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April 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“I am doing this without any pressure, and I am doing this in good faith,
and I am doing it especially out of love for my country. I have decided to
hand in my resignation letter,” Toure said.
His resignation will allow the court to declare the vacancy of power, paving
the way for the head of the national assembly, Dioncounda Traore, to become
interim president, as called for in the constitution.
The soldiers who grabbed power 17 days ago claimed they did so because of
President Toure’s mishandling of a rebellion in the north, which began in
January. Toure’s popularity took a nosedive because of his lack of
assertiveness in the face of the mounting attacks, which inflicted large
casualties on Mali’s ill-equipped army.
The ethnic Tuareg rebels had succeeded in taking a dozen small towns, but it
was only after Toure was forced from power that the insurgents succeeded in
taking the three largest towns in the north. Kidal, Gao and Timbuktu all
fell last weekend, and on Friday, the same day that the junta declared they
were stepping down, the rebels declared their independence.
The loss of the northern half of the country, an area larger than France, has
plunged Mali into crisis. The fighters are divided between a secular group
and an Islamist faction that wants to impose Shariah law in Mali’s moderate
north. Already, women in the three cities have been forbidden to go out
without veils.
It’s unclear which of the factions has the upper hand, though increasingly it
appears that Ansar Dine, the Islamist group, has greater sway. On Sunday,
residents attempting to flee Gao said they saw Islamist fighters cut the
throat of a gunman, who is assumed to belong to the secular rebel group.
Dramane Maiga, a transport company employee, said a bus loaded with fleeing
residents was driven off the road at the exit to Gao by Tuareg fighters. Mr
Maiga said the fighters were assumed to belong to the secular faction, known
as the National Movement for the Liberation of the Azawad, or NMLA.
Mr Maiga said the Islamists had handed out a hotline number and encouraged
residents to call if they were in trouble, apparently in an effort to
instill confidence in the local population. He said that as soon as the bus
was driven off the road, people began calling the number, and the Islamists
arrived 30 minutes later.
Maiga said that he saw the Islamists cut the throat of one of the Tuareg
fighters, while shouting “Allah Akbar,” or “God is Great,”
in Arabic.
Source: agencies
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