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

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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

 

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.

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

 

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Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:30 | 6817010 ToSoft4Truth
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As Trump goes up in the polls, expect more and more cities to get jacked-up. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:35 | 6817020 overmedicatedun...
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tosoft, say what?? is there any there there in your post? as for rape tell that to the amb to libya, oh he's dead from the raping he got.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:38 | 6817032 ToSoft4Truth
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Reformulate the question. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:52 | 6817061 overmedicatedun...
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to soft got otta jail to post:

"The protester arrested from Donald Trump’s rally after screaming, “Trump’s a racist,” was convicted of leaving a bomb at a military facility on Park Avenue 10 years ago.

Peter Rondon, 29, of 93 Grand St., Apt. 214, was arrested after being thrown out of Trump’s rally at the DCU Center Wednesday night. He was charged with trespassing and disorderly conduct."

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 08:06 | 6817066 VinceFostersGhost
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As Trump goes up in the polls

 

It's pretty fun to watch the GOP freakin out.

 

I almost feel bad....but I'm sure I'll get over it.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 08:14 | 6817096 ToSoft4Truth
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I’m not sure what you are talking about.

Look at this.

The Suicide Woman lived a typical X-ian lifestyle not unlike Bristol Palin, before she popped…

“She was hardly a model Muslim before she became an ISIS suicide bomber — drinking booze, hanging out with drug dealers and posing for naked photos in a bubble bath.”

http://nypost.com/2015/11/20/skanky-suicide-bomber-used-to-be-a-selfie-t...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:37 | 6817031 ToSoft4Truth
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Three kids in my area with Whooping Cough.

Who passed that 1965 Immigration Act – Hmmm…..
Man, I can’t wait for the lights to go out.

EMP! EMP! EMP! EMP!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:24 | 6817250 Calmyourself
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Your an idiot..  124 domestic reactors what do you think happens to those when an EMP hits.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:21 | 6817469 atthelake
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I believe most reactors survive for a month. Then America is wiped out from it's own radiation.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 07:43 | 6817046 surf0766
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1400 year war will not end with tin foil hats

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:38 | 6817543 TheSheepWolf
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time is running out. He knows what Europeans are capable of when things go out of control. The muslims in EU will be the first one on the list... This world is out of control :-(

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 08:32 | 6817092 TheObsoleteMan
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Boy are those terrorist going to be in for a big surprise when they find out no one wants to pay them any ransom money for a bunch of niggers. I can just hear their handlers now: "Your where? You've done what? YOU BUNCH OF DUMB FUCKS, I SAID GO TO MAUI, NOT MALI!!"

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:59 | 6817368 _SILENCER
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Muslims aren't too fond of negores, that's for sure. They hate them more than they hate White Kafir. That's why it always baffles me that blacks in prison turn to islam as though that deathcult actually embraces them.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:14 | 6817444 Hyjinx
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LOL!  Too true.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 08:20 | 6817103 loregnum
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It'll be funny if there are no deaths or injuries. So I'm supposed to believe these "Jihadis" (funny how apparently only Muslims are able to say that Allahu Akbar saying as I believe I could go outside and shout it and yet oddly I am not a Muslim or middle eastern) hell bent on killing everyone will take over a hotel and not kill or shoot anyone. Gotcha!

I await when all these "terrorists" go and do things wearing jackets that say "Gladio" on the back...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 08:26 | 6817114 Crocodile
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The phrase "Allahu Akbar" (Allah is the greatest) is used for true Muslim radicals, which was NOT heard in Paris to my knowledge and is a reason to believe it was set up & supported by the shadow elitists.  Europe is being destroyed from the monetary angle, cultural angle, border angle and thus the sovereign angle.  The US is as well, but geographically we are more difficult, but since the FBI already knows that the radical Islam is in all 50 states; yet do nothing should be a warning for those in metro areas; especially the progressive cities.

 

 The presence of the Islamic State (ISIS, ISIL) in the United States can be felt in all 50 states, according to the director of the FBI.  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/02/26/fbi-director-isis-ten...

