough, what was visible on the far side of the portal was a city, specifically a mansion with the banner of the Tarnil royal house on it. The entire thing was incredibly suspicious, as if it had been placed there precisely for them to find. Which was probably what had happened, considering the power potential around them.
"Soooo." Sienne said as she poked at the stone with the tip of her rapier, producing a scraping noise and not much else.
"Aye," he agreed. "So." A man appeared on the other side of the portal, one of Queen Iniri's guards by the uniform and one that seemed vaguely familiar to Giorn.
"I'm pretty sure this portal was meant for you," he told them. "Unless there's anyone else over there?"
"It's just the two of us. Giorn and Sienne Ell."
"Harold Tiun, Queensguard" the guard introduced himself. "Come on through. You must be important if Blue decided to give you special treatment like this."
Giorn exchanged a glance with his wife, then tested the portal with his tree trunk. Not that he thought it was a trap or illusion, under the circumstances, but with something as esoteric as spatial magic it paid to be careful. When the trunk caused no issues, not even the slightest hint of destabilization, he took Sienne's hand and they stepped through together.
It looked like any normal city but the mana density stayed high, far higher than the mundane surroundings would imply. He would have expected something more like Wildwood Retreat, lack of Affinity or not, especially considering the scent of trees on the wind.
"So where is this exactly? Our daughter told us to come up here. Shayma Ell."
Harold's eyebrows went up.
"Oh, you're Shayma's folks? That explains a lot then. Anyway, welcome to Meil, just taken back from Vok Nal." He waved around them. "You're as safe here as anywhere, really."
"What doyou mean, 'that explains a lot?'" Sienne demanded. "Where's our baby girl?"
"Look, ma'am," Harold put his hands up, palm outward, and Giorn winced. Sienne's eyes narrowed dangerously. She wasn't going to let anyone dissemble about Shayma. "I can't discuss anything under Crown seal," he continued, which at least defused Sienne's temper. "I'll notify Her Majesty that you're here and I'm sure she'll explain everything."
"Is she safe, at least?" Giorn asked. "She seemed fine in her message, but…" But it had been years. Years that he'd missed of his daughter's life, years where the entire coast of Tarnil had been impossible to get to. Years they'd spent trying to get powerful enough to be able to travel there, and then she'd somehow gotten a high-powered sending to them out of the blue. He wanted to believe she was fine, but knew that just wanting it wasn't enough.
"She's out on a mission at the moment," Harold said. "You just missed her. That's all I can tell you."
"Of course we did," Sienne sighed.
"If you'll leave your…" Harold eyed the two of them with disfavor, especially Giorn and his enormous tree truck. "Your weapon outside I'll show you in." Harold pointed at the manor with Iniri's flag. "You'll have to pass a Status check, of course."
"That is acceptable." Really, the reason he just used tree trunks was because his chosen weapon type was far too large to lug around cities or into buildings, so there was no point in fashioning anything permanent. He'd used stalactites and stone pillars before too, whatever was to hand. Even if someone felt the need to take a random hunk of wood lying around, he wouldn't feel its loss.
Giorn leaned the tree trunk against a nearby building and then stared as the stone of the street grew around the base, holding it in place.
"...what."
"Hm. Blue is paying attention to you," Harold mused, eyeing the stone.
"Who is Blue?" That was the second time the color-and-name had been mentioned, and it was pretty clear this 'Blue' was enormously powerful. Which wasn't exactly the sort of being he wanted to pay attention to him.
"Meil's dungeon," Harold said, walking over to the manor door and opening it for them.
"What." Sienne didn't budge. Giorn eyed his weapon, having second thoughts about giving it up.
"It's fine, Blue is friendly. I'd explain but Her Highness would have my head if I told you instead of letting her discuss the full story." He waved them in, guiding them to one of the lower-floor rooms. It was clearly outfitted for adventurer use rather than nobility, with cold cuts and bread and cheese on a far table and an adjacent washroom. There were closets and strongboxes for storing kit, not magically locked but still having simple tokens to register what was where. A few Classers were waiting there already, none he recognized but to judge from the feel of their mana all second tier.
"Feel free to relax for a bit. Her schedule is pretty packed, so it'll take a little bit even though I'm sure she'll want to squeeze you in."
"Thank you," Giorn said, glad that someone here actually knew how to properly cater to Classers. After returning from a high-mana area, any Classer wanted calories, cleanliness, and a safe place to relax. Despite needing higher mana densities to properly level, it was easier to solidify any adventurer's understanding of the advancements in their Skills back in low mana areas. Which this was not, but the lack of any surrounding Affinity made it close enough. Once Harold left, Sienne dragged his head down for a kiss.
"I desperately need a shower," she said. "Keep watch first?"
"Absolutely," he said, taking her backpack for safekeeping and holding it open so she could retrieve her toiletry box. "Go get clean, love." He punctuated that with a light swat on the rear, she squeaked and stuck her tongue out at him before heading into the washroom.
Giorn took advantage of the storage closets, deciding that it wasn't likely they were going anywhere until Shayma came back, and freed of his burdens aside from his own shower-pack and new clothes, wandered over to the food table to stock up. One of the other Classers looked at his piled-high plate with some degree of astonishment, but Giorn was used to that. He was a big guy and had a big appetite.
Sienne emerged soon enough, hair and fur tousled, attracting a different set of stares. Giorn grinned, stealing another kiss from her and handing off the storage token so he could clean himself. Some Classers, like nobles or sponsored third-tiers, had the money for magic items to mimic amenities in the fields, but he and Sienne had always been independent so after several weeks traveling they were a little ripe. For himself, he liked the way Sienne smelled but it always felt good to get properly clean.
The shower failed to unknot the core of worry in his gut that he'd carried ever since they'd heard Tarnil had been invaded. It had been a long several years, especially when they'd found they had nowhere near the power to move around safely. Seeing one of Tor Kot's elites from a distance had dissuaded them and sent them back to Nivir to try and get better. They had no idea what had happened to Shayma, to their shop, to Invin itself.
They could only take so much of that though before heading back to Wildwood for something less stressful.
When Shayma's sending had found them, it had been a relief to know she was still alive, but less so to know she was assaulting a mage-king held city. Madness, suicide, and worse, to anyone who had seen the entire kingdom fall practically overnight, or had seen the power the monsters they produced en masse could wield. Yet somehow that assault that had clearly succeeded. A somehow that was a vast gulf of incredible power, or more likely, Power.
Now she was out on another mission, and she hadn't even had a Class when they'd taken their trip!
He took a breath, snorted hot water from his moustache, and got out of the shower. Considering they were supposed to be meeting Queen Iniri he'd chosen his better set of clothes, though he wouldn't exactly consider them fit for nobility. Though, nobility had to bend at least a little when it came to adventurers. When he returned he found that Sienne had piled her plate nearly as high as he had, though with her void Affinity that was par for the course.
