An interesting analysis of AQIM and how it has made itself at home in the barren parts of the Sahel, in Niger and Mali:http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensec...utm_campaign=0
As AQIM activities appear to revolve around kidnapping the last sentence is telling:The criminalisation of the Sahel’s political economy might cause more enduring damage than the Jihad.
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