Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb

The Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, an al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb offshoot, has threatened to kill a Spanish hostage. A Mauritanian court upheld the death sentence of an AQIM fighter who killed an American in 2009.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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