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A view of Timbuktu in 2006
Issouf Sanogo
A view of Timbuktu in 2006. Members of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb have desecrated a Muslim saint's tomb in the fabled city of Timbuktu, an official said on Saturday.