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Al-Qaeda affiliate in Mali claims string of attacks
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News] An al-Qaeda affiliate in Mali on Wednesday grabbed credit for four attacks on Malian and United Nations...an organization originally established to war on dictatorships which was promptly infiltrated by dictatorships and is now held in thrall to dictatorships... troops that it said killed six soldiers. The Nusrat al-Islam wal Moslemeen (NIM) said in statements that it had attacked a police post in Segou on Sunday, capturing weapons and a cycle of violence. On Monday, "fighters ambushed Malian and MINUSMA (UN mission in Mali) forces near the city of Konna in Mopti, killing six soldiers," according to a report carried by the US monitoring group SITE. "Other fighters bombed a Malian convoy tasked with securing an area near Niafunke in Timbuktu in preparation for a visit by a local leader," it said. Prime Minister Abdoulaye Idrissa Maiga cancelled a planned visit on Monday to the central town after a vehicle sent to protect his team hit a landmine. Also on Monday, police and administrative officials said 10 people, including nine civilians, had died in attacks in northern and central Mali. They included five civilian passengers aboard a bus blown up by a mine near Ansongo -- an incident that was not claimed in the NIM statements. In a statement released on Tuesday, Mahamat Saleh Annadif, the head of MINUSMA, lashed the jihadist assailants as "drugged fanatics" and "outlaws". He called on Malians to become "collectively aware" of "cowards (who) mix with the peaceful population, discretely melt into the background before carrying out their plans." Posted by: Fred 2017-11-09 |
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