Jihadis worldwide growing more aggressive.
“Islamist militants kill 17 soldiers in attack on Mali army base,” by Adama Diarra and Tiamoko Dialo, Reuters, July 19, 2016:
Islamist militants killed 17 Malian soldiers and wounded 35 when they attacked an army base in the center of the country, firing on troop positions, burning buildings and pillaging shops, the government said.
The attack is the biggest for months on the army in Mali, a country that faces a growing threat from Islamist groups based in the desert north.
“We lost 17 men and unfortunately 35 were also wounded and these have all been transported for medical care in the region of Segou,” Defence Minister Tièman Hubert Coulibaly said on state television.
“We will make sure that this coordinated terrorist attack … is met with an appropriate response,” he said, adding that the army controls the town and is hunting the militants.
Army spokesman Souleymane Maiga told Reuters the raiders briefly took control of the base in Nampala, which is set in semi-desert scrubland close to the Mauritanian border. He said Malian troops retreated to nearby Diabaly to regroup.
Maiga said three groups staged the raid: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb attacked from the north, the Macina Liberation Front linked to Ansar Dine waited outside the town to ambush military reinforcements and an ethnic Peul group attacked from the southeast.
His comments tie in with a claim of responsibility by Ansar Dine, which said its Macina Battalion staged the raid. A Malian intelligence source told Reuters the militants took seized weapons and vehicles to a forest….

Michael Warden says
Nothing to do with Islam.
Angemon says
Last time I checked, Mali has virtually zero presence in the Middle East. What’s their excuse, dear MSM?
JAR says
Due to climate change, it’s very warm down there, and they need food. And jobs. And education.
biff says
Britain is having a heat wave right now. That must account for temporary insanity of leaving Europe..
If the heat wave lasts too long all the local population christians, jews, non religious will all be driven to random mass murders and killings of their neighbours..
Climate change causes terrorism. In fact it’s probably THE ROOT CAUSE.
DFD says
JAR says: “Due to climate change, it’s very warm down there…”
I am, not sure. Consult Ray Stevens & the gullible brothers, link below
https://youtu.be/ORyzsMZPPUg
eur says
and the Philippines ?
Christianblood says
In the meantime, just north of Mali, 3 French soldiers were shot down and murdered yesterday in Benghazi, Libya by the very islamic jihadist groups they were backing a few years ago. Benghazi, is the same city the West were telling the world that they were protecting from Qaddafi forces. The same city were four American diplomats were lynched and murdered by the very jihadists these very REDICULOUS Western authorities were all backing. Read it below: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36843186
Angemon says
Christianblood posted:
“by the very islamic jihadist groups they were backing a few years ago.”
Citation needed.
Ex-muslim says
Christianblood says
“In the meantime, just north of Mali, 3 French soldiers were shot down and murdered yesterday in Benghazi, Libya by the very islamic jihadist groups they were backing a few years ago”.
The French truly f-ckin deserved this! These are the same French who were fanatically bombing Qaddafi forces in support of muslim jihadists in Libya telling the world, along side Americans and Brits that they were “saving Libyan civilians trapped in Benghazi” from Col. Qaddafi forces. Whether US or France or others they are clueless and ignorant animals and you wonder what type of people who are electing these bastards to office?
Angemon says
Surprise, surprise: the bottom end of the Human Centipede – “Ex-muslim” – comes, again, to recycle CB’s beseless assertions. As predictable as the sun rising in the East… Oh, and for anyone who was wondering about “Ex-muslim”‘s recent stunt, where he called Westerners “animals”, here he is doing so again:
“Whether US or France or others they are clueless and ignorant animals“
African infidel says
To Christianblood
Huge amount of weapons entered Mali from Libya after the collapse of Kaddafi. All those Nato members who were aiding the Libyan jihadists should get their answers now. They better realize that secular dictators like Kaddafi, Assad, Saddam and others are more preferable than the muslim jihadists such isis who has no respect for human lives. It seems they West did not learn that lesson after Libya and Iraq and they are following the same destructive path in Syria. At least in Syria, they are not winning so far and after five years their jihadist allies seem to losing the battle now. Thank God for Russia. I really have gained some deep respect for Russia for standing up to these Western bullies such as the US, UK and others and wish China should join Russia in standing the Western bullies.
Angemon says
Ah, so you finally show your true colours.
Nigel GFF says
“Maiga said three groups staged the raid: Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb attacked from the north, the Macina Liberation Front linked to Ansar Dine waited outside the town to ambush military reinforcements and an ethnic Peul group attacked from the southeast.”
Ok, now I’m getting confused here. So many ‘militants’, including an “ethnic” group, the Peul. Are we, they (the Malian military) meant to be confused by all this distracting apportioning of blame, or do we ‘Google’_Peul and determine that all these ‘militants’ are Islamic?
Whenever I see ‘ethnic’ group eg. the Fulani, I immediately (soonest) check ’em out – and no, I don’t trust the BBC, which insists on using ‘militant’ or ‘ethnic’ group, in reports, whenever they can.