ALGIERS — The United States joined France in a diplomatic lobbying campaign Monday to win key Algerian support for an emergency military intervention in northern Mali, where al-Qaeda-linked militants are waging a terror campaign that the Obama administration warns could threaten other nations.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton could not persuade Algeria’s longtime authoritarian leader to quickly back plans for an international military intervention that he fears would backfire.
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