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2011-01-18 Africa North

Al-Qaeda and organized crime: two sides of the same coin

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Posted by Fred 2011-01-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top
File under: al-Qaeda in North Africa

#1 AQIM started as regional Islamist groups, primarily in Algeria. They affiliated with the al-Qaeda network about 5 years ago or so. That network is decentralized now, so we'll see more of this sort of thing.

Posted by lotp 2011-01-18 07:58|| 2011-01-18 07:58|| Front Page Top

#2 This is actualy good news-- Most failed insurgencies wind up merging with and becoming or being absorbed by the local organized crime element in a society.

See the italian mafia for a fully developed esample, and earlier along in the cycle the FARC and the current incarnation of the IRA for examples.

Looks like we've (the western world) have beaten back the latest wave of violent, offensive jihad. We still need to work on the lawfare wing of the caliphate, and their leftist, fith column enablers here in the civilized world.

Posted by nGuard 2011-01-18 09:25|| 2011-01-18 09:25|| Front Page Top

#3 Spanish resistance to the French Napoleonic coup/invasion found grounding around outlaws and smugglers. Pancho Villa was a 'bandit' before becoming a leader in the last Mexican revolution. AQ masked on the existing criminal element in Iraq and as noted FARC in Columbia. The pattern shows that military strategy for insurgencies must include police actions to ruthlessly suppress the known gangs and criminal organizations in the region. However, when the sitting government is itself one big criminal organization, something has to go.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-01-18 10:31|| 2011-01-18 10:31|| Front Page Top

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