[MAGHAREBIA] The "Mourabitounes" on Sunday (March 2nd) grabbed credit for the February 17th rocket attack against French forces near the Timbuktu airport, ANI reported.The terror group's front man, Assem El Hajer, told ANI by telephone that a similar attack was carried out the same week against a military base and an airport in Gao.
The "Mourabitounes" group created in August as a merger between Mokhtar Belmokhtar's El Moulethemoune brigade and MUJAO
...Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa, another offshoot of Qaeda in North Africa. Currently active in Mali and southern Algeria, the idea is to do as much good in West Africa as AQIM has done in North Africa...
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