http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34877069
Malian special forces have entered the Radisson Blu Hotel in Mali's capital, Bamako, to end a siege by gunmen who had been holding 170 people hostage. The gunmen stormed the US-owned hotel, which is popular with foreign businesses and airline crews, shooting and shouting "God is great!" in Arabic. Malian state TV is reporting that 80 people have now been freed. At least three people are reported to have been killed in the siege that started around 07:00 GMT. Six staff from Turkish Airlines were at the hotel when it was attacked, and a Chinese guest told China's state news agency Xinhua he was among about seven Chinese tourists trapped there. A French presidential source said French citizens were also at the Radisson Blu Hotel, Reuters news agency reports.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mali
Official languages: French
(Score: 4, Interesting) by Ezber Bozmak on Friday November 20 2015, @04:02PM
> Do you consider dealing with the KKK in charge rather than the now-tyrannical government?
Which is exactly what happened in Iran. The KKK are a bunch of religious nutjobs (they were founded on christmas eve by a bunch of methodists, they burn crosses and they claim to be [adl.org] churches [splcenter.org]). The idealists in Iran made common cause with the religious nutjobs to overthrow the repressive shaw. But after they won, the nutjobs fought the idealists and the idealists lost.
Real life is way more complicated than the people posting tough talk from their mom's basements realize.
(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Friday November 20 2015, @06:27PM
The idealists in Iran made common cause with the religious nutjobs to overthrow the repressive shaw
Couldn't they just have waited for The Shaw [wikipedia.org] to die, or at least win an Oscar?
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr