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  • 22
    Apr
    2013
    5:42pm, EDT

    Mourners pause for moment of silence one week after Boston attack

    Robert F. Bukaty / AP

    A moment of silence in honor of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing is observed on Boylston Street near the race finish line, exactly one week after the tragedy, on April 22, in Boston, Mass.

    Robert F. Bukaty / AP

    A woman wipes a tear at a memorial for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombing on Boylston Street near the race finish line, on April 22, in Boston, Mass. At 2:50 p.m., exactly one week after the bombings, many bowed their heads and cried at the makeshift memorial on Boylston Street, three blocks from the site of the explosions, where bouquets of flowers, handwritten messages, and used running shoes were piled on the sidewalk.

    Kevork Djansezian / Getty Images

    People in office buildings watch a moment of silence near the finish line of the Boston Marathon bombings on the one week anniversary of the bombings on April 22, in Medford, Mass.

    By Matthew DeLuca, Staff Writer, NBC News

    Boston observed a moment of silence at 2:50 p.m. Monday – exactly one week after an annual springtime rite in the city was shattered by a pair of explosions that killed three people and injured more than 200, including some who lost legs.

    From the race’s finish line on Boylston Street to the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, mourners inside and out of Boston took a moment to remember those they lost. Continue reading.

    Jessica Rinaldi / Reuters

    Officials line Boylston Street near the site of the explosions as they observe a moment of silence for the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings in Boston, Mass., on April 22.

    Brendan McDermid / Reuters

    Traders on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange join the moment of silence in honor of the Boston Marathon victims, on April 22.

    Robert F. Bukaty / AP

    Lt. Mike Murphy of the Newton, Mass., fire dept., carries an American flag down the middle of Boylston Street after observing a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the Boston Marathon bombings, on April 22, in Boston, Mass.

    Slideshow: Boston bombings

    Dominick Reuter / Reuters

    Cheers filled the streets after a Boston Marathon bombing suspect was captured alive but wounded Friday night — following a daylong manhunt that shut down the city.

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    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Infrared police chopper images show Boston Marathon suspect hiding in boat
    • Patriotism runs high at the Boston Bruins hockey game
    • Marathon's deadly moments captured from office building above finish line

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  • 19
    Apr
    2013
    6:28pm, EDT

    Violent clashes break out in Cairo over call for judiciary reform

    Mohamed El-shahed / AFP - Getty Images

    Muslim Brotherhood supporters throw stones towards opponents during clashes on April 19, in central Cairo.

    Khaled Elfiqi / EPA

    Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood members throw stones towards members of the anti-muslim brotherhood (top) during clashes in central Cairo, April 19.

    Mostafa Elshemy / AP

    Egyptian protesters clash near a bus belonging to Muslim Brotherhood supporters burns after it was reportedly set alight by anti- government protesters in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, April 19.

    Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters

    Muslim Brotherhood members hit an anti-government protester during clashes near Cairo's Tahrir Square, April 19.

    Clashes erupted Friday between several hundred opponents and supporters of Egypt’s Islamist president during a rally by his allies calling on him to “cleanse the judiciary” of alleged supporters of the old regime. Four people were hurt the violent clashes following a call by the Muslim Brotherhood to demonstrate outside the Supreme Court. 

     

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  • 5
    Apr
    2013
    9:43pm, EDT

    Edgard Garrido / Reuters

    Monument in Mexico pays tribute to those lost to drug violence

    A man visits the "Memorial to Victims of Violence in Mexico" during its opening in Mexico City on April 5. The massive 149,000-square foot monument serves as a tribute to the victims of Mexico's bloody drug war. The first of its kind in Mexico, it is divided into several iron panels featuring poems and quotes. An estimated 70,000 people have been killed by drug-related violence in Mexico in the past seven years, and many thousands of others remain unaccounted for.

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  • 5
    Apr
    2013
    3:45pm, EDT

    Mourners gather at funeral of slain Texas prosecutor and his wife

    Lm Otero / AP

    The family of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, comfort each other during their funeral services at the First Baptist Church of Wortham on April 5, in Wortham, Texas.

    Lm Otero / AP

    Pallbearers carry the remains of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, out of the First Baptist Church of Wortham after their funeral services on April 5, in Wortham, Texas.

    Lm Otero / AP

    Texas Gov. Rick Perry looks on as a flag is folded to present to the family of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia after a memorial services in Mesquite, Texas on April 4.

    LM Otero / AP

    Wyvonne McLelland, mother of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland receives a flag from Nathan Foreman, during the grave side funeral services for the couple in Wortham, Texas, April 5.

