116 Lost in Mali

Approximately 1 year ago "French Foreign Legion Soldiers" marched to Mali in what -
I believe was an attempt to sieze land to produce "black market" items either through poaching and/or agriculture. The problem is, the legion had no marching orders and the episode was what believe to be an attempt to disguise American greed by American Forces or expatriots enlisting with the Foreign Legion or using stolen Legion uniforms to manipulate the view of what the Foreign Legion does and accumulate land through subterfuge. I also believe the same actions by American Forces disguised in Legion uniforms may be the reason for the start of the conflict in Vietnam. I also have it on working knowledge and good authority that the actions of the Faux Foreign Legion that may be the real reason for the onset of the Vietnam conflict are actually the same type of American bullshit that misrepresents itself on the news as  victims of the flight that crashed in Mali with 116 passengers onboard. 116 is a strange number, exactly the size of a company size element in military units here in the USA if you incle Staff officers, XO(s) and admin.