“Colonel Gèze set up his headquarters in a camouflage tent across from the runway. Following the airstrikes by the French Air Force, his men entered Timbuktu without meeting any resistance. The colonel still feels a little uneasy about their speedy victory.  Gèze can’t say how many people were killed in the air strikes. His soldiers didn’t take any prisoners, either. Still, even though the jihadists have left Timbuktu, Gèze hasn’t defeated them. Perhaps they have gone to Mauritania or Algeria. The officer shrugs his shoulders. ‘We’re keeping our eyes and ears peeled and are questioning our informants,’ he says. ‘The Islamists have to be hiding out somewhere.'”

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/a-city-of-fear-a-visit-to-timbuktu-after-its-liberation-by-french-troops-a-882469.html

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