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| Islamic State affiliate claims Mali attack that injured 3 French soldiers |
| 2018-01-14 |
| [EN.RFI.FR] An affiliate of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... (IS) gang has grabbed credit for attacks in the Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... , including one that injured three French soldiers in Mali on Thursday and an attack in October that killed four US soldiers and three from Niger. One of the three French soldiers was maimed and flown to La Belle France for treatment after a suicide kaboom on a convoy travelling between Menaka and Indelamine regions. The attack took place on Thursday, the fifth anniversary of the start of La Belle France's military intervention against armed Islamists and Tuareg separatists in Mali. "A vehicle approached the convoy and went kaboom!near a VAB [armoured vehicle]," French army front man Patrick Steiger told the AFP news agency. Three Malian soldiers were also injured on Thursday in an ambush in the northern town of Hombori and a policeman was kidnapped and a cop shoppe looted and set on fire in the north-western town of Lere, the Malian army said. |
| Posted by:Fred |