 

Judgment: "Look! I am raising up the Chaldeans (Assyrians & later elite class), that bitter, impetuous nation that marches across the earth's open spaces to seize territories not its own. They are fierce and terrifying; their views of justice and sovereignty stem from themselves.... Then they sweep past like the wind and go on; guilty men (before the true God), whose own strength is their god (Allah & self)."

 

Hope: Then He said to His disciples, "Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body, what you will put on. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing...   If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He clothe you, O you of little faith?  And do not seek what you should eat or what you should drink, nor have an anxious mind. For all these things the nations of the world seek after, and your Father knows that you need these things.

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 08:40 | 6817138 highwaytoserfdom
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Brilliant  Libya African move...    Hillary   "Why does it matter" ..    

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 08:52 | 6817159 Cloud9.5
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I had a Saudi girl in one of my classes some years ago.  Her mother was American and her father was Saudi.  I asked her if she was going to continue to live in the U.S. after she graduated.  She emphatically said no that she was here against her will and the moment she could, she would leave the U.S. forever.  She went on to say that we Americans are covered in filth, we bathe in pork fat, and that we are repulsive.

 

Fathom that mindset.  Understand that Islam and western culture are incompatible.   There is not mixing of the two.  Sit down and listen to the speeches of Louis Farrakhan.  Understand what is coming.  The best we can hope for is an eventual balkanization of the country with Muslim states enacting sharia law in their own states with a diaspora of nonbelievers to other states.  Ethnic cleansing will precede the genocide of the remaining, Jewish, Christian and secular minorities left in those Muslim states.  Witness the fate of the Armenians of the last century or the Coptic Christians of this century and understand what that means for you.

 

I am sure that our fellow Americans who happen to be Muslim are sharing a bit of schadenfreude as this realization dawns on the general population. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 08:58 | 6817175 Crocodile
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Why We Want to Kill You: The Jihadist Mindset and How to Defeat it  - by Walid Shoebat

http://www.amazon.com/Why-We-Want-Kill-You/dp/0977102149/ref=sr_1_1?s=bo...

 

Walid Shoebat knows what is talking about based on experience; if you want a easy read and deeper understanding, then buy it or go to his website.

 

About Walid Shoebat - http://shoebat.com/shoebat-foundation/who-is-walid/
Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:28 | 6818302 L Bean
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Nope nope nope. Only a Christian Zio would even post this drivel.

Read the wiki on this guy. He's a massive fraud and conman.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:08 | 6817207 Jimmy Twinkle
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Something needs to be done about ISIS.

Can someone create a website with a large red button on it . With the words Stop Isis below.

This will mobilise a lot of awareness about ISIS and ultimately repeated presses of this button will once and for all defeat not just ISIS but evil in general.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 15:13 | 6818774 New_Meat
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#StopISIS

That'll do the trick.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:09 | 6817212 NoWayJose
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Kind of makes you wonder why US and French Special Forces are so darn close in order to be called in for this?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:12 | 6817219 overmedicatedun...
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13 hours in bengazi, and no SF forces to be found there wonder why?

"Kind of makes you wonder why US and French Special Forces are so darn close in order to be called in for this?"

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:28 | 6817769 BarkingCat
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You must have missed the story but the naval
vessel that was in the region and ready to mount a rescue was told to stand down.
Story goes that the captain was going to ignore that order and was relieved by his 2nd on orders from above.
Former high ranking military officers have stated that there are a set of protocols in place for these type of situations and the only people that can override them are in the White House.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:10 | 6817214 Baby Eating Dingo22
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Open season on sand people

 

Chinese police shoot dead 28 from 'terrorist group'

Chinese police have killed 28 members of a "terrorist group" in the mainly Muslim Xinjiang region, authorities announced Friday, in the bloodiest such operation in months and as Beijing denounces Western "double standards" in the wake of the Paris attacks. The killings took place over the course of…

