[Al Ahram] Al-Qaeda's north and west African division grabbed credit Wednesday for the murders of two French journalists rubbed out in Mali's rebel-infested northern desert, in a statement published by a news agency in neighbouring Mauritania. "This operation was a response to crimes committed by La Belle France against Malians and the work of African and international forces against the Musselmens of Azawad," Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb said, using the name given by the Tuareg people to northern Mali.
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