“In fact, a presidential official quoted by the Agence France-Presse said that French armed forces were surprised by the military capacity of the Islamist militants.
"’At the start, we thought they would be just a load of guys with guns driving about in their pickups, but the reality is that they are well trained, well equipped, and well armed,’ the official told AFP. ‘From Libya they have got hold of a lot of up-to-date sophisticated equipment which is much more robust and effective than we could have imagined,’ he continued, alluding to weapons that were smuggled into Mali after the fall of Muammar Qaddafi.”
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2013/0113/With-French-airstrikes-has-the-war-to-retake-northern-Mali-begun-video
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