    A slain Texas prosecutor and his wife were laid to rest today in the small town where he grew up, as the hunt for answers to his death continues.

    The Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found shot to death Saturday in their house near Forney, Texas about 20 miles east of Dallas.  No arrests have been made.

    Related links:

    • 'Why Kaufman county?' Locals wonder about DA murder
    • Second Texas man charged with making 'terroristic threat' after DA's killing

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    This is much difficult time....

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  • 22
    Mar
    2013
    3:28pm, EDT

    Clashes turn violent outside Muslim Brotherhood offices, dozens injured

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    An anti-Morsi protester stands with the national flag after protesters burned Muslim Brotherhood buses during clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo's Moqattam district on March 22, 2013.

    Mohamed Abd El Ghany / Reuters

    Muslim Brotherhood supporters conduct Friday noon prayers in front of the main headquarters of the Brotherhood in Cairo on March 22, 2013.

    Amr Nabil / AP

    Egyptians shout anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a march from downtown to the main Brotherhood headquarters in the hilltop neighborhood of Muqattam, Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2013. Thousands of protesters from different areas of Cairo are marching on Friday to express their rejection of the Muslim Brotherhood and President Mohammed Morsi's rule.

    Amr Nabil / AP

    Egyptians shout anti-Muslim Brotherhood slogans during a demonstration, in Talaat Harb Square in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2013.

    By Reuters

    CAIRO (Reuters) - Hundreds of Egyptian protesters and Muslim Brotherhood supporters clashed near the group's headquarters in Cairo on Friday, and at least 30 people were wounded, medics said.

    Columns of riot police stood guard as chanting protesters holding flags and banners packed streets around the Brotherhood headquarters, footage on Al Jazeera and state TV showed.

    Earlier in the day, Brotherhood supporters had arrived in the vicinity on buses and were showered with stones from the protesters, and Brotherhood supporters threw stones back, witnesses said. About 30 people were wounded in the fighting, Mohamed Sultan, the head of the ambulance service, said.

    Continue reading.

    Khaled Desouki / AFP - Getty Images

    Supporters of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood clash with anti-government protesters near the movements' headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013.

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    Anti-Morsi protesters carry a Muslim Brotherhood member after hitting him during clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo on March 22, 2013.

    Amr Nabil / AP

    Egyptian policemen write a report at a destroyed branch headquarters of the Muslim Brotherhood after protesters broke in to the building in Cairo, Egypt, on March 22, 2013.

    Khaled Elfiqi / EPA

    An Egyptian anti-Muslim Brotherhood protester throws a stone towards Muslim Brotherhood supporters during clashes near the party's national headquarters in Cairo on March 22.

    Khaled Elfiqi / EPA

    An injured Egyptian anti-Muslim brotherhood protester is taken away by his comrades, during clashes near the Muslim Brotherhood's national headquarters in Cairo, Egypt, on March 22.

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    6 comments

    Its another Saturday night and those Egyptian boys are out for some good old fashion Muslim fun. Lets beat each other up. Seriously though Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood went way way overboard in their bid for power. What did they expect when the nation was equally divided in how to run the govt?  …

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  • 6
    Mar
    2013
    1:12pm, EST

    Egyptian protesters battle police in Port Said

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    An Egyptian protester evacuates a wounded man during clashes between protesters and riot police near the state security building in Port Said, Egypt, on March 6.

    Ahmed Youssef / EPA

    An Egyptian man sets tiers ablaze during clashes in Port Said, Egypt, on March 6.

    By Yusri Mohamed and Alexander Dziadosz, Reuters

    Egyptian protesters demanding the release of prisoners battled police in Port Said for a fourth day on Wednesday, challenging state authority in the turbulent city at the northern end of the Suez Canal.

    Port Said has been a focus for violence since January, with people staging angry protests over death sentences handed down to some residents in connection with a football stadium riot in which more than 70 people died last year. Continue reading.

    Ahmed Youssef / EPA

    Egyptian army soldiers arrest an alleged rioter during clashes in Port Said, Egypt, on March 6.

    Khalil Hamra / AP

    Egyptians react from tear gas fired by riot police during clashes near the state security building in Port Said, Egypt, on March 6.

    Amr Abdallah Dalsh / Reuters

    Anti-Morsi protesters are seen through a banner with pictures of people, who were killed in Port Said demonstrations since violence erupted after the court verdict on the sentencing of 21 people, at a camp in front of the Governorate General headquarters in Port Said city, 105 miles northeast of Cairo on March 5.

