Ansar Dine vowed that all mausoleums will be destroyed in Timbuktu. The al Qaeda-linked Ansar Dine and allied Islamist groups have destroyed a number of historic sites in northern Mali since July. The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa amputated the hands of two people in Gao and warned that amputations would continue.
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