[Assauraarguck]

The international community on Tuesday weighed options to help embattled Mali save its north from Islamist fighters who have smashed ancient shrines in Timbuktu and rigged another city with landmines.
France said it was determined to prevent the north of Mali from becoming a haven for extremists, as the hardline Islamists who occupied the region three months ago escalate efforts to cement their control of the vast desert area.
"Our determination will be total in preventing groups like AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) setting up international terror bases that threaten the peace and prosperity of the whole region and our security too," said French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
As post-coup transition authorities in Bamako find themselves powerless in the face of the armed Al Qaeda-allied groups occupying the north, its neighbours are seeking a stronger unity government that could request African military intervention.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc says it has 3,300 troops ready to deploy in Mali.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told journalists in Paris his country was "confident" the UN Security Council would soon pass a resolution authorising the force to assist Mali win back its territory.
"This will allow our African friends to take a series of decisions, with international backing of course," Fabius said.
Guinean President Alpha Conde said that only a government of national unity would have the legitimacy to request African military intervention.
"One cannot resolve the problem in the north if you don't first solve the problem in Bamako," he told AFP after meeting Fabius.
The formation of such a government will be discussed by ECOWAS leaders and senior Malian political figures at a mini-summit in Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday.
Currently a 12-month interim government is in place in Bamako which took over from the junta who overthrew the former regime on March 22.
The coup had eased the way for Tuareg separatist rebels to seize an area in the north larger than France that they consider their homeland.
However, the previously unknown Islamist Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) who had been fighting on their flanks swiftly took the upper hand.
They openly allied with AQIM and pushed the Tuareg rebels from all positions of power.
In Timbuktu, where the Islamists have enforced sharia law for the past three months, Ansar Dine has in recent days smashed seven tombs of ancient Muslim saints as well as the "sacred door" to a 15th century mosque.
Youths who had planned to hold a protest march against the destruction were convinced by town elders to abandon the demonstration to avoid a bloodbath.
"We asked the youths not to protest because we are scared these people (the Islamists) kill them," said a patriarch from the suburb of Bella Farandi, identified only as Kamiss.
The UN cultural agency UNESCO on Tuesday called for an end to the "repugnant acts" of destruction and called for the head of the body to create an emergency fund for the cultural treasures and send a mission to assess the damage.
The destruction in Timbuktu, a world heritage site now listed as endangered, has deeply upset Malians and prompted outpourings of condemnation from abroad.
And in the key northern city of Gao, Ansar Dine's Al-Qaeda allies have planted landmines around the city to prevent a counter-offensive by the Tuareg fighters they violently expelled last week.
Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) spokesman Abou Walid Sahraoui said the mines were also to prevent military intervention by other west African states.
"Yes, we have placed military devices which are defending the town against attacks. Our enemy is also all the countries who will send fighters here," he said.
The Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) said Monday that MUJAO were preventing residents from leaving the city.
As the situation worsened in the northern cities, already suffering a humanitarian crisis as a result of the rebel occupation, Mali's interim government was scrambling for assistance to recover its territory.
"We will do everything to recover our territory," Foreign Minister Sadio Lamine Sow told AFP at the end of a two-day visit to Algeria.
Sow branded the armed groups now controlling the cities in northern Mali as "armed terrorists."
"It is they who are raping women, pillaging banks" and conducting a campaign of destruction, he said, saying these acts were crimes against humanity and would not go unpunished.
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has warned that the destruction of religious and historical buildings could amount to a war crime and those responsible could face prosecution.

http://news.yahoo.com/mali-boosts-ef...105046649.html

funny how they are so swift into action in Mali and yet do nothing in syria. they are having a meeting about Mali in 3 days time, yet only a few hundred malis have died in this conflict, and 15,000 syrians have died SO FAR!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_rebellion_(2012)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_...%80%93present)

[wbeachcomber]