"Nobody here knows where Shayma is," Sienne sighed, offering him a wedge of cheddar, his favorite. "Most of them don't even know who I meant. What sticks in my mind is that Queensguard knew her and didn't much like her. Sounds like there's trouble and maybe with the Queen."
"Our girl, in trouble? Surely you jest." Giorn chuckled, nibbling on the cheese. "If she's making enemies it must mean she's doing something right. Especially when it comes to the nobility." Sienne groaned.
"I thought we went off adventuring so we could avoid nobility."
"So you could avoid them. I'm just a simple country boy and never get near them anyhow." Sienne snorted and elbowed him, pointing to a couch.
"Come on, let's rest our feet while we can. Soon as we find out what our girl has been up to we're going to be busy. I don't know how yet, but we are."
He chuckled and joined her, reclining and trying to relax despite his anxiety. The only reason the furniture didn't groan under his weight was his Skills keeping him relatively light. Sienne snuggled in against his side and he put his arm around her, watching her fingers flick slightly as she worked through some of her Skills. She was so close to a Class breakthrough, but it had to be taken carefully. Only a fraction of void Skills could be used without ruining the user or endangering everyone around. At least with her inherited Class she knew how to get there, no matter how slow it might be.
On the other hand he'd finally broken through to his third Tier, Champion, when they were in Wildwood, and he was still getting used to the new and improved Skills. While they were fairly late in reaching the third-tier level since they had taken time off to raise a child, he was proud of the fact that they'd made it now. No sponsors, no groups, just the two of them. Now that Shayma had some sort of Class, it might well be three, assuming they could cajole her away from Iniri.
Assuming he could. They'd gone to scout Nivir's dungeon in preparation for bringing Shayma there and offering her the path of the [Void Duelist Inheritor], but a couple of months had turned into long years and he couldn't really know who is little girl was now.
If he was uneasy, Sienne was impatient, years of adventuring or no, glaring at the grandfather clock on the far side of the room on occasion as the hands slowly inched around. Giorn noted that none of the other Classes had been called either, so even if they'd jumped the queue they still hadn't made it above whatever other issues the Queen was addressing. The minute hand was well on its way to completing its second revolution when another Queensguard opened the door to the waiting room and beckoned them.
"Finally!" Sienne leapt to her feet and Giorn allowed her to drag him afterward, light as a feather. Iin a fit of whimsy he let his feet leave the floor, bobbing in the air while she pulled him through the door. No one else seemed to notice, but that hardly mattered since he found it amusing.
The Queensguard led them to the top story of the mansion, where another pair waited to take Sienne's rapier. Not that most Classers needed a weapon to be dangerous, nor could they do anything to break through the Shield of Tarnil if the stories were true, but nobody was allowed weapons in the presence of the Queen. Of course, Sienne had a dozen more weapons downstairs – she was rather hard on them, after all – so she didn't think much of handing that one off.
"Giorn and Sienne Ell." The guard announced them as they entered, the two of them kneeling on the plush carpet. Giorn was pleased to find that with his third tier his knees were far more amenable to that sort of exercise than they used to be, not protesting at all as he genuflected before the queen.
"You may rise." Iniri's voice was a lot wearier than he had expected, and when they were standing again she waved to the chairs at the other end of her large desk. "Take a seat," she added. "I was not expecting you so soon, or for you to come while Shayma was away."
They followed her instructions, settling in across from Queen Iniri. Giorn studied her, surprised to find that the young woman actually looked worn down, though considering everything that had happened over the past few years it shouldn't have been unexpected.
"Pardon my forwardness, Your Majesty," Sienne said. "But where is Shayma? People have been –" She hesitated just long enough that Giorn knew she was swallowing sharp words and trying for something milder. "They've been hinting at things and promising you'd explain it."
"I'm sure," Iniri sighed. "Some of it is effectively a crown secret, though much of it is an open secret at this point. There is a story of how Shayma came to be in my service, but I will let her tell that as it is merely history now. The important part was that several months ago she made a Bargain with a Power for my protection."
Sienne let out a slow hiss of breath. Giorn didn't know what to think. That just wasn't a series of words that made any real sense. She might as well have said that Shayma had turned into a dragon and flown to the moon.
"So," Giorn said, drawing out the word as he tried to think of something appropriate to say, "what does that mean? Your Majesty."
"First, Shayma is perfectly fine. In fact, she's happier now than I have ever seen before. That said, her Bargain ended up with her…" Queen Iniri paused, and Sienne gripped Giorn's hand. He didn't like that pause any more than she did, it spoke of complicated things the Queen didn't want to talk about. "She is bound to, part of, in some ways, the Power in question. A dungeon named Blue."
"Meil's dungeon?" Sienne said, more sharply than one ought to when speaking to royalty. "How does that even work?"
Iniri shook her head.
"Blue is his own person, that he currently is Meil is due to the fact that he was instrumental in taking it back from Vok Nal. I'm sure you're familiar with dungeons, but you mustn't think of Blue as one of the ones you're used to. He has no monsters, he moves quickly, he knows things only a Power would know, and he can perceive anything within his territory. I'm certain he's paying attention to us right now, in fact, but Shayma is the only one who can speak with him."
When she mentioned it, there was indeed a feeling of pressure, something more than just mana. It prickled the hairs on the back of his neck, but none of his instincts warned him that it was dangerous. Just that it was there. With a flash of black, two glass tumblers filled with some sweet-smelling blue juice appeared on the desk in front of them. He twitched, since there wasn't any sort of mana surge to accompany the teleportation, and Sienne frowned at the glass in front of her suspiciously. Iniri laughed, a surprised and amused sound as the drinks appeared.
"That would be Blue, by the way. Saying hello. As I said only Shayma can talk to him, and I mean that in a broader sense than just being able to hear his voice." Iniri waved that aside. "The juice is quite good, by the way. Restores stats."
"Hmph." Sienne just eyed the juice, but Giorn reached out to try a sip. It was good.
"So our daughter is some Power's" Sienne gestured aimlessly. "What? Slave?" She was leaning forward in her chair, and Giorn put one massive arm over her shoulder, pulling her back gently as he gave her a quick look. She frowned at him and he frowned back, tilting his head fractionally in Iniri's direction to remind her that they were in the presence of a Queen. It wouldn't do for Sienne to give her a tongue-lashing.
"She's anything but." Iniri assured them, another glass appearing in front of her. The mana around them shifted subtly and suddenly Giorn could feel his stats recovering. "Thank you, Blue. Now, I admit that the Bargain means that she's completely under Blue's control, but he's never exercised it. Actually she argues with him quite a bit."
"You make it sound like they're married," Giorn muttered. Iniri's eyes widened as if the thought had never occurred to her, and this time her laugh was louder and more genuine.
