Islamist forces in the historic Malian town of Timbuktu torched a library housing a collection of ancient manuscripts and other buildings as French and Malian forces closed in on one of their last strongholds, Timbuktu’s mayor said on Monday. “They burned the Ahmed Baba Institute. It’s a catastrophe -- for Timbuktu and all humanity,” Timbuktu’s Mayor Halle Ousmane Cisse told dpa by telephone from Mali’s capital Bamako. The news of the attack emerged as French and government forces took control of Timbuktu airport and other access points to the town. The barbarians of Islam, coming to a library near you...
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