by Charles Cameron | Jan 31, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Hegghammer on testing and trusting as precursors to AQ recuitment ] . I’ve been having trouble finding any of the anasheed Ibn Siqilli was posting on his site, many of which have been taken down — but this one, found in a...
by dtrombly | Jan 29, 2013 | Monitor
Thus far, the intervention in Mali seems, at least initially, a banner standard for the practice, insofar as Washington is concerned. A coalition of African and European forces, with France taking the lead in the air and with crack troops on the ground, is sending...
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...
