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Al-Qaida-linked Group Releases Photo of Burkina Faso Bomber

by Associated Press

   DAKAR --

   The al-Qaida-linked extremist group based in Mali that claimed
   responsibility for Friday's attacks that killed eight people in Burkina
   Faso's capital has released a photo that it says is of a suicide bomber
   before he detonated his vehicle at the army headquarters.
   SITE Intelligence Group says the militant group Jama Nusrat Ul-Islam wa
   Al-Muslimin, known by its acronym JNIM, issued a photo of Yunus
   al-Fulani on Monday. The al-Qaida affiliate on Saturday said it carried
   out the attacks, which also hit the French embassy, in retaliation for
   the killing of one of its leaders in a recent raid by French troops,
   according to the Alakhbar Mauritanian news agency.
   A car bomb exploded inside the army headquarters and a former Burkina
   Faso is believed to have participated in the attacks.