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Originally Posted by astroron
Kept falling asleep, 
Surely it may be a mute point as the rebel army is destroying anything of historical value in the town, so a lot of what we saw in the show may no longer exist 
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The media have been covering the situation in Mali over the past few weeks. The French led military forces have pushed the rebels out of the heavily populated areas but not before they burnt a large number of very old texts.
It was a sorry sight to see the pile of smouldering texts from Timbuktu in the news footage. Groups which hold extreme ideologies seem determined to destroy history. Very sad.