The UN Security Council condemned the Aug. 16 suicide attack in Ber that killed two UN peacekeeping troops from Burkina Faso and wounded seven other troops, and said the attack will not deter UN efforts. On Aug. 10, French special forces captured three suspected members of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb near Timbuktu; the UN’s Mali mission said that an AQIM cell based west of Timbuktu possibly included Somali, Chadian, and Tunisian nationals as well as a man with dual Spanish-Moroccan citizenship.
