In Salafis wake, charred Malian heritage in Timbuktu:
"The first thing Islamist militants did upon commandeering Timbuktu’s Ahmed
Baba Institute for Higher Learning and Islamic Research last April was change the
locks. Their parting act last week was to burn some of the institute’s medieval
manuscripts."
See:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Afric...gory-storyList