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Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:32 | 6818606 Lucky Leprachaun
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Wherever a critical mass of Musims interfaces with kuffars there's trouble. Everywhere.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:12 | 6817220 Omega_Man
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Africa? Are people in the west supposed to give a shit?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:25 | 6817252 Dien Bien Poo
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Dude, you are one fucking douche bag asshole fucking cunt.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:29 | 6817265 samjam7
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Nope he's just an average American. Getting totally shocked abut 9/11, raising an eybrow about Paris, turning over in his sheeple sleep about Bamako.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:43 | 6817314 MoHillbilly
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Don't feed the  trolls

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:55 | 6817353 mastersnark
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No, but all the cool Americans are feigning concern and outrage. Do you have the Mail flag to add to your Facebook avatar or should I email it to you?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:07 | 6817403 _SILENCER
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Hashtag activism is all the rage these days, mastersnark. Show you care...POST A MEME ABOUT IT!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:37 | 6817538 yellowsub
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I'm guessing not, if that's where the lab to weaponize ebola is.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:15 | 6817229 dogismycopilot
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Here's a good clip from Homeland (which I have never seen) "It's all in the book. Their fucking book. The only book they ever read. They read it all the time. They never stop. They're there for one reason and one reason only. To die for the Caliphate and to usher in a world without infidels...you really think a few special forces teams are going to change that?"

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

Fuck, I have never seen this show before. Might be worth watching after all.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3289463/HOMELAND-SPOILER-AL...

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:03 | 6817659 nosam
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Bullshit about Islam being the problem. Islam may have its violent parts but pretty much all the violence in the ME is instigated by the CIA. In other words the so called Christians - the white prople sitting around that table.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:16 | 6817716 Abaco
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Including the Islamic invasion of Europe beginning in the 8th century - that was CIA right?  All those muslim attackes from then until the attack in siege of Vienna in the 17th century - those were all CIA inspired right?  Yeah, the CIA is exploiting those retarded goat screwers but if you think all th violence in the ME is initiated by the CIA you are ignorant.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:23 | 6817749 nosam
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I was referring to the present viokence. I don't know enough about ancient history to comment on it. But from what little I know the freemasons (CIA equivalent) were responsible for at least soem of those wars.

But in those times, do you know any part of the world that was not being invaded by somebody?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:03 | 6817925 Sivad UK
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Then you don't know much about the Masons, their origins or their values.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:38 | 6817799 milo_hoffman
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>Islam may have its violent parts


PARTS!?  Dude Islam was founded by a murderous pedophile warlord who roamed the desert with  his early followers and raped, robbed, pillaged, murdered and chopped down anyone who would not bow down before him as the prohpet.  He taught all who follow him their entire mission in life is total world domination and to either convert everyone to worship him, be their slaves, or kill them.

Islam was not founded by some peceful rabbi, or some zenlike monk.   It does not try to make people better, or profess how to be reincarnated or promote self-improvement.

 

Islam is ALL violent....ALL OF IT... Islam is as dangrous a set of ideas as arian nazism.  It needs to be banned, and any who follow it, or try to spread it should be hunted down and destroyed until it no longer is practiced an the planet earth.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:38 | 6817800 milo_hoffman
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dupe

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:30 | 6818319 L Bean
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Of course HOMELAND... is an Israeli show.

So there's that.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:26 | 6817253 Bill of Rights
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And not one person is carrying a gun, un fucken real..

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:30 | 6817505 TheSheepWolf
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3 are dead already, So perhaps those?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:29 | 6817266 praxis
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IDK.  I used to drive a cab in a typical American College town and the Muslim students seemed to mix in like everyone else.  They drank like sailors, went to the strip clubs, went to see the Hollywood drivel at the Cinaplex 12.  I asked them if they could do this in their homeland and they said no, no alcohol or anything.  They were living it up.  None seemed the terrorist type...

Course those Douchebag's down in Florida in flight training school acted the same way before 9-11...

And there were the "dry" Muslim students who never spoke in English, always kept to themselves...I'd try to bait them and talk smack on the US and they never fell for it.  Very hard core, tough men. 

Now the Iranian lady hated us pure and simple.  I tried to sweet talk her, called her a Persian, tried to make small talk.  As she got out and looked at me she seemed ashamed of her hatred, but she quickly supressed it, paid me and left in a hurry.   I imagine that's the look she would give before shooting me in the head. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:19 | 6817715 samsara
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Up vote for the Atta, flight school, drinking, partying,  reference...

