He's sending them to help with a Christian Sectarian military group there. Evidence that he is Muslim? I also remember TRUT and I speaking of this group, and gsvol vehemently denying they existed. C'est la vie. We certainly are getting a Cold War-like number of foreign adventures going, though. At what point is enough enough?
QP, you should read a book called War and State in Africa if you are interested in this kind of thing. It paints a fairly hopeless situation because Africa developed so differently from any other continent in the world.