When it comes to radicals in any group, they go against the grain of society and because of that they stick out more.  They’re noticed, they get attention, their voices are heard.  Being completely 110% devoted to whatever cause can be good for the world and sometimes it can be bad.  In the case with Mali, Al Qaeda needs to be shut down.  I recently read a rather lengthy article about Al Qaeda burning down a library that contained around 1300 years’ worth of texts prior to losing their hold on the capitol to the French military.  Luckily the curator for this library had been secretly moving a lot of the texts to a safer location far away and not much was lost, I think the article said about 5% of everything was destroyed.

Sort of “missals” instead of “missiles.”