Mali Hostage Situation Over; 27 People Reported Dead, 2 Gunmen Killed

The Hostage situation is now over according to AFP. Here is the latest news from Reuters:

At least 27 people were reported dead on Friday after Malian commandos stormed a luxury hotel in the capital Bamako with at least 170 people inside, many of them foreigners, that had been seized by Islamist gunmen.

The former French colony has been battling Islamist rebels for several years, and the jihadist group Al Mourabitoun, allied to al Qaeda and based in the deserts of northern Mali, claimed responsibility for the attack in a tweet.

By late afternoon, ministerial adviser Amadou Sangho told the French television station BFMTV that no more hostages were being held.

But a U.N. official said U.N. peacekeepers on the scene had seen 27 bodies in a preliminary count, and that a search of hotel was continuing. It was not clear whether any of the gunmen, who were said to have dug in on the seventh floor of the hotel as special forces advanced on them, were still active.  

State television showed footage of troops in camouflage fatigues wielding AK47s in the lobby of the Radisson Blu, one of Bamako's smartest hotels and beloved of foreigners. In the background, a body lay under a brown blanket at the bottom of a flight of stairs.

The peacekeepers saw 12 dead bodies in the basement of the hotel and another 15 on the second floor, the U.N. official told Reuters on condition of anonymity. He added that the U.N. troops were still helping Malian authorities search the hotel.

A man working for a Belgian regional parliament was among the dead, the assembly said

Update 10:59

Two gunmen killed in Mali hotel siege: Malian military

Update 10:40

Eighteen Bodies Recovered From Mali Hotel, AFP Says, cites foreign security source on number of bodies recovered. Mali gunman, “holding no more hostages,” AFP cites security minister

Update 9:50

Reuters reports that supporters of al-Qaeda-affiliated group claim responsibility for attack in Mali citing a Twitter post

Update: 9:35

Mali hotel gunment have dug in on building's seventh floor as special forces advance - Security source.  Some U.S. military personnel in Mali were helping move civilians to secure locations amid an attack at a luxury hotel in Bamako, a. U.S. defense official told Reuters on Friday.

About 25 American military personnel were in Bamako when Islamist gunmen stormed the hotel, the official said, adding that there has not yet been a formal request for U.S. military assistance. U.S. spokesman says U.S. special forces helping in Mali hotel incident

Update 8:50 am

124 guests, 13 staff still inside Radisson Blu hotel in Mali capital following gun attack - company statement

Update 8:00 am

A famous Guinean singer who was among 170 people taken hostage on Friday by Islamist gunmen in the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, said he heard attackers in the next room speaking English. "I heard them say in English 'Did you load it?', 'Let's go'," singer Sékouba 'Bambino' Diabate, who was freed by Malian security forces, told Reuters in Conakry. "I wasn't able to see them because in these kinds of situations it's hard."

Also Reuters adds, citing a witness outside the Radisson hotel, that "The attackers are still inside. We're hearing gunfire from time to time."

Update 7:04 am

A second assault is in course in the Radisson hotel, lead by US and French special forces according to Conflict News.

Update 6:56 am

AFP reports that eighty hostages freed in Mali hotel siege citing local TV, while CNN adds that the Mali hotel attackers arrived in vehicle(s) with diplomatic plates, had AK-47s - U.N. spokesman.

Update: 6:45 am

Reuters reports that roughly three hours since the siege began, Malian special forces entered the Radisson Blu in the capital Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen attacked the luxury hotel and took hostages, a witness and a police source said. "They've penetrated inside the hotel. The operations are under way," the police source said.

A live feed from SkyNews:

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Less than a week since the Friday 13th Paris terror attack, hours ago the newswires lit up with news of another terrorist attack at least 10 gunmen shouting and screaming "Allahu Akbar" attacked the Radisson Blu, a luxury hotel full of foreigners, in Mali's capital Bamako, taking 170 people hostage. The identity of the Bamako gunmen, or the group to which they belong, is not known

Attackers shouting "Allahu Akbar" opened fire outside the hotel before storming it https://t.co/vvFjerkcZX pic.twitter.com/cGF9qoDhXI

— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) November 20, 2015

Jihadis storm hotel with guns and grenades taking 170 hostage in ex-French colony Mali https://t.co/QVtAjRx7gv pic.twitter.com/nSVIdUxrDH

— Daily Express (@Daily_Express) November 20, 2015

"The gunmen went straight to the seventh floor" says Mamadou Moussa Ba of @bbcafrique on the #Mali hotel attack https://t.co/VGPUcG1FDc

— Victoria Derbyshire (@VictoriaLIVE) November 20, 2015

The location of the capital is shown below:

The Radisson hotel lies just west of the city centre near government ministries and diplomatic offices in the former French colony.  The identity of the Bamako gunmen, or the group to which they belong, is not known.

