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| Al-Qaeda and 2 other Islamist groups launch attack on army base in Mali killing 17 soldiers |
| 2016-07-21 |
| [IBTIMES.CO.UK] At least 17 soldiers were killed and dozens injured when some unidentified gunnies attacked an army base in Mali, in West Africa. The landlocked country is reportedly facing growing threats from Islamist holy warriors and defence minister Tièman Hubert Coulibaly has vowed to give an "appropriate" reply to the forces of Evil involved in the attack. According to reports, the attackers raided the army base in Nampala, located in a semi-desert scrubland close to the border with Mauritania on Tuesday (19 July). The holy warriors took over the base for a brief duration an army front man said, adding that three Islamic bully boy groups have grabbed credit for the attack. Spokesman for the army, Souleymane Maiga, told Rooters that al-Qaeda gunnies in the Islamic Maghreb attacked from the north and an ethnic Peul group launched an attack from the southeast, while the Macina Liberation Front linked to Ansar Dine ...a mainly Tuareg group that controlled areas of Mali's northern desert together with Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and MUJAO in early 2012... ‐ a bully boy Islamist group ‐ waited outside the town to ambush military reinforcements. He added that following the attack, Malian troops retreated to nearby Diabaly to regroup. An intelligence source told the news agency that the attackers seized weapons and vehicles from the base and took them to a forest in the region. Ansar Dine has already grabbed credit for the attack, admitting that its Macina Battalion launched the raid. The National Alliance for the Safeguarding of Peul Identity and the Restoration of Justice (ANSIPRJ) ‐ headed by Oumar Aldjana, reportedly also grabbed credit for the attack through a call to a donor-funded national radio station, Studio Tamani reported. "We lost 17 men and unfortunately 35 were also maimed and these have all been transported for medical care in the region of Segou," Coulibaly said on state television ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? following the attack. The army is now looking for the holy warriors responsible for the attack, he said and noted, "We will make sure that this coordinated terrorist attack ... is met with an appropriate response." |
| Posted by:Fred |