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A man takes a close look at a burned-out truck in Timbuktu, Mali, on Jan. 31, 2013. Islamic militants fled from the area when French special forces parachuted in to liberate the city of Timbuktu several days ago. (Associated Press)

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A French soldier directs helicopters near Timbuktu, Mali, on Jan. 28, 2013. Backed by French helicopters and paratroopers, Malian soldiers entered the fabled city of Timbuktu on Monday after al Qaeda-linked militants who ruled the outpost by fear for nearly 10 months fled into the desert, setting fire to a library that held thousands of manuscripts dating to the Middle Ages. (Associated Press/French Army Communications Audiovisual office)

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Elders meet with the mayor and the governor of Gao in Gao city, Mali, on Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, in an effort to avoid vengeance attacks following the arrival of French and Chadian troops in the area, ending 10 months of sharia law. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

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Chadian soldiers patrol the streets of Gao, northern Mali, on Jan. 28, 2013. After securing a strategic bridge and the airport in Gao the day before, Malian troops backed by French helicopters and paratroopers entered the fabled city of Timbuktu, north of Gao, on Monday after al Qaeda-linked militants fled into the desert. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** An unidentified worker looks after some of the 20,000 preserved ancient Islamic manuscripts that rest in air-conditioned rooms at the Ahmed Baba Institute in Timbuktu, Mali, in 2004. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

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**FILE** French soldiers patrol in armored vehicles in the outskirts of Sevare, Mali, some 385 miles north of Bamako, the capital, on Jan. 23, 2013. (Associated Press)

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Militants from the Islamist terrorist group Ansar Dine stand guard during a hostage handover in the desert outside Timbuktu, Mali, in April. (Associated Press)

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A Malian soldier walks Jan. 21, 2013, inside a military camp used by radical Islamists and bombarded by French warplanes in Diabaly, Mali, some 460 kilometers (320 miles) north of the capital Bamako. French and Malian troops took control Monday of the town of Diabaly, patrolling the streets in armored personnel carriers and inspecting the charred remains of a pickup truck with a mounted machine gun left behind by the fleeing militants. (Associated Press)