According to Reuters, the security source said as many as 10 gunmen had stormed the building, firing shots and shouting "Allahu Akbar", or "God is great" in Arabic. The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said several Chinese tourists were among those trapped inside the building.

The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said several Chinese tourists were among those trapped inside the building.

The company that runs the hotel, Rezidor Group, said it understood that there were two gunmen although AP has since added there were at least 10 gunmen.

"According to our information, two people are holding 140 clients and 30 employees," it said in a statement quoted by the BBC.

A senior member of the hotel's security detail said two private security guards had been injured in the early stages of the attack, which began at 7 a.m. (0700 GMT).

The official response has been swift and according to witnesses in the area police had surrounded the hotel and were blocking roads leading into the neighbourhood. The U.S. Embassy tweeted that it was "aware of an ongoing active shooter operation at the Radisson Hotel," and instructed its citizens to stay indoors.

A French diplomatic source added that Malian special forces at the scene of hotel siege, France providing logistics and intelligence support.

Reuters notes that the hotel gunmen have since free some hostages, including those able to recite verses of the Koran.

French nationals are among those held in the siege of a luxury hotel in Mali's capital Bamako on Friday, a source close to French President Francois Hollande said. "We are still awaiting more precise information that's been checked out. French people are present. The president is following the situation closely," the presidential source said.

Separately, a diplomatic source said that Malian special forces were at the scene and that France was providing logistical and intelligence support.

As a reminder, northern Mali which has been the locus of French military intervention in recent years, was occupied by Islamist fighters, some with links to al Qaeda, for most of 2012. Although they were supposedly driven out by the French, sporadic violence has continued.

Bloomberg notes that Malian, French and US security forces have since stormed the hotel where at least three are dead, including a french citizen, while 15 hostages hav been released.

Latest pictures of the scene outside the Radisson Blu hotel in #Mali https://t.co/CFKTnrsng5

— Sky News (@SkyNews) November 20, 2015

Security forces drive an armored vehicle near the Radisson hotel in Bamako, Mali, November 20, 2015. REUTERS/Adama Diarra

A video recap from France 24:

Updates to follow

Comments

[blabam]

Damn zionists!!!!!!

[Keyser]

Bullish, should be good for 50+ point bounce in the S&P... 

[VinceFostersGhost]

America stands ready to host the Syrian terrorists.....because we owe it to ourselves.

YES WE CAN!!!

KISS KISS....BANG BANG!!!

[Latina Lover]

Dear Vlad

since you are the only world leader killing terrorists, instead of supporting them,  we humbly request one of your smart bombs, preferably delivered.

Signed

Hotel Management

PS Please give us a 5 minute heads up.

[Latina Lover]

FYI, Reuters notes that the hotel gunmen have since free some hostages, including those able to recite verses of the Koran.

All perfect praise be to Allaah, The Lord of the Worlds. I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allaah, and that Muhammad is His slave and Messenger.

Try to remember this, next time you visit Mali, Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Quatar etc.

[overmedicatedun...]

latina, might add paris, berlin, nyc, dc, coming to a locale near you.

[hedgeless_horseman]

14 January 2013  -  French President François Hollande declared an open-ended war in Mali, ostensibly to help the Malian government fight Al Qaeda-linked forces among the rebels. He said the war would last “as long as necessary.” 

Oceania has always been at war with papists her colonies Germany The Ottoman Empire Russia Japan Germany communism Iran Iraq Al Qaeda ISIS ISIL Islam.