"That's not too far from the truth," Iniri said. "It may be best to consider Shayma married to a Power."
"To a dungeon," Sienne said. "I don't—" Her mouth worked soundlessly for a moment. "How?" She demanded.
"I understand the difficulty," Iniri sympathized. "It took me a while to accept Blue was a person, myself. If he could actually speak to us that would go a long way toward convincing people, but he can't. Even Powers have limitations, it seems." She waved a hand vaguely upward. "According to Shayma's he's quite personable, though. She even thinks he's funny."
"Of course Shayma thinks he's funny," Sienne groused. "She thinks her father is funny."
"Hey now, I'm hilarious," he protested, which got a smile from his wife.
"Be that as it may," she continued, "Shayma did not even have a Class when we left. Your Majesty, may I know why you sent someone with so little experience on what is clearly an important mission?"
"I did say she made a bargain with a Power. As a result of this Bargain, Shayma got the Class of [Trickster]. Shapeshifting, [Illusion], teleport abilities, and [Seeker]." She ticked off the Class features on her fingers. "It's the most powerful starting Class I've ever seen. All that, and she's immune to Depletion. The mission was more her idea. Our entire stratagem is her idea, in fact."
"Oh?" Giorn had to control his enormous grin at hearing that from a Queen. His Shayma, the strategist.
"We need the Adamant Fortress, and Shayma is the one who found out it existed. She's found every piece of it so far, usually at great risk to herself. She's brought me four of the five pieces, some of which were in very obscure places, and the last one is in Duenn. When she gets back, we'll have everything we need to move against Tor Kot."
That was another set of words that made almost no sense. Legendary Artifacts weren't just found. But he couldn't help a grin of pride as he considered it. His daughter, reaching to such heights before even becoming a Classer. And that Class! It was a bit of a shame she wasn't going to take after Sienne and follow the path of the [Void Rapier], but it was true that Class wasn't for everyone.
"You're taking this more calmly than I expected," Iniri noted.
"I'm not taking it at all," Sienne said bluntly. "Until I see Shayma it's not really real, Your Majesty. We go out for a short jaunt, war breaks out, and when I finally hear from my daughter she's—" Sienne let out a low growl. "She's married to some strange thing we can't even talk to!"
"I know, it's a lot to take in," Giorn said, putting his huge hand on Sienne's shoulder, "but just think about the fact that Shayma's already good enough to go on special missions for nobility, and she has a powerful backer. I won't be happy either if this Blue doesn't meet muster, but if Shayma is happy that's a point in his favor."
"Can we meet Blue?" Sienne asked. "How do you meet a dungeon anyway?"
"You already have, more or less." Iniri indicated the glasses on the desk. "Blue does have a core room, but even you're not likely to see it. Shayma speaks for him, so while she's gone he doesn't have any way to properly discuss things."
"That's…" This time, he had to censor himself from being too sharp in the presence of the Queen. "That's troublesome." How was he supposed to interrogate Shayma's boyfriend without her? More seriously, it meant that Shayma's freedoms would be drastically restricted as she was the only conduit he had to the outside world.
"Very," Iniri agreed. "It would make my life so much easier if—" She stopped as a flash of black deposited a piece of parchment on her desk. "Oh. There is that. Blue can deliver us notes from Shayma, though there are obvious limitations to that method."
The Queen picked it up and read it, nodding, before handing it over to them. Sienne took it and Giorn peered down at the scrawl that was, indeed, Shayma's handwriting.
Here at Duenn. Tor Kot had a lot of defenses along the way but nothing we couldn't handle. He is a lot more prepared than Vok Nal. I'll be heading in soon to get the last cube, Cheya's helping me bypass some spell lines. With luck we'll all be back in a few hours.
Also Blue says my parents are there! Hi mom and dad! I can't wait to get back, I have so much to tell you! Blue better be treating you right or I'll give him an earful.
"She sounds cheerful," Giorn said.
"If only she weren't about to go into a mage-king held city," Sienne sighed. "I suppose she is my daughter."
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A: I spent another few hours cursing over Jaxb and finally found solution for my problem. The thing, which is missing is param name in annotation at @XmlRootElement(name = "child"). That's all I needed, everything works just fine.
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This is a compilation and strategy article for Wallachia.
Mechanics and flavor content are transcluded from other pages.
Romanian (Carpathian)
Tîrgoviste (161)
Wallachian ideas
+20% Fort defense
Cunning Diplomacy
Foreign Trade Restriction
+20% Provincial trade power modifier
Mercenary Guard
−15% Mercenary maintenance
Foreign Advisors
Legacy of the Impaler
+1 Land leader shock
Boyar Regime
Abolition of Serfdom
+20% Manpower recovery speed
For the area, see Wallachia (area).
The Principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia are nested between powers much greater than themselves. Thus far they have survived by playing the dangerous game of offering fealty to whichever nation they believe most likely to protect them against the others. A Voivode who wishes to thrive must carefully observe the balance of power.
The Voivodes had long been members of the Order of the Dragon, a noble and knightly order dedicated to defending Christendom from the encroaching Ottoman Empire. It was no surprise when the Principalities answered the call for the Crusade of Varna. This grand military coalition aimed to drive the Turks from the Balkans and restore Christian rule. The Crusade, however, was a devastating failure, leaving kingdoms broken and the future of the region insecure.
In the immediate aftermath of the Crusade a diplomatic incident led to the Hungarian general Hunyadi being imprisoned by Vlad II of Wallachia. Though the situation was resolved without further conflict, relations have soured enough that Wallachia should not count on Hungarian aid for the time being.
The Voivode of Wallachia joined the Crusade in spite of his son Vlad Dracula being an Ottoman captive; unsurprisingly he now believes that his son must have been slain by Turkish hands. Unbeknownst to the Voivode an embittered Vlad was spared by the Sultan and lives in exile, plotting his revenge against Turk and Wallachian alike.
Uncertainty grips Moldavia also; the former monarch Ilias I has died in exile in Poland, leaving his son Roman as a potential claimant to the throne. Roman has secured nominal Polish support for his claim, pledging eternal Moldavian fealty should he become Voivode. It is only a matter of time before Roman attempts to seize the throne from his uncle Stefan.
Wallachia is a nation in eastern Europe. It is bordered to the North by Hungary, to the North-East by Moldavia and to the West and the South by the Ottomans. Its holding are decent when it comes to development, and further development and advancement in Institutions are available due to the flat terrain in its provinces. Wallachia and Moldavia are the only two countries that can form Romania without requiring a culture shift. It has access to the Romanian missions, together with Moldavia.
3.1 Form Romanian Nation
Main article: Romanian missions
Main article: Wallachian events
Form Romanian Nation
The last vestiges of the Roman Empire are gone, and although many would make claim to the imperial crown, we are its true descendants. With all the ancestral lands united under our wise rule, we can usher in a new era of prosperity. We are the children of Rome - the people of Romania!
