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Momodou
Denmark
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 Posted - 22 Apr 2012 : 11:02:55
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Tuareg commander says he's back in north Mali
20-04-2012
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - A Tuareg commander loyal to the Malian government says he's crossed back into northern Mali from Niger. Col. El Hadj Ag Gamou said Saturday that he was awaiting orders from the capital before moving any further after returning to the country. He declined to say how many fighters he had with him. The group of soldiers commanded by Ag Gamou is one of the few units loyal to the Ma...
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Momodou
Denmark
11717 Posts |
Posted - 27 Apr 2012 : 19:34:33
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Spotlight on leader of Islamist group in Mali
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - He's a former diplomat whose armed Islamist group now controls much of northern Mali. He has links to an al-Qaida franchise and was expelled from Saudi Arabia for ties to yet another fundamentalist movement. U.S. officials call him a master manipulator. Iyad Ag Ghali's group and Tuareg rebels took northern Mali a month ago in the wake of a military coup in Mali's capital that l...
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 02 May 2012 : 11:27:49
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Junta takes camp in Mali capital, claims control
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - After fierce fighting in Mali's capital Tuesday, troops loyal to the junta overran the main camp of the soldiers who tried to oust them in a countercoup. Gunfire echoed across Bamako as Malian government troops battled each other, killing at least 12 people. Mali's coup leaders who took power over a month ago and ostensibly handed control over to an interim civilian government ...
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 02 May 2012 : 18:52:53
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Gunfire in Mali capital as junta gathers opponents
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - Guns are being fired into the air in Mali's capital as the junta says they are still rounding up people associated with an attempted countercoup earlier this week. Bakary Mariko, a spokesman for the junta, said Wednesday that there was no fighting between groups and the gunfire in Bamako was meant to warn people that patrols were being carried out throughout the capital. A grou...
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kobo
United Kingdom
7765 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2012 : 20:43:28
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SENEWEB TRANSLATED NEWS;
"Timbuktu, the mythical city of northern Mali, is in shock after the desecration by members of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the shrine of a Muslim holy city of world heritage by Unesco, a " unspeakable act "according to the Malian authorities.
Timbuktu, the mythical city of northern Mali, is in shock after the desecration by members of Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the shrine of a Muslim holy city of world heritage by Unesco, a " unspeakable act "according to the Malian authorities. Friday, "people of AQIM, supported by (the Islamist armed group) Ansar Dine, destroyed the mausoleum of the saint Sidi (Ben Mahmoud) Amar. They burned the shrine," said Saturday to AFP on condition of anonymity one of the deputy mayor of Timbuktu. The city of 30,000 inhabitants is controlled, like all of northern Mali, AQIM by Ansar Dine and since the coup of 22 March in Bamako led by coup leaders who have since returned power to civilians. "They promised to destroy other mausoleums. Timbuktu is in shock. Now they want to take and destroy other mausoleums and manuscripts," added the same source . In a statement read on national television Saturday, the Malian government transition said he "learned with indignation the desecration of a mausoleum perpetrated by lawless individuals." The government has condemned "in the strongest terms this act unspeakable that tramples upon the precepts of Islam, religion of tolerance, and respect for human dignity, "the statement said. "I saw the grave desecrated. This is very serious," said the A local journalist told AFP on site. A hospital source in Timbuktu, four Islamist perpetrators of the desecration are "mysteriously died" at the hospital where they had landed after falling ill. "The city of 333 saints" Located at the edge of the Sahara to a thousand miles north of Bamako, Timbuktu, nicknamed "the city of 333 saints" or more mundanely "Pearl of the Desert", is a World Heritage Site by Unesco since 1988. founded between the eleventh and the twelfth century, according to the documents, by Tuareg tribes, the city was a great intellectual center of Islam and an ancient prosperous merchant caravans. Its three great mosques, but also tens of thousands of manuscripts, some of which date from the pre-Islamic era-witness to this past splendor and its heyday in the sixteenth century. addition to the mosques, the site has ranked "16 cemeteries and mausoleums that were essential components of the religious system to the extent , according to popular belief, they were the bulwark that protected the city from all dangers, "said UNESCO on its website. Unesco has recently expressed concern and called "the warring factions to respect the heritage" of the country , which is now the north came under the cut of AQIM and Ansar Dine. Director of the Fundamental Institute of Black Africa (Ifan) in Dakar, Hamady Bocoum, was also alarmed at the "serious risks" regarding manuscripts, objects of "all traffic", and he feared that "destruction" being committed "by the newcomers." The manuscripts are mostly written in Arabic or Fulani, by scientists from the former Mali Empire. These texts speak for Islam, but also history, astronomy, music, botany, genealogy, anatomy ... These are all areas generally despised, or even considered "ungodly" by Al Qaeda and its jihadi henchmen. The desecration of the mausoleum of Timbuktu by the new masters of the city points out the delicate works of world heritage, like the Buddhas of Bamiyan in central Afghanistan, destroyed by the Taliban in March 2001 . In East Africa, the Somali Islamist Shebab destroyed many mausoleums of Sufi mystics whose memory was revered by local people." |
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toubab1020
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Posted - 06 May 2012 : 21:38:02
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Another link from CNN:
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/05/world/africa/mali-heritage-sites/index.html
KOBO, now perhaps sensible, stable, peaceful Muslims will realise that these, "people", the Al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), are,only interested in POWER,not religion,not preservation of history ,not the sanctity of life but anything that will get them publicity for their cause,that is, to take over and control as much of the world as they can.
