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So it was western propaganda?

• mc32 14y ago
  From the article, it appears to have been started by the mayor of Timbuktu --who apparently resided in a town 800 miles away. So it may have been someone's propaganda (but apparently not western in origin) or could have been misinformation (i.e. misconstrued information) or it could refer to a missing ten percent of the texts whose location is unknown.