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After yesterday's failed offensive by the Tuareg MNLA to retake Gao, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb sent hundreds of fighters from Timbuktu to Gao as reinforcements. The AQIM-allied Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa said it is "in control of the situation"; the Tuaregs no longer control any towns in two-thirds of Mali.