The international community on Tuesday weighed options to help embattled Mali save its north from Islamist fighters who have smashed ancient shrines in Timbuktu and rigged another city with landmines.
France said it was determined to prevent the north of Mali from becoming a haven for extremists, as the hardline Islamists who occupied the region three months ago escalate efforts to cement their control of the vast desert area.
"Our determination will be total in preventing groups like AQIM (Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb) setting up international terror bases that threaten the peace and prosperity of the whole region and our security too," said French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault.
As post-coup transition authorities in Bamako find themselves powerless in the face of the armed Al Qaeda-allied groups occupying the north, its neighbours are seeking a stronger unity government that could request African military intervention.
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc says it has 3,300 troops ready to deploy in Mali.
French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told journalists in Paris his country was "confident" the UN Security Council would soon pass a resolution authorising the force to assist Mali win back its territory.
"This will allow our African friends to take a series of decisions, with international backing of course," Fabius said.
Guinean President Alpha Conde said that only a government of national unity would have the legitimacy to request African military intervention.
"One cannot resolve the problem in the north if you don't first solve the problem in Bamako," he told AFP after meeting Fabius.
The formation of such a government will be discussed by ECOWAS leaders and senior Malian political figures at a mini-summit in Burkina Faso's capital on Saturday.
Currently a 12-month interim government is in place in Bamako which took over from the junta who overthrew the former regime on March 22.
The coup had eased the way for Tuareg separatist rebels to seize an area in the north larger than France that they consider their homeland.
However, the previously unknown Islamist Ansar Dine (Defenders of Faith) who had been fighting on their flanks swiftly took the upper hand.
They openly allied with AQIM and pushed the Tuareg rebels from all positions of power.
In Timbuktu, where the Islamists have enforced sharia law for the past three months, Ansar Dine has in recent days smashed seven tombs of ancient Muslim saints as well as the "sacred door" to a 15th century mosque.
Youths who had planned to hold a protest march against the destruction were convinced by town elders to abandon the demonstration to avoid a bloodbath.
"We asked the youths not to protest because we are scared these people (the Islamists) kill them," said a patriarch from the suburb of Bella Farandi, identified only as Kamiss.
The UN cultural agency UNESCO on Tuesday called for an end to the "repugnant acts" of destruction and called for the head of the body to create an emergency fund for the cultural treasures and send a mission to assess the damage.
The destruction in Timbuktu, a world heritage site now listed as endangered, has deeply upset Malians and prompted outpourings of condemnation from abroad.
And in the key northern city of Gao, Ansar Dine's Al-Qaeda allies have planted landmines around the city to prevent a counter-offensive by the Tuareg fighters they violently expelled last week.
Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) spokesman Abou Walid Sahraoui said the mines were also to prevent military intervention by other west African states.
"Yes, we have placed military devices which are defending the town against attacks. Our enemy is also all the countries who will send fighters here," he said.
The Tuareg National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA) said Monday that MUJAO were preventing residents from leaving the city.
As the situation worsened in the northern cities, already suffering a humanitarian crisis as a result of the rebel occupation, Mali's interim government was scrambling for assistance to recover its territory.
"We will do everything to recover our territory," Foreign Minister Sadio Lamine Sow told AFP at the end of a two-day visit to Algeria.
Sow branded the armed groups now controlling the cities in northern Mali as "armed terrorists."
"It is they who are raping women, pillaging banks" and conducting a campaign of destruction, he said, saying these acts were crimes against humanity and would not go unpunished.
International Criminal Court chief prosecutor Fatou Bensouda has warned that the destruction of religious and historical buildings could amount to a war crime and those responsible could face prosecution.

http://news.yahoo.com/mali-boosts-ef...105046649.html

funny how they are so swift into action in Mali and yet do nothing in syria. they are having a meeting about Mali in 3 days time, yet only a few hundred malis have died in this conflict, and 15,000 syrians have died SO FAR!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuareg_rebellion_(2012)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syrian_...%80%93present)

is ECOWAS backed by zionists?

[Assauraarguck]

yes sister its another tool of america

[wbeachcomber]

yes sister its another tool of america

Our sister Fatouh Bensouda is ICC prosecutor, she was very disturbed by shrines demolishion and she says now Al-Bashir will be arrested. Shall we support her ? She openly says islam helps her in her life and also in position of prosecutor, I am confused.
w salam

[valensds]

Our sister Fatouh Bensouda is ICC prosecutor, she was very disturbed by shrines demolishion and she says now Al-Bashir will be arrested. Shall we support her ? She openly says islam helps her in her life and also in position of prosecutor, I am confused.
w salam

Sister,

What does this ayah mean to you?




اَلَمۡ تَرَ اِلَى الَّذِيۡنَ يَزۡعُمُوۡنَ اَنَّهُمۡ اٰمَنُوۡا بِمَاۤ اُنۡزِلَ اِلَيۡكَ وَمَاۤ اُنۡزِلَ مِنۡ قَبۡلِكَ يُرِيۡدُوۡنَ اَنۡ يَّتَحَاكَمُوۡۤا اِلَى الطَّاغُوۡتِ وَقَدۡ اُمِرُوۡۤا اَنۡ يَّكۡفُرُوۡا بِهٖ ؕ وَيُرِيۡدُ الشَّيۡـطٰنُ اَنۡ يُّضِلَّهُمۡ ضَلٰلًاۢ بَعِيۡدًا‏
(4:60) Have you not seen those who claim to believe in the Book which has been revealed to you and in the Books revealed before you, and yet desire to submit their disputes to the judgement of taghut (the Satanic authorities who decide independently of the Law of Allah), whereas they had been asked to reject it. And Satan seeks to make them drift far away from the right way

[wbeachcomber]

Sister,

What does this ayah mean to you?




اَلَمۡ تَرَ اِلَى الَّذِيۡنَ يَزۡعُمُوۡنَ اَنَّهُمۡ اٰمَنُوۡا بِمَاۤ اُنۡزِلَ اِلَيۡكَ وَمَاۤ اُنۡزِلَ مِنۡ قَبۡلِكَ يُرِيۡدُوۡنَ اَنۡ يَّتَحَاكَمُوۡۤا اِلَى الطَّاغُوۡتِ وَقَدۡ اُمِرُوۡۤا اَنۡ يَّكۡفُرُوۡا بِهٖ ؕ وَيُرِيۡدُ الشَّيۡـطٰنُ اَنۡ يُّضِلَّهُمۡ ضَلٰلًاۢ بَعِيۡدًا‏

Yes, that is important and clear ayah. But consider if she chooses between two evils the one, less evil. I do not apologize her but she might influence from inside, allah knows the best whay she is doing that. She is our sister anyway and therefore we might pray for her. Is it allowed?

w alikum assalam