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Spotlight FRANCE MALI Issue dated 08/12/2011

Hostage plot thickens for DGSE and DCRI

The kidnapping last month of two French geologists in Mali and the breakdown in negotiations with Al Qaeda-linked Islamist militants who are holding four other French nationals has turned the hostage crisis into a spiralling drama. While the DGSE, France's [...] (581 words)

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