Anybody disagree with what I have written ? |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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kobo
United Kingdom
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Posted - 06 May 2012 : 22:07:46
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Toubab 1020. There is this saying that "Angels and Devils" live in the same house and world  |
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toubab1020
12311 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2012 : 22:13:10
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| Kobo,I think I understand what you have written,and the reasons why you have decided to respond in the way you have.Thanks. |
"Simple is good" & I strongly dislike politics. You cannot defend the indefensible.
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Momodou
Denmark
11717 Posts |
Posted - 06 May 2012 : 23:04:35
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These i d i o t s think they are more muslim than the people of Timbuktu. May they burn in hell.
Islamist attacks saint's tomb in Timbuktu
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - A new member of an Islamist group in north Mali attacked and burned a saint's tomb classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Timbuktu, the spokesman for the group said Sunday. The act threatens to raise tensions that have been building between residents and the Islamists who occupied the city in April, and raises worries that instability could lead to the destruction of his...
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Momodou
Denmark
11717 Posts |
Posted - 14 May 2012 : 15:44:13
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Mali junta chief: convention will pick new leader
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - The officer who overthrew Mali's democratically elected leader in a recent coup said Monday the country will organize a national convention to choose who will run the nation until new elections can be held. Capt. Amadou Sanogo convened reporters Monday at the military barracks on the outskirts of the capital, which have acted as the de facto seat of government since the March 2...
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Momodou
Denmark
11717 Posts |
Posted - 15 May 2012 : 18:29:45
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Islamists in northern Mali smash TVs
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - A resident in the northern Malian city of Gao says Islamists smashed TV sets that were being used to play video games or watch programs considered un-Islamic, in a further attempt to impose Shariah law there. The resident who asked for anonymity because he feared reprisal said that residents took to the street in protest after the incident Sunday. The witness said the Islamist ...
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 21 May 2012 : 19:15:38
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Interim president of Mali injured, witness
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - Demonstrators forced their way into the office of Mali's interim president on Monday and attacked the elderly leader, who was later brought to a local hospital unconscious, a witness and one of the president's collaborators said. Dioncounda Traore was brought into the Point G Hospital with an injury to the head, said Sekou Yattara, a medical student there. The interim leader wa...
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 23 May 2012 : 21:52:47
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Officials: Injured Mali president heads to France
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - Mali's interim president, who was beaten by a mob of demonstrators who broke into his office this week, has left the country to seek medical treatment in France, an adviser and two French government officials said Wednesday. The unexpected, and unpublicized, departure of the 70-year-old Dioncounda Traore leaves a dangerous power vacuum in the West African nation, which was thro...
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 27 May 2012 : 11:41:44
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Rebel groups merge in Mali, agree on Islamic state
BAMAKO, Mali (AP) - The two rebel groups that seized control of the northern half of Mali announced Saturday that they have agreed to fuse their movements and work together to create an independent Islamic state on the territory they occupy, a signatory to the agreement said. Alghabass Ag Intalla, one of the leaders of Ansar Dine, which is fighting to create an Islamic state, confirmed that his mo...
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Momodou
Denmark
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Posted - 02 Jun 2012 : 21:00:20
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Timbuktu: In time of chaos, a hometown son returns
TIMBUKTU, Mali (AP) - The first sign of change came as our convoy of food aid and medicine pulled up to the last northern town held by the Malian army. The atmosphere was tense as the heavily armed troops searched our car and baggage. Even my toothbrush was apparently suspect. "We're looking for weapons," a soldier snapped. "But there's only food here," one of the convoy leaders replied lightheart...
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