 

http://www.madcowprod.com/issue07.html    

 

http://www.madcowprod.com/issue09.html

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:41 | 6817306 loregnum
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Speaking in english? Those evil middle eastern jihadists are always speaking in english! Clearly they are muslims because they said allahu akbar! Only a muslim is able to have those words come out of thier mouth. Any time a non-Muslim tries to say it, their voice goes silent. 

Once again, OPERATION GLADIO.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:41 | 6817307 HippieHaulers
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We are at war with Eurasia. We have always been at war with Eurasia.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:49 | 6817331 sidiji
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you misspelled Feces.... should be "US Special Feces"

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:52 | 6817341 roadhazard
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I'm still waiting for 100,000 French boots on the ground taking out ISIS in Syria and Iraq. I did hear them say they are at war with them. Do the Forgs expect the US to do their fighting FOR them. Time for someone else to foot the bill.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:23 | 6817475 Hyjinx
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How could they deploy that many troops without sufficient pastry chefs to make the croissants and baguettes?!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:55 | 6817351 dobermangang
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So why are these Amish terrorists making hostages recite passages from the Koran???  It seems rather odd.  Hmmm.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 09:57 | 6817358 medium giraffe
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Any news on the passports yet?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:06 | 6817386 22winmag
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These camel humping "terrorists" would not last 2 minutes in Baltimore or Chicago.

 

They'd be dead before the cops and special forces arrived.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:10 | 6817421 rejected
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I seem to remember some Baltimore folk letting coppers rampage through their homes after kicking them out and treating them like terrorists looking for one person.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:08 | 6817414 Monetas
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God .... please drop a virtual "smart bomb" on Latina Lover .... and her Venezuelan groupies .... Obama admits he's a Muslim (barenakedislam.com).... again ?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:36 | 6817803 BarkingCat
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You're not too good at compression, are you?
It is a he, and he loves Latinas.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:10 | 6817422 beaglebog
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France in chaos. Armed soldiers in all the shopping malls and so forth. Crackdowns on individual' liberties. Possible break-up of the EU.

 

Fewer than 20 people caused this reaction.

 

That's the strength of French' society.

 

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 16:26 | 6819070 Berspankme
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And most French are happy to see them. Weaklings

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:13 | 6817438 One And Only
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Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam, Islam.

All of these god damn things are Islam.

Getting rid of ISIS doesn't solve the problem here.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:28 | 6817494 dobermangang
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They are constantly on the offensive.  But most people don't know about history.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_To-cV94Bo

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:56 | 6817887 o r c k
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And the masses of "peaceful" Muslims we hear about every day? Imagine a large Muslim enclave in any City in the West. Imagine ISIS holding a victory parade through that neighborhood.  Now in which Country would the local population close their doors and windows and give the marchers the silent treatment? That's right, no where on earth. Peaceful Muslims? Deadly propaganda.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:16 | 6817449 surf0766
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Why does today's isis leader have the same name as the muslim who tried rebuilding the caliphate in the 1300's which led to the crusade being started by Pope clement after Italy and Spain and the rest of the Levant had fallen?

ISIS is not a new creation. It is part of a 1400 year old war that will continue until the end of time unless we do more than dear leaders half ass attempt to contain them because he does not think they are terrorists.

 

All of the bullshit comments on this board by people who know absolutely deek about what is actually going on  and what is actually driving these nutjobs. Fucking climate change will fix them? Deek Sanders and the rest of the progressive left and the small portion on the right who believe taking our money and giving it to muslim who believe in jihad will solve this problem are nuts. They will never stop.

 

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:17 | 6817452 Grandad Grumps
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Why Mali? Maybe they are legit and just some copycats who wanted to make a statement ... no clue.

What I found more interesting is a report tby some guy that he witnessed people being offloaded from a UPS (yes, United Parcel Service) plane in Harrisburg, PA and loaded into buses. Ge said there were about 30 buses.