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    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • 4 arrested in Egypt after shoe thrown at Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
    • Egypt protester shot dead, remembered at site of violence in Cairo
    • Egyptian protesters march in defiance of curfew
    • Baton-wielding police threaten protesters as Egypt's stability teeters
    • Weekend violence claims more than 45 lives in Egypt

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  • 20
    Feb
    2013
    2:02pm, EST

    Missile strike hits Aleppo neighborhood

    Reuters

    Free Syrian Army fighters and civilians react as they run after a jet missile hit the al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Feb. 20.

    Reuters

    People rescue a family member stuck in their house after a jet missile hit al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Feb. 20.

    By Reuters

    A jet missile hit the al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday. A "Scud-type" missile killed at least 20 people in Aleppo yesterday, according to opposition activists.

    As the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad, now a civil war, nears its two-year mark, rebels also landed three mortar bombs in the rarely-used presidential palace compound in the capital Damascus, opposition activists said on Tuesday.

    The United Nations estimates 70,000 people have been killed in the conflict between largely Sunni Muslim rebels and Assad's supporters among his minority Alawite sect. An international diplomatic deadlock has prevented intervention, as the war worsens sectarian tensions throughout the Middle East.

    A Russian official said on Tuesday that Moscow, which is a long-time ally of Damascus, would not immediately back U.N. investigators' calls for some Syrian leaders to face the International Criminal Court for war crimes. Continue reading.

    Muzaffar Salman / Reuters

    Free Syrian Army fighters and civilians search for survivors under rubble after a jet missile hit the al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Feb. 20.

    Muzaffar Salman / Reuters

    A man carries a child who was wounded after a jet missile hit the al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Feb. 20.

    Muzaffar Salman / Reuters

    A Free Syrian Army fighter carries the remnant of a missile fired by a jet at the al-Myassar neighborhood of Aleppo, Syria, on Feb. 20.

    George Ourfalian / Reuters

    Soldiers loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and their tank patrol the streets in al-Sabaa Bahrat district, an area controlled by Free Syrian Army fighters, in the center of Aleppo, Syria, on Feb. 20.

    Previously on PhotoBlog:

    • Syrian rocket destroys 3 buildings, kills 20, activists say
    • Report: Syrian airstrike kills 20 in rebel-held Aleppo
    • Moments of resilience, courage and even joy visible on the faces of Syrian refugee children
    • Harrowing photos show last seconds of life on Syria's front line

    Slideshow: Syria uprising

    Goran Tomasevic / Reuters

    A look back at the conflict that has overtaken the country.

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  • 19
    Feb
    2013
    12:20pm, EST

    Syrian rocket destroys 3 buildings, kills 20, activists say

    Aleppo Media Center via AFP - Getty Images

    Syrians inspect destruction following an apparent surface-to-surface missile strike on the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Feb. 19. The attack killed at least 20 people and another 25 were missing, opposition activists said on Tuesday. The missile was identified from its remains as a Scud-type rocket that government forces have increasingly used in areas under opposition control in the province of Aleppo and in the province of Deir a-Zor to the east, they said.

    Hamid Khatib / Reuters

    A member of the Free Syrian Army along with civilians search for survivors after a Syrian army rocket attack on the rebel-held Jabal Badro district in the city of Aleppo, on Feb. 19.

    Slideshow: Syria uprising

    A look back at the conflict that has overtaken the country.

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    Reuters -- A Syrian army rocket attack on a rebel-held district in the city of Aleppo killed at least 20 people and another 25 were missing, opposition activists said on Tuesday.

    The missile was identified from its remains as a Scud-type rocket that government forces have increasingly used in areas under opposition control in the province of Aleppo and in the province of Deir a-Zor to the east, they said.

    "The rocket brought down three adjacent buildings in Jabal Badro district. The bodies are being dug up gradually. Some, including children, have died in hospitals," Mohammad Nour said by phone from Aleppo. He said testimony from survivors indicated that 25 people were still under the rubble.

    Continue reading.

    Hamid Khatib / Reuters

    A member of the Free Syrian Army sits near where a Syrian army rocket attack took place at the rebel-held Jabal Badro district in the city of Aleppo, on Feb. 19.

    Amateur video from Aleppo, Syria, captures the scene of an alleged rocket attack by Syrian forces that left at least 20 people dead. NBCNews.com's Dara Brown reports.

