Tuareg rebels in northern Mali have captured two senior Islamist insurgents fleeing French airstrikes toward the Algerian border, as France pressed ahead with its bombing campaign against al Qaeda's Saharan desert camps.
Pro-autonomy Tuareg MNLA rebels said yesterday they had seized Mohamed Moussa Ag Mohamed, an Islamist leader who imposed sharia law in the desert town of Timbuktu, and Oumeini Ould Baba Akhmed, believed to be responsible for the kidnapping of a French hostage by the al Qaeda splinter group MUJWA.
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