Odd, no? One wonders who and why.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:19 | 6817458 Rikky
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You can't say Islamic that's anti-PC and heck they're just saying that to throw you off their scent and stir up religious wars.  -  Barack Obama

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:24 | 6817481 surf0766
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 PC is code for Global Cultural Marxism

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:26 | 6817487 Atomizer
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EU, head off to one of our safe zones that you created under Political liberal correctness. 

Silly cunts you are.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:28 | 6817493 LoveTruth
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Ban Islam, in the short term there will be some gnashing with teeth. But 10 years from now on the civilized world will be much, much safer. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:01 | 6817654 Crocodile
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Does banning Islam change the nature of mankind?  If not, then the solution cannot work can it?  The civilized world murders children in the womb and funds, supports and trains the very people we call the enemy; can you see that the issue is at the core of each human being.  Is is why the true God declared there is no one who does good, not not one (just in case you may think you are the exception).  That is based on heavens perspective, which is moral perfection.  It does not mean that people do not do good from the human perspective; they do almost everyday.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:29 | 6817502 Crocodile
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NEW EVIDENCE REVEALS: Hillary Clinton Worked With The "Muslim Brotherhood Causing The Murder Americans In Benghazi. Hillary Clinton Has Left A Huge Trail Of Blood, And She Is Proud Of It"

 

This is one of those articles that meticulously connects the dots with ample examples (i.e. links & snapshots) as proof to Hitlery's connection to Benghzi and the supposed video that caused the attack and how that video was promoted by the FBI and US gov't.  For those who want to know more details, which is related indirectly to the topic above. 

http://shoebat.com/2015/10/26/new-evidence-reveals-hillary-clinton-worke...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:30 | 6817508 Chia-Pet
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Bullish hotels in muslim countries.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:35 | 6817509 TrustbutVerify
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Relative to islamic terrorism, my opinion is Obama gets a certain amount of hidden joy as these attacks occur.  I don't think Obama is incompetent.  I think he obfuscates and maneuvers where he can to pave the way for islamic terrorism and, forther, his policy of dangerous domestic social division.  He intentionally sacrifices his broader reputation and political capital for these and similar purposes. His actions are completely intentional.   

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:08 | 6817675 Abaco
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Obama is a narcissitic egomaniacla psychopath.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:34 | 6817520 Jack Oliver
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Keeping the 'War on Terror' Dream ALIVE !!!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:34 | 6817522 Crocodile
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What a coincidence that after Russia has humiliated the western psychopaths that all of the sudden the US and French are one the ISIS war path and in the spotlight; they have no shame and much blood on their hands. 

 

They, TPTB, give a solution for the problem they created when the creation of the problem coupled with mainstream propaganda gets the public to demand their solution.  If people would learn to think things through to the logical and obvious conclusions, then perhaps they would not be lead by the nose rings.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:12 | 6817978 Baa baa
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Are we in the US on the warpath? I hadn't noticed...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:54 | 6818162 Otrader
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The media is silent.  A world government body will be acheived by consent or conquest.  The financial elites are well connected in all branches and above the law to make this a reality now.  People are really scared of the 'unkown'.  I fear for Russia, China and ME as the Globalists continue to march Eastward.  This is going to get a lot uglier. 

 

"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order [referring to the 1991 LA Riot]. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond [i.e., an "extraterrestrial" "ISIS/ISIL" invasion], whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government."

Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991

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"We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time Magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the work is now much more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national autodetermination practiced in past centuries."

David Rockefeller, founder of the Trilateral Commission, in an address to a meeting of The Trilateral Commission, in June, 1991.

 


Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:34 | 6817523 Atomizer
Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:36 | 6817528 MadVladtheconquerer
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ISLAM: The poster child for widespread massive application of enhanced radiation weapons.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:35 | 6817529 yellowsub
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Part of the Bill Gates plan like unleashing Ebola prematurely?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:38 | 6817541 Lostinfortwalton
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Mali is a former French colony. I am not real sure I would want to keep pissing off the French. But that's just me.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:40 | 6817551 rejected
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As usual,,, Coppers,,, a buck short and a day late.

