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| Militant group Ansar Dine claims deadly attack on UN base in Mali |
| 2015-11-29 |
| [AlAhram] The holy warrior group Ansar Dine (Defenders of the Faith) told AFP it was responsible for Saturday's attack on a United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... base in Mali that killed two UN peacekeepers and a civilian contractor. The attack was "in response to the violation of our lands by the enemies of Islam," one of the group's senior figures, Hamadou Ag Khallini, told AFP by phone. Three Dead in Rocket Attack on U.N. Base in North Mali [AnNahar] Two U.N. peacekeepers and a civilian were killed and 14 others were maimed in a rocket attack Saturday on a U.N. base in the northeastern Malian town of Kidal, U.N. and local sources said. "Our camp in Kidal was attacked early this morning by turbans using rockets," said an official from the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Mali (MINUSMA), adding that two Guinean U.N. peacekeepers and a civilian contractor were killed. A local official confirmed the report. Another U.N. source said 14 others were maimed in the attack, including three seriously. The attack came eight days after a siege at a luxury hotel in Mali's capital Bamako, in which 20 people died including 14 foreigners. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #1 not militant that is like terrorist it means nothing they were Islamists |
| Posted by: anon1 2015-11-29 21:46 |