The arrests came 12 days after assailants with grenades and automatic rifles struck the Capital's La Terrasse. The attack left three Malians, a Frenchman and a Belgian dead. Other eight people, including two Swiss nationals, were wounded
A government source disclosed to Yahoo! two major links in the organisation of the deadly raid on the restaurant-bar La Terrasse were arrested on Wednesday and during the night by the special forces of Mali's intelligence agency.
A second government source and an investigator confirmed the first arrests, which came less than a week after security agents shot dead a man suspected of playing a role in the raid and found an arsenal they linked to the attack.
It marks the first time armed Islamists had targeted Westerners in the city of 1.8 million people.
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