black friday north face By RUKMINI CALLIMACHIDAKAR, Senegal (AP) French troops who found the of two slain French radio journalists in northern Mali followed footprints within the sand at the corpses to hunt their abductors, section of a search that eventually ended in five arrests Monday, a Mali military official said. He added which the kidnappers vehicle had digested, possibly prompting their decision to eliminate the captives. What remained unclear was who the kidnappers were, and whether had ties to ethnic Tuareg separatists or al Qaida militants in the region.The slayings of Ghislaine Dupont, 57, a senior correspondent, and Claude Verlon, 55, a production technician, stunned France and were an unprecedented assault on Western journalists in Mali, certainly where an French led military operation at the moment aimed to eradicate Islamic extremists who had taken over the vast north.The veteran journalists were tak