Malian Interior Ministry announced on the tightening of security measures in the north of Mali as well as the intensification of joint patrols along the borders with Algeria, according to Algeria’s piece agreement, as leaders and tribal elders of north Mali to prevent terrorists from passing through and asking them to return to the region.

• The present security measures came following the GSPC or AQIM execution of the British hostage who was kidnapped earlier by “Tarek Ben Ziad” sub-battalion under the leadership of the so called “Abdelhamid Abouzid”.
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• The French News Agency, quoted an official at the Malian Ministry of Interior “Government to launch a relentless war against the terrorists of the GSPC and revealed that talks with countries like Algeria, USA and Canada are working in coordination to combat terrorism.
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• “The war on the terrorist groups would be long. We are fed up, and everyone must coordinate and participate in the fight against these men who kill without any faith or law”.
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• The official was asked about the position of Mali which was playing the role of mediator in the negotiations between the kidnappers and the countries of the hostages after the execution of the British hostage.
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• “We felt as if we fell in a trap”, he says.
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• The official’s implicit recognition of mediation by the Malian government with Mokhtare Belmokhtar (Al Aouar) former leader of “The masked” and Abadou Abdelhamid (Abdelhamid Abou Zeid) leader of Tarek Ben Ziad sub-battalion to release the hostages after granting a ransom for those terrorists.