#Somalia: Mali: Al Qaeda's al Shabaab and ISIS in the Sahel. Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Hudson Institute. Bill Roggio @FDD RV

Photo:  These pages are from Timbuktu Manuscripts written in Sudani script (a form of Arabic) from the Mali Empire showing established knowledge of astronomy and mathematics. Today there are close to a million of these manuscripts found in Timbuktu alone. [There were. The jihadists and their ilk have burned a staggering number of some of the greatest manuscripts of human history, from their repository in Timbuktu, one of the greatest cradles of human intellectual and spiritual exploration on Earth.]

#Somalia: Mali: Al Qaeda's al Shabaab and ISIS in the Sahel.  Husain Haqqani @husainhaqqani, former Pakistani Ambassador to the United States; Hudson Institute. Bill Roggio @FDD RV.