Or I wonder whether the Tuaregs will cut a deal to return to Mali (with more autonomy) in exchange for help expelling the now-unwelcome jihadi presence in northern Mali.
The French seem to want action soon:
France has drawn up a UN Security Council resolution seeking a detailed plan within 30 days on an international military intervention in Mali in a bid to oust militants from the north.
The draft also urges the country's transitional authorities and rebel groups "to engage as soon as possible in a credible negotiation process in order to seek a sustainable political solution to the crisis gripping Mali for months”.
For France, it would ideally be both a Tuareg awakening and a plan to retake the north from the far smaller (but far more vicious) jihadis.
Is this the picture that makes the dots connect?
