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Al Qaeda Reportedly Threatens To Execute European Hostages

AP | By JAMEY KEATEN | Posted 01.12.2012

Read More: Al Qaeda Islamic Maghreb, Video, France, Counterterrorism, Terrorism, Terrorist Threat, Hostage Execution Threat, French Military, Ani, Mauritania, Aqim, Al Qaeda, World News

PARIS -- The language used in a purported message from al-Qaida's North Africa arm that threatens to kill European hostages if governments take milita...

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Truth in the Sahara: Refugees and Hostages

Elizabeth Blackney | Posted 01.23.2012

Read More: Western Sahara, Aqim, Autonomy Plan, Human Rights, Morocco, Refugees, Al Qaeda, Impact News
Elizabeth Blackney

As Algeria allows the detention of thousands of people on its soil and allows them to be abused by the Polisario, rather than allow them autonomy and the relative safety of their lands across the Western Sahara, there is no equality.

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Is Nigeria Ready For al Qaeda?

Robert Barrett, PhD | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: Al Shabaab, Algeria, Nigeria-Bombing, Terrorism, Boko Haram, United Nations, Aqim, Nigeria, Abuja, Al Qaeda, Counterterrorism, World News
Robert Barrett, PhD

Boko Haram, Nigeria's most notorious outlaw extremist group, shows that al Qaeda's message is capable of leaping across stretches of geography, to target and propagate in locales in which both hardship and anti-Western sentiments collide.

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What Comes Next in Libya -- With or Without Gadhafi

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Egypt, Seif Qaddafi, Libya, Middle East Revolutions, Morocco, Tunisia, Muammar El-Qaddafi, Benghazi, Aqim, Tripoli, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Libya Protests, World News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Under Gadhafi, Libya is a nation without a future. And you can be sure he will fight to the last bullet. This is not someone inclined to flee the bunker.

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Is Al Jazeera Fueling "Tunisteria"?

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Muslim Brotherhood, Al Arabiya, President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia, Morocco, Arab Media, Arab League, Aqim, Tunisia Riots, North Africa, France, President Hosni Mubarak, Tunis, Libya, Hillary Clinton, Algeria, Al Jazeera, Qadhaffi, Al Qaeda in the Maghreb, Egypt Protests, Media News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Let's hope that Al Jazeera's penchant for regional anarchy is tempered by cooler heads within Arab democratic dissident ranks who have far more to lose than audience share if they prematurely swallow Al Jazeera's bait.

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All politics is local: Al-Qa'eda and the Afghanistan War

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strategic Depth, Governance, Al-Qaida, Anti-War, Pakistan, Terrorism, AQIM, Global War on Terror, Haqqani Network, Development Aid, GSPC, Rethink Afghanistan, Counterterrorism, Rule of Law, Taliban, War Funding, Afghanistan, Algeria, Gwot, Afghan Taliban, Extremism, Politics News
Josh Mull

I am the Afghanistan Blogging Fellow for The Seminal and Brave New Foundation. You can read my work on The Seminal or at Rethink Afghanistan. The view...

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