Here they are hiding behind cover as they usually do AFTER the bad guys take hostages. Soon they'll gather a hundred to one and may attempt to storm the hotel ensuring some/many hostages die. Why wasn't these hostage events common just a few years ago? Because most everybody had a gun and an aspiring terrorist could get hurt! Today the obese flaccid citizens today wait for their hero's to save a few of them.

And for those in the UK,,, here's your updated instructions when encountering a terrorist event.

http://sputniknews.com/europe/20151120/1030455083/uk-terror-attack-guide...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:52 | 6818151 css1971
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Police are only janitors, there to clean up after the mess.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:46 | 6817591 HowdyDoody
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Ultimate prisoner's dilemma

One the one hand 'crISIS/whatever actors'. On the other hand US Special Forces.

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:54 | 6817627 Crocodile
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"Teacher In Georgia Declares To Her Students: ‘Obama Is A Muslim, Christians Should Not Support Him’, The US Government Is Now Firing Her For Criticizing Obama"

 

If it were the opposite, then the story would read like the following:

"Teacher In Georgia Declares To Her Students: ‘Obama Is A Christian, Muslims Should Not Support Him’, The US Government Is Now Promoting Her For praising Obama"

 "And don’t give me the rubbish talk of, “She shouldn’t be using her position to preach political issues.” I have been around the American public school system long enough to know that far-left teachers (who are the majority in public schools) preach some of the most demonic and disgusting views you can imagine. I’ve had one teacher tell me that I should experiment with homosexuality and that I should support the killing of people in vegetative states; I had one tell me that I should support the legalization of marijuana; I had one teacher tell me that Michael Savage is evil, that Bill O’Reilly is a “jackass” (that may be true); that George Bush is a terrible president (which he was); that communism is good; and a whole list of numerous evils." - By Theodore Shoebat

The point is that liberties are okay as long as you leave Jesus out of it; yet if Jesus was honored for whom He is and we obeyed His commands, then we would stop lying, cheating, stealing murdering and all other kind of evil; there would be peace, which people claim to want and never find because they don't see the corruption within; only outside of themselves.  Change begins from the inside, not the outside.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:13 | 6817982 cordial savage
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Someone should turn you into boots.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:58 | 6818176 Otrader
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If he's a muslim, then why is he killing other muslims and has surrounded himself with jewish finance and military advisors?  I say the teacher is a f*kin idiot and should read more.   

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:14 | 6818548 J Jason Djfmam
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Maybe he's a very progressive Muslim.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 10:59 | 6817643 Grouchy Marx
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Islam is a cancer.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:44 | 6818112 Otrader
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Globalization and war is a cancer. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:02 | 6818188 jomama
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Came to this thread for parroted bullshit like this, wasn't disappointed.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 20:03 | 6819785 Grouchy Marx
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Show me the peace, and I will show you history. 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:15 | 6818554 J Jason Djfmam
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Cancer is a cancer.

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:10 | 6817685 goldenbuddha454
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'Josh Earnest; what I meant to say is that the president believes ISIS is contained to planet earth'.  'This just in from the international space station, Houston, we have a problem!'

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:13 | 6817695 Crocodile
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Brigitte Gabriel gives FANTASTIC answer to Muslim woman

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MUZ8QIrjRo

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:13 | 6817699 DosZap
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Glad I am not in Mali on Vakay.Bet these kind, and benevolent visotors didn't even have reservations.

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:18 | 6817728 orangegeek
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FUCK ALLAH AKBAR!!!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 16:18 | 6819043 Berspankme
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I thought these were herbalife investors shouting at Ackman

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:22 | 6817732 Crocodile
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"supporters of al-Qaeda-affiliated group claim responsibility for attack in Mali citing a Twitter post" -

 

Seems more and more "NEWS" comes from Twitter and Facebook; great journalism...now you know who established these "Anti-Social" sites, the ESTABLISHMENT and why and how most people participate in their loss of liberties and don't even care.  Got a Chase VISA?  Finance anything through GM or buy a Gov't Motors (GM) vehicle?  If we, collectively, wanted to ruin a particular business or gov't entity, then we must opt out collectively, but we can't help ourselves because it is in our NATURE...I will keep driving that point till anyone looks at the mirror of their heart and comes to repentance.