The primary aim of modern warfare is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living. Ever since the end of the nineteenth century, the problem of what to do with the surplus of consumption goods has been latent in industrial society. From the moment when the machine first made its appearance it was clear to all thinking people that the need for human drudgery, and therefore to a great extent for human inequality, had disappeared. If the machine were used deliberately for that end, hunger, overwork, dirt, illiteracy, and disease could be eliminated within a few generations. And in fact, without being used for any such purpose, but by a sort of automatic process — by producing wealth which it was sometimes impossible not to distribute — the machine did raise the living standards of the average humand being very greatly over a period of about fifty years at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries. But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction — of a hierarchical society. In a world in which everyone worked short hours, had enough to eat, lived in a house with a bathroom and a refrigerator, and possessed a motor-car or even an aeroplane, the most obvious and perhaps the most important form of inequality would already have disappeared. If it once became general, wealth would confer no distinction. It was possible, no doubt, to imagine a society in which wealth, in the sense of personal possessions and luxuries, should be evenly distributed, while power remained in the hands of a small privileged caste. But in practice such a society could not long remain stable. For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realize that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance.

https://akamat.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/the-purpose-of-war-according-to-...

[NidStyles]

The Jew will do anything to keep it's host from fighting it, including creating enemies for them that are portrayed as a more relevant threat. 

[Benjamin123]

Relax, Anarcho-Capitalism will suck your dick and slay your enemies.

[knukles]

So is anybody else wondering why the US SpecFcs were ever so handy?
Froggies, I understand as a while ago when somebody demanded their gold back (read Germany) and they were to be sent 40 tons per annum, the French re-invaded Mali and secured the gold fields which produce (Another Coincidence giving rise to Conspiracy Theories) about 40 tons a year, but that's all just ... well... circumstance.
No?  Oui!

ISIS seems to have a hard-on for the French, no?  Oui!

Edit: apologies, Stares straight, hadn't yet noticed your comment below about Mali, Gold and Germany repatriation (Ah how quickly so many forget)  Kudos!

[BaBaBouy]

WALL STREET And US STocks Seem To SOAR on every izlamic terrorist attack... Nothing like Bullish saddists in control...

[BringOnTheAsteroid]

Dear terrorists,

Please stop killing innocent human beings and instead get a bunch of your colleagues to hire/steal a bunch of cars and park them at the choke points of the major US city arterials. Turn off engine, take out keys and walk away. What;s the worst that can happen, you get a parking fine. No one gets hurt, you bring the city to a stand still, and you do it again tomorrow and the day after that and the day after that until these crazy fucking Yanks stop blowing the beejezuz out of every square inch of this fucking planet.

Regards

[Stuck on Zero]

No one in LA or DC would notice.

[LowerSlowerDela...]

Why the HELL is there a "luxury hotel" in the hellhole of Mali?  Buying and selling dry dirt can't be THAT lucrative.

[actionjacksonbrownie]

A better question would be why are the hostage takers speaking english amongst themselves, when the whole country speaks french? In a tense situation like that, you would have to assume they would be speaking their native language when they are alone and not speaking to hostages or outsiders.

[BaBaBouy]

""Eighteen Bodies Recovered From Mali Hotel,""

Where will izlamists strike next, Which City???

[two hoots]

Terror has been achieved.  Today’s terrorist never expect to defeat the superior force they will face but do expect to achieve their goal.  People may not overly fear but they will avoid threating places thus France has an immediate problem. 

[Herd Redirectio...]

"Me and Tim a-huntin went,
Met three whores in a pop up tent.
They was three, and we was two,
So I bucked one, and Timbuktu."

No credit taken, except remembering there are some good Timbuktu jokes out there, and not a lot of opportunities to use them!

[knukles]

This just in:
Josh Yuckinabout, White Shotgunshack press secretary just said that the confrontation in Mali is not in any way connected with Islam, the religion of peace, but has been found, and proven by a popup ad that was on YouTube, to be a complaint by an unsatisfied guest and client of Raddison Hotel Chain.

[Kayman]

Message from the President:

"Some misguided activists have... strongly worded letter to follow."

[mkkby]

Stupid Mali.  Just outlaw guns.  Then the jihadis would be left with only fighting words.

[Chris Dakota]

All these false flags have Jew script writers. In Africa they must read from the Koran, like the one in Kenya in the Silverstein partners Westfield mall. Then we have USA where they must state they are Christian.

Like bad TV shows.

[Save_America1st]

they probably (coincidentally enough) had a "drill" already scheduled for that location that had to do w/ mugwump terrorists shooting up a hotel and taking everyone hostage.

