Mali: looting and anger against the Arabs in Timbuktu Hundreds of Malians looted Arab-owned shops Tuesday in Mali's fabled Timbuktu, newly freed from Islamists. They plundered stores they said belonged to Arabs, Mauritanians and Algerians who they accuse of supporting the Al Qaeda-linked Islamists during their 10-month rule over the ancient centre of Islamic learning. Images of a man being accused of being an Islamist, while others take his defence, and a voxpop