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Mali: Jihadists murder 42 at military camp in area France’s Hollande just visited

Jan 18, 2017 12:35 pm By Robert Spencer

“French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux described the blast as a ‘major and highly symbolic attack’ in an area visited only days ago by French President François Hollande.”

Indeed, that is highly symbolic, of the French (and general Western) inability to stop jihad activity.

“Dozens killed in suicide attack on Gao military camp in northern Mali,” France 24, January 18, 2017:

At least 47 people including five suicide bombers were killed when a vehicle packed with explosives detonated inside a military camp in the northern Mali city of Gao on Wednesday, the government said.

A Reuters reporter who arrived at the camp soon after the blast, which occurred at about 9am (0900 GMT), said he saw dozens of bodies lying on the ground alongside the wounded.

Ambulances rushed to the scene as helicopters circled overhead.

“It’s terrible,” Gao resident Kader Touré said. “The attack happened while they were having an assembly. I’ve just left the hospital where there were bodies ripped to pieces and bodies piled up.”

The camp was home to government soldiers and members of various rival armed groups which jointly patrol Mali’s restive desert north in line with a UN-brokered peace accord….

French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux described the blast as a “major and highly symbolic attack” in an area visited only days ago by French President François Hollande.

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  1. mortimer says

    Jan 18, 2017 at 1:32 pm

    If a military base (with armed patrols around the perimeter) is not a ‘safe place’, what would be?

    Why can jihadists penetrate a military base? It sounds like an inside job. This shows Muslims as SUPERB LIARS AND DECEIVERS if even other Muslims cannot detect the deception of the jihadists.

    The motto of early Muslims was ‘WE LOVE DEATH’. This is still the motto of the jihadists of today. If Western military do not train the TROOPS in the JIHAD DOCTRINE, then the military leaders and politicians ruling the military are GROSSLY INCOMPETENT AND CRIMINALLY NEGLIGENT.

  2. Bill says

    Jan 18, 2017 at 2:55 pm

    “French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux described the blast as a “major and highly symbolic attack” in an area visited only days ago by French President François Hollande.”

    Interior Minister Le Roux, another detached comfortable French Islam enabling elitist, blandly calls this a symbolic attack. Dear Mr. Le Roux, it was more than merely symbolic to the 42 victims slaughtered by the attack. I refuse to use the 47 dead cited in the equally detached press account, the 5 murdering Jihadis ought not be be lumped in with their victims.

    Le Roux and his ilk are a big part of the problem. Time for another French Revolution.

  3. Angemon says

    Jan 18, 2017 at 3:08 pm

    French Interior Minister Bruno Le Roux described the blast as a “major and highly symbolic attack” in an area visited only days ago by French President François Hollande.

    Maybe the next one will happen in France. Ludicrous? Some (most?) of the Bataclan murderers came as “refugees” – what’s stopping Mali jihadis from doing the same?

  4. Eric Jones says

    Jan 18, 2017 at 10:00 pm

    Is this an inside job? The article said rival armed groups along with government troops are stationed in the same camp. Don’t the French have bomb detection equipment?
    Was this camp set up to fail.?

    Eric

  5. reyol says

    Jan 19, 2017 at 6:57 pm

    The French commenced their operations in Chad and Mali partly for the political motivation of showing us stupid French joke telling Americans how it’s done. This intervention went well in the beginning as they tend to do. But, once you’ve been there for a while and they’ve got you figured out, the assassinations, the bombings, the ambushes begin. Once they’ve figured out what to say and to whom to say it to get inside the camps, then you’ll have devious, lying, malevolent Mohammedans running around inside your “secure” perimeters. That’s the kind of combat that they’re really good at. That’s true in Afghanistan and it’s true in the Maghreb. And it’s also true that the Koran will still say, “Kill the infidel wherever he can be found” after they have suffered a defeat. They cannot give up and they are fortified, Koranically, from suffering a psychological defeat.

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