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2020-02-27 Africa Subsaharan
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Isis and al-Qaeda join forces in West Africa
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[Independent] Groups linked to al-Qaeda and the Islamic State
 ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
, at war with each other in the Middle East, are working together to take control of territory across a vast stretch of West Africa, US and local officials say, sparking fears the regional threat could grow into a global crisis.
Fighters appear to be coordinating attacks and carving out mutually agreed-upon areas of influence in the Sahel, a strip of land south of the Sahara desert. The rural territory at risk is so large it could "fit multiple Afghanistans and Iraqs," said brigade general Dagvin Anderson, head of the US military’s Special Operations arm in Africa.
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"What we’ve seen is not just random acts of violence under a terrorist banner but a deliberate campaign that is trying to bring these various groups under a common cause," he said. "Thon the lamr effort then poses a threat to the United States."
The faceless myrmidons have wielded increasingly sophisticated tactics in recent months as they have rooted deeper into Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso
...The country in west Africa that they put where Upper Volta used to be. Its capital is Oogadooga, or something like that. Its president is currently Blaise Compaoré, who took office in 1987 and will leave office feet first, one way or the other...
, ambushing army bases and dominating villages with surprising force, according to interviews with more than a dozen bigwigs and military leaders from the United States, La Belle France and West Africa.
The groups are not declaring "caliphates," so as to avoid scrutiny from the West, officials said, buying time to train, gather force and plot attacks that could ultimately reach major international targets.
A coalition of al-Qaeda loyalists called Jama’at Nasr al-Islam wal Moslemin (JNIM) has as many as 2,000 fighters in West Africa, according to a US report released this month. The Islamic State in the Greater Sahara
...he succulent fruit of the union of splinter factions from Mokhtar Bekmokhtar'sal-Mourabitunes and MUJAO. Once the dust had settled and the smell of gunsmoke had dissipated, they became the Islamic State in Mali, then adopted their present clever name. They are headed by Adnan Abu Walid Saharaoui. It operates along the borders of Burkina Faso, Niger, and Mali...
, which staged the 2017 attack that killed four American soldiers in Niger, is also thought to be hundreds strong and recruiting combatants in northeastern Mali.
"This cancer will spread far beyond here if we don’t fight together to end it," said general Ibrahim Fane, secretary general of Mali’s ministry of defence, whose country has lost more than 100 soldiers in routine festivities since October.
The warnings come as the Pentagon weighs pulling forces from West Africa, where about 1,400 troops provide intelligence and drone support, among other forms of military help. About 4,400 American troops are based in East Africa, where the US military advises African forces fighting al-Shabaab.
...... Somalia's version of the Taliban, functioning as an arm of al-Qaeda...
At a US-led training exercise this week in coastal Mauritania, officials said the Defence Department has made no decision as it considers shifting resources to the Asia-Pacific region to counter China and Russia.
La Belle France, which has about 4,500 troops in West Africa ‐ the most of any foreign partner by far ‐ has urged the United States to stay in the battle and other Europe
...the land mass occupying the space between the English Channel and the Urals, also known as Moslem Lebensraum...
an powers to step up. (The United Nations
...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense...
has about 13,000 peacekeepers in Mali alone.)
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