Gunmen Seize Hostages at Mali Hotel

CBS This Morning

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Gunmen attacked a popular hotel in Mali’s capital on Friday with guns and grenades, authorities and a witness said, taking scores of hostages. A Malian official said at least three people were killed in the raid, but their identities remained unclear.

CBS News correspondent Mark Phillips says the attack involved as many as 10 militants who — according to a local army commander — rammed into the hotel grounds in a vehicle, firing guns and using grenades. Witnesses said the attackers were shouting “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is great,” the jihadist battle cry…

Ali Soufan, former FBI supervisory special agent, told “CBS This Morning” that al Qaeda’s affiliate in the region, al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM), could well be behind the assault, “because al Qaeda today definitely don’t want to be upstaged by ISIS.”

“They are in competition,” said Soufan. “ISIS used to be part of al Qaeda. Al Qaeda is a poisonous tree and ISIS is just a branch of that tree. ISIS is a symptom of the diseases, al Qaeda is the disease…

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