It's uncanny how the storm troopers that show up at nearly every attack are always prepared and on-site to run a "drill" regarding the same crisis scenario.

[A Nanny Moose]

All human conflict is economic in nature. AnCaps would be trading with people, rather than droning their families, wedding parties, and hostpitals.

Show me a place where people kill, and steal from each other, and I will show you a government behind it.

We've tried the coercive ways of the Statists for thousands of years. Time for some new music.

[farflungstar]

ISIS is a Mossad / CIA psyop. Don't you have Jewgle, Shlomo?

Remember when terrorism was a regional problem (as in, israel's region).

Now terrorists never attack israel and instead attack places where Muslims used to be welcomed. AFRICOM started, then terrorism in Africa happened. Coincidence?

ISIS is what israel uses to ensure non jews are killing each other in ever greater numbers while securing western support for israeli goals - Oded Yinon, the must-own Golan Heights (oil) and Litani River (water).

You're welcome, Fuckstein.

[847328_3527]

The attackers were all Muslim?

Now that's odd.

[Chris88]

Benjamin:

Would love to hear your run-of-the-mill Statist bullshit ideology.

[Demdere]

Let me again point out that, if you were genuinely anti-semitic, you would carefully keep your comments to yourself, so as to not undercut those of us who are genuinely trying to end the Israeli-Neocon dominance of everything.

We don't need anti-anybody comments in this discussion, as they fuzz intelligence.  Indeed, that seems to be the reason folks like you do comments like that, to screw up our exchanges of understanding.

If a sincere hater of Jews, you really should stop, as you are clearly working against your claimed goals,

But, more likely, you are making the world safer for Israeli-neocon propaganda, giving them ammunition to claim "anti-semite" wrt people like me.

[Stares straight...]

Mali has gold mining: http://raregoldnuggets.com/blog/?p=1838

About/around the time the Germans requested repatriation of their gold, things started heating up in Mali. Including O-damn-A moving special forces there.
http://freedomoutpost.com/2013/05/barack-obama-sends-more-us-troops-to-m...

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/15300-despite-p...

[knukles]

You left out the Knights Templar. 
At least they find Jerry Lewis funny

[nosam]

Latina, Actually you can make up anything you like. Add in Mohammed and Allah somewhere.

Its not like thse thugs know the Koran either.

[Normalcy Bias]

I will sing this and it will so confuse them, they will let me go:

The boys tell how old Muhammed fell, and Allah's livin in cheap hotels
The desert's quiet, Cleveland's cold
And so the story ends we're told
Muhammed needs your prayers it's true, but save a few for Allah too
He only did what he had to do, and now he's growing old

All the Federales say, they could've had him any day
They only let him go so long, out of kindness I suppose

[troubledasset]

Wow, I have never heard such a fitting rework. And, the funny thing is, Pancho and Lefty might actually address the current southern migration issue also.

[knukles]

Awesome!

[JRobby]

Reuters notes: http://live.reuters.com/Event/World_News?utm_source=twitter

Hostage freed from Mali hotel says attackers spoke English CONAKRY, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A famous Guinean singer who was among 170 people taken hostage on Friday by Islamist gunmen in the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, said he heard attackers in the next room speaking English. "I heard them say in English 'Did you load it?', 'Let's go'," singer Sékouba 'Bambino' Diabate, who was freed by Malian security forces, told Reuters in Conakry. "I wasn't able to see them because in these kinds of situations it's hard."

[RafterManFMJ]

No shit they spoke English. English is the de facto international language of business, and terrorism. Wait, I think I may have said something profound...

[knukles]

Could have been clean shaven, too.  Which is not unknown in situations like this, as to be shaven draws less attention.  In fact, operatives world wide know the trick of looking at the "suspect" and if he's shaven, notice the skin coloration.  If substantially lighter than the rest of the face, then he's recently shaved off a beard.  Then they draw their own conclusion (or gun).

But fuck it!  You can be sure MSNBC will report that speaking English is bona fide proof they're white, racist, misogamist, privileged, Tea Party, gun loving, Bible and Constitution quoting, anti-immigrant, all around haters who make college students feel bad and cry.

[HowdyDoody]

What we really want to know is 'how many takes'?

[Herd Redirectio...]

LONG fake beards!

For when you need to fit in with your fellow Jihadis for a propaganda video, AND fit into society, all on the same day!

