An Algerian newspaper has cited a “security source” who indicates that AQIM leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar has shown signs of surrendering in a peace treaty with the Algerian government. If true, it will be major blow to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb™s operations. Belmokhtar, the infamous smuggling baron, formed the semi-independent southern branch of AQIM in the Sahara desert.