Romania does not exist. The country:
has Romanian as primary culture.
was never an End-game tag.
is not the Papal State or the Holy Roman Empire.
Is not an AI or playing a custom nation.
If AI-controlled further:
is not custom nation.
is not a former colonial nation
is not a subject nation.
Maros (158), Silistria (159), Oltenia (160), Tîrgoviste (161), Suceava (268) and Bessarabia (1756).
Byzantium does not exist
changes to Romania.
If Romania:
A random owned province:
The below is one of many player suggested strategies for Wallachia. Bear in mind, due to the dynamic nature of the game, it may unfold differently for other players.
In 1444 Wallachia is poised between the three powerful nations of Poland, Hungary, and the Ottomans, and it cannot rely on any of them for long term protection. Wallachia is landlocked and the possibilities to expand are limited. The largest issue facing the nation is its lack of prospective allies. The economy of Wallachia is also quite weak. The current heir, Mircea Basarab, is horrible, but this is something that the player can ignore, as a scripted event can seat Vlad Dracula (the historical basis of the "Dracula" legend) as its ruler once Vlad II, the current ruler, dies. Vlad Dracula is much better than Mircea Basarab. In order to meet the challenge of playing Wallachia, the player must be aggressive by growing quickly, securing good alliances, and getting protection against its neighbors. At 1444 Wallachia has a truce with the Ottomans, giving it ample time to grow, but this truce will also prevent Wallachia from attacking the Ottomans early, if such an opportunity arises.
Opening moves:
- Day 1: Secure a Royal Marriage with Hungary, build infantry up to your force limit, and get a general with at least 1 pip in siege (convert you heir, or recruit a general). Start to improve relations with your first alliance target or with Ottomans. The first alliance target will be discussed later. Set both Moldavia and Serbia as your rivals. Send your merchant to collect in Constantinople (this is better than sending him to steer trade upstream), and Mothball your forts.
- As soon as you've built to force limit, gather them near the Moldavian border. Assign your siege general to a single infantry unit. The first mission can be completed too (recruited to force limit) for some minor military bonuses, but it is not necessary. Check who is the ally of Moldavia. Most of the time, it will be Circassia, this being the ideal option. Imereti can work too. Byzantium can work under certain conditions (hence if the player is very good at warfare and/or can secure military access from Ottomans), but not ideal. In case of other alliances, simply restart. Give Giurgiu to Clergy, then "Seek support of the Clergy". Then "Demand Administrative support," which will give 100 Admin points. Clergy loyalty should remain high enough to retain a reduced stability cost bonus. Now, declare a no CB war on Moldavia and use the administrative points to cover the stability loss.
- Move the whole army to Bessarabia. The fort shouldn't be fully reinforced. Moldavia will bring its army to occupy your mothballed forts. Intercept them with the ruler/main army, leaving the one infantry with the siege general in Bessarabia (preventing the fort from being supplied). The main army shall be enough for a stack wipe, but if not, take care to intercept any further incursions, however this will slow down the siege.
- As soon as the diplomat is back, improve relations in Lithuania and Crimea, just to be able to get military access. However, don't request it before Moldavia is peaced out, that way Circassia can not come to help Moldavia as they will sometimes land troops in Bessarabia. Although they can be defeated, it will drain much needed resources from the treasury and manpower pool, and is thus best to be avoided.
- As soon as the siege of Bessarabia is done, carpet siege Moldavia, moving a siege stack to Suceava. Exercise caution, there may be a small Moldavian army lurking nearby.
- Separate piece shall be signed with Moldavia, as soon as Bessarabia and Birlad can be claimed. The timing is critical, because Moldavia will get an event that will make them a vassal of Poland or Hungary, and then the war is over. This is why the 1 siege pipe is necessary for the general. Without that, the siege of Bessarabia can not be finished before the event.
- Once Moldavia is peaced out, get military access through Lithuania and Crimea, the objective being to attack Circassia. If the ally of Moldavia was Imereti, military access is needed also from Circassia, and this depends on alliances within the Caucasus. Vassalize Circassia in the peace treaty and get their money. You need every cent. If the player gets more than Bessarabia and Birlad from Moldavia, then Circassia can not be vassalized due to a potentially powerful coalition. Despite this, a few countries can enter a coalition, but they will most likely not declare war. In most games, Ottomans or Hungary will guarantee Wallachia, and this would help against a coalition, but the entire Moldavia can not be taken in one war, and another war will be needed. It is better not to risk and take only the two provinces in this first war.
After this opening, Wallachia will be a little bit stronger, and will be able to get an alliance with Poland, Bohemia or Hungary, depending on the situation. Wallachia now has access to the Black Sea and can fabricate claims on Crimea and Theodoro, as well as having the possibility to expand into the Caucasus using the claims of vassilized Circassia. One drawback at this moment is that Wallachia can not create claims directly within the Caucasus, and sometimes Circassia will not offer the right claims. Thus, Theodoro should become the player's next target, but the right opportunity has to appear. Lithuania, Crimea, or Great Horde must be kept friendly in order to have military access to the Caucasus. From this moment, the player has to keep open their chances to expand in any direction the possibility appears. Wallachia must be aggressive and grow rapidly. If not, one of its neighbors will see it as easy prey, especially if Wallachia's ally becomes occupied somewhere else.
Alternative opening moves analyzed:
- Imereti has an old ruler without an heir. Royal marriage and get them in PU: Yes, this is true. Imereti very often falls under Georgia PU, but for Wallachia it is hard to get this PU. This strategy works better with Moldavia. Anyway, this is a possibility that shall be considered, beside the Moldavian attack. Only this PU will not give sea access for Wallachia, which means less opportunities for expansion.
- Make Byzantium a vassal, prevent the Ottomans to take it: Byzantium is usually allied also to Serbia, so this is a hard war for Wallachia. The second problem is that Ottomans will rarely give military access, and even when they do, they tend to attack Byzantium soon after Wallachia attacks them. Then they either siege down Constantinopole before Wallachia can, or Wallachia can not vassalize Byzantium. Constantinople can not be annexed directly, having no sea access.
