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 […]
Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb released a statement offering condolences to those who lost family members in the Boko Haram uprising in northern Nigeria. AQIM praised their “Salafist, jihadist brothers in particular, led by martyr Shaykh Muhammad Yusuf” for standing against the “Christian minority in Nigeria” who are seeking to “destroy Islam and annihilate […]
Libya has agreed to assist Algeria and Mali in their fight against Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. The agreement seeks extensive intelligence collaboration between the countries in an effort to rid the Sahara of terrorism. Regional leaders have grown more vocal about pooling resources in order to halt the upsurge of AQIM attacks.
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 […]