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April 5th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
The couple bought the Hotel Alafia in the legendary desert city in late 2010
after spending two years touring West Africa in a Land Rover. Neil, 58, a
company director and Diane, 53, split their time between a farm in
Abergavenny and their property in Timbuktu.
The hotel offered budget accomodation to backpackers and independent
travellers to the town, which is renowned for having the oldest Islamic
library in the world.
But last weekend Timbuktu
fell to al-Qaeda backed forces who have imposed Taliban-style Sharia
law.
The couple tried to leave the town on Saturday morning only to find the roads
blocked by the fleeing army columns.
“We went back home to lay low and tried again the following day. However we
ran into a firefight, which was rather alarming,” Mrs English said. “We went
back to the house again to keep our heads down but there was a lot of firing
in the town – it was clear a lot of people had a lot of weapons.
The couple’s saviors were units of the National Movement for the Liberation of
Azawad, (MNLA)a nomadic Tuareg force that has spearheaded a rebellion in
recent months using weapons looted from Col Muammar Gaddafi’s abandoned
armouries.
Mrs English contacted the new British embassy in Mali, which said it was
working through the French embassy to arrange their evacuation with the help
of the MNLA. “On Monday the MNLA brought us to the Timbuktu airstrip where
we spent the night. By this stage al-Qaeda was in the town and we knew they
were searching for us. The MNLA told them we had already left and we got
that night.”
Reports from Timbuktu said al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) and local
hardline clerics of the Ansar al-Dine movement had imposed strick Islamic
law on the town. The black flag of al-Qaeda was flying on the turrets of its
ancient mosques and women had been ordered to wear burkas outdoors.
“My friends say they have been ordered to stop smoking and the women have been
told to cover up,” Mrs English said. “I don’t think we’ll be going back
anytime soon.”
Foreign visitor numbers had already collapsed after a Dutchman, a South
African and a Swede were seized by gunmen in November. A German abducted at
the same time was killed his al-Qaeda captors.
Mrs English told French television last month that the couple had decided not
to abandon the town after the kidnapping. The couple said they were well
treated by the MNLA, the main force in the region, which did not have an
Islamist agenda.
“The MNLA are a local force that are looking for local independence because
they complain that the Malian government has deprived the area of all the
resources and favoured other parts of the country,” she said. “From living
there I would have to say I agree with them.”
The UN Security Council last night condemned the military coup in Mali,
calling for the immediate restoration of constitutional rule and the
democratically elected government. It warned that al-Qaeda had gained a
toehold in the region as a result of the coup.
“The council is alarmed by the presence in the region of the terrorist group
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), which could lead to a further
destabilization of the security situation,” it said.
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