all of this really boiled up after the fall of mo mar qaddafi in libia. i know we are throwing a lot of countries in here. but it was after you saw some of the nationals who had been in libya on the payroll of mo mar qaddafi as his mercenaries lost their jobs when he fell out of power. and they came back into northern mali. and that's shortly thereafter within six months of that you saw the government fall, you saw a coup and it's really just within that past year and a half that it has come to the radar within the state department and for the secretary of state. but she was trying to push algeria to get more directly involved in controlling mali. they don't want the u.s. at the forefront of this. they don't want to commit real u.s. military troops nor can they. >> and so what does the hostage taking and killing in algeria, how does this influence choices and actions in mali? >> well, secretary of state hillary clinton said today that they are advising, you know, the u.s. citizens, businesses to really take care in terms of reviewing the security procedure