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Al Nusrah Front
Maghreb youth answer al-Qaeda call
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Algeria
Security forces dismantled an al Qaeda-linked terrorist cell during an operation in Bordj Badji Mokhtar; seven suspects were detained, including two Malians. The cell was involved in helping jihadists escape from Mali into Algeria. Kamel Kadkadi, the main suspect in the assassination of Chokri Belaid, was extradited to Tunisia after being arrested near the Tunisian border. Security forces killed two terrorists in the Benbadis region near Constantine.
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Algeria
Of the roughly 400 al Qaeda militants said to be active in eastern Algeria’s Kabylie region, an estimated 280 are in Bouira, 73 in Boumerdès, and 50 in Tizi Ouzou, the key strongholds of AQIM. Terrorists attacked a Tizi Ouzou City checkpoint on March 3, and killed a soldier in the Yakouren forest on March 4. A Tizi Ouzou court sentenced two terrorists to 20 years in prison for a 2007 attack on a bus station. There were 65 terror attacks in Algeria in 2012, mostly in the provinces of Boumerdès, Tizi Ouzou, Bouira, and Béjaïa.
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Algeria
US Boosts War Role in Africa
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Conflicting accounts emerge over AQIM leader’s reported death
Evidence is mounting that AQIM leader Abdel Mejid Abou Zeid was recently killed in clashes with French and African security forces, but conflicting reports have emerged as to the events leading to his alleged death. Algerian authorities are conducting DNA analysis on the supposed remains of Abou Zeid.
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Chadian forces claim raid killed top Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar
Chadian military forces operating in Mali claimed to have launched a successful counterterrorism raid against a jihadist base camp that killed top Algerian jihadist Mokhtar Belmokhtar. The death of Belmokhtar has not yet been confirmed by other sources.
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Algeria
Algerian experts seek to curb extremism in prisons
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Algeria
Government forces discovered weapons and explosives and killed two terrorists in the province of Tizi Ouzou; one died after an ambush near Tadmait and Drâa Ben Khedda, and the other was killed in Tleta Hidoussen. Six terrorists have been killed in the province this year.
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Algeria
Anxious Whispers in Tripoli
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Algeria
Authorities are carrying out DNA tests to confirm whether al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb commander Abu Zeid has been killed. A US official said reports of Zeid’s death were “very credible.”
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Algeria
One of 12 terrorists killed by security forces in operations on Feb. 24 and Feb. 25 was the al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb emir for the town of Bordj Menaïel in Boumerdès province. Security forces arrested two men who had been recruited by the al Qaeda-linked Signed in Blood Battalion to spy on the Id Amenas facility before it was attacked. A longtime terrorist named Aboul-Abbas was sentenced to life in prison.
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Al Qaeda
Interview with Abdelasiem El Difraoui on al Qaeda’s use of visual media
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Al Qaeda
Two Norwegians killed in Statoil In Aménas attack stopped explosion danger
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Algeria
Algerian troops killed four terrorists in Boukaal Medajadji in Chlef, and eight more in Timezrit in Boumerdès; three of the dead were wanted criminals. Bombs were defused and weapons were confiscated during the two operations.
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Canada
Militants Crossed Africa for Siege, Algeria Probe Says
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Sahel states must share intel, African expert warns
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Algeria
Algeria to involve public in securing borders
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Algeria
The Interior Ministry refused to license the Free Awakening Front, the country’s first Salafist party, which had sought to hold its founding convention on Feb. 16. The Id Amenas gas facility, the site of last month’s terrorist assault, will partially reopen starting next week.
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Africa
How Europe Bankrolls Terror
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US adds senior AQIM commander to terrorist list
Yahya Abu Hammam is al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb’s emir for the Sahel. He fought with GSPC, conducted several deadly attacks in Mauritania, and served as AQIM’s emir for Timbuktu.
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Africa
At Pentagon, ‘pivot to Asia’ becomes ‘shift to Africa’
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Algeria
US and Algerian officials met in Algiers and agreed to cooperate in preventing terrorists from acquiring nuclear materials and illicit weapons. The officials are concerned that nuclear stocks from the Gaddafi regime are “within the reach of armed Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb groups.”
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Algeria
The military killed two terrorists in Ihnouchène near Tisi Ouzou on Feb. 11. The day before, an armed group tried to kidnap a trader in Ihessnaouen, south of Tizi-Ouzou, and shot the trader’s mother after he fled.
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Al Qaeda
A Terror Leader Emerges, Then Vanishes, in the Sahara
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Algeria
The Algiers Criminal Court postponed the case of 48 suspected terrorists, including al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb emir Abdelmalek Droukdel and the leader of al Ansar battalion “B.A.” The defendants face charges related to “more than 20 collective massacres” and other terrorist acts. Security forces arrested 10 members of a weapons trafficking network in El Bahadh.
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Algeria
Algerian troops intercepted two al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb suicide bombers in Tinzouatine near the Malian border. The men, an Algerian and a Malian, had explosive belts and automatic weapons at the time of their arrest.
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Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb
Mali War Shifts as Rebels Hide in High Sahara
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Algeria
Algeria captured four heavily armed militants near its border with Mali. Al Qaeda fighters have tried to cross the border after a French offensive drove them from Mali’s northern cities.
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Algeria
Algerian warplanes and attack helicopters repelled a three-hour coordinated assault on an army barracks by some 50 militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades. Two militants died in the assault and six soldiers were wounded; one militant was captured. Many of the attackers were Tunisian and Libyan and carried Libyan weapons.
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Africa
US counterterrorism efforts in Africa defined by a decade of missteps
