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April 6th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The kidnapping of the Algerian consul and six staff members in Gao was “deplorable,”
he added, saying his group had been against it but finally went along with
the move so as to spare their lives.
The desert nomads are not alone in the north and many say it is the Ansar Dine
led by Iyad Ag Ghaly – which has begun imposing sharia law – who are the new
masters of the desert.
“From what we know, the MNLA is in charge of nothing at the moment … it
is Iyad who is the strongest and he is with AQIM,” a Malian military
source told AFP earlier, referring to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
(AQIM).
The statement on the MNLA’s website stressed its “firm commitment to
create the conditions for lasting peace (and) to initiate the institutional
foundations for a state based on a democratic constitution for an
independent Azawad.”
The MNLA’s executive committee called on the international community
immediately to recognize the independent state,
Alarmed by the sudden collapse of the west African nation, which has split
into a rebel-controlled north and junta-controlled south in two weeks since
a coup, the international community grappled for a response.
Algeria’s foreign ministry said an unidentified group had attacked its
consulate in the town of Gao and kidnapped the consul and six staff members.
Witnesses told AFP the raiders hoisted the black Salafist flag that has been
the emblem of Islamist rebels who have overrun Timbuktu and other northern
cities.
Amnesty International warned Thursday that Mali’s north faces a humanitarian
catastrophe after rebels looted food and medicine supplies across an arid
region already facing food shortages.
Source: agencies
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