Ahmad Al Faqi Al Mahdi (left and right) had pleaded guilty and expressed remorse for his role in overseeing the destruction of nine mausoleums sand a mosque door (inset) in Timbuktu, Mali in 2012. But he was sentenced today for committing a war crime by attacking the protected sites - a landmark ruling by the International Criminal Court that experts hope will send a strong message to safeguard the world's ancient monuments. Al-Qaeda-linked rebels occupied the famed Saharan city in 2012 and enforced a strict interpretation of Islamic law that included destruction of the historic mud-brick mausoleums they considered idolatrous. Al Mahdi was leader of one of the 'morality brigades' set up by Timbuktu's new rulers.
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