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Islamist activity in the Sahara in relation to travel security
In this thread should only be written entries on the fight against al qaeda in the maghreb.
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Four Saharan desert states are to open a joint command headquarters in Algeria to co-ordinate efforts to counter the growing regional threat from al-Qaeda.
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BBC - Saharan states to open joint military headquarters
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Prior to the start of the military exercise Flintlock 2010, the United States Embassy in Mali held last Monday, 19 April a press luncheon to brief journalists on the issue. Lunch during which they spoke by phone with Max Blumenfeld, Communications Officer Command American in Europe.
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maliweb - Exercice Flintlock 2010 : Les militaires �* l’avant-garde du terrorisme
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ALGIERS, April 20 (Reuters) - Four Sahara desert states will on Wednesday open a joint command headquarters in the south of Algeria to coordinate efforts to counter a growing threat from al Qaeda, the Algerian Defence Ministry said.
Western countries say that unless the region's fractious governments join forces to fight the insurgents, al Qaeda could turn the Sahara desert into a safe haven along the lines of Yemen and Somalia and use it to launch large-scale attacks.
The announcement of the new base followed a ground-breaking meeting last month of senior officials from the region's neighbouring governments that was praised by the United States as a step towards collectively confronting al Qaeda.
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Reuters - Saharan states to open joint anti-Qaeda command HQ
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It will be set up in Tam
4 Saharan countries set up joint military base - Africa - msnbc.com
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A western security official who follows the region closely said enhanced cooperation had been made urgent by several recent cross-border incidents.
In March, army patrols from Algeria and Mali clashed by mistake for several hours near their common border before realizing neither were terror groups, the official said. Speaking on condition of anonymity because he works on intelligence matters, the official said army units in the Sahara sometimes have difficulties knowing which country they are in because there are often no landmarks along the border and they lack radio equipment to link with each other.
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The new command center aims at much more than just securing the borders, said M'hand Berkouk, a Sahara expert who teaches international relations at Algiers university.
"It's really the first time in Africa that a sub-region decides to integrate its security operations," Berkouk said.
The goal will be to launch joint simultaneous operations in partner states and create a common database of terror suspects and traffickers.
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Algerian major counter-terrorism offensive
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Sahel-Sahara military leaders discuss joint security efforts (Magharebia.com)
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...Liberté called the "Ennasr" (Victory) offensive Algeria's largest anti-terror military operation since the 2005 Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation.
On Tuesday, local sources in the wilayas of Bouira and Bordj Bou Arreridj told Magharebia that the offensive had "neutralised" around a dozen terrorists. They also said that a key AQIM leader, Abdelmalek Droukdel, appeared to be among the terrorists hemmed in by the soldiers.
A number of other terrorist groups are also believed to have been cornered, according to the sources, and significant military reinforcements have been deployed in all parts of Algeria's eastern, western and central regions.
According to Liberté, security forces have gathered important intelligence regarding terrorist movements. The operation being carried out between Bouira and Bordj Bou Arreridj was made possible by intelligence gleaned from a recently-disbanded terrorist support network.
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A very interesting read from the Touareg perspective. Thanks Ulrich 
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The heads of state of major countries of the Sahel, comprising Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Chad have decided at their last meeting held in Tamanrasset, increase the number of actual forces responsible the fight against terrorism 25-75000 components, within 18 months. According to informed sources, the heads of major states have agreed to strengthen security measures and control over drug trafficking, fuel and other devices used by terrorists, like GPS, adding that military units will be established across several strategic sites scattered across the Sahara. Their main mission is the monitoring of slopes Saharan and substitute the inability of air forces in Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Chad.
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El Khabar - Les forces de lutte contre le terrorisme au Sahel s’élèvent �* 75 mille éléments
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News from "bubble-talker" Jeremy Keenan
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A Saharan front in the 'global war on terror' was planned between the US and the Algerian government in 2002 and launched in 2003
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Al Jazeera - Al-Qaeda in the Sahel
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While this is unlikely, the West would be better advised to question why Algeria is making so much publicity about raising troop levels in the region to the absurd figure of 75,000 by 2012. Who is the enemy they will fight? The DRS currently puts the number of named suspected terrorists (including its own agents) in the Sahel at only 108, while the less well informed CIA estimates 300 to 400.
