French Ground Forces to Attack Mali Rebel Territory
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French ground forces advanced toward northern Mali to engage Islamist militants as West African soldiers prepared to join the fight against the insurgents.
French soldiers moved from the capital, Bamako, for the start of what they expect will be “a guerrilla-like conflict,” Admiral Edouard Guillaud, France’s chief of defense staff, said yesterday on Europe 1 radio from Paris.