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By Adama Diarra in Gao, Reuters, Jan. 28, 2013
French-backed Malian troops searched through Timbuktu for Islamist rebel fighters on Monday after seizing the airport and surrounding the ancient Saharan trading town in a lightning offensive against al Qaeda-allied fighters in northern Mali.
"We are in control of the airport in Timbuktu and forces are in the process of securing the town," Mali's Defence Ministry spokesman Lt. Col Diarran Kone told Reuters.
In a commando operation similar to the one at the weekend that seized Gao, the other large northern Malian town occupied by Islamist insurgents since last year, French special forces backed by warplanes and helicopters swooped on Timbuktu airport to open the way for Malian and other African troops [....]\
Also see:
Mali: jihadist fighters melt away as French begin to regain control
By Luke Harding in Sévaré, The Guardian, 27 Jan. 2013
Majority of northern region taken back but many refugees believe retreat of rebels is only temporary.
And:
With Fighters Gone, Malians Welcome Normal Days
By Lydia Polgren and Peter Tinti, New York Times, Jan. 27, 2013
SÉVARÉ, Mali — Residents of northern Mali’s largest city poured out of their homes to celebrate the expulsion of Islamist fighters who had held their town for months, playing the music that had been forbidden under the militants’ harsh interpretation of Islamic rule and dancing in the streets.
“Everyone is in the streets,” a Gao resident, Ibrahim Touré, said in a telephone interview. “It is like a party. There is music. There are drums. It’s freedom.” [.....]
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by artappraiser on Mon, 01/28/2013 - 7:13am