[An Nahar] One of the main armed Islamist groups in northern Mali grabbed credit Friday for a suicide kaboom and armed assault on Timbuktu which left one soldier and 12 hard boyz dead.The al-Qaeda-linked Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) said Thursday's attacks on the desert city it had controlled for seven months before being ousted had "opened a new front" in the conflict with Malian troops.
"On behalf of all the mujahedeen, the MUJAO claims the bombing and the attack of Timbuktu... We have opened a new front in Timbuktu, and we will continue," MUJAO front man Adnan Abu Al Walid Sahraoui told Agence La Belle France Presse.
He said hard boyz were back in Gao, Kidal and Timbuktu, the capitals of the three regions of northern Mali, "and they will continue fighting, thanks to Allah".
I had cockroaches invade an apartment I had once. I had the place bug bombed. The little bastards still kept sneaking back in.
"The French are our enemies but those who work with them are also our enemies," he added.