 

Hate me, hate the One who sent me and thus prove the truth of what is stated in love and love of the truth; many people really hate the truth because pride and arrogance blind them from the truth and the ultimate reality of their fallen nature.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:21 | 6817739 samsara
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Wait,  Mali has a luxury hotel?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 15:33 | 6818869 New_Meat
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as compared to ...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:48 | 6817853 besnook
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interesting that the euro nation that supported lebanon, when it was a functioning nation, and has declared support for a palestinian state is the country isis has targeted for revenge killing.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 11:48 | 6817855 Kirk2NCC1701
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Wow, so they "stayed at a Holiday Inn last night".

Did they use the courtesy towels, the mini-bars in the room, the co-ed pool?

(The Radisson used to be part of the Holiday Inn group, as I recall, and maybe they still are)

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:02 | 6817916 GreatUncle
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Last Friday upped the game where you have to commit ever greater atrocities to get noticed. If a single person gets murdered it is not even going to gret mentioned.

Want attention then? Go bigger thsn anybody else has done...

Thre governments though with the MSM have latched onto this as a form of scare the population so they do as they are told, no mention of the foreign policies that created this mess all in the name of Democracy.

A bizzare world we live in now and only ever going to get worse.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 16:30 | 6819086 Lostinfortwalton
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Go big or go home.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:15 | 6817991 PR Guy
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Anyone found the Syrian passports left on the ground yet?

 

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 16:16 | 6819031 Berspankme
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One attacker escaped but dropped his passport. Surprisingly it said Bashar Assad

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:16 | 6817997 cordial savage
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And so the terrorist pissing match begins.  IS and AQ are going to keep this up...IS will continue what they've been doing for over a year, and AQ is going to try and stay relevant.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:34 | 6818066 Johnny Horscaulk
Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:38 | 6818093 MajorFall
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NEWS FLASH ! Global stock markets up 5% this week due to terrorism and mass killings around the world.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:08 | 6818525 J Jason Djfmam
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Jews at Eleven.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:46 | 6818119 Lostinfortwalton
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So what is the border situation in France? have they reinstituted their own contols at their own borders, airports, and ports or it still the joining hands and singing one world together songs?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 12:51 | 6818140 permarig
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Now 27 dead reported. Kind of an illuminati type number signaling. 3 on the 3rd power -> 33. Whatever. Obviously the same organizers as the recent Paris false flag. They're trying to whip up the war morale in France/Europe, war on terror BS. They want wars and they have also France as their tool (see Libya).

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:13 | 6818545 Lucky Leprachaun
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True. And there are 4 letter in Mali. Multiply this by 166.5 and what do you get?  666.  The sign of the Beast baby.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 15:35 | 6818876 New_Meat
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that was a lucky guess

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:08 | 6818209 HoserF16
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(Again) Dead Guman = Government False Flag

Something really big is about to happen. They will use this to roll-out militerized police through-out the world. Something big is about to go down. Get ready...

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:32 | 6818332 To Hell In A Ha...
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Minus the standard racist vitriol from the usual suspects, some of the comments regarding this subject matter has been "right on the money". As a research fellow for a think tank, I've regularly visited the MENA and Sub-Sahara Africa, including Mali and Bamako over the last 22 years. I can testify Mali is nothing more than entity for France to attach itself to as a parasite.

Not only gold, but Frances' main extraction from Mali is Uranium. Now the penny drops for the well informed .http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/Country-Profiles/Countries-A-F/France/   France cannot mine Uranium quickly enough for her liking. Why? 75% of her electricty is derived from Nuclear power, this is the reason she is  propping up the dictatorship that runs Mali. It is good dictator in Mali, but bad dictator in Libya, it is good dictatorship/absolute monarchy in Saudi Arabia, but bad dictator in Syria, well you get the picture......... If you bow down in reverence and subservience to the west while allowing our multinationals to plunder, or at the very minimum take the Lions share in the spoils you are a good dictator. If you have any independence, autonomy, resist imperialism and have a desire to share the wealth of your natural resources for the citizens of the nation, whilst making a select group of indigenous elite rich, you are a bad dictator.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:42 | 6818384 The worst trader
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BULLISH!BULLISH AND MORE BULLISH!

