Tribesmen from Timbuktu have reportedly killed five Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb fighters in clashes in the north. The attack is being reported as retaliation for AQIM's killing of an army lieutenant colonel as he left a mosque. The army only confirms the killing of one man in an attempted arrest of an AQIM sub-contractor in the desert.
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