by Will McCants | May 31, 2013 | Monitor
Earlier this week, the AP’s Rukmini Callimachi revealed one of the memos she discovered in the sixth trashbag full of AQIM documents she collected in the aftermath of the French attack on jihadis in Timbuktu in January. The memo, dated October 2012, is from the...
by Ian Platz | Jan 23, 2013 | Monitor
Is Africa al-Qaeda’s new launch pad? Oren Dorell / USA Today As U.S. forces have largely left Iraq and plan a withdrawal from Afghanistan, intelligence experts see a global threat emerging on a continent that has frustrated foreign forces for much of the past century...
by Ian Platz | Jan 23, 2013 | Monitor
ASP Fellow for Asymmetric Operations Joshua Foust was featured in USA Today discussing the growing depth of Al-Qaeda and associated movements in Africa. Joshua Foust, a former senior intelligence analyst for the U.S. military and a political analyst for the Defense...
by Andrew Lebovich | Jan 22, 2013 | Monitor
The Movement for Tawhid and Jihad in West Africa (MUJAO, in French) is an AQIM splinter group that publicly appeared in December 2011, when they claimed the kidnapping of three European aid workers in Tindouf, Algeria. Led by the Mauritanian Hamada Ould Kheiru*, an...
by raffaellopantucci | Jan 21, 2013 | Monitor
More on current events in North Africa, this time for the BBC. I owe Virginia a note of thanks for reviewing it – grazie! I was also quoted briefly in this Financial Times article on the British government’s response. (UPDATE: have briefly tweaked it to...
