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Defense: Alleged Timbuktu jihadi may be unfit for ICC trial

by Associated Press
| July 14, 2020 3:27 AM

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Defense lawyers for an alleged Islamic extremist told International Criminal Court judges Tuesday that he is suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder and could be unfit to stand trial on charges that he policed a brutal Islamic regime in Timbuktu after al-Qaida linked rebels overran the historic Malian desert city in 2012.

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