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https://twitter.com/J_LuengoCabrera/status/1686781740931596297
https://twitter.com/J_LuengoCabrera/status/1686781740931596297
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Check the map above.
04AUG2023 The Group of Support to Islam and Muslims (Jnim), affiliated to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQMI), has claimed responsibility for the shooting down of a helicopter belonging to the Russian paramilitary company Wagner in the Macina area, in central Mali. It is not known when or where the helicopter was shot down, or if there were any deaths or injuries. The episode, in any case, takes place a few days after the air raid carried out last June 30 in eastern Libya against a Wagner group air base. A bombing that would have been carried out against the Al Khadim air base , near the city of Al Marj, known for the presence of Wagner units, and which allegedly targeted a Russian-made Il-76 transport aircraft, which the Russian paramilitary group Wagner uses in Libya and on the African continent, according to reports from the open intelligence platform source “Eekad”. These are two episodes which, although they have no apparent direct links, have the Wagner group as their common target, which has two of its main bases for its activities in Africa precisely in Libya and Mali.
Today: It is reported that a skirmish between Wagner and Malian bandits took place in one of the settlements on the Niger-Mali border.
https://t.me/wagnernew/9465
IS Militants in the Sahel swear allegiance to the new caliph of the Islamic State. Fighters from Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso pledged Bay’ah after fighters in Iraq, Nigeria and Somalia did so as well.
https://twitter.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1688679205884907522
Russian disinformation is working hard to blame this on the West