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    20 comments

    Long live Assad! He fights for the Syrian people! FSA terrorists occupy civilian neighborhood, then Western media cries when Assad targets the terrorists? Come on! Assad is simply defending his country from a foreign invasion of mercenaries paid for by the CIA and equipped and funded by NATO (an …

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  • 8
    Feb
    2013
    12:31pm, EST

    Mourning amid teargas: Funeral turns into violent confrontation with Tunisian police

    Anis Mili / Reuters

    Soldiers help mourners carry the coffin of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid during his funeral procession towards the nearby cemetery of El-Jellaz, where he is to be buried, in the Jebel Jelloud district of Tunis, on Feb. 8. Tens of thousands of mourners chanted anti-Islamist slogans on Friday at the Tunis funeral of secular opposition leader Belaid, whose assassination has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis.

    Anis Mili / Reuters

    A couple mourns next to a Tunisian flag during the funeral procession for the late secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid in the Jebel Jelloud district in Tunis, on Feb. 8.

    Hassene Dridi / AP

    Thousands of Tunisians are gathered at el Jallez cemetery to attend the funerals of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid, near Tunis, on Feb. 8. The Feb. 6 assassination of prominent government critic Chokri Belaid plunged the country into one of its deepest political crises since the overthrow of the dictatorship in 2011. The coffin is carried by pallbearers at center of picture.

    Amine Landoulsi / AP

    Tunisian women protects their faces from teargas while attending the funeral of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid at el Jallez cemetery near Tunis, on Feb. 8.

    By Tarek Amara and Alistair Lyon, Reuters

    Published 12:20pm ET: TUNIS, Tunisia -- Police and mourners clashed at the mass funeral on Friday of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid, whose assassination has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis.

    Braving chilly rain, at least 50,000 people turned out to honor Belaid in his home district of Jebel al-Jaloud in the capital, chanting anti-Islamist and anti-government slogans.

    It was Tunisia's biggest funeral since the death of Habib Bourguiba, independence leader and first president, in 2000.

    Violence erupted near the cemetery as police fired teargas at demonstrators who threw stones and set cars ablaze. Police also used teargas against protesters near the Interior Ministry, a frequent flashpoint for clashes in the Tunisian capital.

    Continue reading.

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    Tunisians cover their faces as they stand at Jellaz cemetery amid teargas fired by police during the funeral of slain opposition politician Chokri Belaid, in Tunis, Tunisia, on Feb 8. Media reports state that Tunisian police fired tear gas outside the cemetery in the capital Tunis where thousands of people had gathered for the funeral of opposition leader Chokri Belaid. Belaid was shot dead by an unknown attacker outside his home on Feb. 6.

    Louafi Larbi / Reuters

    A protester flees from teargas fired by riot police during clashes with riot police near the cemetery where slain Tunisian opposition leader Chokri Belaid is buried on Feb. 8.

    Hassene Dridi / AP

    Protestors burn cars next to the cemetery where thousands of Tunisians are gathered to attend the funerals of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid, near Tunis, on Feb. 8.

    Amine Landoulsi / AP

    Thousands of Tunisians attend the funeral of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid at el Jallez cemetery near Tunis, on Feb. 8. The Feb. 6 assassination of prominent government critic Chokri Belaid plunged the country into one of its deepest political crises since the overthrow of the dictatorship in 2011.

    Amine Landoulsi / AP

    A tunisian woman wrapped in her national flag makes her way through tombs while attending the funeral of slain opposition leader Chokri Belaid at el Jallez cemetery near Tunis, on Feb. 8.

    Police and mourners clashed at the funeral of secular opposition leader Chokri Belaid, whose assassination has plunged Tunisia deeper into political crisis. NBCNews.com's Alex Witt reports.

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  • 31
    Jan
    2013
    1:25pm, EST

    Mexican vigilantes take up arms against street gangs

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    A hooded armed man stands guard in downtown Tecoanapa, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, on Jan. 24.

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    Hooded men stand guard outside the Justice palace, in Ayutla de los Libres, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, on Jan. 24.

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    Armed men guard the Justice palace from a car, in Ayutla de los Libres, in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero, on Jan. 24.

    Pedro Pardo / AFP - Getty Images

    A female guard watches over 27 people arrested by a residents' police force in Ayutla de los Libres in the Guerrero state of Mexico on Jan. 25.

    Hundreds of men and women in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero have armed themselves with rifles, pistols and machetes to defend their villages against drug gangs that local police are unable or unwilling, to stop.

    "There isn't one of us who hasn't felt the pain ... of seeing them take a family member and not being able to ever get them back," said the young civilian self-defense patrol member, who identified himself as "just another representative of the people of the mountain." Continue reading Associated Press article.

    Guerrero, home to the Pacific resort town of Acapulco, has been one of Mexico's hardest hit states by drug violence, which has left more than 70,000 people killed across the country since 2006.

    --Getty Images, Associated Press

    Pedro Pardo / AFP - Getty Images

    Some of the 27 people arrested by residents of Ayutla de los Libres, who have formed their own vigilante police force, are kept under custody inside a house in Ayutla de los Libres, on Jan. 25.

    59 comments

    CHICAGO, take notice, it can be done. Except you don't need to take prisoners, just leave the gangbangers where their fellow bangers can find them. Pile enough of them up, they might get the message and move out. Those extra 200 cops aren't going to solve a thing.

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  • 30
    Jan
    2013
    8:45pm, EST

    Edgard Garrido / Reuters

    Little girl mourns father killed during ongoing violence in Ecatepec, Mexico

    The daughter of Eusebio Gonzalez, a policeman who was shot Tuesday while trying to stop a group of assailants, cries during a tribute to her father as she stands next to a folded Mexican flag in Ecatepec, Jan. 30, 2013.

    The government of Mexico state -- the state that surrounds Mexico City -- has started a joint security operation with the Mexican army and federal police in areas of the Mexican state with high rates of violence, where more than 80 murders have been reported in January.

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    This is just heartbreaking. That poor baby, standing there, nobody comforting her.

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  • 29
    Jan
    2013
    11:55am, EST

    Mob violence, looting follow fall of Mali towns

    Jerome Delay / AP

    Angry crowds shout at suspected Islamist extremists in the back of an army truck in Gao, northern Mali, on Jan. 29. Four suspects were arrested after being found by a youth militia calling themselves the "Gao Patrolmen". Malian soldiers prevented the mob from lynching them.

    Jerome Delay / AP

    Malian soldiers guard suspected Islamist extremists after throwing them in the back of the army truck in Gao, northern Mali, on Jan. 29.

    Joe Penney / Reuters

    Resident Ousmane Togo is reflected on a piece of broken mirror as he surveys the remains of a hotel hit by French air strikes in Douentza, Mali on Jan. 29. The hotel was used as a base for Islamists and was hit by French air strikes over a week ago.

    Reuters reports -- French-backed Malian troops searched house-to-house in Gao and Timbuktu on Tuesday, uncovering arms and explosives abandoned by Islamist fighters, and France said it would look to hand over longer-term security operations to African troops.

    French and Malian troops retook the two Saharan towns in northern Mali virtually unopposed at the weekend after an 18-day French-led offensive that has pushed back the al Qaeda-allied militants into hideouts in the deserts and mountains.

    Malian government soldiers were combing through the Niger River towns and their neighborhoods of dusty alleys and mud-brick homes. In Gao, they arrested at least five suspected Islamist rebels and sympathizers, turned over by local people, and uncovered caches of weapons and counterfeit money.

    Residents reported some looting of shops in Timbuktu owned by Arabs and Tuaregs suspected of having helped the Islamists who had occupied the world-famous seat of Islamic learning, a UNESCO World Heritage site, since last year.

    Fleeing Islamist fighters torched a Timbuktu library holding priceless ancient manuscripts, damaging many.

    Read the full story.

    Eric Feferberg / AFP - Getty Images

    A Malian tries to break the lock off a store front as looters and residents stand by in the streets of Timbuktu on Jan. 29. Hundreds of Malians looted stores in Timbuktu on Tuesday, saying the shops belonged to "Arabs" and "terrorists" linked to the radical Islamists who occupied the desert town for 10 months.

    Eric Feferberg / AFP - Getty Images

    Looters crowd to get into a shop in the streets of Timbuktu on Jan. 29.

    Eric Feferberg / AFP - Getty Images

    A Malian soldier tries to disperse looters in the streets of Timbuktu on Jan. 29.

    Eric Feferberg / AFP - Getty Images

    Timbuktu residents plunder stores they say belong to Arabs, Mauritanians and Algerians who they accuse of supporting the Al Qaeda-linked Islamists during their 10-month rule over the ancient center of Islamic learning, on Jan. 29.

    Thousands of residents came out to celebrate after French and Malian troops entered the town of Gao on Sunday, with a parade of motorbikes honking their horns and people weeping in disbelief. Lindsey Hilsum of the UK's Channel 4 News reports.

    Related links:

    • PhotoBlog - Viral: Eerie photo of French soldier in Mali upsets military officials
    • French-led forces in Mali seal off Timbuktu; rebels torch ancient library
    • PhotoBlog - French and Malian troops take control of Diabaly

     

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    Al-Qaida gets its funding, training and supplies through Saudi Arabia.

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