Iyad Ag Ghaly, left, with Djibrille Bassole.

Iyad Ag Ghaly, left, the leader of the Islamist armed group Ansar Dine, with the then-Burkinabe foreign minister, Djibrille Bassole, at the Kidal airport in northern Mali, August 7, 2012.

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