Wednesday, January 23, 2013

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Islamists flee Malian town after French airstrikes
Malian soldiers jubilate as they return to Niono, from Diabaly, some 400 kms (300 miles) North of the capital Bamako, Saturday Jan. 19, 2013. French troops encircled a key Malian town on Friday, trying to stop radical Islamists from striking against communities closer to the capital and cutting off their supply line, a French official said. The move around Diabaly came as French and Malian authorities said that the city whose capture prompted the French military    intervention in the first place was no longer in the hands of the extremists. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Video from a Malian town which radical Islamists fled after days of French airstrikes shows the street dotted with burned out vehicles and scattered bullets.


Bloody hostage siege over, explosives teams scour Algerian gas plant for mines, bodies
ALGIERS, Algeria – Algerian de-mining teams were scouring a gas refinery on Sunday that was the scene of a bloody four-day hostage standoff, searching for explosive traps left by the Islamic militant who took dozens of foreigners prisoner. The siege left at least 23 hostages dead, and the American government warned that there were credible threats of more kidnapping attempts on Westerners.


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