- Join the Albanian-Ottoman war, use Skanderbeg to defeat the Ottomans: Albania is almost always guaranteed by Venice, and most likely has another ally. When Ottomans are attacking them, it is a hard war for Ottomans, as numbers are even. Wallachia can also attack Ottomans during this war, and defeat them together with Albania. The problem is that without the Moldavian attack, Wallachia will have to attack alone, and not being an ally with Albania means one cannot not attach their army to Skanderbeg. Also, Albania tends to sign a white piece, if some progress is gained against Ottomans, leaving Wallachia alone in the war. But if the Ottomans attack Albania when Wallachia already has an ally (it shall be Hungary in this case, because only Hungary will go to war without favor, if Wallachia promises land), than Wallachia can win this war, and this helps to handle the Ottomans early. In this case, it will not be possible to keep the Ottomans friendly later, which is a big threat. As an alternative, Wallachia can ally Albania, to be called to war directly, the problem is that in this case Ottomans will delay the attack against Albania, until they will be more powerful. If the war happens, Albania can still end it with white piece, or without giving land to Wallachia. The other alternative is that during the war, Wallachia will rent out his army as condottieri, to Albania. This way Albania can win the war, taking land from the Ottomans, while Wallachia can keep the good relations with Ottomans
- Expand to Serbia/Bosnia: For this one, military access is needed through Hungary. Serbia and Bosnia are usually allied and can unite their army, granting them a huge advantage. This is a hard war for Wallachia at the beginning, but a good player can win the war and vassalize Bosnia (beware of a coalition). Later, Serbia can be fed to Bosnia. Anyway, I don't recommend this as opening move, because during this war, Moldavia will become a vassal, and Romania will remain landlocked. I recommend this move after the Moldavian attack, once reduced aggressive expansion allows it. Perhaps in a moment when Serbia is fighting a war against Venice. Leave Venice to take some Bosnian land that they want, and vassalize what remains. This way aggressive expansion is lower, and perhaps Serbia can be vassalized and Bosnia directly fed to them. Getting these lands helps to stop the Ottoman advance into Hungary.
Alliances:
Wallachia's best ally against Ottomans is Muscovy, but they cannot ally at the beginning. Wallachia has to pick at least Poland, Bohemia, or Hungary as a first ally, but it is best if they can ally two of these countries. Poland sooner or later will rival Muscovy, while Hungary can get permanent claims on Wallachia, and anyway they are an early game war target, so these alliances will not be for long term. The best option is Bohemia. In order to get the alliances, always manually set the target countries to friendly, when possible, and if they rival Ottomans or another enemy of you, don't forget to set Threatened relation status between you and their rival. This increases their willingness to ally you. Also keep an eye on what common land both your ally and you desire, and remove these lands from your wish list if you see that the alliance can potentially break.
Ideas:
Defensive first: With this idea, and with Cossacks, Wallachia can have superior morale to Ottomans, and can thus beat them easily in battle. Quantity is not a good choice, as the additional troops and manpower will not help. Ottoman armies will always be numerically superior to the Wallachian military early game.
Trade idea: Having problems with the economy? Then this is a good choice as a second idea. It will start to work at full power the moment Wallachia annexes trade centers like Constantinopole, granting a massive bonus to Wallachia's income. This allows Wallachia to construct a multitude of buildings, nominally Universities and Manufacturies, so as to increase the chance of having the late game institutions spawning within the nation. Alternatively, the Influence idea group can be selected in the case Wallachia comes into controlling multiple vassals, the ideas boosting vassal income, which will help the economy overall. However, this can be dangerous, as no relation slots will remain for the powerful allies that Wallachia needs to hold off its powerful neighbors.
Religious idea helps a lot Wallachia, because most of the land they take are not orthodox, so conversion is necessary. This is better than Humanist, because orthodox provinces will receive boost because of the religion. Deus Vult is also great.
Further Ideas shall be quantity, to increase the nr of the already good soldiers, then Influence for reduced unjustified demands and vassal bonuses and either humanist, to help dealing with rebels, either administrative to help with the core cost reduction.
Handling your neighbors:
Ottomans: Here the player has to choose between two strategies. Either attack them early (see Albanian war) and actively seek to stop their expansion (this works only if the player is good at warfare), or keep good relations with them at the beginning. For the ladder, it is possible to get also a guarantee from Ottomans. After Ottomans get Albania, Byzantium and Anatolia become strong, and it is better to avoid conflict with them. Sooner or later Wallachia will have to fight war after war with them anyway, and has to be prepared for this with alliances. Always seek to get from them Constantinopole and Edirne, as soon as possible (It also completes a mission to impale the current sultan of the Ottomans who will most likely be Mehmed II with 6/4/6 stats an there is a possibility that you can make the Ottomans have a horrible leader bellow 3 stat in every catagory). Silistria is also important to form Romania, and Vidin can be important if Wallachia desires to be connected to Serbia. An Ottoman alliance with Aq Qoyunlu is very good for Wallachia. Usually this alliance happens and in most of the games AQ is extending with Ottoman support, and actually block the Ottomans in Anatolia for a while. Later Ottomans will break the alliance and attack AQ, presenting an opportunity for Wallachia to attack Ottomans. Wallachia must look to all aspects and possibilities to block Ottoman expansion. Wallachia can also get territories from AQ and QQ through the Caucasus, and can block any nation coming out of or through Persia. Getting land in Suez can block African expansion (see The Kinghts part).
Hungary: They have some mission or event that gives them a permanent CB on Wallachia, so a long-term alliance is not viable. Hungary can prove to be invaluable in the very early game, especially in wars against Ottomans or Serbia/Bosnia. Usually they break the alliance with Wallachia quite early. This is still good as they often end up in big wars against Ottomans or Venice anyway, presenting opportunities for Wallachia to take Transylvanian land (Bohemia or Poland are eager to help).
Crimea: Wallachia should pay special attention to them. They have strong alliances usually with Great Horde and Kazan, but because of this, they will get involved in Muscovy wars, and Muscovy will win. Check for the right moment to attack them (When Kazan and Great Horde are not joining, or when Poland-Lithuanian help is assured). It is a key objective to get their land, before they become an Ottoman vassal. Crimean land is necessary to connect the land in Balkan with the land in Caucasus
Theodoro: They tend to have some serious trade league alliances, but usually they are the only ally of Trebizond. Wallachia can no CB Trebizond to get this province. It is a strategic position. From this province claims can be created in along the Black sea coast line, if Circassia is not creating the ones that are needed to do so. Poland and Lithuania: Poland is one of the best early game allies. At the beginning they have too many relations, and thus will not ally Wallachia, but keep relations high and they will accept an alliance soon. If they get the Lithuanian PU, two allies are gained with one slot. Later, the alliance will have to be sacrificed in favor of a Muscovy alliance. In Commonwealth - Muscovy wars, it is better to be at the side of Muscovy and get Commonwealth land, or even better, trigger a war with them and call in Muscovy on your side. Bohemia is also likely to help in these wars.
