A foreign press photographer shoots pictures of a man holding a French flg on a street of Bamako on January 17, 2013. (FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)
A picture taken with a mobile phone on January 12, 2013 reportedly shows Islamist insurgents in Gao. (STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images)
A Malian man sells flags, including French ones, on a street of Bamako on January 17, 2013. (FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)
A Malian man sells souvenirs, including French ones, on a street of Bamako on January 17, 2013. (FRED DUFOUR/AFP/Getty Images)
French helicopters are towed to the military side of Bamako’s airport Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, during a joined visit to French and Malian troops by Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore and French Ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Mali National Guard soldiers stand guard on the military side of Bamako’s airport Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, as a commercial jet takes off during a joined visit to French and Malian troops by Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore and French Ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore, center, visits the troops on the military side of Bamako’s airport, Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Mali army cadets secure a perimeter on the military side of Bamako’s airport Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, during a joined visit to French and Malian troops by Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore and French Ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Mali National Guard soldiers stand guard on the military side of Bamako’s airport Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, during a joined visit to French and Malian troops by Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore and French Ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A Mali National Guard soldier stands guard on the military side of Bamako’s airport Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, during a joined visit to French and Malian troops by Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore and French Ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A Mali gendarme directs traffic on the military side of Bamako’s airport Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, during a joined visit to French and Malian troops by Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore and French Ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A Malian soldier stands guard on the military side of Bamako’s airport Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, during a joined visit to French and Malian troops by Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore and French Ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Mali National Guard soldiers stand guard on the military side of Bamako’s airport Wednesday Jan. 16, 2013, during a joined visit to French and Malian troops by Mali’s President Dioncounda Traore and French Ambassador to Mali Christian Rouyer. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
This night vision photo provided by the ECPAD/French Army shows French military armored vehicles on Bamako airport, Tuesday, Jan.15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeremy Lempin, ECPAD, EMA)
This photo provided by the ECPAD/French Army shows a Rafale jetfighter flying over Mali, Tuesday, Jan.15, 2013. (AP Photo/Adj Nicolas-Nelson Richard, ECPAD, EMA)
This photo provided by the ECPAD/French Army shows French soldiers carrying ammunition at Bamako airport, Tuesday, Jan.15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jeremy Lempin, ECPAD, EMA)
This photo provided by the ECPAD/French Army shows a Rafale jet fighter refueling over Mali, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Adj Nicolas-Nelson Richard, ECPAD, EMA)
Members of pro-Islamic human rights groups gather in front of the French consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 to protest against France’s military intervention in Mali. (AP Photo)
Members of pro-Islamic human rights groups shout slogans in front of the French consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013 to protest against France’s military intervention in Mali. (AP Photo)
An Ivorian officer (sitting) and other ECOWAS army officers prepare a document during a meeting of chiefs of staff on January 16, 2013 at the Mali peacekeeping traning center in Bamako. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
A soldier stands guard during a meeting by ECOWAS chiefs of staff on January 16, 2013 at the Mali peacekeeping traning center in Bamako. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
A soldier stands guard during a meeting by ECOWAS chiefs of staff on January 16, 2013 at the Mali peacekeeping traning center in Bamako. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
A soldier stands guard during a meeting by ECOWAS chiefs of staff on January 16, 2013 at the Mali peacekeeping traning center in Bamako. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
