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Momodou
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 Posted - 10 Sep 2012 : 12:07:42
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Al-Qaeda's 'Emir of Sahara' Makhloufi dies in Mali
BBC: Published on 10 September 2012
An al-Qaeda-linked commander known as the Emir of the Sahara, Nabil Makhloufi, has died in a car crash in Mali, an Islamist spokesman has said.
Makhlouf was a high-ranking member of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (Aqim), accused of abducting and killing foreigners across the Sahara Desert.
A spokesman for Mali's Ansar Dine Islamist group said the crash happened near the northern city of Gao.
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toubab1020
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Posted - 10 Sep 2012 : 14:39:30
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| Thanks, Momodou, maybe SOME sanity may return to Mali. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
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Posted - 10 Sep 2012 : 14:46:27
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| I doubt it will be soon. There will be little achievement without the assistance of the Algerian government. |
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sab
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Posted - 13 Oct 2012 : 12:32:17
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A link for persons interested in the situation involving Mali;
This troubled world, may it have a peaceful conclusion but I fear not as this militant group have a strong hold.
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/africa/2012/10/2012101219500620380.html |
The world would be a poorer place if it was peopled by children whose parents risked nothing in the cause of social justice, for fear of personal loss. (Joe Slovo - African revolutionary) |
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Momodou
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Posted - 12 Jan 2013 : 22:06:37
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A story from AP Mobile:
France chooses Africa intervention carefully
PARIS (AP) - France has a history of intervention in Africa, where it was a colonial power for decades and still maintains several military sites and has hundreds of troops across the continent, including Senegal, Ivory Coast, Chad and Gabon.
MALI - January 2013: French helicopter gunships and fighter jets struck at Islamist fighters in Mali at the request of Mali's president, after the rebels beg...
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Momodou
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Posted - 12 Jan 2013 : 22:12:49
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A story from AP Mobile:
Hundreds of French troops drive back Mali rebels
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - The battle to retake Mali's north from the al-Qaida-linked groups controlling it began in earnest Saturday, after hundreds of French forces deployed to the country and began aerial bombardments to drive back the Islamic extremists. At the same time, nations in West Africa authorized the immediate deployment of troops to Mali, fast-forwarding a military intervention that was not...
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Posted - 24 Jan 2013 : 11:06:45
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Old wine in new bottles 
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A story from AP Mobile:
Mali's Ansar Dine splits into 2
SAN, Mali (AP) - One wing of Mali's Ansar Dine rebel group has split off to create its own movement, saying that they want to negotiate a solution to the crisis in Mali. The declaration indicates at least some of the members of the al-Qaida-linked group are searching for a way out of the extremist movement in the wake of French airstrikes. In a statement published Thursday by RFI radio, former Ans...
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Posted - 11 Feb 2013 : 11:02:40
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The TUAREGS appear to be supporting the french to some extent,however all is not all good:
Experts say the MNLA are poorly organised and divided and represent only a part of the north's population.
"There will never, ever be a solution if you don't talk to the Tuaregs - but they are not homogenous," said Jeremy Keenan, a British anthropologist and expert on the Tuaregs.
"You have a huge part of the rest of Mali not wanting to have anything to do with the Tuaregs - the Tuareg problem has to be resolved and it goes wider than Mali." There are also restive Tuareg communities in neighbouring Algeria and Niger.
Paris argues that lasting peace in Mali hinges on political talks to reconcile the black African-dominated government in Bamako with the restive north, in particular the Tuaregs.
Positioning itself for talks, the MNLA said on Tuesday it had occupied the town of Menaka, more than 250 km (185 miles) south of its remote northern stronghold of Kidal.
The MNLA has started its own patrols in the remote regions around the Algerian border where Islamist fighters are believed to be holding seven French citizens hostage. It announced this week it had arrested two senior Islamists fleeing to Algeria."
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/french-battle-mali-islamists-tuareg-problem-looms-045710096.html
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