Shaykh Abd al Rahman Abu Anas al Shinqiti, a shura council member of al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, responded to Abu Yahya al Libi’s call to continue to fight the governments in northern Africa and said the group is “at your service.” AQIM will “cleanse the Islamic Maghreb of the impurity of the impure apostates and their Crusader masters,” Shinqiti said.
