Ground Zero: Mali Insurgents vs. The Malian Army ( Part 1, 2)

Ground Zero: Mali was shot in Gao, Mali, on February 21, 2013. It s basically the first legitimate combat footage to come out of the war there. Normally the French ban journalists from the frontlines and film a sanitized version of the fighting themselves and then distribute it to the media. In this case, the insurgents came to us: they slipped into Gao overnight on small boats and used suicide bombers to blast their way into government buildings. The French left the fighting to the Malian army for m