[FrankDrakman]

I upvoted you Knuks, but a "misogamist" is one who hates marriage. Don't want to put words in your comment, but I think you meant "misogynist" (a man who hates women). 

[knukles]

Thank you, Frank.  I did indeed mean misogynist.

[tenpanhandle]

survey sez: 85% of married men hate marriage.

Note: Like a typical Govt. stat, this one made up;)

[JRobby]

Got it, the growing business plan. Get in while its trending!

[OneHorseCarriage]

English speaking bankers may be moonlighting.

[VladLenin]

Done!

[Bangin7GramRocks]

Africa? Brown people?? No oil??? America just collectively shrugged it's shoulders.

[Fukushima Fricassee]

Contained !!

 President Ass Eater O

[Eirik Magnus Larssen]

People in the country of Mali live with insecurity constantly.

We never hear until Westerners are involved.

[Money Counterfeiter]

Well then they should build a society where they do fucking care.  Go read Mother Jones your fucking brainwashed and stupid.  Did mama not change your diaper?

[Mpizzie]

Yes!
It's always our fault someone else doesn't want to take responsibility.

[Calmyourself]

In wee Ewiks world there is always an other to blame...  No one, least of all "victims" can ever have any responsibility for a situation in which they find themseves that would negate mommy government from the duty to resolve the issue..

The entire population of Mali are victims of insecurity through absolutely no action or inaction of their own..

[Benjamin123]

Mostly inaction.

[Normalcy Bias]

...Not to mention the Hollywood types buying their cutest children at bargain prices!

[knukles]

We got some real active down-voters here today whacking away at some no so down-votable shit, man.
Troll Patrol for Perceptions Management.  Barry & Cie must be getting a little uncomfortable with reality not fitting the models (Like AGW)

[hannah]

bring as many refugees as the gov wants...all it will do is cause chaos and a collapse of the gov eventually. let them do it...

[monkeyboy]

Luxury?

[nmewn]

lol...yeah, it's all relative I guess..."Look! We have running water and glass in our windows!" 

Nothing screams luxury in Mali like a remodel of what appears to be an old government office building.

[Haus-Targaryen]

I thought the same thing.  "Oh a luxury hotel with dirt roads."  

Reason # 65191868459635434257375 why I have no interest in ever going to Africa.  

[Eirik Magnus Larssen]

That is your loss. The continent is going through a remarkable transformation of late. And for the better.

[Money Counterfeiter]

Yea I heard the Chinese are colonizing it now.

[NoPension]

It's their turn.

Cradle of life. More like Petri dish. Just more evidence.

Go Eric, tell us what a glorious place is that continent. Dupe.

[Bunghole]

That's where he found his chimp wife who provided their son with Sickle Cell Anemia.

[Herd Redirectio...]

Well, at least the offspring would have some malaria resistance.  Not much use outside of malaria country, though...

"Sickle cell trait has been observed in regions where malaria is common for over 50 years and has since become renowned for its perplexing ability to protect its carrier from malaria"

[Calmyourself]

yeah, a transformation; all the Africans are leaving for Europe..

[Kayman]

Eirik

I take it that your family wasn't visting a theatre in Paris.

And if you truly believe what your write, then pick any Muslim country and move there.  I am certain you will be welcomed.

K

[Benjamin123]

Were it not for the safety issue it is always interesting to visit new places. Mars seems quite hostile with its sharp rocks and its dirt roads but i would visit it, if all it took was a pleasant trip on a space boeing.

[overmedicatedun...]

ben, come see me..we will get you all set up with your many immunizations for fun filled travel in the third world..bring money.

[Benjamin123]

The third world is not safe, so no.

[Rusty Shorts]

I've been to Africa several times, and I find that it is MUCH safer than most US cities...Africa is a fantastic place!! Tons of money floating around.

George W. Bush Motorway (Completed) [HD] - Accra, Ghana (February 2012)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5awrAUWtk4

Here's some video from one of my trips to West Africa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAaOYjHb9K0

[troubledasset]

Hey, when your neighbor is Burkina Faso, that IS luxury.

[BarkingCat]

Reason number 1 - it is full of Africans.

