Mali: Life under Al Qaeda

Tristan McConnell
globalpost.com
January 29, 2013

The amputation of Suleiman Traore was agonizingly slow, bloody and painful.

The 25-year-old truck driver was living in northern Mali when, in March, a coalition of tribal Tuareg separatists and Islamic militants overran the town of Gao.

A month later, Traore was at home in the afternoon playing with his 3-year-old daughter as his wife prepared soup for dinner, when two pick up trucks packed with masked, armed militants flying black flags pulled up outside.

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This article was posted: Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at 4:48 pm

Tags: terrorism

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