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Saturday, February 16, 2013

Mali's Army elite troops in the camp attack Bamako

Than 06.00 local time (13: 00 GMT) a heavily armed soldiers from all the Union attacked the camp. "
Bamako, Mali (ANTARA News)-the firefight broke out in the capital of Mali, Bamako when the army attacked a camp of the elite troops loyal to the deposed President Amadou Toumani Toure, said military sources and eye witnesses told AFP.
"From 06.00 local time (13: 00 GMT) a heavily armed soldiers from all the Union attacked the camp," said Yaya Bouare, one of the "Red Beret" inside the camp who attacked it. "A lot of the injuries in the camp."
The latest clash between Mali's Army factions hostile to occur on the same day when a suicide bomber targeting soldiers in the city of Gao to the South after hard-line Islamic groups are removed.
Bamako residents living near barracks that confirm the attack and one of them said troops of the elite "Red Beret" opened fire warnings Thursday night.
Bouare attack was said had to do with a statement by the Defense Chief of staff of the army General Tahairou Dembele on national television earlier this week, who ordered the troops to the front lines of the paratroop war led by France against hard-line groups in the North.
"Because we are facing these problems in the North, you have to go and fight for your brethren with weapons", he said and added he decided to cooperate with the elite forces in other entities.
But the paratroop refused join their new entities, or leaving their camps.
"Red Beret" troops are part of the President's bodyguards who protect Toure, who was removed in March last year by a group of "Green Beret" forces--infantry and other entities.
The coup took place after the Mali army humiliated in the North by the Tuareg petempur who have sophisticated weapons who did revolt for independence in that area in January last year.
A month later, after the overthrow of the President, the army's elite counter doing one coup that failed and the battle between the forces of bersetru, killing 20 people.
With the onset of chaos in Bamako, the Tuareg groups and Islam took control of the entire area north of the hard-line Islamic group before expelling a group of Tuareg secular and impose Islamic law.
Islamic Group that ruled the arid area and spacious, which triggered fears in the West that area could become a new base for radical groups having links with Al Qaida, which sparked France intervened a month ago to oust the hard-line group. (RN/S012)


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Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Perry deploys the elite as Texas research team fires destroy 1000 homes

One of the most devastating wildfire outbreaks in the history of Texas left more than 1,000 homes in ruins Tuesday and stretched ranks of fire of the State for the limit, confronting Governor Rick Perry with a major home disaster, just as the Republican presidential election heats up.

More than 180 fires broke out in the week passed through the Lone Star State private rain, and nearly 600 homes destroyed since then have been lost in a catastrophic fire in and around Bastrop, near Austin, that raged out of control Tuesday for a third day.

Struggles a hell by storm winds, tropical Lee over the weekend, the blaze burned more than 45 miles square (116 square kilometres), forced the evacuation of thousands and killed at least two people, bringing the global outbreak of at least four budget.

Perry cut short a trip to the presidential campaign in South Carolina to deal with the crisis. Tuesday, he visited an area blackened near Bastrop, about 25 miles (40 kilometres) of Austin and later deployed elite of the State research team in the region to search for more possible victims. Texas Task Force 1 is the same outfit sent to New York after the terrorist attacks of 11 September and in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina.

"Powerful enough Visual of individuals that lose," he said after the tour. "The magnitude of these losses are quite astonishing."

Would the Governor not say if he would take part in the Republican presidential debate on Wednesday evening in California, explaining that it was "significantly more concerned to ensure that Texans are currently supported. But campaign spokesman Mark Miner said in an email later in the day that Perry planned to be there.

Perry, a favorite of the conservative tea party movement which has made a career of against the Government, said, he expects federal assistance with forest fires, and it complained that red tape was maintaining the bulldozers and other heavy equipment to Fort Hood army, 75 miles (120 km) of Bastrop, to use. Fort Hood was fighting against his own fire, an of 3,700 acres (1,500 hectares) blaze.

White House spokesman Jay Carney, said the Obama of Directors has approved seven federal grants in Texas to help with the outbreak of the latest, and "we will continue to work closely with State and local emergency management officials in their efforts to contain these fires."

About 1,200 Firefighters battled the flames, including members of the departments of State autour and crews from outside the State, many of them arriving after Texas launch a call for help. Many firefighters will join the battle, once they have been registered and sent where they are needed.

Five heavy oil aircraft, some from the Government Federal and three aircraft capable of 1,500 litres of water collection in both Lakes also took part in the fight.

"We get support incredible across the country, federal and State agencies," said Mark Stanford, Director of operations for the Texas Forest Service.

The disaster is attributed in large part on the drought in Texas year, one of the most severe dry periods the State has ever seen.

Fire in Bastrop County is easily the most devastating fires in Texas in over a decade, eclipsing a fire which destroyed 168 houses in North Texas in April. Texas April Saginor said Forest Service spokeswoman state forest fire records not to return until the 1990s.



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