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Article: Mayhem in the Maghreb: while the counter-terrorism strategy of the western powers and their allies has been focused on Iraq and Afghanistan, jihadists, inspired, and in all probability organised, by Al Qaeda, have been establishing a new front in their "holy war" against the "crusaders": North Africa.(CURRENT AFFAIRS)
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- June 1, 2007
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COUNTER-TERRORISM ANALYSTS SUSPECT that Al Qaeda's objective is an integrated organisation across the Maghreb, from Egypt to Morocco and south into the sub-Saharan Sahel region, that could provide a springboard for sustained terrorist campaigns against western Europe and ultimately the United States.
The spate of jihadist attacks in recent weeks in Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, coupled with jihadist activity in Egypt's Sinai peninsula and the Red Sea resorts around Sharm El Sheikh, point to what US analyst Michael Scheuer, who headed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) unit tracking Osama bin Laden in 1996-99, considers is an evolving situation. He believes it ...
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