As someone mentioned below it is being colonised
by the Chinese. That is perfect.One culture that shits
on the side of the road colonizing another that does the same.
At least Chinese are intelligent and hard working.
This will end well. (/sarc for the last sentence)

[Arnold]

'The Chinese state news agency Xinhua said several Chinese tourists were among those trapped inside the building.'

Hmmm.....

[Normalcy Bias]

I bet the beds vibrate, so there's that...

[Bunghole]

Dont forget the bush meat.

Mmmmmmmmm.  Monkey brains.

[Noplebian]

All Wars Are Bankers Wars!

http://beforeitsnews.com/conspiracy-theories/2015/11/all-of-your-wars-ar...

[Never One Roach]

Sri Lankan maid to be stoned to death

A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a Sri Lankan woman to death by stoning....

http://www.dailynews.lk/?q=2015/11/19/local/lankan-maid-be-stoned-death-...

[Eirik Magnus Larssen]

She is not a Western woman. Do not expect mainstream news coverage of her fate.

Sociologists formally define this phenomenon in the Western media as "missing white woman syndrome". It has enough societal relevance and notability to merit its own page on the English Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_white_woman_syndrome

[samjam7]

How about the "hate your own race syndrome" that you and your nation are suffering from?

I know why there is no wiki article about that, it's not appreciated to talk about it by those up above.

[GoinFawr]

Only those who devoutly practice the  "I'm all right so fuck all the rest" religion would mistake having a conscience for hating oneself.

[HowdyDoody]

Another head-fuck for the western "think of the gays", "assad kills babies" neo-liberal fucktards.

Two gays in Aleppo. Moderately stoned to death. Understand liberals: this is why we reject "Syrian rebels."

https://twitter.com/thelateempire/status/664679216894640128

[New_Meat]

Doody:

"Moderately stoned to death."

McCain beams from the sideline.

[Kayman]

Eirik

Nice diversion from the point.  Stoning is Stone Age. White, Black, Yellow- what the fuck difference does it make. 

"Self Delusion" maybe Wiki has that too.  Look it up.

K

ps.  I think the "West" should get the hell out of the Middle East entirely. Maybe a Muslim Ghandi will emerge, but I doubt it.  They would all go back to killing each other in the name of Allah.  

[BarkingCat]

He is a beta that could not land a white woman so e married a an African and now hates his own race.
However he continues to live in Europe while
writing praises of how great Africa is.
A man of such conviction would have moved there and live the dream.

[samjam7]

Very good point he does what makes him feel superior in his narrow-minded world this means praise be to Africa and multicultural Scandinavia is the only way.

[Eirik Magnus Larssen]

The irony about White Supremacists is that you mouthbreathing inbreds represent the least intelligent and least cultured among "whites". The texbook definition of a beta -- or a "loser".

According to your own far-right dogma, that classifies you as an inferior subgroup which other "whites" ought to actively prevent from breeding, to prevent the degredation of the broader culture.

[farflungstar]

Thank God you having babies with some titsoon destroys your genes for good. Hymie says you're a good goy for willingly breeding with the lessers, this means his propaganda works on some weak-minded twits.

Sorry but marrying a black woman (or man) suggests either you are an insecure loser who hates himself or an inept faggot who will take anything with a moist hole that will stop and give him the time of day.

PS: your mud kids will fit in nowhere. 

[Eirik Magnus Larssen]

Your time is fading fast.

You won't be missed by anyone.

[Urban Redneck]

I don't recall the wookie holding up a sign that said #BringBackOurWhiteGirls

[Fukushima Fricassee]

Obama demanded neighboring Niger change it's name or he would send John Kerry and a coillition of French and California queers to Niamey .

[Kirk2NCC1701]

So, two g's?

[New_Meat]

that or they will take away the NFL franchise rights.

[Klemens]

if you like to know who is in charge of the Islamic Terror, read this book:  http://www.synagoguerising.com/

[Alive or Just B...]

American's will be drafted and sent to fight in Syria, it's only a matter of time.

https://web.archive.org/web/20151120133331/http://www.marketwatch.com/st...

It looks like the slow desensitization to the idea has begun?

[BarkingCat]

I hope only those that were not paying attention in school and failed their basis grammar class.

[Johnny Horscaulk]

Boko haram definitely, definitely is not assisted by any outsiders.

Just like south sudan was not.

[Johnny Horscaulk]

Boko haram definitely, definitely is not assisted by any outsiders.

Just like south sudan was not.