Bohemia: A good ally against Poland and Hungary, but they will most likely not join a war against Ottomans. They are too far, and thus have no interest to participate in such a war. They usually have good relations with Ottomans too. Don't allow them too much land/power as they can become Emperor, and if so, can make future incursions into the HRE very difficult. Muscovy: The most valuable ally against Ottomans, but they are very expansionists. Wallachia can choose to allow them to take the territories to form Russia, and get most of the land they want, keeping good relations with them. They will come with massive armies to fight the Ottomans in Caucasus and Anatolia. Wallachia can also choose to expand north from Caucasus, taking Saratov, Ryaza, Smolensk and other valuable lands, stopping Russia to be formed, but in this way they will probably brake alliance and become enemy, so Wallachia will have to look for other ally against Ottomans (France, if they are doing well)
Mamluks: They are a natural enemy of the Ottomans, and at a certain point, Wallachia will be able to ally them. The alliance can be used to help fight the first few wars against Ottomans. However, Mamluks often make poor alliances with other nations, and if Ottomans are attacking them directly, it will drag Wallachia into wars that may be impossible to win. They must be allied only when they have truce with the Ottomans, and as soon as the truce ends, Wallachia must attack Ottomans with its alliance. Mamluks will join for land, if not, break the alliance, as Ottomans will most likely attack them after the war. Spain (Castile, Aragon): They can provide a navy to fight the Ottomans. An alliance is possible after 1500, but the Spanish states or Spain itself may have too many relations, thus the player should remain vigilant and strike up an alliance as soon as the opportunity arises. If an alliance is achieved, the player must maintain high relations to avoid a break.
Venice: Can be allied only for short time. Venice desires the same provinces as Wallachia. Coupled with the differing government types, maintaining an alliance will prove difficult if one is pursued.
The Knights: As soon as Wallachia has Edirne, claim can be fabricated on Knights. Their navy is not big, Wallachia can outnumber them, and there will be also moments when their alliance is weak. From Knights claim can be fabricated on Cyprus, and Wallachia can attack Mamluks (with help from Spanish/Venice navy) and take land in Egypt, to block Ottomans there. This is why the Knights are important target.
Austria: They would be a better ally then Bohemia, because they would participate in a war against Ottomans, but it is hard for Wallachia to ally them.
Other advice:
- Early game is mandatory to keep at least one friendly western neighbor, preferably Venice, Austria, Bohemia, or have access to Adria, to get institutions. It is hard for Wallachia to get the Colonialism and Printing press without friendly western neighbor
- Always get money and war rep in peace treaties, and invest this money in buildings, and embracing institutions.
- Use Cossacks to "Conscript Cossack Elite", to keep army tradition high, and to get the necessary cavalry from them, or also military advisors.
Dracula's Revenge
Start as Wallachia or Moldavia, form Romania and own or have a subject own all of the Balkans.
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The Mormon War in Missouri was a mere blip in American History, but it sent out shock waves that reverberate to this day. In the crucible of this bloody clash, the Mormons came to believe that they are a peculiar and persecuted people. However, many of the precepts of Mormonism ran counter to the customs of the frontier. In an effort to stamp out dissention and ensure conformity, the Mormons organized a secret band of "enforcers." This band, locally known as the Danites struck fear in the hearts of Missourians and Mormons alike. The existence of the Danites has been denied by the Mormons and ignored by historians. Through the medium of a historical novel, I have touched on this "forbidden" bit of history.
The human aspects of this story are told through the lives of the members of two very different families. John Evans, the head of the Evans family, joined the church and migrated to Missouri. John, a thoughtful and gentle man is forced to embrace Mormonism by his shrewish, fanatical and domineering wife, Agnes and constantly struggles to find the moral courage to stand up for his convictions. When he finally does he pays a dreadful price.
Sam Devine, an abusive and opinionated Missouri frontiersman, fears the coming of the Mormons, because they seem strange and different. Sam's son Jake, who suffers physical and verbal abuse at the hands of his father, struggles to define his own spirituality in the crucible of the war and finds redemption in its aftermath. Jake sees his father degrade and cruelly mistreat his beloved mother and vows to avenge her. He eventually falls in love with Jenny, John Evan's daughter, a love that causes him soul soaring joy and heart wrenching grief.
The book chronicles the Mormon War in Missouri and closely follows the actual events and characters of that brutal religious conflict. It analyzes the causes of the war and finds both sides guilty of intolerance and bigotry. It deals with the eternal struggle of man to find God in his own way and be true to his own convictions. I think you will find it interesting.


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How terror came to the Sahel
Jeremy Keenan
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, US security mandarins made a deal with the Algerian intelligence services, as they pursued Islamists across the region, with an eye cast on Africa's oil reserves. The scheme went horribly wrong, recounts Jeremy Keenan, and turned the Sahel from a quiet backwater into a hotbed of terror.
Thirteen years ago, the western Sahel, which stretches from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania through Mali and Niger to the Lake Chad region, was one of the safest places on earth. The biggest risks for a foreign tourist, or anyone else for that matter, might have been falling down a well, treading on a scorpion, too much sun, or not carrying enough water.
Today, few places in the world are more dangerous.
Despite the region's safety, Donald Rumsfeld's US Defence Department produced a series of maps at that time depicting the region as a major terrorist zone. That was because Rumsfeld probably had a good idea of what was to befall the region.
Today, while the Pentagon's maps are a stark reminder of what has become a self-fulfilling prophecy, the US authorities' explanations for the terrorism that came to overwhelm the region contain as much propaganda and disinformation as truth.
I will explain. In the Sahel, terrorism – in the post-9/11 sense of the term – has never been simply a matter of growing Islamist militant extremism as is generally portrayed in Western media. Wahhabi preachers, funded mostly by Saudi Arabia, have had a presence in the region, especially Mali, for decades. But although "fundamentalist", Wahhabism condones neither violence nor terrorism.
Rather, the "terrorism" that has engulfed the region over the last few years has come from other external sources and forces.
Terrorism in the Sahel since 2003 has gone through several distinct phases or "turns", notably in 2003, 2006, 2008, 2011 and 2013. The emergence of the Islamic State (IS), or "Daesh", as it is known, in 2015 might be considered another, although its impact on the Sahel is still secondary to that of Al Qaeda or its local franchise, Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM).
The roots of terrorism in the region lie in Algeria's civil war – the "Dirty War" of the 1990s.
Algeria's military regime, with a "green light" from the West, annulled democratic elections in 1992 and thus prohibited the Islamist Front Islamique du Salut (FIS) from victory. The outcome was a vicious and bloody war between Islamists and the army, leaving some 200,000 dead and Algeria indelibly scarred. The essential strategy of the army, its leadership of eradicateurs, and the secret intelligence service, the Département du Renseignement et de la Sécurité (DRS), had been to infiltrate the armed Islamic groups (GIA). The result was that by the time the war began to wind down in 1999 and the army decided on Abdelaziz Bouteflika as the country's next president, it was difficult to know who was killing who.
The main agency in the emerging counter-terrorism and black-ops that came to characterise the post9/11 Bouteflika era, both in Algeria and most of the surrounding Maghreb and Sahel regions, was the DRS. The DRS became the real power in Algeria, a statewithin-a-state. Under its director General Mohammed "Toufik" Mediène, it wielded power through an elaborate patronage system that coopted the political and business elite, providing the DRS access to both political and business rents.
