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AQIM shares responsibility for Mali hotel killings
[AA.TR] The head of an al-Qaeda group has claimed joint responsibility for the Nov. 20 hotel attack in Bamako, Mali, which left 19 people dead.Abdelmalik Droukdel ... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb.... , leader of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, released a video late Friday sharing responsibility for the deadly attack with another bully boy group, al-Mourabitoun. The leader of that group, Algerian Mokhtar Belmokhtar, pledged allegiance to al-Qaeda last May. Friday's video also denied that the two organizations had pledged allegiance to Daesh [Islamic State], describing the group as their enemy. Formed in 2013, al-Mourabitoun is active in northern Mali and Africa's Sahel region ... North Africa's answer to the Pak tribal areas... . Posted by: Fred 2015-12-06 |
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