Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) Islamist fighters sit in the courtyard of the Islamist police station in Gao in July 2012. Dozen of Algerian jihadists have arrived in the Malian

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Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO) Islamist fighters sit in the courtyard of the Islamist police station in Gao in July 2012. Dozen of Algerian jihadists have arrived in the Malian city of Timbuktu to support armed Islamist groups who are imposing an increasingly brutal version of sharia law in the vast northern areas under their control, security sources said Sunday.

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