[Johnny Horscaulk]

http://nodisinfo.com/nigerias-boko-haram-mossad-false-flag-front/

[Gregory Poonsores]

I never wanted to see Mali.

[847328_3527]

I guess they're not "vetting" people there.

[Calmyourself]

Nidal Hassan was vetted all the way to the rank of Major...  How did that turn out??

[Hyjinx]

Someone else was vetted all the way to the rank of President, how did that turn out?

[kev the bev]

wasn`t France at war with them recently and stole all their gold? Maybe they didn`t get all of it?

[ThirdWorldDude]

It's so much more than gold that is in play.

Malian mines are a great addition to the existing French mining operation in Niger.

[Urban Redneck]

Mali is a vassal of the Banque de France since the CFA franc is managed out of Paris.

[JustObserving]

Farcebook will allow you to add the flag of Mali to your profile pictures and you will have done your share to fght terrorism

[kev the bev]

Do they also allow flags of Yemen, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine....?

[JustObserving]

Only countries that the NSA and the Nobel Prize Winner think is fine and dandy to mourn.  

Eternal French military intervention in Mali helped foster eternal terror:

France launches war in northern Mali By Ernst Wolff and Alex Lantier 
14 January 2013

French aircraft and ground troops attacked Islamist rebel forces in northern Mali on Friday and over the weekend, while hundreds more French troops arrived in Mali’s capital Bamako.

Without even consulting the parliament, which will take up the issue today, French President François Hollande declared an open-ended war in Mali, ostensibly to help the Malian government fight Al Qaeda-linked forces among the rebels. He said the war would last “as long as necessary.”

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2013/01/14/mali-j14.html

[kev the bev]

Only "false flags" allowed then?

[CuttingEdge]

The update that "US and French Special forces (handily in the vicinty) are carrying out a second assault...does that mean the Mali specials half an hour ago got the nod to go in first because they were better?

Something smells a bit putrid already, and we are only a couple of hours in.

[actionjacksonbrownie]

The US special forces were sent in to rescue the english speaking terrorists errr... hostages, after all the hostages were killed of course.

[omniversling]

Resource grab..without even consulting the parliament. war would last “as long as necessary.” Moar...

[JustObserving]

France was only spreading freedom and democracy in Mali. Perhaps, freedom from life: As War Lingers in Mali, Western Powers Target its Natural Resources

http://www.globalresearch.ca/as-war-lingers-in-mali-western-powers-targe...

[blabam]

@JustObserving

I know you hate the west with a passion. But if you had a look at the French operation in 2013... the Mali Locals were actually pretty happy when the Sharia spreading theocrats were kicked out. 

[JustObserving]

Should not post until I have had my morning Cognac. Or I see double

[NoPension]

Is the Mali flag a loincloth ?

[BarkingCat]

Screw FecesBook!!!!!

[overmedicatedun...]

them damn amish at it again...waiting for the false flag mob to bomb this thread with..they are not muslim and anyway it's the wests falt and we should accept mali refugees freely and welcome them..thank you ms merkel.

[Wahooo]

I do wonder about the brand new white Nikes they are wearing.

[kralizec]

Whew!  What a releif, I thought it was those blood-crazed Lutherans again.

[GoinFawr]

Anders Breivik is a Lutheran?

[new game]

one a week, ha, god is great

are they temporarily insane or insane?

oh, yea-god is great...

[pachanguero]

We Islam'ed some folk.....

[Wahooo]

We Koraned some folks.

[Cacete de Ouro]

If you add an S, then MALI is ISLAM backwards

[Doom and Dust]

I was worried this could happen in the US but today you've released Pollard so you'll be OK for now.

[DirkDiggler11]

I'm sure it was the NRA's fault. Damn gun totin rednecks in Mali...

[blown income]

Anderson Cooper is on his way!

[VinceFostersGhost]

Anderson Cooper is on his way!

Cat's a Vanderbilt.....most people aren't aware of that.

He actually doesn't have to work a day in his life....and if you think about it....he really doesn't.

[L Bean]

He started out his "career" doing newsbites for a special channel that was piped into highschools in the 90s. Hard hitting stuff,  lol. About ten minutes a day.

Him and Lisa Ling. Does anyone remember this? LMAO. I always though it was a little CIA-ish even back then. 

