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Mali Coup Leader Has No Intention to Stay in Power

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maliJPG?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1332544281217Thinkstock(BAMAKO, Mali) — The leader of the Malian coup says his primary intention is for the army to secure the country.

Low ranking members of the army staged a military coup on Wednesday after a senior government official was visiting them.  Capt. Amadou Sanogo , the leader of the mutineers, says he does not intend to stay in power but wants secure the country as the army has been fighting Tuareg rebels in the north of the country, reports BBC News.

The soldier says they are ill-equipped to fight the rebels who have apparently been receiving armaments from former Malian combatants who fought in Libya last year.

“We are not here to confiscate any power but we are here to have an army and security forces available to assume the national security,” Capt. Sanogo.

President Amadou Toumani Toure is apparently safe and in hiding.

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