Iyad Ag Ghaly, leader of the Islamic group Ansar Dine, looks on at in Kidal airport before a meeting with Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Djibrille Bassole in August 2012. Until the first French air strikes on Mali, Ag Ghaly resided in a luxurious villa the former Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi had built near the airport.