#Algeria/#Sahel: Talha al-Barbouchi was designated "governor" of the Timbuktu Region, the speaker in the video published by @SimNasr, Qutayba a-Shinquiti has since a while publicly mantled the role as ideological driver following the death of Abderrahmane al-Sanhaji al-Maghribi pic.twitter.com/oRW9EIcydD

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Abdelmalik Droukdel
... aka Abdel Wadoud, was a regional leader of the GSPC for several years before becoming the group's supremo in 2004 following the death of then-leader Nabil Sahraoui. Under Abdel Wadoud's leadership the GSPC has sought to develop itself from a largely domestic entity into a larger player on the international terror stage. In September 2006 it was announced that the GSPC had joined forces with al-Qaeda and in January 2007 the group officially changed its name to the Al-Qaeda Organization in the Islamic Maghreb....