The essence of the DRS-Western intelligence relationship, which came to define the post-9/11 landscape in Northwest Africa, was that the DRS's unique experience of both infiltrating and fighting Islamists, provided the West with experience, information and access to terrorist networks. In return, the West outfitted the DRS and the Algerian army with the new, high tech weapon systems that had been denied to them during the 1990s because of sanctions against Algeria's military regime.
The reason for this covert US-Algerian relationship, at least initially, was to do with the US's energy crisis. In 1998, US dependency on foreign oil supplies surpassed the psychologically critical 50% level. The Cheney Report (2001) estimated Africa would provide 25% of US oil imports by 2015. That, because of the shale oil revolution, is now part of history.
However, at that time, the US wanted to militarise Africa to secure its oil resources. To do so, it used the pretext of the Global War on Terror (GWOT). The only problem was that Africa did not have much, if any, terrorism at that time. The attacks on US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam in 1998, and a Mombasa hotel in 2002, were in East Africa, far from its major oil resource regions and not enough to justify the launch of a new front in the GWOT.
The US's need for more terrorism in Africa was provided through Washington's post-9/11 supposed "counter-terrorism" alliance with Algeria. Instrumental in the development of this alliance was Rumsfeld's Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group, known as P2OG, which was put into operation in late 2002. Its primary objective was to create false-flag incidents to justify military intervention.
In February 2003, 32 European tourists were kidnapped in the Algerian Sahara. It was the first act of terrorism in the region post-9/11. Like so many actions during the Dirty War of the 1990s, it was almost certainly a false-flag operation undertaken by the DRS, probably on behalf of the US. The "terrorist" leader, Abderrazak Lamari ("El Para"), was one of many DRS operatives infiltrated into Algeria's terrorist Groupe Salafiste pour le Prédication et le Combat (GSPC) in the 1990s.
The operation provided the Bush administration with the publicity and propaganda it needed to justify the launch of a "Sahelian" or "second front" in the GWOT. January 2004 saw the deployment of some 1,000 US forces across the Sahelian states of Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Chad. Bush called it the Pan Sahel Initiative (PSI). Locals called it the "US invasion of Africa". In 2005 the US expanded the PSI into the Trans-Sahara Counter Terrorism Initiative (TSCTI), involving an additional five countries.
France, the former colonial power in most of this part of Africa – Françafrique – had no option but to take a back-seat as the US military brazened its way into the region. Some commentators even spoke of the US as taking over the remains of the "French empire". Economically weak, Paris could not provide the region with the security or economic development that it needed. Not until January 2013, as we shall see, was France to regain something of her post-colonial standing in the region.
The second phase of terrorism in the region that began in 2006 was little more than a ramping up of propaganda by the US. Since El Para's escapade, there had been little further "terrorism", fabricated or real, in the Sahara-Sahel region. But, with Bush wanting to establish an independent US African Military Command (AFRICOM) before the end of his presidency in 2008, he again colluded with Algeria's DRS to highlight terrorism in the Sahara-Sahel in order to justify the need for AFRICOM.
The US and the DRS agreed to support a rebellion in northern Mali by a leading Tuareg rebel, Iyad ag Ghali, who had assisted the DRS in earlier operations, in exchange for his arranging a couple of false-flag terrorist incidents north of Timbuktu.
In a highly covert operation, three US transporters flew some 50-100 Special Forces from Stuttgart to Tamanrasset in southern Algeria. They then crossed overland into northern Mali with the DRS to support Iyad's short-lived rebellion of 23 May 2006. The rebellion lasted all of 12 hours.
Algeria hurriedly arranged the rather dubious Algiers Accord between the rebels and the Malian government, while Iyad, now the region's leading jihadi terrorist, was paid a substantial sum of money to arrange two highly publicised false-flag terrorist incidents. Soon after, the GSPC conveniently changed its name to AQIM. Together, these incidents provided Bush with the propaganda he needed to counter political opposition in Washington to AFRICOM, which was formally established in 2008.
The third phase of terrorism in the region began in 2008. It was characterised by two important turns, one misunderstood, the other largely unknown.
The former involved the resumption, for the first time since 2003, of Western hostage-taking. Through 2008-2011, some 40 Westerners were taken hostage in the region, reportedly by AQIM and/or the infamous Mokhtar ben Mokhtar (Belmokhtar), reportedly in exchange for lucrative ransoms.
The first of these incidents, which involved two Austrians being kidnapped in Tunisia and taken to Mali, where they were ultimately released, was undertaken by Abdelhamid abou Zaïd (d. 2013), another DRS operative who had infiltrated the highest levels of AQIM. Their kidnap, as explained in my book, The Dying Sahara, was designed to foil a Swiss legal investigation into "El Para" and the 2003 kidnapping of four Swiss citizens. This was effectively blocked by the DRS, which insisted that no such investigation could proceed while El Para's release was the subject of the terrorists' central condition for the Austrians' release.
All of the hostage-takings in this period, which turned the Sahel into a "no-go" area, were conducted by Abou Zaïd, Belmokhtar or Iyad, all DRS operatives. Having been involved in some of the hostage release negotiations, I should add that the ransoms paid were not generally as high as either the media or so-called "security analysts" have often claimed. Moreover, a large portion of the money ended up in the hands of middlemen negotiators linked to the highest levels of the Mali, Burkina Faso, Mauritanian, Algerian and perhaps other governments.
The second and largely unknown "turn" in this third phase of Sahelian terrorism was the closure, around 2008-2009, of AQIM's terrorist training camp at Tamouret (I am using a pseudonym) in southern Algeria and the move of its major operatives, such as Abou Zaïd, Abdullah al-Furathi and Belmokhtar, to the Tigharghar Mountains in northern Mali. This shifted terrorism's centre of gravity from Algeria to the Sahel. What is not so well known is that Tamouret was not an Al Qaeda operation, but run by the DRS with the complicity of Western intelligence services, thus providing the West with the identities of possibly several thousand terrorists across Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia.
To understand the nature of terrorism in this region, it is crucial to appreciate the DRS's successful infiltration of the leadership of terrorist groups. This, as Wikileaks' publication of Hilary Clinton's "private" emails has confirmed, is a strategy wellknown to Western intelligence agencies.
Almost all leaders of AQIM groups, at least up until the demise of the DRS after 2013, were DRS agents or operatives. These included Abou Zaïd, Belmokhtar, Yahia Djouadi (aka Djamel Okacha, Yahia Abou al Hamam), Al Furathi, Sultan ould Badi, a leader of the MUJAO (Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa) created in 2012, and Iyad ag Ghali, the leader of Ansar al-Dine, also created in 2012.
