Sicherheitslage in Nordafrika - Sahara

[Alexander]

Drugs And Kidnaping Finance Terrorist Groups In The Sahel Region

Suspicion of several western intelligence agencies of links between AQIM, the Western Sahara Separatist Polisario sympathizers, and networks of guns and drugs trafficking in the Sahel region are being confirmed with the latest incident. mehr...

Western Sahara Separatist Arrested in Drug trafficking Bust

Malian forces on Thursday arrested six "major" drug traffickers with links to a gang detained in neighbouring Mauritania this week and trafficking in Europe mehr...

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[Alexander]

Surrender of two terrorists from the group of Abu Zeid in Tamanrasset

The GSPC terrorist organization, led by Abdelmalek Droukdal, alias Abu Mosaab Abdelouadoud, is faced with great difficulties. Its days seem numbered, after the great sweep conducted by the army forces on all fronts. mehr...

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[Alexander]

Algeria raises soldiers besieging terrorists to 9,000

Military operation commandment in charge of combing the Kabylian mountains raised the number of soldiers to 9,000 in the largest military operation carried out in Algeria’s centre, Echoroukonline has learnt. mehr...

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[Birgitt]

Turmoil and dissent in North Africa's al Qa'eda
27.12.2010 - The National

Al Qa'eda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, has recently sought to raise its public profile with a series of successful kidnapping operations of western nationals. Its efforts have garnered attention not only from international terrorism analysts, but from militants themselves. After a September operation in Niger where seven people were kidnapped - including five French citizens - Osama bin Laden himself claimed paternity of this success ... mehr

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Special Reports
Algeria mounts big push against al-Qaida
03.01.2011 - UPI

ALGIERS - The Algerian army is conducting its biggest offensive in years against al-Qaida forces in the north across the Kabylie mountains and reportedly disrupted a major plot to use cellphone-detonated explosives in a bombing campaign. There were reports that some top leaders of the group, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb, have been killed but these haven't been confirmed ... mehr

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Morocco says holding member of Al Qaeda in Maghreb
05.01.2011 - Reuters

RABAT - Morocco said it had arrested a member of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) among 26 others who planned to attack security services and rob banks using weapons they hid in an area of the disputed Western Sahara. Quoting an interior ministry statement, official media said Moroccan security forces recently broke up the 27-member cell and had discovered weapon caches in Amghala, an oasis located in the disputed Western Sahara ... mehr

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[Günther Schulz]

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[Götz Krieger]

Weitere Terrorzelle in Marokko zerschlagen

Die marokkanischen Behörden haben nach eigenen Angaben eine weitere Terrorzelle zerschlagen, die Bombenanschläge auf Polizisten geplant haben soll. Die Extremistengruppe sei von einem Mitglied des nordafrikanischen Zweigs von Al-Kaida geleitet worden, meldete die amtliche Nachrichtenagentur MAP am Dienstag.

In einer Pressemitteilung der königlichen Regierung hieß es, die Polizei habe die aus 27 Mitgliedern bestehende Terrorzelle ausgehoben und drei Waffenverstecke in der (von Marokko besetzten) Westsahara entdeckt. Um ihre Anschlagspläne finanzieren zu können, soll die Terrorzelle Bankraube geplant haben....
http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten ... agen.story

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[Alexander]

Vom Risiko einer Reise nach Mali

Die Tourismussaison in Timbuktu, der malischen Kulturstadt am Rande der Sahara, neigt sich dem Ende zu. Sie stand dieses Jahr unter einem schlechten Stern. Wegen der Entführungen von Touristen und Entwicklungshelfern durch die Gruppe Al-Qaïda aux pays du Maghreb islamique (Aqmi) warnen einige Staaten ihre Bürger vor Reisen in die westliche Sahara. Betroffen sind vor allem der Norden Nigers und Malis sowie Mauretanien. mehr...

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Terrorists Converge in Morocco-Algeria DMZ
07.01.2011 - moroccoboard

The dismantlement of a 27-member of an Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) terrorist cell near Amghala, about 200 Km from the Moroccan city of Laayoune, is a considerable enlargement to AQIM activities in the Sahara and regions under the control of the Algerian military and [Western sahara separatists] Polisario militiamen . The discovery of a large cashes of arms, and bomb-making material typically used to build bomb belts and car bombs is an alarming development that would alter to approach to fighting terror in the Sahara and the Sahel. Yet, the most disturbing aspect of the Moroccan security findings remains the location of the AQIM base in the no-man’s land located between the Moroccan borders and a swap of land where the Algerian supported Polisario Militia and the Algerian military patrol on a regular basis ... mehr

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'Baby Osamas' boosting Al Qaeda
08.01.2011 - todayonline

ISLAMABAD (Pakistan) - A new generation of jihad chieftains known as the "Baby Osamas" are helping Al Qaeda to acquire unprecedented capabilities to stage attacks against the West, intelligence officials are warning [...] Mokhtar Belmokhtar, another "Baby Osama" who commands Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, has kidnapped several Western nationals in the Sahara and carried out murderous attacks on troops in Mali and Mauritania ... mehr

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FACTBOX-Al Qaeda's presence in Africa
09.01.2011 - Reuters

France declared the whole Sahel region of Africa as unsafe for its citizens on Sunday after two of its nationals were killed in Niger after a hostage-taking which Paris linked to Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM). Here are some facts about the group, whose southern wing has been involved in a number of similar attacks in past months ... mehr

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"Der Hass steigt in gefährlichem Maß"
Frankreichs Bürger und Interessen in Westafrika zunehmend bedroht
09.01.2011 - Standard

[...] Laut Pierre Boilley vom Pariser Zentrum für die afrikanische Welt werden erstmals direkt französische Interessen in westafrikanischen Hauptstädten angegriffen. In Niger leben 1600 Franzosen, in Mali 4300. Im Restaurant "Le Toulousain", von wo die jüngste Entführung ausging, meinte ein Stammgast: "Der Hass auf die Franzosen steigt in der ganzen Sahelzone in einem gefährlichen Maß." ... mehr

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Niger
Frankreich fürchtet weitere Bluttaten in Afrika
10.01.2011 - Spiegel

Der Mord an zwei Geiseln in Westafrika schockiert Frankreich. Die Regierung in Paris macht al-Qaida verantwortlich. Die Extremisten aus der Region haben weitere Franzosen in ihrer Gewalt - Präsident Sarkozy sagt den Terroristen nun den Kampf an ... mehr

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TERRORISM: ALGERIA, DEATH PENALTY FOR AL QAEDA LEADER
12.01.2011 - ANSAmed

ALGIERS - The umpteenth death sentence in absentia has been issued in Algeria against Abdelmalek Droukdel, alias Abou Moussab, the leader of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb ... mehr
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Mokhtar Belmokhtar, the godfather of the Sahara
12.01.2011 - Ennahar

PARIS - The Algerian Islamist Mokhtar Belmokhtar, who according to the Malian and Nigerian mediators has sponsored the abduction of two French nationals found dead in Mali, reigns over the smuggling routes of the deep south Sahara, as terrorist, smuggler and thief ... mehr


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