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Al Qaeda's North African Influence
And Pakistan on the Brink
15.01.2011 - familysecuritymatters

The tragedy in Tucson has eclipsed other news this past week. On the same day that the shooting took place, a shoot-out took place in Mali, northwest Africa, in which nine people died. Al Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM), the North African branch of the Al Qaeda network, had only the day before kidnapped two young French men in Niger ... mehr

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Despite the deaths, anti-AQIM scores, it is said in Timbuktu
16.01.2011 - ennahar

Al-Qaeda is no longer "invincible" in the Sahara, say Malians of the region of Timbuktu, sure that the fight against terrorism has scored some points recently, despite the controversial death of two French hostages and three Nigerian policemen in northern Mali ... mehr

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America reveals its two minds on Algeria
17.01.2011 - Daily Star

The State Department cables on Algeria released by WikiLeaks late last year suggest that when it comes to security in North Africa and the Sahel region, the United States regards Algiers as the key actor. However, the cables also reveal serious doubts over the future political direction of the Maghreb’s biggest nation, and the deadly rioting recently in cities across Algeria bear out such concerns ... mehr
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Al-Qaeda and organized crime: two sides of the same coin
17.01.2011 - alawsat

The name Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb [AQIM] has become synonymous with abductions, hostage-taking operations, drug smuggling and bank robberies. The overlap between organized crime and terrorism has become very strong to the point that some analysts believe that Al-Qaeda is shifting from criminal activity for the purpose of financing terrorism to [solely] making money. From the time it joined Osama Bin Laden's organization at the end of 2006, AQIM has resorted to new means of obtaining funds; including the abduction of foreign nationals, blackmail, and drug smuggling ... mehr


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France-al-Qaeda showdown: Are raids or talks the solution?
18.01.2011 - Xinhua

The killing of two French nationals kidnapped in Niger two weeks ago has increased pressure on France and raised the question of whether it will have to end its refusal to negotiate with al-Qaeda in the face of its failed military option ... mehr

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Africa security forum highlights co-operation
24.01.2011 - Magharebia

A concerted and comprehensive approach, involving economic and political measures, is needed to fight terrorism in the Maghreb, international security experts concluded Saturday (January 22nd) in Marrakech. Civilian and military officials, heads of international organisations and security experts from 70 African, European, American and Asian countries attended the three-day forum to discuss al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), the terror organisation's allies in the Sahel-Saharan region and common strategies to fight terrorism ... mehr

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Qaeda's scope to plot shrinks: expert
26.01.2011 - Reuters

Richard Barrett, a former senior British intelligence official who now monitors al Qaeda and the Taliban for the United Nations, also said that Pakistan is the arena where al Qaeda central leadership exerts its greatest influence on attacks. Here is the text of an interview conducted by email ... mehr

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Ein Dokument der Botschaft Tripolis, Libyen -
heute veröffentlicht im Telegraph:

SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) - SPRING 2009

Übersetzung

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Birgit

New Report Warns al-Qaeda Is Extending 'Arc of Instability' Across Africa, Threatens to Exploit North Africa Unrest, Western Sahara Impasse to Target US, Europe
01.02.2011 - Digital Journal

An international panel of experts issued a new report and their 13th annual review on terrorism at the National Press Club yesterday [...] "Of grave concern," says the new report, authored by Prof. Yonah Alexander, Director, ICTS, is that "al-Qaeda has established a safe haven and breeding ground" in the failed/fragile states of Africa that border the Sahara, tracing an "arc of instability that stretches from the Red Sea and is poised to reach to the Atlantic." The report is a one-year update of a January 2010 ICTS study documenting the chronology since 9/11 of the rising threat from al-Qaeda and other terrorists in the Maghreb and Sahel of North and West/Central Africa ... mehr


Report 2011 des Potomac Institute als PDF zum Download
"Consequences of Terrorism: Update on al-Qaeda, other terrorist threats in the Sahel & Maghreb"


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Special forces to help fight al-Qaeda in Africa
Members of Petawawa unit headed to Senegal to train soldiers
04.02.2011 - Ottawa Citizen

Canadian special forces troops from Petawawa will be soon heading overseas to train soldiers from countries in North Africa who are fighting al-Qaeda insurgents. The U.S.-led training exercise, dubbed Flintlock, will see troops from the Canadian Special Operations Regiment heading to Senegal ... mehr

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...und spaeter heisst es dann wieder "der Westen" hat die Sicherheitskraefte des Regimes ausgebildet, so dass das Volk unterdrueckt werde konnte - wetten

Ja klar, Kuno,

das ist ja auch so! Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland hat z.B. über Jahre hinweg Truppen und Polizei in Mali und Niger ausgebildet (den aktuellen Stand hierzu kenne ich nicht). Auf diese Weise konnte dann Mercedes in diese Länder Allrad-Fahrzeuge (LKW, Unimog, G-Typen) und BMW Motorräder (die typischen Polizei-Motorräder) verkaufen. Von Waffen ganz zu schweigen. Business as usual.

Der Gerhard

KATZ: Al Qaeda’s emerging Africa enterprise
Blocking links with local populations is key to extremists’ defeat
10.02.2011 - Washington Times

Most of the American media has focused on the late-2010 attempt by al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) to detonate explosive-laden ink cartridges in cargo planes over the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the continued threats emanating from Yemen. That nation certainly provides favorable conditions for extremist groups such as AQAP to fester and export terror. However, Africa, specifically theSahel and the Horn of Africa, arguably afford the most growth potential for two burgeoning al Qaeda franchises: al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb (AQIM), a morph of an earlier ultraviolent, Algerian Islamist movement, and Somalia‘s al-Shabaab group, which effectively controls 80 percent of Somalia and pledged loyalty to al Qaeda senior leadership in early 2010. AQIM, operationally based in desolate northern Mali, is now a regional menace in Africa’s Sahel region and poses an increasing threat to U.S. interests in North Africa as well as Mediterranean Europe ... mehr

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Experts Say al-Qaida Center May Shift to Sahara, Sahel

Terrorism experts say the world has every reason to be concerned about terrorism in 2011 and beyond. They say al-Qaida may be slowly dying in Afghanistan, but its tentacles around the world live on in very remote areas. They also say frustration among the poor in the Middle East and Africa could lead to new ethnic and political conflicts. The turmoil, they say, could embolden al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb popularly known as AQIM in that region. mehr...

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Alexander

10 terrorists ready to surrender to security forces in Algeria

Ten terrorists expressed their desire to stop their acts and surrender to benefit from the provisions of the Charter for Peace and National Reconciliation mehr...

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Alexander

letzte Woche konnte man in der Presse lesen, dass ein Konvoi von 40 Fahrzeugen mit
von einem libyschen Diplomaten in Bamako rekrutierten Tuareg-Söldnern aus Mali, Niger,Tschad
und Burkina in Süd - Algerien ( Tin Alkoum / Ghat ) an der Grenze zu Libyen stehen.

Darunter auch Ex-Rebellen aus Kidal und Bahanga höchstpersönlich

Warum geht da bei mir die Alarmanlage los?

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Ursula