Military action against al Qaida-linked extremists in Mali unlikely for months
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Abubakar Shekau said he and his fighters support jihad in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Chechnya, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Somalia, Algeria, Libya, and Mali.

AQIM has appointed a Mauritanian, Mohamed Lemine Ould Hacen, to head its Al Vourghan brigade; Yahya Abou El Hammam, an Algerian, has been promoted to Sahara emir. The Timbuktu-based brigade often clashes with the Mauritanian Army near the Malian border. Ould Hacen will also serve as AQIM spokesman for its southern region, which includes northern Mali and the desert areas bordering Mali, Mauritania, and Algeria.
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The al Qaeda-linked Nigerian terror group has carried out at least 19 suicide attacks this year. Boko Haram’s targets have included churches, mosques, newspapers, government officials, and security forces.

Senior religious leaders from Algeria, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, and Nigeria formed the League of the Ulemas of the Sahel to denounce al Qaeda-linked groups and terrorism. The council denounced al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, the Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa, and Boko Haram.
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Mali’s PM says talks with rebels ‘inevitable’
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The Islamist takeover of two-thirds of Mali this year has spurred the West as well as neighboring African countries to find a way to drive out the extremists.

Sahel terror alliances start to fray
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Malian expatriates in Paris fear for their homeland
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Al-Qaeda resurgent?
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Photos from the new Timbuktu, as controlled by radical Islamists
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Mali Islamist group under pressure to break with Al-Qaeda
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Algeria wins Berber help to root out al-Qaida
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EU considers sending 200 troops to train Mali army
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Mali is being watched anxiously by Western diplomats
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“The arrival of hundreds of young mujahideen from different areas across the Islamic world to support us in our war against the infidels and crusaders is not strange or surprising,” Ansar Dine’s spokesman said.

Special Report: In the land of gangster-jihadists
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Timbuktu: Islamist groups “are preparing for an army intervention”
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The Whiff of Conflict Grows in a Divided Mali
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White House told of militant claim two hours after Libya attack: emails
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Offensive to retake north Mali unlikely till 2013
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A letter purportedly written by al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb emir Abdelmalek Droukdel indicates that the organization is fractured and disorganized. “The organization is sick,” Droukdel’s letter supposedly said.
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Leaders meet on Mali crisis but little progress made
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Documents Back Up Claims of Requests for Greater Security in Benghazi
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Plan to Combat Mali’s Militants Finds Few Takers
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Human stakes high in France push for Qaeda action in Mali
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Algeria caught in quandary over Mali crisis
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Al Qaeda leader Zawahiri calls for more anti-Islam film protests
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European official: Al Qaeda threat in northern Africa ‘spreading’
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb appointed Yahya Abou El Hammam as its emir of the Sahara; Abdel Mejid Abou Zeid was named Hammam’s deputy. Hammam is also AQIM’s emir of Timbuktu.
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