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Posted: January 15, 2013 at 5:23 a.m.

QUOTE OF THE DAY “France has opened the gates of hell. ... It has fallen into a trap much more dangerous than Iraq, Afghanistan or Somalia.” Omar Ould Hamaha a leader of the Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, one of the jihadist groups controlling northern Mali.

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