[Normalcy Bias]

Faaabulousss! He'll get to sashay around in his new safari-styled Prada while somehow placing blame for the attack on Republicans.

[beaglebog]

Looking forward to the day these guys strike in some depth ... rather than just hole up, get surrounded and die.

That'll pique the paranoia.

[overmedicatedun...]

mubai, was a better op..looked at the time like the muslim terror groups had got a template ..but these mali guys being dumb as rocks never learn. or the muslims are running outta mad dogs to sick on us. (not hopeful about that)

[nmewn]

Now see, if we just do as Obama says and allow them in to be housed, clothed & fed in the northern Virginia suburbs of DC and their children to go to the finest schools like Sidwell Friends, all will be well!

Oh, wait...thats not the plan? ;-)

[Cacete de Ouro]

Barry: "I'm very proud of my Muslim faith, ..eh..I mean Christian faith, ...eh.. I mean golf swing, .. I'm very proud of my new golf swing, and my new caddy boy"

[kralizec]

...and Reggie...

[BringOnTheAsteroid]

I don't understand the terrorist mind at all. These people are not very intelligent. Get 10, 20, 50, 100 sympathizers and call in  1, 2, 5, 10, 50 bomb threats per day on every major bank, shopping mall, transport hub, sporting facility. You'd bring the economy to a halt instantly and destroy the enemy nations without directly harrming a single individual - and it would only cost you a couple of thousand dollars in telephone calls.

[Doom and Dust]

Seems to be exactly what they're doing in Europe atm.

[lakecity55]

That would easily work in the US because everyone freaks out over an empty paper bag in the street.

[BringOnTheAsteroid]

Precisely, so why don;t they do it. Just doesn't make any sense. I guess they really are as dumb as a fence post with an AK-47. You wouldn't even need to be organised. Just ring random places at random times and don't stop.

[pachanguero]

Here in Thailand I expect that we will see something similar.  The cops here will be at the whorehouse or the bar drunk.

Nothing is done proactive here. Only reactive.  I hope to hell I'm wrong but we are 5% Muslim.  I'm fucking one that says

she's a moderate.  She bangs me like screen door in a hurricane and she drinks like a sailor. And she loves the ganja too.

Maybe there is hope......

[Gregory Poonsores]

That's every muslim the moment they think no one's looking.

[lakecity55]

Years ago, I am in country X, a Muslim country.

I had some hootch at the time before I gave it up. I had 3 workers with me.

"You guys want a drink of this Rum?"
"Ah, no," it is forbidden," they all said. We shot the bull a while, then they had to go.

After a minute or two, there was a knock at the door. Muslim buddy #1.
"LC, uhh, may I have a drink of your rum?"
"Sure." He thanks me and leaves.

Then, another knock, Muslim # 2. He also wants a big snort. Then he leaves, and a knock is heard, from I guessed right, #3.

"Let me guess," I said, "You don't want each other to see you having a shot. That way, you can each say "I did not see X drink anything."

He smiled and left, thanking me.

I have a buddy who used to work in Vegas as security. The tales he tells me of wealthy Muslims should actually stay in Vegas!

[Cacete de Ouro]

Same in London. Rich young muslim Arabs drinking alcohol in clubs and fucking hookers in their central London hotel rooms.

[TheObsoleteMan]

Think about this really hard for a minute: DO YOU REALLY WANT PRO-ACTIVE COPS? I sure as hell don't. That is the definition of a police state. I'd rather have cops at the whorehouse or bar where I can find them when I need them, than have them on my porch being pro-active.

[nmewn]

More workplace violence.

[VinceFostersGhost]

Damn shame really.....had it been terrorism....they would have gotten benefits they deserved.

Welcome to America...if you're an actual citizen.....you don't get jack.

[nmewn]

Seems like Obama could just appoint a Man Made Disaster Czar and put a stop to all this nonsense if he really wanted to.

Lets create a Blue Ribbon panel of experts and have them report back to us in six months!  

[headhunt]

You sure it's not 'Man Made Disaster'?

[Kirk2NCC1701]

"Serial macro-aggressions", according to Mizzou scholars.

[mr speed]

MMM. Reuters, BBC, Sky. I was thinking Africa was next while Mid East was busy. http://www.imf.org/external/country/MLI/index.htm  .   http://www.imf.org/external/country/BFA/index.htm