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Keenan keeps repeating himself.
If Algeria wants to take control over their territory - is that controversial?
After Sudan is split up, Algeria will be the largest country in Africa, and 75000 troops doesn't sound like a lot.
Keenan could rather ask why Mali doesn't try to take control over their part of the desert. The implications of that fact should worry Bamako, even more so after the UN verdict on Kosovo last week.
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Many of the comments that accompanied the recent announcement of the death of Michael Germaneau, the French held hostage by Al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), have portrayed a questionable representation of the Sahara: that of a space beyond the reach of central states, political vacuum and therefore ideal to house the activities of terrorists. Consider the desert in this way does not help to understand the political dynamics of the Sahara, and even less to identify effective responses to terrorism. The Sahara has physical characteristics that make it difficult to control, but human activities and forms of governance associated with them are numerous. They are the result of "fraudulent" carrying over long distances all kinds of loads more or less legitimate (including illegal migrants), herders and farmers whose ancestors have occupied these areas for centuries, local representatives NGO or not (like Michael Germaneau) or - until the security situation deteriorates - for tourism operators. In Mali, Niger and southern Algeria, those who lead these activities are often Tuaregs.
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Saharamedia - Al-Qaeda se fond dans le désert, par YVAN GUICHAOUA chercheur au département du développement international de l'université d'Oxford
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According to reliable evidence obtained from security sources on the ground, al Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) operating in the Sahel corridor, sources said would "structured an illegal immigrant smuggling sophisticated, allowing it to both to fund and send potential sleepers in Europe. The diversification of funding sources for AQIM is at the heart of the concerns of actors involved in securing the Sahel, including the United States, which have already launched a massive offensive to reduce drug trafficking, considered a potential source of funding extremely worrying . Like the mafia groups, AQIM is actually looking for the best financing with a cost / most interesting opportunity, which prompted the terrorist organization to slowly slide into drug trafficking illegal immigration.
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AQMI aurait organisé des filières d’immigration clandestine pour se financer
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AQIM has no significant popular support and has no capacity to do harm to even worry about the Algerian government.
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L'Expression - «Al Qaîda n’inquiète plus l’Algérie»
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The Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) has recently undertaken a reorganization of its structures, after losing a significant number of rulers who have either surrendered to authorities or were killed by security forces in different operations in the fight against terrorism.
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Ennahar - Ennahar unveils Droukdal’s new organisation plan
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Belmokhtar alias Khaled Abu El-Abbas, known by the nickname "Laouar" is "a terrorist who was always active. An informed source tells us that the former "emir" of Sahara is still active in northern Mali
with forty men of Algerian nationality, Mauritania and Mali. His strategy, kidnapping foreigners for two objectives: to recover his fellow inmates and pocket the ransom. Ils se retrouvent ainsi dans les camps de l'Aqmi au nord du Mali sous la “protection” bienveillante des autorités maliennes. They find themselves in AQIM camps in northern Mali in the "protection" benevolent Malian authorities.
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Liberte - Le Mali, une fausse note dans la lutte antiterroriste
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Hardline Islam steps out of shadows in Algeria
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* Ultra-conservative Salafists snub national anthem
* They exercising growing influence over society
* Critics say Salafism a threat to Algerian way of life
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ALGIERS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - In a bookshop in an eastern suburb of the Algerian capital, visitors can stroll in off the street and pick up titles such as "Our fight against the West," and "Jihad according to Salafist principles."
After years of keeping a low public profile, Algerian Salafists -- followers of an ultra-conservative brand of Islam -- are becoming bolder, laying down a challenge to a state that is firmly secular and fighting a lingering Islamist insurgency.
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Reuters - Hardline Islam steps out of shadows in Algeria
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