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Bamako (AFP) Feb 9, 2011 A Guinean national has been arrested in Mali for trying to smuggle weapons, including 17 rockets, a security source said Wednesday. "Tuesday, we arrested a Guinean national named Souleymane Keita. He had just crossed the Guinea-Mali border and had with him 17 Russian-made rockets," he added. The source said a preliminary investigation indicated the weapons may come from Guinean army stocks and that the individual may have responded to an order from a "criminal group."
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