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:47 | 6818405 Oswald did it
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How can this be possible?!?!  I thought anonymous was hacking their Twitter accounts? !?!.  Are you telling me that wasn't effective?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:49 | 6818425 Moribundus
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Aliko Dangote Denies Being Taken Hostage in Mali Terrorist Attack – See Where 

http://dailymail.com.ng/aliko-dangote-denies-being-taken-hostage-in-mali...

 

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:53 | 6818447 Moribundus
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Aliko Dangote was target. It was mafia not terror attack. Attackers spoke in english between each other

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 13:59 | 6818478 Amy G. Dala
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Somebody please remind me.  What the fuck were American special forces doing in Mali?  Have a look at Mali on the map, and remind me please why the fuck they are there in the first place.  What would those orders look like?  Sarge, we're off to Mali . . .yeah, nobody knows where that is but that's where we're going . . .hang around, wait for something bad to happen.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:09 | 6818530 PoasterToaster
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They arrived on the same plane as the hit squad that carried out this attack.  Air America for the win.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 15:32 | 6818861 alphahammer
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Isn't it interesting that a guy banned from Zerohedge many times and currently postin under many different IDs is here promoting his ideas of "integrity" ?

Pathetic...

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:09 | 6818531 J Jason Djfmam
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There had to be some kind of drill.

Can't have terror without a drill.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 15:29 | 6818847 alphahammer
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We are there training the local forces in anti-terror techniques. 

It's usually Army Rangers that provide this training.

There is actually a back log of training requests from countries all over the world for US special forces training programs.

Mali would have REQUESTED this training from both France and the US.

Thats why we are there. Calm the fuck down.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:07 | 6818520 Lucky Leprachaun
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The Religion Of Peace.

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 14:48 | 6818680 wisebastard
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guns dont kill people muslims with guns kill people

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 16:22 | 6819047 Lostinfortwalton
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ISIS was formed from the original Syrian "moderate" rebels supported  by the CIA, wheras Al Qaeda is an outgrowth of the Mujahideen supported by the CIA. See the difference?

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 16:30 | 6819088 Berspankme
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These fuckers are in trouble now, Michael.....er...Michelle is starting a # campaign  #dontfuckwithblu

Fri, 11/20/2015 - 16:34 | 6819100 Lostinfortwalton
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And in the midst of all this carnage in Mali and the aftermath of the carnage in Paris Dear Leader is off on another F/O trip (O means "off"). And next week a trip to Paris to contront the real demon, Climate Change! Hope they have buried the bodies by then.

Mon, 11/23/2015 - 01:38 | 6826514 onmail1
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<-- Satan America created Al-Qaeda , America is responsible

America is committing criminal acts against humanity

Boycott America & American goods

Boycott coca cola, pepsi, Levi, mc-donalds , KFC & american banks 

Wed, 11/25/2015 - 07:42 | 6837117 Chia-Pet
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This is an inter-office memo dated today 25 Nov 2015:

"Dear Colleagues,

Please be informed that  all banks in Mali will be closed for a period of 72 hours starting today or until otherwise advised. 

Therefore, the branch of BDM bank in Hotel L’Amitié will also be closed during the period.  BDM has advised all ATMs will be operational.

 

Regards.

Finance and Budget Section

 

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Chers collègues,

Veuillez noter que toutes les banques au Mali seront fermées à compter d’aujourd’hui pour une période de 72 heures, ou jusqu'à nouvel ordre. 

En conséquence, l’agence BDM de l'Hôtel de L'Amitié sera également fermée pour la même période. La BDM nous a informés que ses guichets automatiques seront opérationnels.

 

Cordialement,

Section des Finances et du Budget"

 

WTF, bank holiday following terrist attack. Most likely all business owners Lebonese and Chines transfering millions out of Bamako. "ATM's operational"??? Ya, untill they run out of cash.

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