French forces in Mali have killed
Abdelhamid Abu Zeid, a leading
field commander of al Qaeda's
north Africa wing AQIM.
The station said 40 militants including Abu Zeid
were killed in the region of Tigargara in northern
Mali three days ago. A French Defence Ministry
official declined to comment on the report. Algeria
did not confirm the killing.
France launched a whirlwind assault to retake
Mali's vast northern desert region from AQIM and
other Islamist rebels on January 11 after a plea
from Mali's caretaker government. The military
intervention dislodged the rebels from several
main towns they had occupied and drove them
back into desert wilds.
AQIM, which stands for Al Qaeda in the Islamic
Maghreb, has earned tens of millions of dollars in
ransom payments for Western hostages taken to
its strongholds in northern Mali.
Abu Zeid has been regarded as one of AQIM's
most ruthless operators. He is believed to have
executed British national Edwin Dyer in 2009 and
a 78-year-old Frenchman, Michel Germaneau, in
2010.
Canadian diplomat Robert Fowler, in an account
of his kidnapping by another Islamist cell in the
Sahara, recounted how Abou Zeid refused to give
medication to two hostages suffering from
dysentery, one of whom had been stung by a
scorpion. - Reuters.

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Progress so far

72 demons... Oops! Virgins I meant to say, on point... Just can't wait for these fanatics to be exterminated off the surface of the earth. They are more dangerous compared the rattle snakes.