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November 21st, 2015 
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nsnbc : Special Forces in Bamako, Mali, stormed the Radisson Blue Hotel where terrorists from the AQIM linked al-Mourabitoun group took about 170 hostages Friday morning. Security services in Mali investigate whether there is a link between the terrorists and Boko Haram.
Special Police Forces storm the Radisson Blue in Bamako, Mali.
Gunmen stormed the Radisson Blue hotel in the capital of Mali, Bamako early Friday morning. The hotel is located west of the city center in the so-called diplomatic quarter of the city. The number of gunmen who took part in the attack is currently uncertain. At least two of the attackers have been reported killed. The number of casualties is sketchy. UN sources estimate that at least 27 died while scores were injured by gunfire and at lest one grenade.
Responsibility for the attack was claimed by al-Mourabitoun via twitter. The group is a local franchise of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Special police and security forces stormed the hotel and freed the about 170 hostages. Among them were citizens from Belgium, China, France, India, Mali, the USA, and Turkey. One US citizen is reportedly among the killed hostages.
The hostage siege ended when special police and security forces stormed the upper floors of the hotel where the assailants had barricaded themselves.
Sources within the Security Ministry noted that there is reason to fear that the AQIM-linked al-Mourabitoun group which is predominantly present in northern Mali has entered into a strategic alliance with Boko Haram which has declared its allegiance to the self-proclaimed Islamic State a.k.a. ISIS, ISIL or Daesh.
The government of Mali has declared a state of emergency that is to last for ten days and announce three days of national mourning. The measures were decided at an extraordinary session of the Ministerial Council late Friday evening after Mali’s Head of State, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita returned from a Sahel Summit in N’Djamena, Tachad.
Keita won elections in Mali with substantial support from France and after a crackdown and harassment of progressive opposition parties that oppose the continuation of French modo-colonialism in Mali and its other former African colonies.
Among one of the most outspoken opponents to French modo-colonialism is Dr. Oumar Mariko who has previously accused French-backed governments for covert deals between the government, sections of the military and security forces and Islamist terrorists as part of a strategy aimed at cooperative antagonism that strengthens the role of France and French-backed parties and politicians.
Mali descended into chaos in 2012 after the NATO and Gulf Arab backed ouster of the Libyan head of State Muammar Qaddafi. The situation in Libya created the environment for the massive proliferation of weapons among Al-Qaeda linked terrorist brigades in Libya, Algeria as well as in Mali.
A French led military intervention in 2013 did weaken Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), although the intervention was widely criticized as half-hearted and as part of French geopolitical ambitions.
Mali is a member of the UEMOA (UMEOA), meaning that France has virtually absolute control over the country’s economy – and by implication, control over the presidency and parliament. French President Francois Hollande reportedly announced that France would deploy French troops to its former colony.
It is noteworthy that there have been well-documented reports that implicated French intelligence services and the French government in creating the crisis in 2012. It is moreover noteworthy that the Turkish intelligence service MIT has been implicated in providing weapons to Boko Haram, using civilian Turkish airliners. It is at this point uncertain whether the hostage situation in Bamako is linked to the terrorist attacks in the French capital Paris on Friday, November 13.
CH/L – nsnbc 21.11.2015
Source Article from http://nsnbc.me/2015/11/21/special-forces-end-bamako-hostage-siege-27-lives-lost/
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