This third phase, which began around 2008-2009 and saw the shift of terrorism's regional centre of gravity from Algeria to the Sahel, raises the question of what happened to the Islamist militants of the 1990s. Up to 20,000 were "disappeared" by the regime or are still languishing in prisons. In the early years of the Bouteflika era, several thousands availed themselves of Bouteflika's amnesty. By around 2008, the number of Islamist militants still active in northern Algeria was probably no more than a thousand. AQIM members in the Sahara were in the low hundreds. With the closure of Tamouret around 2008-9, most of these estimated "few hundreds" relocated to northern Mali, with a few in Mauritania. Algeria's DRS also likely encouraged many of those who had turned themselves in – the "repentis" (repented) – to move south and join their former brethren in the Sahel.
The fourth major turn occurred in 2011. It stemmed from the West's overthrow of the Gathafi regime in Libya. This had two major impacts. The first and most significant was that it led to the destabilisation of much of the Sahel, especially Mali, through the return of several thousand Tuareg who had gone to Libya to find employment, many in Gathafi's security forces. Many of them worked as Gathafi's mercenaries during the Libyan rebellion. Their return to Mali was accompanied by a considerable inflow into the Sahel of weaponry looted from Gathafi's armouries.
Algeria, the US and other Western governments have tended to exaggerate the flow of weaponry from Libya to terrorist groups in the Sahel. While it was substantial, we now know that much of the weaponry used by terrorist groups in the Sahel since 2012 was provided by Algeria's DRS. The General in charge of this operation was Abdelkader Aït Ouarabi, a.k.a. "General Hassan". Hassan, who was imprisoned in late 2015, reported directly to the powerful and enigmatic DRS chief, General Mohammed "Toufik" Mediène, who was himself dismissed in late 2015.
Relations between the West and the DRS cooled considerably because of Algeria's support for the Gathafi regime. But Algeria's support for the 2012 Islamist insurgency in Mali was the last straw.
The Islamist insurgency that took over northern Mali in 2012 was not all that it seemed. Many of the armed Tuareg who returned from Libya in 2011 joined former Tuareg rebel elements in northern Mali and created the MNLA (National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad), a rebel secessionist force bent on creating the state of Azawad in northern Mali.
Algeria realised that the MNLA would easily defeat Mali's ill-led and ill-equipped military, potentially igniting simmering Tuareg unrest in southern Algeria. The DRS strategy was therefore to mobilise AQIM and create two further offshoot, Islamist jihadist groups: MUJAO and Ansar al Dine. The DRS, through General Hassan, provided them with fuel, arms and other supplies. By May 2012, this Islamist insurgency, led by Iyad ag Ghali, Abou Zaïd and Belmokhtar, had effectively sidelined the MNLA politically and militarily and taken over northern Mali for themselves.
The ensuing crisis, which threatened Mali's integrity as a state, led to France's military intervention in Mali in January 2013 and the beginning of the fifth and current phase of "terrorism" in the Sahel.
France's military intervention, first through Operation Serval and then, 18 months later, through the much-enlarged force of Operation Barkhane, was to drive the Islamists out of Mali and then out of the Sahel. Serval did not destroy the Islamists: it merely scattered them to other parts of the Sahara-Sahel, notably Tunisia and Libya. Many remained entrenched in Mali from where they expanded their reach into other parts of West Africa – Burkina Faso and Côte d'Ivoire readily come to mind.
The same is true of Operation Barkhane, whose deployment of 3,500 French troops across Niger and Chad in 2014 has coincided with the growing incursion of Boko Haram into both Niger and Chad. A note of interest about Boko Haram is that its founder, Mohamed Yusuf, was trained at Tamouret, thus raising questions about possible Western involvement in the movement's early days and Yusuf 's death while in police custody.
A little-known aspect of France's intervention is that its use of military surveillance drones has forced the big trans-Saharan cocaine traffickers to adapt to the drone threat by using hundreds of smaller "mule" traffickers, carrying a few kilos at a time. Previously the traffickers shifted their cargo in large, heavily armed but highly visible convoys. This more fragmented business is now increasingly in the hands of the local jihadist groups, providing them with a new and major source of finance.
Moreover, France's military presence is not only being seen increasingly as "neo-colonialist", but is providing local jihadists – the fast re-orientating fighters of AQIM, Ansar al Dine, Belmokhtar's Al-Murabitoune and their new offshoots, such as Mali's Peul-based Macina Liberation Front (LMF) with a major ideological boost. France, with its government allies in the region, is seen as the "infidel". Hence the recent attacks on "Western" hotels in Bamako and Ouagadougou and the Grand Bassam resort in Côte d'Ivoire.
A major question of this post-2013 phase of SahelWest African terrorism is whether Algeria's DRS is playing a part in it, in the same way that it did up until 2013.
This is unlikely. In January 2013, "terrorists", allegedly organised by Belmokhtar, attacked Algeria's In Amenas gas facility. Forty foreign oil-workers were killed. Evidence suggests that the attack was a false-flag operation involving rogue elements in the DRS that went disastrously wrong. Not only was General Hassan charged with supplying the "terrorists" with arms and subsequently imprisoned, but Hilary Clinton's emails confirm secret agreements between Belmokhtar and the Algerian government. It is also known that the leader of the attack, Mohamed Lamine Bouchneb, was a longstanding DRS operative. This has led, since mid-2013, to the dissolution of the DRS.
It is therefore unlikely that the remnants of the DRS have managed to retain much control over the terrorist groups now operating in the Sahel regions, or anywhere else for that matter. Rather, the groups now having such an impact in the region, although claiming to be members of AQIM or Murabitoune, appear, in fact, to
So far, there is little indication that these Sahelian jihadist groups, in spite of Western propaganda, are linked operationally to Boko Haram or Somalia's alShabaab, or even Daesh. But that could change very quickly and possibly quite soon.
Indeed, the changes since 2013, notably the dismantling of Algeria's DRS, the French military intervention and current presence across the Sahel, almost as a replacement for the US military, which has down-shifted its presence and activity in the region, have created new social and political forces and opportunities, especially for such criminal activities as drugs, arms and people trafficking. Add to this almost incomprehensible cocktail the decline or even termination of influence or "control" of the DRS over these groups, the emergence of local warlords, based largely on criminal activities, local historical-tribalpolitical power bases and new and often disparate ideologies stemming from far-off and largely unknown and little understood poles such as Daesh, Al Qaeda, Syria, Libya and the Gulf, along with the talk of caliphates (the Saharan!?) and infidels (such as France), and it is no wonder that the region now faces a potential Frankenstein scenario.
As to what can be done to arrest this situation, the first step is to understand how the region came to be in this situation. And that, with all the ideological propaganda, black-ops and disinformation of almost 15 years of the GWOT, is not at all easy.
AQIM
GWOT
Written by Jeremy Keenan


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