UN ups toll for shrine devastation by Mali Islamists Islamist guerrillas inflicted greater damage than first thought on the Muslim shrines and artefacts decimated when they controlled northern Mali, the United Nations said Friday. A UN mission to northern Mali came away shocked at the extent of the destruction by the Al Qaeda-linked militants, said Lazare Eloundou Assomo of the UN Educational Cultural Organization (UNESCO), who led the mission. Images and soundbites