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| Five Suicide Bombers Dead in Failed Attacks in Northern Mali | |||
| 2013-05-12 | |||
One of the towns hit was Gossi, the furthest south al Qaeda-linked Islamist rebels
The attacks have had limited success so far but threaten to undermine international calls for elections to be held across Mali in July although security is not yet fully restored to a zone that was occupied by Islamists last year. The suicide raids took place nearly simultaneously between 4 and 5 a.m. in Menaka and Gossi, near Gao. "The first attack targeted Nigerien soldiers in Menaka. A car bomb entered the (military) camp, but the soldiers ... destroyed the vehicle, which exploded," Lieutenant Colonel Souleymane Maiga told Reuters. "At the same time in Gossi, three suicide bombers on foot attacked a checkpoint. Again the soldiers ... shot them. The three bombers were killed," he said. As the men exchanged fire with soldiers, a fourth member of the group entered a nearby military camp and blew himself up, slightly wounding two soldiers, a second military source said. A bus driver passing through Gossi, 150 km (90 miles) southwest of Gao, told Reuters he saw dismembered body parts strewn along the road, which links Gao and the capital Bamako. | |||
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 Seldom is the key word there Pappy. In due course, if not in the current universe a further universe, the body parts will by chance assemble in a linear fashion and in time commence to boogalo. Gawd willing of course |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-05-12 14:06 |
| #1 A bus driver passing through Gossi...told Reuters he saw dismembered body parts strewn along the road Technical note to Reuters: Body parts seldom organize themselves into neat rows. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-05-12 13:19 |