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Belmokhtar's Jihadist Group in N. Africa Pledges Allegiance to IS
[AnNahar] The jihadist group of notorious one-eyed Algerian hard boy Mokhtar Belmokhtar has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not really Moslems....
 organization, according to an audio recording broadcast by private Mauritanian agency al-Akhbar.

Belmokhtar's al-Murabitoun group, which is active in north Africa, was linked to al-Qaeda, but the recording attributed to one of its leading members
...not Belmokhtar himself? Did something happen to him?
said it was now aligning itself with the IS organization.
Posted by: trailing wife 2015-05-15
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=417702