Malian soldiers stand watch alongside the Niger river, in Segou, central Mali, Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Harouna Traore)
Young men play football in Bamako, Mali, Tuesday Jan. 15 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
French troops in two armored personnel carriers drive through Mali’s capital Bamako on the road to Mopti Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
In this picture dated Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 and released by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) s French soldiers of the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment based in Le Mans, western France, listen to their officer during a briefing at Bamako airport, Mali. (AP Photo/Arnaud Roine, ECPAD)
In this picture dated Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 and released by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD) shows French legionnaires of the 1st Foreign Cavalry Regiment based in Orange, southern France, exiting a military plane at Bamako airport, Mali. (AP Photo/Jeremy Lempin, ECPAD)
In this picture dated Sunday, Jan. 13, 2013 and released by the French Army Communications Audiovisual office (ECPAD), a French soldier of the 2nd Marine Infantry Regiment based in Le Mans, western France, prepares ammunition before distribution at Bamako airport, Mali. (AP Photo/Arnaud Roine, ECPAD)
French troops gather in a hangar at Bamako’s airport Tuesday 15 Jan. 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
French troops gather in a hangar at Bamako’s airport Tuesday Jan. 15 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Malian soldiers helped by French troops, move a broken helicopter out a hangar to make room for more incoming troops at Bamako’s airport Tuesday Jan. 15. 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
French troops gather in a hangar at Bamako’s airport Tuesday 15 Jan. 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
Malian soldiers, foreground and rear, helped by French troops, push a broken helicopter out a hangar to make room for more incoming troops at Bamako’s airport Tuesday 15 Jan. 2013. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)
A French military armoured vehicle is unloaded from a British C17, plane after it landed at Bamako airport, Mali early Tuesday Jan. 15, 2013. (AP Photo/SAC Dek Taylor, MOD)
Soldiers stand guard during a meeting by ECOWAS chiefs of staff on January 15, 2013 in Bamako. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
This Sunday Jan.13, 2013 photo provided by the French Army Monday Jan.14, 2013 shows French Rafale jetfighters on the tarmac after a mission to Mali in N’Djamena, Chad. (AP Photo/Adj Nicolas-Nelson Richard, ECPAD)
This Sunday Jan.13, 2013 photo provided by the French Army Monday Jan.14, 2013 shows a pilot exiting a jetfighter after a mission to Mali in N’Djamena, Chad. (AP Photo/Adj Nicolas-Nelson Richard, ECPAD)
This Sunday Jan.13, 2013 photo provided by the French Army Monday Jan.14, 2013 shows a French Rafale jetfighter landing after a mission to Mali in N’Djamena, Chad. (AP Photo/Adj Nicolas-Nelson Richard, ECPAD)
This Sunday Jan.13, 2013 photo provided by the French Army Monday Jan.14, 2013 shows soldiers preparing a French Rafale jetfighter from the Saint Dizier airbase, eastern France. (AP Photo/Laure-Anne Maucorps, ECPAD)
This Sunday Jan.13, 2013 photo provided by the French Army Monday Jan.14, 2013 shows French Rafale jetfighters being prepared before heading to Mali from the Saint Dizier airbase, eastern France. (AP Photo/Laure-Anne Maucorps, ECPAD)
This Sunday Jan.13, 2013 photo provided by the French Army Monday Jan.14, 2013 shows French Rafale jetfighters being prepared before heading to Mali from the Saint Dizier airbase, eastern France. (AP Photo/Laure-Anne Maucorps, ECPAD)
This Sunday Jan.13, 2013 photo provided by the French Army Monday Jan.14, 2013 shows a bomb being loaded onto a French Rafale jetfighter that is being prepared before heading to Mali from the Saint Dizier airbase, eastern France. (AP Photo/Laure-Anne Maucorps, ECPAD)
People donate blood for the injured, on January 14, 2013 in Bamako. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
A man picks up a test tube during a blood donation, on January 14, 2013 in Bamako. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
Malian people watch newspapers’ frontpages focusing on France’s military intervention to turn back the terrorist threat in Mali on January 14, 2013 in Bamako. (ERIC FEFERBERG/AFP/Getty Images)
People donate blood for the injured, on January 14, 2013 in Bamako. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
People donate blood for the injured, on January 14, 2013 in Bamako. (ISSOUF SANOGO/AFP/Getty Images)
French and British soldiers load material in a British army Boeing C-17 cargo aircraft arriving from British Brize Norton base en route to Bamako, on January 13, 2013 at the Evreux military Base. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images)
A British soldier adjusts chains to a French armoured vehicle load with other material in a British army Boeing C-17 cargo aircraft arriving from British Brize Norton base en route to Bamako, on January 13, 2013 at the Evreux military Base. (CHARLY TRIBALLEAU/AFP/Getty Images)
