Alassane Diallo (encircled) is the traitor who directed the suicide bomber driving a car packed with explosives into the home of Mali's defense minister, Gen. Sadio Camara (in the middle), on that 25th April attack.
They were friends; they knew each other for long. They must have joined the army around the same time before Diallo was dismissed in 2012.
They still maintained their friendship as Diallo became a local football coach. They played football together and would drink together and hang out with other servicemen of his generation.
On that fateful Saturday, it was Diallo in his grey RAV4 who directed the terrorists led by a suicide bomber to the home. And stood by, watching.
The detonation was massive, destroying the house and adjacent mosque.
But this was a battering ram; it was to bomb and allow other terrorists to storm in and do their worst.
Curiously, Camara didn't die on the spot; he picked up his gun in that wounded state and took down almost 10 terrorists in an ensuing gun fight.
The ones you saw were being dragged by civilians along the streets for cremation.
When reinforcement arrived, Camara was taken to the hospital, but he didn't make it.
Diallo was hunted down by police and shot dead. His house was today reduced to ashes by enraged neighbors, locals, and patriotic Malians.
Apparently, Diallo was recruited into a terrorist intelligence network. He was spying on the minister and other critical installations.
That explains also how they were able to pick those targets and critical installations with ease.
Before this attack, Diallo traveled to the Ivory Coast. He must have updated the French intelligence, DSGE, there before this attack was launched.
However, I must salute the Malian govt for the response. It was massive. Those terrorists lost over 1000 fighters.
Fleeing terrorists were hunted down with drones and gunships and liquidated.
Hundreds captured are now spilling the beans as Mali thinks about throwing them in a pit of venomous snakes.
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